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  1. What's the Bottom Line? on Verizon Nears 5G Launch Deals With Apple and Google: Bloomberg (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    How much is 5G home internet service with unlimited data going to cost? Is 5G going to compete with cable or will they collude with cable? I don't have any warm feelings that we will have any kind of effective competition here.

    Stand alone 5G home internet will probably be cost prohibitive unless it's bundled with one of their video packages or VOIP phone services.

  2. The secret space force and extraterrestrial presence has been known for years. Are they getting ready to acknowledge their presence? https://www.exopolitics.org/tr...

  3. It's called "Pittsburgh Slide" , not "Pittsburgh Left" https://www.urbandictionary.co...

  4. C Band (3.7-4.2 GHz) Satellite Interference on FCC Will Auction 5G-ready 3.7-4.2GHz and mmWave Spectrum (venturebeat.com) · · Score: 4, Interesting

    It's very likely that this decision will cause interference with C Band satellite signals which down-link in the 3.7 - 4.2 GHz band. These satellites provide video feeds to television stations and cable systems world wide. Strong ground based signals in the same band will overload the low noise LNBF on C Band satellite TVRO dishes.

    This is very disturbing since I recently pulled the plug on cable and rely heavily on Free To Air (FTA) video feeds from C Band domestic satellites in the USA. https://www.lyngsat.com/freetv...

  5. Power Supplies generally won't radiate at 700 MHz. Most power supplies that I've worked with don't radiate much above 30 MHz.

    The GPU is probably the culprit. A Faraday cage should do the job, but every wire entering or leaving the enclosure needs to be EMI filtered.

  6. Link to article is bad on Uber CEO Sees Commercialization of Flying Taxis in 5-10 Years (reuters.com) · · Score: 2

    points to Crypto currency Article

  7. I'm more concerned over the US government sanctioned Intel ME Backdoors contained in many of Intel's X86 processors.

  8. Re:The Law Should Not Allow Equifax To Exist. Peri on Equifax Will Offer Free Credit Locks for Life, New CEO Says (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 1

    Where I *do* have a problem is in the use, sale and profit from my personal information, in a manner that is not compatible with the purpose for which I originally agreed to disclose that information, without my knowledge and/or consent.

    I also have a problem with the credit bureaus profiting from the use and sale of my personal information.

    That being said, would it be feasible to copyright all of my Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and demand payment for the use of my copyrighted material? If they won't pay, then send them a DMCA notice to remove my copyrighted PII from their database and sue them in small claims court for nonpayment.

  9. Slack Desktop on Where's All My CPU and Memory Gone? The Answer: $5B Worth Slack App (medium.com) · · Score: 5, Insightful

    What is Slack Desktop and why would I want it?

  10. Re:Netflix, Apple, and Google should be against ne on Tech Giants Rally Today in Support of Net Neutrality (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    At download speeds of 3 megabits per second (Mbps), which is the Federal Communications Commission’s current approximate standard for basic broadband service,

    The FCC defines broadband as 25 Mbps down and 3Mbps up: https://www.theverge.com/2015/...

    3 Mbps down is no longer considered broadband.

  11. Another Hair Brained Scheme! on A Coal-Fired Power Plant In India Is Turning Carbon Dioxide Into Baking Soda (technologyreview.com) · · Score: 1

    Instead of making baking soda, why not make limestone CaCO3 instead. The limestone can be safely buried in the ground or applied to lawns.

    Alternatively, the CO2 could be separated into carbon and oxygen through electrolysis. The carbon could be used to make batteries and the oxygen could be dumped into the atmosphere or compressed and stored in tanks for reuse.

  12. Re: Many believe that we live in a computer simula on Tech Billionaires Are Asking Scientists For Help To Break Humans Out of Computer Simulation (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    She lies maybe 25% of the time. That's bad, but Trump lies around 75% of the time.

    And this is the best the country could come up with for presidential candidates!
    We are doomed!!

  13. Re: Many believe that we live in a computer simula on Tech Billionaires Are Asking Scientists For Help To Break Humans Out of Computer Simulation (businessinsider.com) · · Score: 1

    I think Clinton is typically flawed for washington senators, representatives and similarly powerful bureacratic positions.

    I had to research her a lot this year and
    1) Cinton's been the target of a propaganda war for close to 20 years. This would destroy most people.
    2) The clinton foundation is very well run, has a much higher share of money that goes to help people than the american cancer society, has reasonable wages for its employees, and is highly rated by charity navigator.
    3) Clinton's actions show she is willing to put the good of the party and the country ahead of her personal good.
    4) Clinton's a patriot and even a bit of a nationalist.
    5) Clinton's wonky, intelligent, and creative and open to feedback from staff. She is more of a cooperative than authoritarian leader but has the strength to make decisions and stick by them.

