John Hume does this in South Africa. He's got 800 - 1000 rhinos that he's bred in captivity. They're all de-horned by a process that doesn't hurt the animals as the horns get large enough to harvest. He's got a huge stockpile of sustainably harvested rhino horn, and nobody will let him legally sell any of it. It's idiotic. Of course, if they let these people sell manufactured horn and they don't let him sell his farmed horn, that'll be even more idiotic.

Should [scientists][writers of FOSS] be more responsible for [communicating their results][providing useful documentation] directly to the public? Or should this role be left to [science journalists][random wiki editors]?

Seems like about the same question.

And, when Nokia's market leader with an anonymous CEO, you could franchise "the anonymous CEO" and make trillions!

A million? I wonder how many of those have the Comcast router in a Faraday cage while a different router is broadcasting the Comcast BSSID as part of a home credit card harvesting scheme.

Blackphone's PrivatOS runs lots of Android programs, but I don't think it loses its niche market because it also provides a level of security that Android phones don't. Sailfish could similarly maintain a niche group of users by providing them more direct control over the hardware than they can get from Android phones. Considering the size of the global population, the number of people who care can be a tiny percentage, but still be large enough to keep Jolla in business.

I wonder if there's trouble further up the supply chain. It seems to me that shops and dealers already have a lot of inventory that is incompatible between models. For DC voltage, I wouldn't think 36V or even 54V would pose much of an electrocution hazard except maybe to someone with a pacemaker. It might make bigger sparks. I could see miniature circuit breakers instead of automotive fuses. Higher voltage also means less susceptibility to problems caused by the oxide layer that develops on mating surfaces at connection points.

Sure, but when do we get 36V lithium batteries to replace the 12V lead batteries in the IC cars? Why do only EV's get the benefits of lighter weight, higher voltage batteries?

Beckmann & Markner will sell you Dimpflmeier bread from Toronto. They ship bi-weekly to the USA. They used to have a 7 lb minimum order, but I don't see that restriction now.

I think the problem isn't the photography so much as the photography in combination with having a database of who owns which license plate. With the combination, then you have people's vehicle trip metadata, and the problem is much like the problem with having their phone call metadata.

People might be able to protect themselves a little bit by having the vehicle owned by a trust (especially if the trust owned vehicles for several different people), but that would be an extra burden and could have serious shortcomings if joint owners of the trust decide they don't like one another anymore.

If I'm paying for computing power, I don't want it under the keyboard where stuff can spill on it more easily. I doubt they'll actually ever make an XPS 18 with a graphics card, so I'll probably wait for one having a Skylake w/ GT4e Iris and hope it won't be too horribly slow at CAD.

Why not Peru?

What do you think of waterproofing admixtures like Krystol Internal Membrane that are claimed to exhibit similar behavior only using the mechanism of crystalline growth rather than bacterial growth?

There exist a number of entries in my password manager that wouldn't cause me concern if someone learned the password, mostly login-to-comment stuff, but also a few merchants that don't have any payment information stored. If a password manager is going to give out fake passwords, it might help to have a "keep it secure" check box for making a new database entry. Then, those passwords would be available and pass a test when login to the password vault program fails, and also, if I'm using the vault to look up one of those passwords, I don't have to use my real password to the vault in order to gain access to them.

Sounds like management backed the wrong horse.