This is abusing the internet architecture. The whole idea is that services don't rely on speed and delivery, but work with the network architecture to ensure that whatever service they provide is able te deal with delays. This means that if ISPs want happy customers and companies want their internet product to work properly, they have to ensure that there's enough room on the entire network to deliver those services adequately.

Now some company that sells equipment that can prioritize packets of certain services so network providers can get away with saturating the data links more starts flipping the principle of the internet around. Sorry, no, that's not the *internet* you are talking about Cisco. That's a private network in which some company gets to say what they think is important.

Every individual company owning a network will have different priorities. Try connecting thousands of private networks with different priorities and different technologies to achieve those and make that work. This is what Cisco is proposing we do to the internet and it will be a pain to try it and chances that it will ever work are close to zero. Part of why the internet works is because we have a global goal of just routing packets without prejudice. Don't mess with that, it will end in tears, unhappy customers and only a few rich C level executives at router producing companies.

Sway bars help limit the *lean out* of the curve but never actively counter it. That happens at the cost of a lot of comfort while driving straight and less grip on bumpy surfaces. There's a reason cars have live axles these days and sway bars that are too thick will effectively turn your axles back to solid.

The EU has been taxing imports from non EU countries to protect their own market for decades. The reasoning was that those countries had "unfair advantages" because the EU producers had to deal with strict(er) laws on environment, labor and warranty and such. This lead to the countries that wanted to export trying to find a way to produce even cheaper, making their own environment and labor situations worse than they were already, leading the EU to raise taxes to offset the competition advantage again.

I'd say tax foreign manufacturers for not adhering to the standards you hold your producers to locally. That way, if something was manufactured with the same competitive rules as you hold your own to, there wouldn't be a tax and the manufacturers *and* your local economy would be trying to implement the measures you want them to take as efficient and fast as possible, just to gain a competitive advantage. You want your iPhone to be produced by people that don't jump off buildings? You don't want to send your rice and soy to poor countries because they can't afford to feed themselves? Tax them for not improving their standards of living and environment, not for producing cheap. The benefit of this is that your local competition will stop lobbying for higher import taxes but for stricter rules that they already can comply to and boost local innovation into greener, people friendly solutions instead of outsourcing as much as they can to cheap countries and trying to find holes in legislation to get away with it.

The main fault is in almost all brands and models of cars that use an automatic gear box, but it's not an ignition switch. The main fault is the fact that cars become difficult to control when the engine stalls for whatever reason. Sure, that could be an ignition switch, but running out of fuel could be just as dangerous, a loose wire or any other minor defect could create the exact same circumstances.

Instead of mandating rear view cameras, maybe a mandate that all cars should retain steering and braking capacity regardless of the engine running should be put in effect. Judging by the amount of people actually getting killed because of a flawed ignition switch, the effect would be a lot bigger than a silly camera would render.

AMD supports openGL just fine, but they aren't gracefully failing sloppy programming. The Nvidia driver tends to try and make "something you probably sort of meant anyway" out of your illegal openGL instruction and AMD fails you hard with an error message. That's no reason to blame the manufacturer. The game developers deserve blame for sloppy coding and sloppy testing.

Carbon, kevlar, fiberglass and other fiber materials are used for tensile strength but as fibers, aren't much use by themselves in cars. The trick is to make composites with a weave or other pattern with the fibers and use a resin/epoxy to give structural strength to the fibers.

Glass fiber has some nasty properties compared to carbon and kevlar when used in such a composite. It's heavier in application, it tends to draw in water once the fibers are exposed to the open air and it breaks easier than especially the kevlar type fibers. This is part of why it's so much heavier, you need to make thicker strands of glass to make the fibers strong enough to not break.

The benefit of using glass is mostly production cost. For these reasons, glass fiber composites are used less on vehicles and planes and tend to be used mostly on recreational boats and DIY projects. For any place where weight is an issue, the more expensive carbon and kevlar type of fibers are being used.

Ethanol burns, if your bike was functioning properly. If you had hanging floats in your carburetors or a bad mixture set up, you may have had fuel getting into the oil system of your engine. Once that happens, it doesn't really matter what fuel you're leaking in the oil, gasoline or ethanol. It will dilute the oil, make the engine wear like crazy and it will probably break down in an expensive way. Gasoline will do that just as bad as ethanol. Don't blame your lack of maintenance and the ensuing damage on ethanol, it would have happened with gasoline as well.

Several countries have the right to pictures with you in them declared legally. The right to your portraits. This means that under certain circumstances, you can withdraw previous implicit permissions, because you did not sign a waiver.

Most flash drives have some RAM cache and most erasing is done as a background task by the on-board firmware of the drive. Part of flash drive reliability has to do with having big enough capacitors on board so a powerfailure will allow the drive to write enough data to flash to have a consistent state for at least it's own bookkeeping data on blocks and exposed data. The enterprise ones usually have enough capacitors to write all data to flash that has been reported to the OS as "we wrote this to the drive" on top of that.

The big difference here seems to be that they don't erase block level any more and a change to just a few bytes in a block don't lead to the whole block in it's new iteration being written to an empty block and tagging the old block with a "trim". While this is beneficial for throughput, you have to make certain you will not do this indefinitely, since wear level algorithms aren't used for nothing. You'll still need to do a certain percentage of rewrites or keep count of the number of rewrites to the same block and once your counter hits a limit, do a rewrite of the entire block to a "fresh" location.

Maybe it really isn't shit today and the US currency has actually devalued this much? Compare it to the Euro (which also devaluated), the price of crude oil, the Japanese Yuen, the Chinese Renmibi, the price of iron ore, the price of gold and a few others to see for yourself. You'll find that you may be right in both cases. Yes, the US dollar has devaluated quite a lot and yes, the prices paid for "strategic acquisitions" are way inflated. A few will get rich because of this and a lot of shareholders will lose on the stock market once the share price will go down once the hype is over. Whether it is smart to own stock or dollars now and when or if to sell is up to you, but I'm not investing in those companies or the US dollar myself at the moment.

Sure, for developers it's fun and exciting to build a new vessel with the latest and greatest technology. For a scientist, it's great to have access to a vessel at all. Maybe it won't have stuff developed in the last 8 years or so, but even being able to up to 8km down safely and having a plethora of sensors and fishing equipment available is more than most deep see researchers will get access to in the next five years, probably more. Obsolescence? Not by far, people would be queueing up to use it for the next decade at least.

Or did it weigh as much as 50 F150 trucks? Come one, we have a metric system for a reason on this planet.

Yes they did, or at least that's one of the often used reasons why police won't follow up on a "find my phone" app location given to them on a silver platter by the owner of the telephone. Maybe we need to have a clear look at what constitutes "tracking" and what not?

This is about the threat letters, not about actual court cases. If they really will have a case, they will start an actual case, is the idea behind these laws. Trying to threaten someone by claiming you will sue them for a high amount of dollars if they don't pay up a few hundred will be made illegal, not actually the actual suing. This is more about the extortion and blackmail part of the letters than the actual court cases that might ensue.

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