    I think if you dig into her history on non conservative sites, you'll find the same things.

    Personally, I thought she was unelectable but, you know... Trump.

    But she'a a liar!
    She consistently lies to the American People!!

  14. Boeing Developed the TR3B - They're already there! on Boeing CEO Vows To Beat Elon Musk To Mars (bloomberg.com) · · Score: 3, Funny

    http://www.drboylan.com/xplane...

    The TR3-B 'Astra' is a large triangular anti-gravity craft within the secret U.S. fleet. Black-projects defense industry insider Edgar Rothschild Fouche wrote about the existence of the TR3-B in his book Alien Rapture(10).

    The TR3-B does not depend solely or principally on its hydrogen-oxygen rockets. It is a highly-reduced-gravity aerospace craft manufactured in secret "black programs" by Boeing. The reduced-gravity field it produces reduces the vehicle's weight by about 90% so that very little thrust is required to either keep it aloft or to propel it at speeds of Mach 9 or higher.

    The TR-3B vehicle's outer coating is electrochemical-reactive and changes with electrical radio-frequency radar stimulation, and can change reflectiveness, radar absorptiveness, and color. This is also the first US vehicle to use quasi-crystals in the vehicle's skin. This polymer skin, when used in conjunction with the TR-3B's Electronic Counter Measures and Electronic Counter-Countermeasures (ECCM), can make the vehicle look like a small aircraft, or a flying cylinder - or even trick radar receivers into falsely detecting a variety of aircraft, no aircraft, or several aircraft at various locations!

    A circular plasma-filled accelerator ring called the Magnetic Field Disrupter surrounds the rotable crew compartment and is far ahead of any imaginable technology. Sandia and Livermore National laboratories developed the reverse-engineered MFD technology. The plasma, mercury-based, is pressurized at 250,000 atmospheres at a temperature of 150 degrees Kelvin, and accelerated to 50,000 rpm to create a super-conductive plasma with resulting gravity-disruption [reduction of almost all of the pull of gravity and effects of inertia].

    The MFD generates a magnetic-vortex field which disrupts or neutralizes the effects of gravity by 89 percent on a mass within proximity. The MFD creates a disruption of the Earth's gravitational field upon the mass within the circular accelerator. The mass of the circular accelerator and all mass within the accelerator, such as the crew capsule, avionics, MFD systems, fuels, crew environmental systems, and the nuclear reactor, are reduced by 89%. The current MFD in the TR-3B craft causes the effect of making the vehicle extremely light, and able to outperform and outmaneuver any craft yet constructed - except of course those back-engineered total-antigravity craft, which the government does not admit exist.

    The TR-3B is a high-altitude, stealth reconnaissance platform with an indefinite loiter time. Once you get it up there at speed, it doesn't take much propulsion to maintain altitude.

    With the vehicle mass reduced by 89%, the craft can travel at Mach 9 vertically or horizontally. My sources say the performance is limited only the stresses that the human pilots can endure. Which is a lot of reduction, considering that along with the 89% reduction in mass, the inertial G forces are also reduced by 89%. The crew of the TR-3B can comfortably take up to 40Gs.

    The TR-3Bs propulsion is provided by three multimode thrusters mounted at each bottom corner of the triangular platform. The TR-3 is a sub-Mach 9 vehicle until it reaches altitudes above l20,000 feet - then who knows how fast it can go!

    The reactor heats the liquid hydrogen and injects liquid oxygen into the supersonic nozzle, so that the hydrogen burns concurrently in the liquid- oxygen afterburner. The multimode propulsion system can operate in the atmosphere, with thrust from the Magnetic Field Disrupter powered by the nuclear reactor; in the upper atmosphere, with hydrogen propulsion; and in orbit, with the combined hydrogen/oxygen propulsion. The engines are reportedly built by Rockwell.

  15. Pay as You Go T-Mobile SIMs have Preloaded Service on A Teenage Hacker Figured Out How To Get Free Data On His Phone (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    "All phones or SIM cards purchased from 1-800-TMOBILE or online at T-Mobile.com come activated with a Pay As You Go plan with 30 minutes of talk or 30 texts (or any combination of the two that adds up to 30)." Apparently there's some limited data capability as well.

    http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile...

    T-Mobile SIMS have been a popular means of porting land lines to Google Voice service. GV only ports cell phone numbers. Cheap T-mobile SIMs come with enough service to port the land line to T-Mobile which is subsequently ported to GV.

