Bottom line: To all intents and purposes, WPS is now completely useless.

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Since the velocipede has been around in many forms for well over 100 years, you might think this a completely useless study.

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That alone can be enough to do good, even though the magnets, crystals and ultra-dilute solutions applied to the patients are, by themselves, completely useless.

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Of course, they didn't just use any old off the shelf magnet, instead designing custom neodymium iron-boron models that produce just the right magnetic field necessary to make that hard drive completely useless.

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But Microsoft is facing major opposition to its plan to make privacy the default setting for Internet Explorers, and that opposition from the advertising industry might mean that the setting winds up being completely useless.

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Sure, part of the bill will pave the way for some of the freed up spectrum to get earmarked for emergency services to use, but it's not like failing to render everyone's analog box completely useless is really going to endanger public safety.

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