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  1. Re:Double dipping on Apple, Qualcomm Settle Royalty Dispute (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Correct, but by purchasing those components you are free to use them despite any patents related to thier manufacture or use.

  2. Re:Big whoop about 5G on Apple, Qualcomm Settle Royalty Dispute (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    It's line of sight only and this creates a large amount of problems. It barely penetrates anything. The upside is the far higher frequency increases bandwidth, but without phone data plans getting an upgrade it's possible to blow through a months allowance of data in a handful of minutes. All in all cool, but I'm not holding my breath it's going to be soon either.

  3. Re:Double dipping on Apple, Qualcomm Settle Royalty Dispute (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    Exactly. Imagine having to get a fucking license for every transistor, diode, modem, or multi media chipset in your design, then licenses on the injection molding, alloy composition and manufacturing, fastners, on and on. It would be a nonsensical nightmare. You may not take those, rip off the design, not pay royalties and go on to use them in your own products. That's the difference.

  4. Re: Double dipping on Apple, Qualcomm Settle Royalty Dispute (cnbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Exactly. It's legal to take the CPU (or whole computer in this case) repackage it and sell it as part of another product without paying anything at all ever as long as you didn't sign anything when you bought the CPU (or whole computer). At least in the US, I'm not sure about other countries.

  5. Re:People abusing positions of power on Hackers Publish Personal Data On Thousands of US Police Officers, Federal Agents (techcrunch.com) · · Score: 2

    I object to government spying on all its citizens, not because I'm special or have anything to hide, but because of the leverage this gives the government to do wrong. It lets them know about every CEOs affair, and can manipulate stock prices or force them into cooperating. It allows for insider trading such that the only limit on making money is getting too big and obvious so as to be caught. It lets them dig up dirt and prosecute just some political opponents or activist groups while protecting others. On and on. It's bad enough what private companies can do with data, the last thing we need is the government taking all of the private data and adding thier own layer of spying underneath it by hijacking communication backbones and installing malware everywhere.

  6. ...in some cases losing so much weight -- because they refuse to stop playing to eat -- that doctors initially think they're wasting away from a physical disease.

    I'm guessing this could have the opposite effect on deterrence one might think, kinda like the "if you have an erection lasting longer than 4 hours..."

  7. Re:So? on New Male Birth Control Pill Succeeds In Preliminary Testing (time.com) · · Score: 5, Funny

    Socialism!

    I'm pretty sure when everyone cooperates toward a final goal and yet a single person claims credit and takes ownership and benefits for all the work done by everyone we call it capitalism.

  8. Not the first time and won't be the last. on Fukushima Contaminants Found As Far North As Alaska's Bering Strait · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Like the time a Russian spy satellite powered by a nuclear reactor burned up in the upper atmosphere releasing roughly 90 lbs of uranium particles into the atmosphere? Everyone alive at the time probably has a few atoms of it in their bodies. While trivial compared to background radiation this kind of pollution can easily get out of hand so serious regulation and cleanup is necessary but people shouldn't get too worked up as natural sources of radiation are everywhere and dwarf the trace amounts we are detecting in the op article.

  9. Re:It's the lack of upgrades on Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair Legislation (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    I'd only looked at repair blogs, listened to some reviews, and not tried it myself. Maybe I'll give it a try. Plus I have a hot air rework station so that makes adhesive removal easy.

  10. Re:It's the lack of upgrades on Internal Documents Show Apple Is Capable of Implementing Right to Repair Legislation (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    iPhones upto 6 are fairly easy to work on if you are comfortable around micro flat flex connectors and tiny fastners. I replaced my battery myself with one for 2.50 usd and it's still working great. 7+ the glue and ensuring it stays waterproof starts being an issue though.

  11. How is even selling these legal? Any electronic voting machine that doesn't print out a human legible ballot for the user to read, verify, and turn in to be counted manually as the main tallying method should be illegal.

  12. FTC: What do you collect?

    ISP: Everything

    FTC: What's it for?

    ISP: Everything legal and maybe some questionably illegal stuff too

  13. Re:Replaceable batteries should be required by law on 'Your AirPods Will Die Soon' -- The Shrinking Charge Capacities of Lithium-Ion Batteries (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    My case cost 14 usd lmao.

  14. Re:Wigner's friend on More Than One Reality Exists (in Quantum Physics) (livescience.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting
    It's a bit clickbaity as the experimenters themselves say

    In contrast to standard Bell inequalities, (the probability distribution) is not concerned with the coexistence of local properties for two separate physical systems, but rather with the coexistence of facts with respect to different observers.

    Yet this apparent discrepancy in observed measurements, or "facts about the world being observer independent" has several loopholes including locality, freedom of choice, and the detection loophole (only a fraction of photons are successfully detected). The locality and freedom of choice loopholes can be removed by sufficiently seperating the events in space. Neither of these was able to be done in this experiment. Further you would need to ensure that the measurement of the observers "memory" (an observer could simply be an instrument, sensor, or interaction of matter/energy of some kind and not a person) and are clearly independent systems initially.

