Doesn't it hurt your brain to compose non sequiturs like that?

I think there may even be streaming appliance out there that connect to between your PC and monitors. I haven't looked into it much (not really interested) but it came up in the webcomic Between Failures recently.

Border blasters were an interesting phenomenon, but they are dependent on running on AM in order to get the kind of distance you describe. FM won't travel that far, no matter how much power you throw into it. It simply won't travel over the horizon except under rare propagation conditions.

And, to be clear, it's not the AM-ness or the FM-ness that makes it so, but the fact that AM broadcasting is done on some pretty low frequencies, around 1 MHz, and these will both diffract and reflect to reach places that an FM signal, two orders of magnitude higher in frequency, just won't go (though notably, the FM band is comparatively superior at getting inside of buildings).

Good point. I also forgot to mention "indignant".

You're jumping the gun. First you have to go through "annoyed", "exasperated" and "appalled." Then you can move on to "strongly condemning" and "deploring".

That was my glitch, not the machine's.

My seven-year-old PC is an Athlon X2 clocked at 2.6 GHz with 6 GiB of RAM and an ATI GPU. It seems to move along nicely enough. I am [;ammomg to upgrade its storage to an SSD in a month or so.

It appears to be six. There is a hack out there to reduce it to four, which is apparently what it used to be. I'm wondering if six is a minimum or an absolute, i.e. is it at least 6 or exactly 6? Can I use 11 if I want? I'm an Android user, so I don't know.

I have a set of radios that are spread-spectrum and operate in an ISM band. These aren't available in France though (the band in question is used for something else there) which . . . I'm not sure if that would improve or damage opsec.

So he's building a "cloud platform" for cars and he didn't bother checking to see if fast internet was available BEFORE purchasing the lease?

FTFA:

That appears to be in the correct order, so I'm not sure what you're on about.

You would have to be breaking the law in order to be above it.

Now, I grant you that Apple, and the newly-found et al. are doing things that fly in the face of a court order, however, they appear to be going through all the proper channels to invalidate that court order.

That's kind of how I understood it. PDF kind of has that reputation as well.

Exactly. Let me offer some anecdotal examples.

My real world experience is that in my relatively flat residential neighbourhood, 400m is about the limit between handheld UHF radios (tried on both 450ish and 915ish MHz frequencies), ranging from 500mW to 7W. VHF (around 140-155 MHz) goes a little further under those circumstances (there are lots of trees in my neighbourhood, and trees have a larger negative impact on UHF than VHF).

At the same time, put one end on top of a hill, mountain, tower, building, or other tall thing, and the range, even at the same power level, becomes what they say on the package and often then some.

(Before someone asks, because radio nazis are everywhere, yes, all my radios are legal. I am a licensed ham, but also use MURS and FRS as well as some proprietary spread-spectrum radios on 915 MHz)

Sort of.

The way to get around it is to define the parameters tight enough to get what you want. For instance, adding this language: "The device shall feature a 4.3" AMOLED display. It shall be compatible with all CDMA networks, 802.11 a, b, g and n, and LTE bands 25, 26 and 41. It shall use the Android operating system and support one Micro-SDcard. It shall require a SIM for LTE connectivity, but not for CDMA connectivity." will pretty much knock things back to one specific version of one specific device, that being a Samsung S4 Mini that has been configured for Sprint (an SPH-L520).

Some manufacturers will even provide you with the verbiage to get exactly one particular specific product of theirs and no other.