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  • All this tells me is that they have a great PR department.

  • Meanwhile Mercedes has already reached level 3.

  • I remember many years ago New Scientist magazine did a review study of many different alternative medicine techniques and found that the only benefits they provided were placebo effect.

    Except acupuncture. That was the only one with an effect greater than placebo.

  • One that results in a crime, apparently.

  • Yes, it's been obsoleted in wifi since 2014. DSSS was always the preferred option and FHSS was never used much in WiFi.

  • This is mostly wrong: while she did invent what would later be called Frequency Hopping Spread Spectrum (FHSS), it isn't used in modern WiFi or in GPS. It is used in Bluetooth though.

    I should point out that techniques like FHSS are only a part of what makes up a radio communication method. You can't say it was "the basis of Bluetooth" just because FHSS is one of the many technologies used in Bluetooth. She certainly contributed though.

  • ...because based on the facts it is homicide.

  • For Australians: they mean American opossums, not Australian possums. Our cute little marsupial friends have appropriately wrinkly brains, thank goodness.

  • ...is the second largest city in Australia. But also has an inflated sense of self-importance.

    ;)

  • A lot of plastics have PFAS in them and I don't think it's likely they'll be rushing to remove them. I wonder how this is going to play out.

  • "They banned mercenaries so we'll just call them something different"

  • In my country that means you wouldn't respect (for instance) ordinary people who've paid off a house. 1 million isn't as much money as it used to be.

  • Ah, so it's a USA specific joke. Gotcha.

  • Nice. I guess Antarctica's next.

    • Australia's Northern Territory area: 1.42m km2
    • Australia's Northern Territory population: 246,500 (2020)
  • And then there's the sad story of Melbourne's Waverley Park, a large stadium which they built in an area with no decent public transport. What happens when you build Melbourne's largest stadium with >100,000 capacity, and also a large but inadequate 25,000 car spots and no usable public transport?

    It was never filled since they simply couldn't get enough people to it. Also even then it apparently took hours just to get out of the parking lot after a game. It ended up failing as a stadium and being converted into housing years later.

  • Also, many companies pulled their head offices out of Britain in preparation for Brexit.

  • CFCs

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  • It's already been addressed in Linux - not sure about other OSes. They doubled the size of time data so now you can keep using it until after the heat death of the universe. If you're around then.

  • They have devices installed which include GPS and an accelerometer. They report back to base via a cellular connection when you drive erratically or aggressively etc.