I had to help the non-technical staff around my office because they were utterly confused when suddenly they started getting Yahoo results rather than Google, and sites they used to find so easily weren't showing up in their searches.

Sounds like they were in need to switch to another search engine. If you're going to a search engine to find a specific website, then you are doing it wrong.

We have this feature called bookmarks for navigating to sites that you know about.

Don't worry. It's not going to be in cars anytime soon.

I think a Pi running realtime Linux with machine learning looks much more interesting as a possible candidate for replacement of legacy control systems in nuclear fission-based power plants with a much more modern less-expensive system based on current generation commodity off-the-shelf hardware.

Criticisms belong in the IETF discussion forum, but as long as the protocol is an improvement over HTTP/1, then this is progress. Sorry, PKH, about the Not Invented Here.

Yes, if the improvement to be made is great and Google or a 3rd party has already done enough work to have good results, then the standardization process should be expeditious, and if the IETF wishes to stay relevant, they should work to provide technologically better standards at a reasonable pace.

No, clothing, ropes, and handcuffs are not a "medical device"... none is "intended to affect the structure or function of the body" (unless chosen to be marketed that way)

Reading a nice book or listening to an exciting presentation can make you feel more energized. So apparently Youtube and Slashdot.org are medical devices now, and so is any computer that can be equipped with a web browser and internet connection in order to access them.

Handcuffs alter the function of the body by causing it to behave as if crippled through involuntary disabling of the use of hands; although they clearly have a punitive use (cruel and unusual punishment, I would say), they could clearly fall within the definition.

As noted, the device operates is battery powered and influences the brain through electricity, therefore it achieves its primary intended purpose through chemical action on the body....

Also... This device is not intended to affect the structure or any function of the body; as shown in the summary, the device is intended to affect how energized you feel, so this is a highly subjective matter and how nice you feel is not related to any specific structure or function of the body.

Just in the same sense you could stare at a bright light in the hopes of feeling more energized or take a cup of coffee, but it doesn't make bright lights medical devices, and it doesn't make Coffee a drug subject to FDA regulation as a medication, even if these products are advertised that they can do that: the usage is not a medical purpose.

If the device is not intended to diagnose or treat a health condition, then the FDA has no authority over it.

On the other hand.... if the Consumer Product Safety Commission Tsar doesn't like it, the commission could label it as "unsafe" and ban the sale of the product and issue mandatory recall: you know, like they did with buckyballs.

My view is Cable Internet + Netflix and Hulu are good enough, and any family members that want more should pay for it themselves or split the cost of the additional fees.

since the main point would seem to be to instill consumer confidence in putting their money in banks in the first place

Other issues are addressed by federal regulations and required rules that banks need to adhere to and routine auditing that banks have to undergo in order to protect against fraud/theft. There are minimum dollar amounts in capital required to be chartered as a bank, and there are additional private insurance protections banks are essentially required to take out, so banks have to have some coverage against fraud/theft to be allowed to operate. It's just that those protections are not backed up by the full faith and credit of the US government.

Still... plenty of people buy homes and take out Homeowner's insurance policies or Auto insurance policies, even though the government does not guarantee the payout for these policies in the event of a claim coupled with insolvency by your Home/Auto insurer.

FDIC largely insures deposits against honest business failure, as in fractional reserve issues -- such as a run on the bank; anything else is up to a bank's private insurers.

Don't worry, they had to stop digging because the local authorities mysteriously started insisting the excavators apply for some new permits. Those responsible for the safekeeping of the vault with the Holy grail and the Ark of the Covenant, etc are already in the process of using one of the secret secondary backdoors out of the facility to move all the valuables to one of the backup storage vaults.

By the time they resume digging, there will be an empty chamber for them to find.

In other words... the article is a dramatization, also known as clickbait.

As history has shown that does not work in a dictatorship.

History has shown that Socialism does not work period. It does not matter the type of government.

Of course those people are not going to officially talk because we still go after Nazis for qar crimes.

Yes, this is a problem. If we want to learn what happened, then we need to hand out immunity against further prosecutions for people who talk.

Seen what North Korea looks like at night?

In North Korea, less than 25% of the population has any access to electric power. I doubt if there will be a whole lot of DVD watching..... maybe in schools, or when the rich guy down the street has a party and invites the whole street block to his/her showing of the DVD.

Except there's no definitive way to detect if a provider implements BCP38 or not. We'll just all claim that we do implement BCP38, and it will be up to the upstream to prove otherwise, and contact us about the issue with evidence and proof, so we can fix that case, and then they no longer have a source of data to prove that BCP38 isn't implemented.