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Comment Easy way to get antimatter in your garage (Score 2) 83

There's a very easy way to generate antimatter in your garage, basement or backyard. Heck, many people are probably doing it already without knowing it.
Go to Home Depot and buy a bag of potassium chloride water softener. Put it in your garage. There, you have antimatter. On a small scale you can do the same by buying at a grocery store a box of low sodium salt substitute, which also has potassium chloride in it.
If you don't believe me, take a Geiger counter and put it next to the bag of potassium chloride, and enjoy its clicking. I get around 60cpm, which is around 4 times the natural background in my location. Those are 511keV gamma rays resulting from the annihilation of positrons emitted by the K-40 isotope, which is a small but universal percentage of potassium anywhere in the universe.

Comment Re:It will be interesting to see how it works (Score 1) 94

For instance, what happens if you pick something from a shelf, put it in your basket or bag, go on shopping but then before leaving you decide you don't want that item after all and go put it back on the shelf. I predict many people getting billed for items they didn't get out of the store. And good luck proving afterwards that you didn't.

Comment Re:Thinking about the children... too much! (Score 2) 99

The next day after this feature is implemented, Apple will receive a letter from the Chinese government:
1. You will allow us to inject hashes into your database.
2. You will not tell anyone about this
3. Or else, no sales of any Apple products anywhere in China.

What do you think Apple will do?

Comment Re:How about a through-screen fingerprint scanner? (Score 1) 61

If police are looking for a pretext to mess with you, taking the mask off will give them one. It has happened already - look at the political opponents arrested in various places like Myanmar and Russia who have been arrested under the pretext of breaking isolation protocols.

Comment Re:VoIP over LTE possible? (Score 1) 60

Would it be possible to continue to use the LG V20 on T-Mobile's data network and port your voice number to a VoIP carrier?

No. T-mobile will kick my phone off its network completely, even though theoretically it would still be able to function as a LTE data-only device. They will not allow that.

Comment Re: Hypocrisy (Score 1) 60

Thank you for praising the V20 better than I could. It's an awesome phone.
One feature that you didn't mention, and which no other phone before or after it has, is the second display. I find that very useful for finding out quickly information such as time, whether it rains outside or not etc. without having to turn on the main display - which saves a lot of battery charge.

I will probably end up taking one of the crappy free phones from Tmobile to use for voice only, and continue to use the V20 for everything else as it makes an awesome media player and ebook reader. The audio quality, when paired with a good wired headphone, is superb and I have a large media library on it. I also have a large ebook library, because the wonderful display makes reading very easy on the eyes. The V20 will live on, even if only as a mini-tablet with wifi connectivity only.

Comment Hypocrisy (Score 2) 60

“If Dish was really concerned for customers, they would simply take real action and get their customers new phones on time, before the network upgrade happens, just as T-Mobile is doing for affected Sprint customers. It’s that simple.”

Yeah, just like T-mobile is doing. Obsoleting my still perfectly good phone which I paid a wad of money on, and giving me the choice of either spending another wad of money on a decent phone, or getting a crappy one for free. Yeah.

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