Movies have become more derivative every decade since the motion picture camera was invented. This is the "low hanging fruit" observation.

People only have a certain number of desires, and only desire a certain amount of change. As it gets more difficult to come up with something new that people like, something old will get repeated more. As there gets to be a longer history of "something old that people liked", something new will be created less often.

It's not just movies. You can see it everywhere. Consider, e.g., software. A new edition has to change something noticeable, but it gets harder to come up with something new that people will like as much.

The time when we could (sometimes) rely on legislators to mandate basic security was back when they understood how basic security worked. In these areas only (some) tech specialists do.

At the least "buying" the software meant you can use it for as long as you could find a machine to run it on.

The big push of corporate america these days is to deepen the poverty cycle by turning everything into a rental.

Silly me, I thought "nobody owns anything" was part of the Communist plot.

That is, indeed, the most ethical. It's the way I chose. But I never deluded myself into believing that it would alter the behavior of the companies. Only two things (that I've thought of) stand a chance of doing that.
1) If you stop selling something that you are the monopolizer of sales in, you lose all associated copyrights. (And possibly all associated patents.) I.e. legal action to make things that you buy act is if they are yours.
2) Massive community on-line attacks whenever a company disables something that it's sold.

I don't think either of those have much chance of happening, and the second would be quite dangerous.

Don't mistake a statistical trend for a universal truth. There were simple songs earlier on as well, but there were also more meaningful and complex songs. Think of the early Beatles as paying their dues to the record company suits.

There's probably no "the" filter. It's probably a raft of multiple pieces. Some species won't be able to survive away from their home planet. Some will be aquatic (or other heavy medium). Some won't be able to tolerate the communications lag time. Some will kill each other off in suicidal war. Etc. Etc. Etc.

And another part of the filter is, since FTL appears to be impossible, (if only because of collision with grains of dust) once you've spent thousands of years in space, that's what you're adapted to, and then you don't want to (or can't) visit a planet.

Wait, didn't they have this thing called "Net Neutrality" a while back??/s

IIRC, it's been more of a think for NiCd than LiIon.

In LiIon batteries, IIRC, the dendrites only form to a significant degree when the battery is abused. That's why most LiIon batteries simply fade away to uselessness rather than the considerably more violent end that happens when the separator is punctured.

Agreed. I tend to keep a cellphone until it's dead. The last one I had went through a couple screen protectors and a new battery until one day it simply wouldn't connect to the cellular network anymore. I would certainly like an extended battery life, especially since the trend is towards harder to replace batteries now.

Since a phone can run from the charger when it's plugged in, a pulsed charging circuit wouldn't be all that complicated and shouldn't add much cost, even given the silly markups in play these days.

The effect is greatest with a 2KHz square wave. A 100 Hz square wave had a lesser but significant effect.

Dendrites is a problem for NiCd batteries. This study is about LiIon batteries where the problem if cracking in the medium the Li is embedded in and formation of a high resistance layer. According to the study, pulsed charging reduces both effects.

Not so fast. There are many scenarios where a life extending charge method could be really helpful, including cellphones and EVs. Perhaps you like to get a new cellphone after 2 years and don't think doubling the total life of the battery is worth it, but wouldn't you like it if your nearly 2 year old phone still held a charge like a nearly 1 year old phone? Don't you thing that at least for some people that might make it worthwhile to hold on to it for another year?

For EVs, one of the biggest worries is how much it will cost when it's time to swap out the batteries. Don't you think being able to put that off for 4 years might be worthwhile.

Pulsed charging won't likely require much modification to charging circuits.

New battery formulations can take years to go from proven in the lab to available to buy. A pulsed charge circuit should have a much shorter lab to street time.

Doesn't matter if someone has anything to hide or not, it's nobody else's damn business.

Not my router, so I need to defend against the screwed up config. I choose to do that through a combination of network setup WRT routing and using VLANS to keep traffic that shouldn't be away from my maintenance net. If there should never be traffic from the uplink port to the maintenance net, just block it just in case. Defense in depth.

As a side note, that's also why I avoid sharing the host port for the BMC once a box is in production. It has been handy figuring out what's wrong when helping hands turn out to be less helpful.