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Comment Re:I actually had to read the original release (Score 1) 82

5G tech is useless for medium-long distance where 4g Shines (you have high frequency bands for zones with a lot of towers and low frequency bands like 28 -700mhz- for low range connections). 5G is for very short distances with a lot of cells, and it's spectrum is located in the very high frequency area (from 3.4ghz to 28ghz, mmwave), so penetration and distance are not 5G strong points. I do not see LTE going away.

Comment Re:aptX-HD, LDAC, AAC (Score 1) 197

There is also too few bluetooth headphones that supports HD codecs like aptx-hd (qualcomm) or ldac (sony) or aac (apple).

What I'd like is a simple BT receiver that handle HD codec, and on this gizmo, have a 3.5mm jack so I can plug high end headphone on it, while still being wireless with my phone (that support HD bluetooth).

That's why i bought a Sennheiser 4.40bt headphones. AptX and sound good with bluetooth (albeit having a little background hiss due to the integrated amp in BT mode). But also they sound the SAME in passive mode (not as some sonys that require energy even por "pasive" mode and without the electronics in pasive mode sound like crap). So in my house, i use them wired to a very good yamaha amplifier, and on the go i have the choice of using the headphone jack of my S8 or bluetooth.

Comment Re:What a joke (Score 1) 109

Older vehicles are known polluters, but it is factored in that they'll eventually end up on the scrap heap.

Scrap? In Argentina, we don't know about scrap. We fix everything and old things keep running forever. Take a look at the vehicles in our country... there are a lot of new ones, yes, but also there are a lot of old diesel trucks with a cloaking device (aka accelerator).

Comment Re:[shrug] (Score 2) 226

You know, we've been doing this for four years where I work. And yes, I know everyone here is going to espouse Truecrypt as the one true solution, but the simple fact is NASA is run as a corporation... as such they'll probably go for a solution that's vendor supported. The fact that they're NASA will probably mean they'll get a pretty decent price on the software too. Now, the downside of full-disk encryption (which many lazy corporations do instead of home directory only) is that it does increase the load on your system, slow it down and make recovery if/when it breaks a royal pain. Our helpdesk has an almost constant stream of laptops coming and going through their hands that they have to decrypt and re-encrypt because something got out of sync. Time consuming, and leads to downtime for the users. I've often suggested home folder only encryption... but the higher ups want it all encrypted... right up to the point that their laptop is down for two days because they've broken it. By the way, another horrible side effect of whole disk encryption is that our experience says that it'll kill SSD's pretty rapidly. Our average SSD life is less than a year at this point because there doesn't seem to be a good full-disk encryption software that properly implements TRIM... so spinning disk or hybrid disk is the way to go.

I run a Lenovo X220 with hardware accelerated AES on a Core I5. The increased load is NON-EXISTENT. Also if you run a SSD with sandforce controller (which compresses data), the performance will be poor, and the wear very high. I run a samsung 830 SSD. Fastest ssd for encrypted disks (does not compress data on the fly). Also, i use DiskCryptor. It does have TRIM enabled for encrypted disks.

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