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Comment Re:I seriously doubt... (Score 1) 140

that "Google has decided to disable a feature in Windows 10 version 2004". Since when does Google control the code of Windows?

If I rewrote that to read

""Google has decided to disable a feature that Windows 10 version 2004 takes advantage of to ..."

would it make more sense to you?

Because that's really the situation here.

Comment Re:This is better than repair (Score 1) 38

Why not have an upgrade sat design ready and in production?

I was thinking the same thing. This mission couldn't have been cheap. This mission will keep the (15y/o) sat in-service for [only] another five years. A new sat would no-doubt quadruple the capability for another 15 years. How much more would that cost.

Then again, Starlink may buggy-whip this sat in five years, so why bother.

Comment Re:loose lips sink ships (Score 1) 56

The UK has a restriction in the ham 70cm band for 'no reason.' Ofcom won't say why. The spectrum isn't allocated to anyone else. There's no reason. Just an instruction, on which they are very strict, to keep out of 431-432MHz.

Ofcom does not show that band as restricted.
http://static.ofcom.org.uk/sta...

Is it secretly restricted?

Comment Re:Postal banking (Score 1) 327

Great post, dude.

Having said that, those poor guys have been running on empty for so long, will they really collapse now?

Of course not. Congress will not allow it. Current heads may roll (to be replaced by identically dumb ones), current services may be curtailed (like deliveries per week), prices may rise (but never enough to cover debt), etc, etc, etc, but the USPS will continue.

Comment Re:And nobody is buying them. (Score 1) 83

You're basically looking at oil changes 4 times a year and lots of little service parts that will probably cost you $1000-2000 per year.

You change oil every 3 or 4 years, not 4 times a year ...

Wowsers. Most manufacturers recommend changing the oil every 7500 miles. I change mine when I get my state inspection; once a year. That's usually about 10,000 miles.

Once every 3 or 4 years is asking for problems unless you're that little ol' lady from Pasadena.

Comment Re:what could go wrong (Score 1) 203

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing when I heard about this. It's about correctness, not work ethic. 6-hour shifts just seem like a better way to get a low error rate.

Maybe it is but hourly workers would be fucked by this. A 5-day work-week would yield you only 30 hours a week. A 6-day work-week only 36.

If I was an hourly worker, I'd kill for that 12-hour schedule. It would mean two 4-day weekends a month and another two 3-day weekends a month.

As an aside, I recall reading somewhere that this is a very typical schedule for hospital nurses.

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