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Comment Dur (Score 0) 202

There are now four USB ports which means you don't need a hub to work with a mouse, keyboard and WiFi dongle.

Oh, good, thanks for that. I was having trouble imagining what "four" was, but now I know it's at least "three."

Comment Re:Cashless can't happen, here is why ... (Score 5, Insightful) 753

The ONLY thing required for this to happen is secure communications.

That's like saying "the ONLY thing required is world peace".
What admins and engineers have known for a long time, and which people like Snowden provided evidence for is that secure communication is not a given, and highly unlikely to be an option for the masses.

If the government won't let people have a shadow economy they can't monitor or control, expect physical alternatives to take their place. There's plenty of precedence for turning to valuable metals when the currency cannot be trusted. And there are examples of governments banning both gold and silver trade as a kneejerk reaction, but that just moves the market to something else.

Comment Re:LEDs (Score 1) 278

I'm switching out my lightbulbs - to halogen lights.
I can't stand the visible flickering of LED lights, nor that they don't light in a continuous spectrum. Some colors will show stronger and some less in LED light, which irritates me.
It's like listening to music with an 18-band equalizer, and three random knobs turned all the way up, and the rest down.

Halogen lights don't have that problem, and you can get them in many color temperatures. They're far more efficient than regular incandescent bulbs, while still having the advantages of an unbroken spectrum and little flickering. They're also safer for the environment to dispose of than LEDs.

Comment Re:not true, IIRC (Score 3, Informative) 202

nonsense statement...had to read twice to be sure, but this is just technobabble and not based on scientific definitions of "space" and "light"

That's weird, I understood it perfectly as an (admittedly somewhat simplified) explanation of how space expands and how light travels through that expanding space. Don't blame your lack of understanding on what you imagine to be the GP's lack of clarity.

in other words, **NO** there is not 'light' hitting us from 14B ly+

No-one said there is. There is light hitting us which was emitted by objects which are now* more than 14 billion light years away.

*for a given value of "now," that is, but I'm not sure I'd enjoy trying to explain that to you.

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