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by evilviper@pipedot.org in a on 2025-03-23 16:26 (#6W45Y)
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What would it look like once everyone starts broadcasting?Very high frequencies have long been considered undesirable because they don't penetrate through or go very far around walls, trees & leaves, hills, curvature of the earth, etc. In fact they're greatly attenuated even by just the oxygen and light moisture in the atmosphere. Plus the millimeter wave band is extremely wide, leaving a big open space for everyone to fit-in without competing with each other. These features that makes them undesirable for one-way broadcasting of TV/radio and long-distance coverage, also makes them ideal for high-speed, short-range, two-way cellular communications, where people a mile away don't want or need to pick-up the signal at all.
Next question, which I didn't see answered in TFA -- is it going to be available not locked to Tracfone? Verizon is good here but my Verizon account is a lot cheaper than Tracfone.Yes, probably locked for 1yr. HOWEVER, Tracfone has several services you can choose from. PagePlus is a VERY popular option right now, even among people not locked to Tracfone's network. Their $27/mo plan w/1GB looks pretty good, and you can go as low as $30/yr paygo plan for minimal usage, though $80/yr is a more practical minimum.
Jerry Brown is elected governor and all kinds of crazy ensues.So you're suggesting California was good and perfectly sane back when Arnold Schwarzenegger was the elected Governator of the state?
Who were the corporate sponsors for the legislators that put this through the state house in order for Brown to sign?If you've got any facts to that effect, I'd love to hear it. However I don't see any use in vague speculation about possible sinister motives and actors...
I can't imagine an external device that would be able to work out the difference between desired and undesired signals from your phone.You could make a tiny little $5 pocket signal detector with buzzer. When idle, you get only a brief little buzz every few minutes (or maybe entirely omit notifications for any transmissions that short). When a call is ongoing, or data is being transferred, buzz continually... That would raise the veil, giving people an idea of when their phone is sending data, and how much. If it starts going full-blast when your phone is sitting around in your pocket... a big red flag!
when you connect to this device your internet connection goes awayThe review mentions you can pair it with your home WiFi:
and any apps you have that eat data in the background are now eating into your wireless data quota.Android has a nice "Restrict Background Data" option I always use, which will stop those background updates whenever your internet access is via cellular.
If you really think that chainsaws are as a big a potential danger as autonomous vehicles are, I have some wonderful seaside property in Arizona I'd like to sell you.There are lots of wooden bridges out there. A chainsaw will allow you to sabotage such a bridge very quickly, with no visual indication from above. If you do so shortly before the scheduled passenger train comes through, it could be a mass-casualty incident more serious than anything a car could do.
Will this include forced installs of Win 10 on existing Win 7/8 PCs?Unless I'm mistaken, the free Win10 upgrades are now over. If you didn't accept it before now, you have to buy a copy at more than $100, and certainly won't find it hidden in Windows Updates:
those other shakes you mentioned are full of shit calories. (simple sugars)Sugar is just carbohydrates. Your body needs carbohydrates, and in bigger amounts than any other nutrient. Those trying to convince you otherwise are ignorant or trying to sell you snake-oil. Dieting is a prime target for lies and fraud. Studies consistently show the various major diets all perform equivalent (within the margin of error), and weight gain or loss is directly proportional to calorie intake regardless of type and source.
in our utopia, we can build star ships and seek out our neighbors...then blow them up!
the first 40 minutes of the Opening Ceremonies included 14 minutes of commercialsEven those cherry-picked number are only a hair worse than every other ad-supported TV program in the US (~18 minutes of commercials per hour is typical), and sporting events are usually worse, getting extra commercial breaks wherever the opportunity presents itself. It wouldn't likely be any different on CBS, ABC, Fox, etc.
Most of these machines are running Windows XP, for which Microsoft hasn't released a security patch since April 2014.For those who aren't aware, a simple registry change to any XP system will enable updates for an additional 5 years:
62 deg F all the time. That's the coldest I can stand for long periods with just a sweater, wool socks and a blanket to cover my lap. Any colder and my face / hands freeze. I can't ware gloves while using my PC and have no desire to spend 8 months of the year wearing a face mask/scarf.You should try a much heavier sweater... I know you're concerned about your face and hands, but keeping your core warmer will keep your extremities warmer, too.
in the summer you kept the AC on and never left your house because it was over 100 deg F and you'd get heat stroke,Millions of people live and work (outside) in areas where temperatures vastly exceed 100F. See: #1NA1N... If you're healthy, and dressed properly, it's no problem. Humans and horses are better suited to high temperatures than any other mammals.
Maintenance is not free, land is not free, having parallel tracks requiring weed control, etc.Maintenance on a rarely-used train would just be a few hours once per year. Land is extremely cheap a couple hours outside of most any city, and the grid has no problem moving power that distance with minimal loss. Train tracks sprawling across the planet seem to be just fine without active weed control...
Would be slightly impressive if the train cars actually went somewhere and transported something useful, like water.I they were hauling water up-hill, then unloading it, you'd completely defeat the purpose of this system. A water pump would surely be more efficient, anyhow.
Smarter electricity use and a better grid, capable of transferring power from where it is produced to where is it needed, would do the same more robustly, and probably cheeper too.Energy storage like this is very much a critical feature of any smart grid. Wind and solar power aren't necessarily producing the most power when demand is highest, and peaking plants have always been very expensive.
head -c 56 /dev/urandom | base64Over-hyping some trivial and mundane program is just what GRC always does.
The reservoirs used for hydro power are very enviro-friendly indeed; they hugely benefit wildlife,That's really not true. There's a huge amount of information out there on the environmental damage dams cause, like driving salmon and other species to near-extinction. It's been a cause ci©li¨bre in recent years to destroy old and unnecessary dams everywhere that is remotely practical.
people ordering everything online shipping at flat rates or weight only has led to overloading the shipping network.There is no limit to "the shipping network". They can easily hire more employees, build more processing facilities, etc. You can easily see the interstates aren't so clogged with trucks that one more couldn't be added. And the decline of coal in the US has left railroads with plenty of new extra capacity they haven't been able to fill.
various companies now.charge by weight and size.There's nothing new about that at all. "Flat rate" shipping has and always had quite a few strict restrictions on weights and sizes.
The Australians have been calculating postage this way for a couple of decades.As have all the US shipping companies, for as long as I can recall...