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jyoung8607

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    Comment #49202179

    The original transition (and release of extra frequencies) was a delicate and painful process with lots of involved parties who had to spend lots of money to make it happen. Politi…

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    Comment #49201393

    Seventeen years ago, when we transitioned, the state of available and deployed equipment, codecs, and home receivers would not have permitted it. I mean sure, you could pack four s…

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    Comment #49201032

    That's already widely done in the US. If you plug in an antenna and scan for local channels, what used to be one analog TV channel on colloquially-named "channel 7" in the defined …

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    Comment #47458597

    If the restricted area is large, a carrier is regionally disabling for an imagery provider. If it's smaller (and therefore must move over time to follow the carrier group) as soon …

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    Comment #47358066

    I don't find that an unreasonable interpretation. Absent that paragraph of explained thought process, I could very well read it the agent's way. That's not a defect in the agent, t…

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    Comment #47140905

    Persistence allows the scammer free license to attempt password recoveries for every account the victim could possibly have. Other banks, retirement accounts, the victim's email ac…

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    Comment #47140677

    Typo squatting is a thing, and so are Unicode homographs. The permissions approach isn't bad. I may trust Thunderbird for some things, but permission to read SMS and notifications …

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    Comment #46786400

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    Comment #46036589

    > That’s a function of the website, not the browser. That's hand-waving away quite a lot. The task changes from serving a copy of a file on disk, as every other image format in com…

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    Comment #43910427

    The controllable shutoff valves are already a thing, on the market. They even measure flow rates and look for slow leaks and notify you in an app. Draining the pipes isn't that sim…

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    Comment #43901489

    It's genuinely a very similar problem. The max round trip latency before polite humans start having trouble talking over each other has been well studied since the origins of the B…