If they can mandate millions of vehicles to have a radio people don't need/want, surely they can mandate the frequency to be standardized to one, or a few frequencies.

Set it to the emergency alerts frequency only.

I thought Republican hypocrits were against mandates.

Who should get trained? Whenever we have articles about forced computer science training in the US and coding being a required subject you same idiots claim it's not needed. Meanwhile, developers are pulling in 6 figure salaries .. so why in God's name are people still working retail and fast food WHEN YOU CAN GET TRAINED AND CERTIFIED on anything online for dirt CHEAP, if you're poor and want in-person classes .. community college is cheap or free with federal loans. There's really no excuse for bullshit nowadays. People DO NOT WANT TO DO COMPUTER SCIENCE. Try hiring people to a start up and see the salaries qualified or even unqualified people are asking for. People right out of college are, rightfully, asking 6 figures. And that's good, but it also means people are CHOOSING not to go into IT careers. They rather work in a retail store or fast food for $25 an hour (that's what In-n-Out is paying around me in Silicon Valley).

That was the best operating system. I used to type stuff in WordPerfect, which peaked in version 5.1.WYSIWYG word processors started the decline of computing.

Kids don't wanna learn that crap. It's boring.

India spends a fraction of what the US spends per child on education, how do they have more trained AI workers? Could
It be our kids don't care about boring stuff like learning to program AI?

Starlink will support 5G, IoT etc. before SES can start launching satellites. Starlink is about the size of a pizza box and consumes the same current as a 60 watt incadescent light bulb. If SES can make satellite communications work with a cell phone/under 1 watt, then why can't Starlink do that? In fact Starlink already demonstrated cell phone to cell phone texting (which means it can support IoT/LoRa). As for 5G I am sure that's on their radar, they have a deal with T-mobile .. you don't think the possibility of 5G hasn't come up? The assumption that Starlink is going to twiddle their thumbs doesn't really make sense.

How are they going to get the satellites up there? SpaceX is the only provider who can do it cheaply AND has the launch cadence. Plus, Starlink has a 5+ year head start. Meaning if SES started work tomorrow, their first launch would be two or three years from now and then add another 5 to 7 years before their constellation is in place in any position to compete with Starlink -- by which time Starlink will be onto its Gen 2.

And then we'll start getting emails that they need our bank account info to transfer the money from their brain's crypto wallet.

Your brain will be encrypted unless you pay up.

He was at a conference I went to some years back, he was saying he lived in New York. I guess the Russians are going to have to get him via a CIA-style "extraordinary rendition" or Navalny-style diverting his flight .. or Uber.

Overall foldable phone sales are INCREASING by a lot: "In the first quarter of this year, the total size of China’s foldable smartphone market was 1.86 million units, up 83% from last year."

The story isn't that foldable sales have decreased or that people don't want 'em. It's that there are Chinese alternatives undercutting Samsung. It's actually an argument in favor of foldable. This is like when in 1999 the atavista search engine started losing market share to Google. Back then you idiots would have said this means search engines are a fad. "In the first quarter of this year, the total size of China’s foldable smartphone market was 1.86 million units, up 83% from last year."

600 grams is too heavy. Would you walk around with a 600 gram dumbbell on your face? It's good for a one-time 30 minute gimmick. Don't get me wrong, the visuals are amazing and what it can do is great, but it's not light enough to just wear casually .. nor is there good enough content on it. They need to get it down to at least 120 grams, which is totally possible because the Bigscreen Beyond weighs 120 grams .. so if a couple of guys in a garage can make a 120 gram VR headset (with 2.5K per eye displays) why can't Apple? They blundered by putting the CPU and fans etc. (all of which requires more accompanying infrastructure) in the headset instead of with the battery pack. That was a huge fucking blunder.