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Comment Escalation or error? (Score 2) 187

YouTube currently has a problem with playing livestreams as long as I'm logged in, ad-blocker enabled or not. They get interrupted and it errors out in about a minute. If I pass the link off to another browser that's not logged in, it plays OK. Even recordings of live streams do it. All other videos are fine.

Comment Re:Did someone actually say this? (Score 1) 317

And they've always been subject to interference from everything from ignition wires to florescent light ballasts. It's not just shielding the radio, in an electric vehicle you have all sorts of noise sources from motors and driver circuits to controller electronics. They all need shielding as well. Auto makers are cheap. They'll do they bare minimum. If you don't have to worry about AM radio, that's a whole bunch of work they won't (have to) do.

Comment Re:Did someone actually say this? (Score 1) 317

When you consider the weight of the additional shielding and other RFI mitigation hardware required to quiet the vehicles electrical emissions enough to allow AM radio reception it technically adds to the weight of the vehicle and therefore reduces the range with the additional power required to move it around. Probably about as much as having a larger person or persons inside would. Of course that can be compensated for in other ways but may add to the cost. Boohoo. They can complain all they want, but as I ham radio operator I'm all in favor of spectrally clean transportation. If there's a radio in it, or around it.

Comment False recognition lawsuits await (Score 1) 113

Facial recognition technology is far from perfect. In the rush to tag offenders they'll inevitably flag innocent people and make it impossible for them to go out in public without harassment. Private companies have already had action taken in the US. Rite Aid is banned by the FTC from using it for five years for just such reasons.

Comment Re:I am sorry for your expensive slow connections. (Score 1) 208

I'm guessing Bucharest? It's not necessarily indicative of the whole continent. In France where I live we were too far from a dslam to get anything above 7mbit until the fibre rolled in this January. Much of europe's infrastructure is good, but a lot is old and needs to be upgraded, just as it has to be in the states: a much bigger country anyway.

Comment Missing option: Optical Drives (Score 1) 307

I've had the worst of luck with optical drives, especially in laptops. My previous two laptops went through a grand combination of two *each*. My previous desktop's dvd burner failed, as did the desktop before that. Granted I did use the drives a lot, but still. Thankfully they're not that necessary anymore. Also power supplies, but not nearly as bad as the optical drives. I've had pretty good luck with HDDs.

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