While I normally cringe at the having the government in control of things, this seems like a good idea to me too. Information routes, like roadways, should be something that the government provides to its citizens, rather than having much of the country at the whim of one or two carriers, who happen to own and control the spectrum. Plus, it pulls some of the Net Neutrality concerns off of the table.

It will be interesting to see how they plan to pay for it.

It also happens in the other direction. According to http://mentalhealthdaily.com/2...

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These days, a consensus of neuroscientists agree that brain development likely persists until at least the mid-20s – possibly until the 30s.

The fact that our brains aren’t developed until the mid 20s means that “legal adults” (those age 18+) are allowed to make adult decisions, without fully mature brains. Someone who is 18 may make riskier decisions than someone in their mid-20s in part due to lack of experience, but primarily due to an underdeveloped brain. /Quote

This can be a problem for anyone -- if you allow it.

If you leave from home for runs/rides, someone can easily see where you live, and learn the patterns of when you are won't be home. For that reason, even the freeware version of strava provides some privacy options:
1) Allows to make your records private, or available only by request
2) Provides a way to hide certain areas (such as start/stop location) from followers.
3) Plus the normal stuff, such as hiding real name and not allowing followers.

But then again, even a photo taken from your phone contains GPS information and timestamp if you don't specifically disable it.

From TFS: "Preventing reasonable diagnostic or repair functions includes permanently affixing a battery in a manner that makes it difficult or impossible to remove."

There is some ambiguity, but the intent seems pretty obvious.

IMO, this legislation is something we've needed for a long time. Musical birthday cards should get a pass. But expensive consumer electronics should not be treated as disposable items.

Someone probably got paid for this critical scientific research. The article is only available for purchase.

The upside is that since I only had half a sandwich, I'm probably entitled to some carbon credits.

Tesla's hail demo is not that impressive for a modern solar panel, IMO. Check this video of the SolarWorld panels. https://www.youtube.com/watch?... Now, That is impressive!

VZW cold called me after my contract ran out. When I declined their offer of a new phone, they switched me to a month to month "bring your own phone" plan. No contract, more data and about 20 bucks cheaper. No major OS upgrades to my Galaxy Note 3, but they did continue with security updates for the 3.5 years I owned that phone.

I assume they are not making any money on the hardware, but need to be competitive with their plans. Even more so, after I switched to a Nexus 6p, which has both CDMA and GSM. And I am still getting updates to the 6P - despite it not being a Verizon phone.

Capitalism is working fine for me. You probably just chose a provider that sucks.

At $29, they might not be making a huge profit. But I seriously doubt Apple is taking an loss on this. A few bucks for the new battery, and 20 minutes of labor can't cost that much.

Their biggest hit is that they can't force folks into an expensive and unnecessary replacement.

You would think that the computation power needed for mining would be more profitable if it were used for password cracking.

What is the penalty for the 2014-2015 OPM data breach https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and who gets that money?

21.5 million records lost . Information targeted in the breach included personally identifiable information such as Social Security numbers, as well as names, dates and places of birth, and addresses.

Perhaps, your cats will allow you to hang a booster upstairs.

TFA says that he plans to open two parachutes, and presumably float to safety. For those old enough to remember, this is not very different from what Evil Knievel did when jumping the Snake River canyon. EK had to know that there was no way he'd land it on 2 wheels. The difference was that EK made a lot of money with his "failed" stunt.

In that case, unless you are using your phone as an MP3 player, you may as well just turn it off. Then you'll get even better battery life.

I'm sure that Twitter was scrambling to restore the account as fast as they could. Regardless of what Mr. Fat Fingers thinks of POTUS Trump, Twitter would suffer horribly without everyone following his 3am tweets.