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Comment Re:Not Mysterious (Score 1) 37

The US government is choosing to transmit.

Even if it's fixed frequency there are reasonable explanations for wanting the capability, including it hardly makes its common use the fault of SpaceX. If it's a variable frequency transmitter you need to be suffering from Elon Derangement Syndrome to make it the fault of SpaceX.

Comment Re:They're listening to the wrong focus groups. (Score 1) 74

They are only thin if you let the reality distortion field erase the camera bump. Sour grapes from Apple haters aren't always wrong.

If they (or Samsung for that matter) went all in on thin, it would have been a better fashion statement. Compromise on the camera even more.

Comment What will be the excuse this time? (Score 1) 38

They went from "nothing to see here" for DUAL_EC_DRBG, to "dog ate my homework" for ECC curves ... what outlandish excuse will they have for their really not a backdoor, pinky promise, constants this time?

Even the NSA wouldn't gamble on being the only ones able to crack it, so it will be some constant encoding a defacto public key yet again, like usual.

Comment Microsoft's upper level management is incompetent (Score 1) 62

This clearly comes down from the top, "force AI into everything and show me uptake, or else ...", so the grunts just shovel it in there and force it.

Meanwhile the market is clapping because the morons at the top lucked into the money printer which is the cloud transition. Also 365/Azure are handled with some competence ... while Windows and consumer applications are done by the teams with the least political power, which get forced to do these AI experiments and use crap like WinUI ("dogfooding" is clearly only for the teams without influence).

Comment Re:Luckily there is an intertwined multi conductor (Score 1, Interesting) 64

There is galvanic isolation with AC charging, so there are always magnets. Wireless charging uses the inductive power transfer for galvanic isolation. AC charging also needs PFC and the inverter driving the coil for wireless power transfer also does PFC during it's normal function without any extra switches.

So it's not as bad as you might expect.

Comment Re:Amazonian Hypocisy. (Score 1) 92

They likely wanted more consistent marketing images for the franchise than busy movie posters.

After that it becomes hard to predict. Most likely they let someone with a hard on for gun banning write guidelines for the marketing. Would be hilarious if they used an overly safety trained AI model to edit the images and it just removed the guns because of training pressure though.

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