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Reminds me of a more serious recall years ago of some Sony TVs that exceeded 2nd anode voltage limits and x-ray radiation. Potentially MUCH more dangerous than this cell phone exposure. As I recall, 2nd anode voltage was around 30kVA, which exceed…
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I'd be more worried about living close to a cell tower, TV or Radio broadcasting tower, or high tension power distribution cable. In Russia and certain other countries some of the high tension cables carry up to 1 million volts. I believe they are…
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Wonder if the person involved was either drinking (heavily) or a heavy user of wacky tebacky (or something stronger)? Maybe the battery in these is sealed tightly enough that they can be allowed to pass thru the body safely. Would be interesting t…
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mattinoz said: BlueLightning said: "Thunderbolt is the brand name of a hardware interface for the connection of external peripherals to a computer. It has been developed by Intel, in collaboration with Apple.[7][8] It was initially mar…
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Doubt there is a mega cap US company that does not have something like an antitrust or restraint of trade proceeding in either the US, UK or EU (not to mention China). About 20 years ago, it was MSFT in the US. A decade or two before that, it was …
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"Thunderbolt is the brand name of a hardware interface for the connection of external peripherals to a computer. It has been developed by Intel, in collaboration with Apple.[7][8] It was initially marketed under the name Light Peak, and first sold a…
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Someone said the only thing constant is change. I'm still using a 30-pin connector on two iPod Classics (one with a third-party installed battery & disk drive). I can remember using a PS2 to USB converter on a Dell desktop that had a bunch of …
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Have seen an increase in number of folks with Apple watches over the last 5 or so years. Heavy used by medical personnel. Before retiring, saw a fair number of them on the arms of aviation manufacturing mid-level executives (and higher). I'm stil…
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My SE 2nd generation is a bit over 2 years old. Still showing 100%. I usually use standard (not fast) charging with an Apple charger. Use case is different from most: I only power on the SE when I need to receive a two factor authentication code…
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mayfly said: Isn't always being powered on the purpose of servers? In a large data center, following a major power outage, it is often more complicated. You cannot power on 2,000+ servers running many applications at the same time. The p…
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Wonder if UV light or nano-silver products would destroy bands over time, and if they would be relatively effective. Non-chlorine bleach could be another possibility, as well as isopropyl alcohol or hydrogen peroxide (may only be safe for metals). …
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Bitcoin is nothing more than a new-age fiat currency. Tulip bulbs, anyone? Stay far away from free games outside of a well recognized app store (and be suspicious of apps from unknown developers, even on a well known app store).
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An update that caused no problems with any of the web sites I use (unlike the last two, or internet exploder = MSFT browsers in the past).
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Seems like any remaining form factors that were not updated to the M2 family of chips should get the M3 first (iMac?). I still see a lot of M1 based machines being sold new at outlets like Best Buy. I suspect an M1 or M2 family chip is more than s…
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Back before the internet, it was common to pay a vendor/store a 40-50% markup to buy appliances, and more than that for jewelry. The manufactures accepted this markup, since they did not have the overhead of maintaining an end-user sales force and …
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Several decades ago, a good portion of US corporate programming was outsourced to Indian companies like Infosys and Tata. Microsoft and IBM (among many others) did large development projects in India, China and Russia. Maybe Air India has develope…
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Semi fabs need not only large amounts of water and electricity, but also absence of earth tremors. Therefore, fabs should be far away from hydrocarbon fracking locations. Some fracking areas have hundreds of small earthquakes in a matter of days, …
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The e-bike is not just dependent on application servers for the access key, but also domain name servers, internet service providers, supporting application software providers, authentication providers, and maybe encryption and VPN providers (to nam…
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Interesting. Making a mental note for possible future inclusion in a future bucket list. Until then, will likely watch/invest in some DVD based and online courses on astronomy, as time allows. Perhaps price will come down over the next decade.
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Hoping for solid state batteries within the next 4 years. Interested to see if the goggles will be a suitable replacement for a mac laptop within 5 years or so. For now, I spend a LOT more time on a MBP than on an iPhone. May look more carefull…