Correct. That is why places like taxis, shopping malls and so on have "this place is being video taped" notices. It's a very well researched and understood deterrent to most forms of anti-social behaviour.

I suspect that police officers' cameras are/will be made to be easily visible for that very reason.

Have you tried reading the OP? It presents concrete correlation with my claim and is in direct conflict with yours.

This used to be the problem back in the day before DDR3, true. After DD3 got to around 1333-1600MHz, the problem was effectively eliminated in favour of latency being the only reasonable bottleneck. And that actually gets worse rather than better when you increase the frequency

The tests you link show exactly that - no noticeable difference. They're looking at 1-2% difference between 1333 modules and 2400 modules. Because that is not the bottleneck. System is bottlenecked elsewhere, most likely on GPU. If this was a bottleneck, you would see improvements that would match the differential in RAM speed, as happens with most GPU tests for example.

That is indeed the problem with many technologies. "If they were standard, their costs would be much cheaper".

At which point the question becomes that of "is this functionality actually needed as a standard in most use scenarios?"

For ECC memory, this question was asked ever since the early 80s and the answer is still "no".

I love how AC posts an opinion piece that directly contradicts factual evidence presented in the very story as "the truth" and then gets modded up as "insightful".

Oh slashdot, how far you have fallen.

Or: perps don't go into physical confrontation with police when faced with the fact that there will be video evidence of the event.

It works both ways.

Overwhelming majority of "PC gaming benchmark queens" wouldn't give a toss because memory speed hasn't been a bottleneck in gaming in many years.

People who would care are ordinary users and OEMs who would have to absorb the extra cost. Especially to OEMs costs are far from trivial.

If you're expecting legalese on Italian justice system in a quick article about corporation complaining about local laws, you must have lived under a rock.

Arm yourself with google and search there. I frankly cannot be bothered to link to LMGTFY.

Ah yes, the old logic of "it's against american corporation abusing locals, therefore its anti-american, xenophobic, communist, anal, terrorist" (circle those needed).

Consumers can be protected against fradulent services that use consumers rather than sell to consumers.

There is nothing unusual about it.

That's irrelevant. It's consumer protection agency's job to protect customer against misrepresentation of the service. They are performing their job here.

Take a look at the OP. I know, it's not fashionable, but OP actually contains the exact citation you're asking for.

Because said companies fradulently claim these reviews are legitimate.

You missed my point. Current mass media narrative is that "gamergate is a harassment movement and social justice warrior types are their victims".

At the same time, reports from the actual people suggest that it's the exact opposite. But it's very hard to figure out what is what in there because this is internet, and most sources are difficult to double check.

FBI on the other hand will actually go for evidence. So it will be interesting where that investigation will lead - who is actually doing the harassing?

According to wikipedia, all gamergate related articles are edited by a one specific editor who was asked even by Jimbo Wales himself to stop editing because of his obvious extreme bias.

He's still editing the articles and they're all extremely obvious hit pieces.