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Comment Re:One flaw for packaging (Score 2) 57

RTFS:

...a high-performance material specifically engineered for the rigors of the world's most extreme environments,

I don't think this material is going to be used over most of this world but it could be useful in, say, Spitzbergen or Antarctica.

Then there's the Moon, Mars, etc...

Comment Re:Crazy idea here... (Score 4, Insightful) 90

If DST were eliminated, the sun would rise at 4:15 am in Chicago in June.

Um, you do realize that there are other parts of the world where the sun rises at 4:15 am in June and parts where it rises even earlier? I live in one of them.

Somehow, we have managed to adapt to these weird circumstances with no problem at all. It's called "not living in the Tropics".

Comment Re:Ditch the avatar and give it a phone number (Score 2) 47

You don't walk the streets much, do you? Observation will show you that most folk don't use their cellphones for making calls any more. In fact, I wonder if half of them don't even know that a cellphone can do that!

Of the rest, a good proportion have no idea how to use a cellphone to make or answer a call! I see people all the time: holding their cellphones horizontally to their ear, usually with the microphone end nearest, horizontally in front of their faces with either end closest to their mouths, people in speaker mode just shouting at their mystery gadget with little idea how it actually works. Even older folk who should know better do some of these dumb things.

On the other hand, you're right. I don't want to have a video call to a call center to be left watching an orchestra playing hold music.

Comment Re:Meanwhile AT&T just doesnt care (Score 2) 59

In the UK most copper lines are either in underground conduits, from which they can be pulled easily, or overhead from the last pole to the property.

Of course I live in one of the few estates where the lines were buried, because no poles were permitted, which means that I'm stuck with FTTC and then copper.

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