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Comment Don't forget about the "Pais Effect" patents (Score 1) 52

and patent applications assigned to the US Navy by inventor Salvatore Pais. An application entitled "PIEZOELECTRICITY_INDUCED ROOM TEMPERATURE SUPERCONDUCTOR can be found here: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpatents.google.com%2Fpat...

Comment What's the Bottom Line? (Score 1) 32

How much is 5G home internet service with unlimited data going to cost? Is 5G going to compete with cable or will they collude with cable? I don't have any warm feelings that we will have any kind of effective competition here.

Stand alone 5G home internet will probably be cost prohibitive unless it's bundled with one of their video packages or VOIP phone services.

Comment C Band (3.7-4.2 GHz) Satellite Interference (Score 4, Interesting) 64

It's very likely that this decision will cause interference with C Band satellite signals which down-link in the 3.7 - 4.2 GHz band. These satellites provide video feeds to television stations and cable systems world wide. Strong ground based signals in the same band will overload the low noise LNBF on C Band satellite TVRO dishes.

This is very disturbing since I recently pulled the plug on cable and rely heavily on Free To Air (FTA) video feeds from C Band domestic satellites in the USA. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.lyngsat.com%2Ffreetv...

Comment Re:Meh. (Score 2) 207

Power Supplies generally won't radiate at 700 MHz. Most power supplies that I've worked with don't radiate much above 30 MHz.

The GPU is probably the culprit. A Faraday cage should do the job, but every wire entering or leaving the enclosure needs to be EMI filtered.

Comment Re:The Law Should Not Allow Equifax To Exist. Peri (Score 1) 174

Where I *do* have a problem is in the use, sale and profit from my personal information, in a manner that is not compatible with the purpose for which I originally agreed to disclose that information, without my knowledge and/or consent.

I also have a problem with the credit bureaus profiting from the use and sale of my personal information.

That being said, would it be feasible to copyright all of my Personally Identifiable Information (PII) and demand payment for the use of my copyrighted material? If they won't pay, then send them a DMCA notice to remove my copyrighted PII from their database and sue them in small claims court for nonpayment.

Comment Re:Netflix, Apple, and Google should be against ne (Score 1) 126

At download speeds of 3 megabits per second (Mbps), which is the Federal Communications Commission’s current approximate standard for basic broadband service,

The FCC defines broadband as 25 Mbps down and 3Mbps up: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theverge.com%2F2015%2F...

3 Mbps down is no longer considered broadband.

Comment Another Hair Brained Scheme! (Score 1) 197

Instead of making baking soda, why not make limestone CaCO3 instead. The limestone can be safely buried in the ground or applied to lawns.

Alternatively, the CO2 could be separated into carbon and oxygen through electrolysis. The carbon could be used to make batteries and the oxygen could be dumped into the atmosphere or compressed and stored in tanks for reuse.

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