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Comment No other explanation (Score 4, Interesting) 129

It's intentionally placed.
Bluetooth circuits are usually licensed for pennies per million by the same companies that sold you the EDA tools (Cadence, Synopsys, etc).
So then why?
Sell at a loss, get placed in all the cheap phones, tablets, PCs in Asia, have instant backdoor access with a simple "knock-knock' packet.

Comment Re:no choice, really (Score 1) 62

If by DIE you mean the McDonnell Douglass who ran the company into the ground, literally twice, then yeah, sure.
If you that some Black woman got the job because, well, she's a she, and her skin color is Black, etc., etc., etc., then I suggest you watch "Hidden Figures" and learn that perhaps the smartest person in the while fucking room is the one you'd over look cause of your personal biases and insecurities.

Comment Re:Answers (Score 1) 108

Allow me to add my favorite book on programming, which sits on the shelf next to Mr. Knuth's opus.
the dot, by Peter H. Reynolds. ISBN 0-7636-1961-2.

If you fail to comprehend the lessons in Mr. Reynolds book, then perhaps programming isn't for you.

Comment At Scale (Score 1) 110

I see a lot of comments here saying why it wouldn't work, and they're correct that the people in a house could not scale to the needs of the home.
However, there are spaces / places where this technology would scale - think a train station, airport, theater, sports arena, nightclub, etc.
That's where the question becomes interesting to explore, and does offer possible solutions to the needs of the space.

Comment then someone goes and mines an asteroid (Score 1) 231

Really, tying your economic stability to any 'rare' mineral is 'great' until someone comes up with enough to crash the market.
Either by mining asteroids, or figuring how to get the gold out of sea water (about one gram of gold for every 100 million metric tons of ocean water), there will be a chase as it's scarcity drives the price of it up and up and the more exotic methods of collecting it become financial sound.
Sounds a lot like Bitcoins, eh?

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