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Comment Explanation from TFA (Score 5, Informative) 120

Should have been included in summary, imo.

That’s where things get interesting. Say, for example, you play a YouTube video. The pCell data center would request the video from Google’s servers, and then stream it to your phone through those 10 antennas. But here’s the key innovation: No one antenna would send the complete stream or even part of the stream. Instead, the data center would use the positions of the antennas and the channel characteristics of the system, such as multipath and fading, to calculate 10 unique waveforms, each transmitted by a different antenna. Although illegible when they leave the antennas, these waveforms would add up to the desired signal at your phone, exploiting interference rather than trying to avoid it.

Comment Re:High Tech VISA (Score 1) 398

Yes, I get the joke, but joking aside, I've seen this in Canada for a while. I don't know if I'd call it "new". It's always fun to pop up to Vancouver and have the person behind the counter (typically a young Asian girl, being Vancouver) stick my non-chipped card in the reader, become confused, pull it out, stick it in, become even more confused, pull it out, sudden realization, awkwardly swipe the card, start to walk off until I say "You'll need a signature from me".

Makes me feel outdated, tbh. I thought this was America.

Comment Re:Herpin' the Derp (Score 2) 599

Even ignoring any potential spying and just going off a mix of reliability, functionality and simplicity, I've found that cars in the 90s and early 2000s seem to be the sweet spot between having enough electronic management to run well while still being simple enough to fix it with a wrench and eBay parts when something goes wrong.

I'm no expert in the field, but I don't think engine management has made any huge leaps and bounds over the technology used in mid-90s fuel injection.

Comment Reads like a Discovery Documentary (Score 1) 265

Anyone else watch those TV Documentaries where the ads for it say "We answer mankind's biggest question. DO. ALIENS. EXIST. Tonight at 5, only on the Discovery Channel." and when you watch it, it concludes with "..so, are there aliens out there? The answer is a definite.. maybe." *roll credits*

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