There's clearly a market for tractors and equipment, no matter how modern and complex, to be easily and cheaply field-repairable by farmers, and most especially, quickly.

I wonder if it will happen.

The Supreme Court has migrated base rights into new areas of technology in the past:

- Freedom of the press doesn't mean literally a printing press anymore, control of which was a back door way of controlling speech even if there was no direct censorship.

- The SC ruled infrared scanners that passively looked through walls required a warrant, as the founding fathers, and Americans' expectations, were such that an area was secure from warrantless examination.

As Americans move more of their life into the online virtual world, they carry with them the same expectation of privacy from warrantless search. The Supreme Court should overturn the outdated loophole that is from the telephone days, that you have no reasonable expectation of privacy in data held by 3rd parties.

Well, no, everybody has that expectation. The King of England would have abused it, and warrant requirements would have been included in the Constitution.

The idea has been floated in the US before. It would probably fail at the Supreme Court level as freedom of speech includes the right to speak anonymously.

See, when hacking off Linux lovers, anon is coward. When in these other countries, anon is brave.

Still, if you remain reasonably cogent, it would be sweet to run around at 100 in a 20 year old body. Youth no longer wasted on thee young, imagine the perverted fucking you'll do -- Dr. Seuss

"Hi."

"Hello."

"What's your name?"

"Buffy."

"I'm Devilus. Say, do you play Magic: The Gathering?"

"Ha god no!"

"Uhhh, I have to go, bye. (To self) looks like it's you and me, again, Rosie, for the 347,891st time. Sigh."

It's my understanding the brain does not work that way. Although it grows new stuff to learn, those cells are basically it, and those cells just start wearing out.

Assuming the wildest success for telomere lengthening for every other cell and organ in your body, and you'll still be a drooling idiot at 150.

Alls I knows is I like the idea of the Old Planet trying to control the New Planet for its own benefit!

Hmmm, "planet" sounds clumsy. Maybe "world".

Hehe, the denoument of The Maple Syrup War, in the first part of Live Free or Die by John Ringo.

Secretary: "Here's another data stream to record!". (Throws spec sheet in the programmer's inbox.)

NSA Programmer (Looks at 3 foot high inbox.). God dammit.

People may not want to hear it, but it is unfair competition -- no cable company can spend on behalf of everyone, not just their customers, with the legal power to tax.

Had they approached government, oh how those supporting this city council would have howled.

How long would it take a company to get that kind of money back out of its customers?

> Sales totaled $44.89 billion

Yey! We can put off borrowing for 14 days!

> [of which] contribute $20 billion to deficit reduction

Yey! I mean 6 days!

Europe and other government purchases are not driving Cisco and other equipment advances in speed. That's mostly capital investment. Euro governments (and US munincipalities) are leveraging this by way of uaving taxes to pay for it.
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  few years down the road, it won't see so fast when quad streams, each of 4k video, to every house are the desire.

Then there's turnaround latency, need to have twitch games 3d generated at the server in a reasonably tiny time frame.

No, these city services, akin to water and sewer and electricity, will be reliable, but no longer on a timely upgrade path.

I hear a presidential limo made from a Chevy Bolt, with an electric engine and no armor, is much more fuel efficient, too.

I wondered that, too.

In any case, Boeing saw no business case for larger planes, while tons of room for smaller, direct jets. More to more airports with less hub crap.

The Airbus decision flabbergasted them. Officially, anyway. Cynics realized it was some European Union pride/multistate boondoggle as pieces were mandated to be made in most countries. Business case is irrelevant to politicians in such a situation. See also perennial money-loser SST.

You want scary? The same can be applied to general text on the Internet, tying posters on different sotes together, including anonymous (not your real name avatar) to a site with your real name.

Which the NSA probably has churning away on its databases. Which probably does little more than add confirmation of said links from watching and recording all traffic to any and all of a billion IP addresses.

And I, for one, welcome our new panopticon overlords who won't abuse it, not one of their thousand agents, because they're supposed to check a got-a-warrant box on a piece of paper before choosing to abuse it.

That is 24%. That means your device could be 20% cheaper and they would STILL make more money then anybody else in percentage per product in the electronics world.

It's the bottom end that's the problem with this, not the top end. The bottom, not-Apple, not-iPhone product end, where a guy with some money is sitting there and wondering if he should invest.

Lessee. Taxes on corporate profits look like they're going up. I see a marginal chance at success at best. Screweth it!

A few percent of investment scared off the bottom, and there's your decade of stagnation.