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  1. Re:You could have AM radio. on Future Samsung Phones Will Have a Working FM Radio Chip (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 2

    As bobbied has already said, a 1/4 wavelength antenna length for FM is a bit less than a metre. A bit shorter than the average length of headphone cords. The shield of the headphone jack is connected via a low-pass filter so it can be used as an FM antenna.

    Trying to get a usable signal for a 525kHz carrier is going to be quite hard with a headphone lead sized antenna. It's a 570 metre wavelength. The top of the AM band isn't too much better at 180m. That's why portable AM radios use ferrite rod antennas.

  2. Re:Wait I want AM radio on Future Samsung Phones Will Have a Working FM Radio Chip (androidpolice.com) · · Score: 1

    Sure, find a place in the phone to put an AM antenna

  3. I found it handy to have decent upload bandwidth

    I can download media to my phone to watch on the commute home from work if I run out. Having decent upload bandwidth means it doesn't take long to download more over the guest wifi at work.

    I was wrong in my previous post, my speed is 950M/450M not 1G/100M

    years ago I thought 20/10 on VDSL was great and for a while I was happy on a 100/20 fibre plan.

  4. Re:Phablets for Sheeple - the rest want a small fa on Samsung Will Unveil the Galaxy S9 Next Month At Mobile World Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    Samsung do one with a 5" screen but it's only 0.38" thick
    https://www.gsmarena.com/samsu...
    You didn't even have to ask, they already made it.

    If you don't mind the bigger screen Samsung have also done a S5 Active, S6 Active, S7 Active and an S8 Active. All supposed to be rugged phones.
    They're the same phone inside as their plain Galaxy Sx's except a little bigger, with a bigger battery too and shock proof.

  5. Re:Big, brittle, with irreplacable battery, I supp on Samsung Will Unveil the Galaxy S9 Next Month At Mobile World Congress (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Informative

    Or a Galaxy Xcover 4. Removable battery, Android 7, LTE, IP68, MIL-STD-810G compliant

    Instead of whining and complaining about lack of choice when a new flagship phone is announced, perhaps you could look at the entire range. Makes you look like a retard.

  6. Re:smart money on Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    In this case the taxpayers pay for and own the factory and equipment. The company will be spending $5B over the next 10 years to use it.
    The factory also has capacity for other companies to use it too.

    FYI: The state retains ownership of the factory and equipment. It's in TFA

    New York State will invest a total of $750 million through the Buffalo Billion and other state resources to establish infrastructure, construct the 1.2 million square foot facility and purchase required equipment. The state investment will replicate the model created in Albany at the College of Nanoscale Science and Engineering, in which rather than giving money directly to private companies, the State invests in core infrastructure and equipment and uses that equipment as the incentive to attract companies to establish themselves in these new high-tech facilities.

    The model is basically "we'll invest the upfront capital and build a factory if you promise to use it for at least 10 years"

  7. Re:Bricked!!?!?! Oh wow! on Meltdown and Spectre Patches Bricking Ubuntu 16.04 Computers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 1

    I must have forgot the </sarcasm>

  8. It's literally 100 times slower compared to my 1G/100Mbps fibre.
    Half the people in my country can get this speed.
    2/3rds can get 100/20Mbps fibre
    The rest have a combination of ADSL2+, VDSL, 3G and 4G
    By 2022 87% will have fibre to their home.

  9. Re:So I have to have root level access... on macOS High Sierra's App Store System Preferences Can Be Unlocked With Any Password (macrumors.com) · · Score: 2

    It's not the first time they've fucked up authentication recently, so you can be sure it's not the last.

  10. Re:smart money on Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    You're assuming the factory is worthless after 10 years.
    You forgot to take off the cost of welfare for 8000 people.

    The state retains ownership of the factory and equiptment. SolarCity is paying 5 billion to use it for the next 10 years.

  11. Re:smart money on Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    It's not an argument, it's reality.

    Why do people who work for the state pay state income tax? That's the dumbest thing ever. Paying someone money so you can get some back in taxes.

