Strawman much?

They used to, but the people who started it that wan't a balance forward thinking approach to moving away from coal where ousted and replace with scientifically illiterate alarmist that only want to make money for greenpeace.

"It failed to prevent a partial meltdown of the reactor core."
I succeeded on repvents a full meltdown, as designed.

"It failed to prevent a significant release of radiation to the general environment as 15 curies (560 GBq) of iodine-131 (the most concering portion due to biological uptake to the thyroid)":
According to the official figures, as compiled by the 1979 Kemeny Commission from Metropolitan Edison and NRC data, a maximum of 480 petabecquerels (13 million curies) of radioactive noble gases (primarily xenon) were released by the event.[45] However, these noble gases were considered relatively harmless,[46] and only 481–629 GBq (13–17 curies) of thyroid cancer-causing iodine-131 were released.[45] Total releases according to these figures were a relatively small proportion of the estimated 370 EBq (10 billion curies) in the reactor.[46]

i.e. Not Much.

When they lied about apples products.
The stopped being about the environment around '82.

"The former requires fundamental breakthroughs which have yet to materialize and may never arriv"
what? I thought dam technology was already here. Are you telling me I get to invent pumping water into a reservoirs to store potential energy and the release it when the is a higher demand?
Sweet.
I can think of many ways to store the surplus energy.

Custom hardware gives it the ability to communicate using body language.

Whether that's worth the extra cost, I don't know; probably not. But it does make it more interesting than "just another app".

HHGTTG was a manual.

It sounds like this transformer had its center tap grounded and was the path to ground on one side of a ground loop as the geomagnetic field moved under pressure from a CME, inducing a common-mode current in the long-distance power line. A gas pipeline in an area of poor ground conductivity in Russia was also destroyed, it is said, resulting in 500 deaths.

One can protect against this phenomenon by use of common-mode breakers and perhaps even overheat breakers. The system will not stay up but nor will it be destroyed. This is a high-current rather than high-voltage phenomenon and thus the various methods used to dissipate lightning currents might not be effective.

Trusted by whom? I don't think there's any requirement that the purchaser of the device trust the "trusted" data extractor. IIUC it could become trusted before the customer ever received the device, or anytime it's in for service.

So this *probably* means that J. Random Hacker can't access the information. If the assertion is true. It doesn't say anything about Apple, their employees, or anyone they share information with...transitivly.

Unfortunately, no, I wouldn't "expect people to be more sensible than that, especially in the post-Snowden era", even though this actually isn't the post-Snowden era. He's still around, and still occasionally releasing new tid-bits.

I normally expect people to be short-sighted, and to have little memory of history. I regret that I'm rarely disappointed.

Not sure about that particular case, but there are some legal requirements that, I believe, entail controls that are not user controlable. Things like frequency, signal encoding, etc. Those seem liike reasonable constraints, so long as we aren't using spread spectrum, which, IIUC, is illegal.

Given that, modem isolation is probably the just and reasonable approach to take.

Has the problem been fixed? If not, then it's still reasonable information to share.

And nobody has claimed that the problem has been fixed.

The problem is that the laws that already exist aren't enforced. It's a secondary problem that they are so written that it's relatively easy to weasel around them, but even the existing laws aren't enforced, so adding new laws (that aren't enforced) wouldn't do any good.

One that keeps working when they change versions?