small sailboat racers knew in 1970s that using 800 grit sandpaper to rough the smooth surface of fiberglass hulls reduced drag by noticeable amounts. The Engineers and Physicists at the yacht club explained the roughness held a layer of water which is far smoother than the fiberglass or waxed fiberglass.

AT&T doesn't want to maintain the copper.

ADSL service is limited to a maximum distance of 18,000 feet (5460 m) between the DSL CPE and the DSLAM -- the 3% live farther away...

AT&T is misframing! The 3% live in areas where cell service does not reach. They rely on existing copper lines for emergency 911 calls.

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1000X seems low

Heck if I know. Somebody might correlate timing of strange noises with arrival of Coronal Mass Ejections.

LOL! Obviously the headline writer doesn't know about http://forum.mflenses.com/ ! Check out the work of UK photographer pentaxpete https://forum.mflenses.com/sea... and others.

AI probably has the dictionary of Telltale Words by now. LOL

simple fix: installing new wires on the high-voltage lines that already carry power hundreds of miles across the United States" "simple fix" -- ROTFLMAO!!!

"Meet me at High Noon", "Come by at Midnight" -- I would be an hour late during Daylight Savings Time.

Probably needed re-seating; remove/reinstall... That low-level contact resistance will get you every time!

Smartphone == Tracking Device

The Wang network had 300-baud modem to attach to LBL mainframe. PDP-8 was standalone with whopping 4K core memory. CDC6600 2x2x4-foot box supposedly would've taken only 15 seconds to melt down if cooling failed. Peripherals filled a large building. Printers spew a whole box of fanfold in seconds. Card readers read boxes of cards in seconds. IBM1401 was for school district payroll. Typing this on Raspberry PI 4B...