  16. What Savings? on FCC Chief To Unveil Revised Plan To Eliminate Cable Boxes (fortune.com) · · Score: 0

    "pay-TV providers will be required to provide apps – free of charge– that consumers can download to the device of their choosing"

    Sounds like he's proposing to replace Cable TV with IPTV. The $9.95 set top box rental gets replaced with $59.95 monthly Internet service in addition to the Video Services subscription. I also have to buy a Smart TV or a Smart Box that is capable of running "The Application".

    Sorry, but I don't see the savings. The digital video services delivered over IP will cost the same as digital video services delivered over QAM. Now I have to pay for broadband internet to get HDTV streaming cable content.

  17. High Resolution Images of Cydonia Face on NASA Publishes a Thousand Photos of Mars (engadget.com) · · Score: 1

    Are missing!

  18. Windows 10 numbers are overstated on One Year Later: Windows 10 Now Runs On Over 21% of All Desktops (winbeta.org) · · Score: 1

    Like many others, I went through the motions of obtaining a free Windows 10 upgrade license by installing a Windows 7 factory recovery DVD to a clean hard drive and then upgrading to Windows 10. After the process was complete, I reinstalled the original Windows 7 running hard drive back into the PC. I repeated this process for 2 additional machines. I just wanted the free license in case I ever wanted to use Windows 10.

    I kept a copy of Windows 10 running on one test machine to play with and see if I liked it. After 6 months of use, I haven't found any compelling reason to migrate to Windows 10, but I have the free licenses in case I change my mind. I figure that by the time support stops for Windows 7, something better than Windows 10 will be available.

  19. Cable Franchises are Non-Exclusive!. on Charter: City Giving Google Fiber Unfair Edge (courier-journal.com) · · Score: 1

    Under FCC Rules and Regulations, Cable companies are required to be franchised by the communities that they serve. The franchise is non-exclusive. Multiple franchises are allowed to be issued to multiple cable providers.

    There are no regulations requiring data service providers to be franchised, although some arrangement would be needed to access "rights of way" and use of existing utility poles. You'll notice that you are only billed a franchise fee for video services and not for data services by the cable company. The cable companies are free to do almost anything they want regarding data services because they are not regulated as far as the local community is concerned. Exceptions would include "fair use" provisions established by congress and the FCC.

  20. Re:NFS? on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Preferred Media Streaming Device? · · Score: 1

    Kodi / Chromebox supports both NFS and SMB/CIFS. I paid $125 for the dual core Celeron Asus Chromebox

  21. Kodi 17 on Chromebox on Ask Slashdot: What's Your Preferred Media Streaming Device? · · Score: 1

    I've been running LibreELEC/Kodi pre-alpha nightly test builds by Milhouse on an Asus Celeron Chromebox.

    http://forum.kodi.tv/showthrea...
    http://kodi.wiki/view/chromebo...

    I'm very happy with the performance. I also have a Popcornhour C200. Kodi on the Chromebox runs circles around the Popcornhour.

  22. Injectable Camera Resolution on Micro-Camera Can Be Injected With A Syringe -- May Pose Surveillance Concerns (phys.org) · · Score: 1

    The resolution of the camera wasn't mentioned. 1-pixel x 1-pixel would be reasonable for a single fiber. There aren't too many applications where this would be useful.

    How large would a 720p camera based on this technology be? Probably too large to be injected!

  23. I deleted the Facebook app from my phone and my battery life tripled. Just stopping the app didn't seem to have any effect.

  24. Poor Design! on Xenon Flashes Can Make New Raspberry Pi 2 Freeze and Reboot · · Score: 1

    This is a simply a case of poor hardware design. The design engineer should have known that exposed silicon is sensitive to light (Remember the glass window EPROMS) and used a packaged version of the regulator.

  25. Better Value on Sony Thinks You'll Pay $1200 For a Digital Walkman · · Score: 1

    I paid $79 for a Motorola Luge Android 4.4 pay as you go smart phone at Best Buy specifically to use as a low cost media player with no phone service. I have it connected via Blue Tooth to my GM Bose "MyLink" Audio System. The audio playback is superb! It sounds as good or better than the other resident audio sources that come with the vehicle (XM, CD, HD Radio). Media Information is displayed via BT to the "MyLink" Console. Limited navigation and media selection can also be performed via BT.

    Seriously, I was amazed with the performance of the $79 Luge being used as a vehicle audio source. I really doubt that Sony's $1200 product would sound or perform any better.