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Comment Re:So much for any pretense of 'privacy' (Score 1) 44

I registered a name in the .us TLD a few months ago just to share some photos and videos of a party. I learned why it was cheap to register.
I had to provide real information to demonstrate I'm affiliated with the United States.
Well! I must have received over a hundred calls from Indian developers wanting to take over designing and programming my site. They were polite, but there were just so many.
The lesson learned was why the .us domain is so unpopular.

Comment HD AM Resolves AM Quality Issue (Score 1) 145

For those comments complaining about the low quality of AM radio, there is hybrid-digital (HD) AM broadcasting that makes the audio about the same quality as FM. There is the cost of licensing the technology for the receiver, but if the FM portion of the receiver is licensed, it probably isn't much to add AM.

My conspiracy theory is that programs like Dan Bongino and Clay Travis & Buck Sexton are usually on AM, so they're trying to silence them, although Bongino has already announced he is discontinuing his show.

Comment Reuse is Better than Recycle When Possible (Score 1) 115

One problem I see is that in my town we have an electronic "recycling" bin at the landfill which really just goes to a scrapper. People put their old electronics in there thinking that they're doing such good for the world.

Unfortunately there's quite a few good items put in there like flat panel TV's that just need a minor repair. I've seen i5 class computers, perfectly good JBL speakers, and lots of laptop power supplied, among a lot of other stuff. Unfortunately, the town makes a few cents per pound, so we're prohibited from actually doing the environment good and reusing the items.

Of course, no one wants ink-jet printers, or glass tube televisions, especially the 39" Sony. The glass on those is about an inch thick, but there's a lot of usable items going to scrap.

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