    Tl:dr this is less about showing multiple realities exist and more about showing how the "cut" between indeterminate quantum and deterministic classic macro systems work. A good discussion is here

  15. Re:Replaceable batteries should be required by law on 'Your AirPods Will Die Soon' -- The Shrinking Charge Capacities of Lithium-Ion Batteries (theatlantic.com) · · Score: 1

    While it's true waterproofing is used as an excuse for a non replaceable battery just to increase sales, waterproof cases have gotten pretty good. Being waterproof dosent even require the phone itself to be sealed, my cheap waterproof case worked great when I forgot it was in my jacket and I ran it through the laundry. I only found out when the dryer sounded like someone left a hammer inside. It's not even that hard to keep them in good repair.

  16. I'll be willing to hold pewdiepie responsible for his fans in trade of holding trump accountable for his fans (MAGA bomber, coast guard but job, new zeland shooter, etc...)

  17. Funny my taxes (I'm not talking withholding, but the actual taxes) went up and I'm firmly upper middle class. Further my tax breaks end 2024 and the corporate and 0.1% tax cuts are permenant.

  18. But the real question is, how many Americans are willing to wait 2yrs for cataract surgery? Or 4 months to start cancer treatment? Cause those aren't outside a norm in Ontario either.

    People in the states already have excessive waits. We have death panels also, they are insurance companies that deny coverage. Plus, don't complain about medication when it's about double or more for the same meds and expensive insurance still has large deductibles and pays only a portion of the cost. It's sad when people have to go to Canada and Mexico for medications and treatments because in many cases paying directly is cheaper than in the states with coverage.

  19. Is it incompetence, or a culture of entitled assholes?

    I'm pretty sure it's both with some machiavellian criminality as an emulsifier. It's a popular recipe for success.

  20. Re:Politician != expert in their fields on Many People Think AI Could Make Better Policy Decisions Than Politicians (qz.com) · · Score: 1

    95% aren't even trying to do the right thing. It's all self dealing, making donors happy, and under the table deals with their friends. Your argument only makes sense if they are trying to represent the constituents.

  21. Yes, I should have made it clear that the intensity of the area in front increases and in back decreases so at c it's effectively just ahead.

  22. This is true but not relevant to this particular discussion. A photon from Betelgeuse does not diffuse to both Alpha Centauri and our Sun in any practical sense. It's not a useful exercise to treat the uncertainty in the position of a photon in units of light years. Remember we are talking about photons we've actually observed through our eyes or through out measuring equipment.

    It doesn't spread out to distances measured in light years. And we are constraining the photon's position because we have observed it.

    It's quite useful because it's possible and in many cases the most likely scenario. The distance of diffraction is dependent on the distance of observation from the constraint of position because it effectively "alters the course" of the photon by an angle as this page outlines. So it's quite possible a single photon can be emitted from from a point, pass through a tiny aperture, and diffract to either earth or alpha Centauri even though neither lines up with the point and aperture opening - you won't know which it hits until it's observed. Note that the observation is not the same as constraining its position, these are seperate things.

  23. Re: "Edge of the Universe" on Astronomers Discover 83 Supermassive Black Holes at the Edge of the Universe (cnet.com) · · Score: 2

    They cannot look farther back in time because you are seeing these people at the edge of the universe 13.8 billion years in the past. 13.8 billion years ago thier horizon was infinately small and thus they see no further - the reverse is true of them and you. In fact, all observers can see equally back in time. Due to inflation, of which imprints on the CMB and matter distribution are convincing evidence, the observers A, B, C can all have the same t=0. The size of the actual universe depends on how inflation actually occurred and the energy density of the universe. We have measured the flatness to the point we know for certain it's at least 10,000 times or so bigger than we can see. None of the theories that explain the "origin" of the universe without faster than light inflation have as much acceptance or explain observations as well.

  24. Re: "Edge of the Universe" on Astronomers Discover 83 Supermassive Black Holes at the Edge of the Universe (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    With the assumption the laws of physics are universal you are describing the visible universe. Just as points are now coming into view at the "edge" and observer there would see a universe just as we would but with over half out of our "view". In fact the two eyes in your own head see two different universes with these "does not exist" points. So which eye views the real universe without these unreal spots? Your left or right? Because inflation sure looks like it happened far faster than light speed you aren't actually looking back before time existed, there can be a t=0 for an infinite universe. We don't have solid proof for all of this but it valid within the measurements and experiments we can do today.

  25. Re:Flatland is false on Astronomers Discover 83 Supermassive Black Holes at the Edge of the Universe (cnet.com) · · Score: 1

    I like to think that no matter where you are, or when, or who, you are always at the exact center of the universe. Because that's a true fact.