The failure rates of electronics is higher than it was 25 years ago. Today even the market leaders such as Samsung are buying the cheapest off brand chinese capacitors they can get away with and placing them in even the top of the line models. The average flat panel TV will lucky to live 5 years. Call it planned obsolescence.

That won't solve anything. It would cause a new wave of violence from disgruntled bronies.

The third harmonic of 104.7 is 314.1 Mhz. Keyless entry systems operate at 314.93 Mhz. The bootleg transmitter/antenna likely didn't have any filtering to reduce spurious emisions or harmonics.

If they could then why didn't they warn John McAfee's neighbor about his future murder? Is it because he was running Norton Antivirus?

So what is your solution to the home invader breaking into your house? He's certainly not there to help you bake some brownies. Do you beg for your life, try to appeal to his rational side so he won't decide to extrajudicially kill you because he doesn't want to be identified and face jail time? Maybe if he's nice he will make the proper life and death decision and let you live or simply beat you to within an inch of your life. Pity if he decides that your stuff is worth killing you over.

Biorobots only cost a few dollars per day to run. They require no capital to aquire as they naturally self replicating, thus there will always be a constant supply. Biorobots do not require a programmer or engineer to put on task. They are also cordless and self propelled allowing them to easily change tasks. Should a biorobot not do a task correctly a unit can be debugged by the use of a cellulose based rod, or by withholding the carbohydrate,protein, lipid, and water based energy supplies they require. Should production needs change, biorobots automatically remove themselves from the factory floor and return to the pool of available units. Biorobots are not chemically resistant. Should one malfunction due to overexposure to toxic chemicals, disposal is easily accomplished by placing the biorobot into a zippered polymer bag and disposing it as normal biohazardous waste, preferably by incineration. Grossly defective or worn out biorobots are easily dealt with by means of a lead projectile launched a high speed by expanding gasses in metal cylinder striking the biorobots central processing unit. Regular disposal procedures apply. Some biorobots may self propel themselves out of windows of the upper floors of the factory. This may be remedied by the strategic placement of nets if needed. Most factory owners have found that biorobots are color coded for their convenience. Biorobots are expected to remain a vital role in industrial production due to their cheapness, versatility and disposability.

Once next years model comes out, firmware updates slow down and eventually cease. Then your smart TV will no longer receive any bug fixes, security updates or enhancements. Compare that to an external device like a Roku that is typically supported for years at a time. When it becomes hopelessly obsolete, you swap the out the box for less than a hundred dollars and have the latest and greatest again. In the future and we will have the same situation as the rootable Samsung printers. Someone will discover a serious exploit that won't be patched because all those products are at EOL.

Most new laptops already have a camera and microphone built into them. For those running windows, there is nothing preventing Microsoft from putting a government surveillance backdoor in the next security update.

There are too many failure prone components. There's a UHP bulb (wear item), high voltage ballast, color wheel (moving part, highly failure prone), optics (heat from bulb causing the infamous samsung shadow problem), DMD chip (intense heat, plus over a million microscopic mirrors that move) and multiple fans (moving parts+dust). Samsung switched to using LEDs to get rid of the color wheel and bulb, but were driving the LEDs too hard causing premature failure. They exited the DLP market soon afterward.

Since both to these companies issued publicly traded shares of stock, they should be legally obliged by the SEC to disclose the exact nature of these settlements to the shareholders.

If the judge really needed the evidence, then they can go subpoena Facebook directly and request an archive of the communications to/from the parties involved. No risk of information outside of the scope of the subpoena being leaked.

Between the extra judicial punishment doled out via 3 or 6 strikes policies, draconian DRM schemes that trample fair use, government institutions being co-opted to enforce copyright under the guise of national security, John Doe lawsuits, secretly negotiated international treaties, SOPA, false DMCA takedowns, price fixing, perpetually extending copyright, vertical integration of ISPs, refusal to adapt to new technology, widespread use of accounting methods that never pay artists a dime and now these new taxes on hardware, I don't feel sorry for the entertainment industry and their mostly imagined losses due to piracy. If anything the media companies owe the citizens of the world reparations for the violations of their rights committed in the name of stopping piracy.

The PDF of the brief has been deleted and replaced by a blank page. It has now disappeared down the memory hole. Some ideas are just too dangerous to propagate and must be silenced. The author must keep his mouth shut otherwise he soon may become an unperson.

A battery with a 10 kWh capacity means it can only store 10 kWh of power. At my rates that is about $1.20 worth of electricity. In order for 10 kWh to last 24 hours the average energy consumption of the house must be 416 watts per hour. If a house drew 10 kwh that battery would in theory provide power for only 1 hour. In the real world, battery capacity is reduced at high discharge rates. The capacity of the inverter is another limitation.

Michigan is not anti-electric car. Quite a few cities, businesses and college campuses in Michigan have installed charging stations, but with no vehicles to charge. Too many people in Michigan have pinned their hope on electric cars and green jobs reviving the state's economy. Locally there was much hype about a major manufacturer building a facility in town to produce batteries for electric cars. As demand for the electric car isn't as strong as originally hoped the plans have been postponed indefinitely. Michigan has also been in an economic depression since 2003. Do not confuse the lack of ability for residents to afford an electric car with lack of support for one.