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I use two periods.

My HTC phone does that for contacts; not sure whether that's Android or HTC Sense.

I expect the initial trials will be on desert roads.

You'd think it'd be cheaper and more reliable to make the doors sturdier.

Go ask a biologist how long it'll be until humans evolve 360-degree vision.

And emotional stability. When I've had a rough day at work, an hour of downtime on the train really improves the face I show at home.

It's a standard formation in some publications--e.g., the New York Times.

The Veer is overpriced. My Inspire 4G cost the same two months ago, and it's much better hardware, plus something like 10 times the apps. HP should have priced it to where AT&T would sell it for $0 on contract. At $99, there's no way they'll come from behind.

A more plausible direction, which could have been twisted into this rumor, would be an iPad with a keyboard. It could invade the laptop niche, without the support horrors of introducing an incompatible Mac.

>He enjoys thinking about math. He doesn't need $1M to think about math. Ergo, he doesn't need $1M.

The fallacy there is the assumption that he will never need $1M to think about math. He could get hit by a bus next week and need $1M for medical care.

(A quick Wikipedia check says that Russia has public health care supplemented with private providers. Suppose here that his injuries were bad enough that the public system wouldn't completely heal him.)

This article should have been tagged as being a video.

>Build a browser that does wire compression before sending it down

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2514020

I don't know whether Android's browser is using SPDY yet, but it seems like an obvious step.

>How? How would it have cost them less?

They could have arranged with Telstra to cut off service to any meter that billed over $X in a month.

In fact, that should have been an obvious step to make, because a meter that was sending too much data was probably buggy, which could mean the data it was sending was probably worthless. The engineers who failed to include the cutoff were insufficiently paranoid.

Decent summary, but nothing new if you've been following the coverage at Ars.

Anybody know what the units are on the (time) calls? Makes a big difference whether these are seconds, ms, or μs.

Alternate currencies seem to be legal in the US. There's a minor movement of people setting up local currencies to encourage doing business with local merchants.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Local_currency

I agree that it's mostly pretty good, but here's one flaw that always annoys me: when I tell it I want something under $50, and I only want stuff sold by Amazon, they'll include an item even if Amazon's price is $60, as long as at least one seller has it for under $50.

Yes, golf and caber tossing both come from Scotland. No, that doesn't mean they mix.

>It's a big project, and it will inescapably require pushing more configuration options out to users (for example, pointing your DNS at a router chosen by geographic homing

Heroku should save the customers this pain, by setting up anycast:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Anycast#Domai...

Yes, because they're going to be doing it in New Mexico, on land that can't be used for crops.

Yeah, but you get it back when you go to the doctor.

>Many of OP's questions are problematic

They're important data, though. Probably best to wait until you've got an offer in hand.

>Here you need to change your birthday

And, you know, your mom probably won't be too happy when you pop out of your time machine, a week before your birth, and tell her she needs to induce labor.

That's true, but the same would apply to any deliberate attempt to reach other life.

We're already being loud. We've been leaking radio transmissions into space for the past century.

Even in the US, it might be illegal under the ECPA.

And the newer E911 requirements which kick in next year call for 100m accuracy.

I love this bit: "It sounds simple, but, well, that’s only because we’re simplifying it.".

>or are they landlocked?

Nice term.

Thanks, that does make sense.