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  • The article says that it’s six gigahertz and that they are putting one unit on each side of the wall they want to blast through. So the signal is extremely strong right at the wall and then goes through it weakening and hits the other device and then is re-transmitted or whatever. By putting the routers directly on the wall, next to each other, they have enough power to get through the obstruction. But if they were in the middle of the room, for example, they probably would not.

    Source: A passion for wireless technologies and myself being a licensed amateur radio operator.











  • Use a proof of work system. The more work that is required, the fewer bots are going to actually take the time to do it. You could easily put in a system that says something to the effect of, has this person done at least 24 hours worth of computational work in order to validate this. If no, then they can’t do whatever. If yes, then they can do that thing. There’s a very low chance that a bought would actually do 24 hours worth of work. And even if they did, they sure as hell wouldn’t be generating millions of accounts doing it that way.

    The way I see it, you force some sort of proof of work that takes 24 hours to do, and then you can just submit that to each individual website you wish to work with so that they can validate that you’ve actually done the work you say you have.



  • That’s true, but the more resilient they can be made the better. I know at first they were talking about potentially reusing them 10 times each and now they have successfully demonstrated that they can do it 20 times each instead. So perhaps with some extra maintenance work and some inspections they could get it up to 30 or 40 times per booster. There would obviously become a point where maintenance would cost more than just building a new booster at which point they would obviously start retiring boosters and making new ones to replace them instead of reflying them.






  • Plus, there’s something to be said for efficiency. Text takes up very little disk space, where video takes up a lot of disk space. I hear of people that use like a terabyte worth of data per month on their internet connections. And personally, I can’t even get over 100 gigs, even with downloading books and watching some YouTube(99% audio only).