  12. Re:Bricked!!?!?! Oh wow! on Meltdown and Spectre Patches Bricking Ubuntu 16.04 Computers (bleepingcomputer.com) · · Score: 4, Funny

    Nah, if you have to press a key during the boot process to bring up a boot menu and select the previous kernel, then it's bricked.

  13. Re:smart money on Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 0

    You missed out the bit where the employees get paid, and pay taxes.

    $750,000,000 investment. so far 500 new jobs. Let's assume they're average New York State jobs, $67,000 per year. That's 33 million per year in income tax. $1.7M back to the state in income tax alone per year.

    Not the best returns, but I doubt those 500 workers are being paid the average wage, probably higher. It gets 10x better when the number of jobs goes up to 5000.
    There's also tax savings to be had by having lower unemployment rates. More sales tax collected by having more people with more disposable income.

  14. Re:About time. on Tesla's New York Gigafactory Kicks Off Solar Roof Production (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    The thing that stands out to me is the two tiles that broke were mounted differently to the one that didn't break.
    They also don't disclose what rating the "traditional tiles" had.

  15. Re:Good. Because the rule was bullshit. on AT&T and Comcast Finalize Court Victory Over Nashville and Google Fiber (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Instead to compete with the incumbents, you become beholden on them if you want to provide service to a new customer (which probably means they will be losing a customer) I'm sure they will pull out all the stops.

    Nashville Electric Service should require that only their contractors can work on wires on their poles, and provide the same SLA's and charge the same fees to all customers.

  16. Re:I'm not sure their idea would work on 'The Web is Not Google, and Should Not be Just Google': Developers Express Concerns About AMP (ampletter.org) · · Score: 1

    Easy to cheat benchmarks by not doing memory protection checks before accessing a memory location?

  17. If you control the devices, install your own CA and issue your own cert for googleapis? HTTPS isn't all mystery and voodoo.

  18. Re:First they came for FTP, then HTTP, then HTTPS. on 'The Web is Not Google, and Should Not be Just Google': Developers Express Concerns About AMP (ampletter.org) · · Score: 4, Informative

    Simply building an AMP compatible site isn't enough though. To get the preferential search promotion you need to have Google host it.

  19. Re:Bitcoin hyped up disaster on China Plans To Kill Most of the World's Bitcoin Mining Operations (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    https://charts.bitcoin.com/cha...
    $19,192.70 on december 16
    $12,618.93 on december 31

  20. Re:bitcoin is a disaster for the environment. on China Plans To Kill Most of the World's Bitcoin Mining Operations (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Most people have heat pumps in their car, EV or not. It's usually referred to as air conditioning.
    They're also very popular in New Zealand for homes. I have one that puts out 6kW of heat and consumes 1.3kW of electricity.

  21. That's for the court to decide, not keyboard warriors like yourself on slashdot.

  22. Thank Nick, take on for the team! on GoPro Quits the Drone Business (theverge.com) · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Drop your salary from about a million per year to $1
    Keep your hundred million in stock payments.

    That year, Woodman earned a staggering $77.4 million. His package included a base salary of $800,000 and stock awards of $74.6 million, as well as other compensation

    That was his 2016 package, 2017 was probably bigger.

  23. Isn't it illegal to discriminate based on gender or race, regardless of what the gender or race is?

  24. Re:Bitcoin hyped up disaster on China Plans To Kill Most of the World's Bitcoin Mining Operations (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Or the recent plunge in bitcoin value is because China sold all their coins, making a few billion profit.
    Now they're not in the bitcoin market they can stop pumping up the price. They don't need the drain on their power grids either. Costs them money to burn coal.

  25. Re:ASIC miners are heavy, good luck shipping them on China Plans To Kill Most of the World's Bitcoin Mining Operations (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    What are you blabbering on about?
    It's cheaper to have heatsinks made in China and shipped to most places in the world.
    Why would you think it's cheaper than shipping alone to locally manufacture them?

    Fill up a container, stick it on a boat. You'll pay a flat rate for the container.