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Comment Re: And nothing will happen (Score 1) 169

Sudden infection/blood poisoning of unknown origin making him susceptible to MRSA. If it wasnâ(TM)t the MRSA finishing him off, it would have been the shutting down of organs due to infection/blood poisoning. The Russians typically are experts at this and many of Putin opponents have suddenly died in a similar way with what appear to be infections leading to sudden death, wouldnâ(TM)t be surprised if they took a page out of that playbook, we know the feds funded gain of function research at Wuhan.

Comment Re: Not all with the same brush (Score 1) 47

Feel free to go to India, China, any country in Africa, Eastern Europe and even the French and Spanish and UK police forces. The only somewhat nicer ones are in the Nordic and Germanic language countries although they are getting more aggressive now that their society is becoming less homogenous, although the Nordic and Germanic forces are more likely to infringe upon your rights through the legal process as there is minimal to no defense against invalid charges.

Comment Re: Red herring (Score 1) 105

You solved 1h out of the next 365 days. We are talking about several GWy missing annually because the wind doesnâ(TM)t always blow, we had a particular hot and windy decade, but the El Niño winds are slowing down, as can be predicted. What do you do when the wind doesnâ(TM)t blow as hard for a decade that you lose 10% of your power production. They are missing 2% on top of what they are capable of building out, which means the entire investment they are doing right now is not going to produce anything.

Comment I don't need one so nobody else does either? (Score 1) 123

I don't know what kind of value this kind of article has, obviously the iPad has value to some people, increasing its specs does as well, even if you're not using it, you'll be using less energy so the battery will last longer etc.

Just because you don't need anything between a phone and a computer doesn't mean others don't. I personally like a big stationary desktop and lug around an iPad to meetings etc since my phone screen is just not big enough to do anything useful. And there are plenty of other people that don't need quite a computer or need slightly more than a phone, I know people with disabilities love the iPad to communicate, designers love the iPad Pro.

Yes it is a small laptop but its lack of keyboard and the fact it has sufficient power to replace some low end laptops is a feature.

Comment Re: AM radio is nothing in terms of volts. (Score 2) 313

Yes but the argument that all those measures add cost and weight is still valid. I see you never actually designed a radio circuit (I have) you do not know what you are talking about.

Whether it is phase cancellation (which would require a redesign, still have lots of noise harmonics and consume more power) or shielding. Moving the antenna isnâ(TM)t an option since the motors are in each corner of the car for most EV.

And this isnâ(TM)t unique to EV by the way, ICE also make lots of electrical noise, the solution has always been a metal enclosure and donâ(TM)t put the antenna in the engine bay. But EV need to be lighter than aluminum and steel, so they naturally become emitters well beyond FCC standards.

Comment Re: AM radio is nothing in terms of volts. (Score 1) 313

They probably are in favor of removing that and only provide car manufacturer streaming apps or a contract with SiriusXM.

The biggest issue is that AM radio and FM should be possible yet it will require better shielding in EV which adds cost and weight. The only reason the FCC doesnâ(TM)t want to address the mobile radio jammers that EVs have become is because the ramifications.

Comment Re: Wait, encryption keys were stolen? (Score 1) 43

Password cracking is easy because the majority of people uses a short, guessable password (insert correcthorsebatterystaple XKCD here).

With a $500 GPU you can guess close to 2M dictionary variation passwords per second (that is dictionary words with things like 0 and o replaced). The LastPass may be 12x hashed or whatever they say it is, it is relatively trivial for 8 character passwords.

Comment Re: They took care of this (Score 1) 34

Medicare wasnâ(TM)t a GOP policy, fixing it seems to always fall on the GOP and taking away benefits has always been a political poison pill regardless of whether it is actually affordable, so a middle ground is letting companies do Medicare but then you get these kinds of monstrosities that handle the information for virtually all citizens (because the governments need to track and forecast how many billions to pump into the system or else it will go broke).

If you like government run healthcare so much go wait in line in Canada or the UK. Hope your broken bones donâ(TM)t set before a nurse will see you.

Comment Re: They took care of this (Score 0) 34

They wonâ(TM)t be punished because the entire Medicare/Medicaid system depends on this system and the policies that created the databases were demanded by government policy.

If the government wasnâ(TM)t involved in health care, you wouldnâ(TM)t get these too big to fail monopolies and people would be permitted to have pseudonymous and anonymous records which could be publicized in a blockchain.

The problem has been solved, you just need to permit citizens to not use government ID for every transaction.

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