Facebook Achieves 20Gbps Data Rate Over MMW Radio Spectrum (thestack.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Facebook's Connectivity Lab has announced that it has achieved data transmission rates of 20Gbps over the millimetre-wave (MMW) section of the radio spectrum; however, the transceiving stations need to be incredibly tightly calibrated to each other, with the team describing the margin for error as equivalent to 'a baseball pitcher aiming for a strike zone the size of a quarter'.

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Fantastic.

[Oswald McWeany]

That's fantastic they can violate your privacy even faster now.

Re:Fantastic.

[Nunya666]

Under the Trump administration, this will likely happen. You'll be required, by federal law, to have and use, daily a Facebook account, using your real, legal name, and your State-ID approved picture of your face. Furthermore you'll be required to carry a GPS-enabled smartphone at all times, and have Facebook log your location in realtime. A voice recognition app will be required to be on your smartphone as well, and all conversations you have, 24/7/365, will be digitized, sifted, sorted, categorized, profiled, and stored for later analysis if any potential illegal activity is suspected by NSA alogrithms. Failure to comply will result in a $100,000 fine and 10 years in federal prison without the possibility of parole, after which you will be implanted with a GPS tracker, removal of which will result in your immediate death. All because you retarded primates voted for gods-be-damned Donald Trump. Thanks for ruining the country and the world, you fucking assholes.

Well, I was going to upvote you as Funny, until I read those last 2 sentences.

Too bad there isn't a "funny troll" option/choice.

Of course

[93 Escort Wagon]

It's well understood that compression efficiency is inversely correlated with the amount of information contained in the data string. Since we're talking about Facebook, the information content is basically nil.

Re: baseball pitcher..

[Oswald McWeany]

In 2016 there were 6 countries represented. (and that's counting England, Scotland and Wales separately instead of under the banner of United Kingdom). There's only 2 countries represented by teams in the world series, but players come from 23 different countries.

I'm actually not disagreeing with the notion that "the world series" is a bit of a laugh as a name, but it is represented by people from a lot of countries, and to be fair, no team from outside North America would be competitive.

  (there again there's probably more than 23 countries represented in the Premier League in England and we don't call it the World Premier League... yet).

Another one that amuses me is the Kabaddi World Cup. They actually have a couple dozen countries competing, but considering only two countries in the world actually play the sport seriously (and most of the competitors in foreign teams are ex-pats or children of ex-pats from India) it's a bit of a laugh.