In many areas there is only one broadband ISP. It's a simple economic factor: Once there is an incumbent, it isn't viable for another company to invest in the infrastructure to enter the same area.

Can anyone run calculations on this? I imagine it'll be welded shut, so you're looking at the helium having to escape through perhaps a 5mm-thick block of the most impermiable metal they can find. It may well be that it does leak, but only after long after the drive would be considered obsolete. You might not want to use them for archival storage, but how many production drives will still be in use after twenty years?

It's been done. That's how it was proven that alpha particles are helium nuclei. Someone put an alpha emitter in a very well-sealed vacuum container, waited a long time, and was able to detect a trace of helium gas that couldn't have come from anywhere else.

If you include non-heart things, though...

1. Fix the bloody retinas! They are back to front.
2. Why is regeneration limited to small-scale only? A lot of amputees are unhappy with this. The ability probably isn't there because there's no selective advantage in recovering from wounds which would have killed from blood loss anyway.
3. Everything that relates to aging.
4. The fat thing you said.
5. Instincts urging the consumption of calories vastly in excess to requirements.
6. The appendix. Begone!
7. Parts are not easily replaceable or interchangeable.
8. Poor spinal support.
9. Poor regeneration of vital nerves.
10. Cancer. Cancer sucks.

It doesn't become a victory for transhumanism until the artificial heats are sufficiently better than the natural ones that people make the upgrade for non-medical reasons (Superior athetic ability perhaps, or because the artificial hearts with three redundant pumping systems are more reliable than the natural ones). I can't see that happening for a long time.

The comments aren't rejecting having a control. They are rejecting the suggestion of wifi, a very unappropriate choice of control channel. Several have suggested some form of NFC, which may be a choice more suited to the application.

How could you improve the heart? It's really very reliable, self-maintaining, self-configuring, powered off readily-available biochemical energy. You can pretty much forget it's there, most of the time. Evolution has done an excellent job. The only area I can see to improve would be correcting single points of failure.

Easily abused. No hollywood movie ever turns a profit on paper.

It's an eagle entertainment device.

Same at the one I went to - there was minimal catholic influence. We had a bishop in to speak once - discovered at the last minute that the portable projection screen we were going to set up in the churchy bit was broken, so I spent half an hour sitting behind it with one arm holding the screen in place.

It depends how many potential candidates there are. If there are more jobs than candidates, employers will have an incentive to overlook minorly undesireable traits to hire the best talant. But if there are many many candidates qualified for a job, who would you expect the employer to choose? The one with a history of insulting religion online, which some future customer could cite as evidence in a discrimination claim (Possibly an unjustified one, fishing for a settlement), or the one who has no strong opinions on anything?

But they do have the power to do something about it.

For a good example, I loathe the catholic church. I think they are an outdated organisation that does far more harm than good, that their views on contraception are getting people killed, that their homophobia and misogyny are archaic and disgusting and that, while they proclaim themselves as a great charitable organisation, the fast wealth they flaunt given every chance tells another story. The cover-ups for pedophiles is just the icing on the evil cake.

My first job out of university was for a Catholic school.

If my employers had been able to read my posts about the church, there is no way I would have gotten that job. I'd likely have not gotten my job at another school later on either, because their legal advisor would caution against hiring someone who may later be accused of religious discrimination.

Sure, you could pass a law prohibiting discrimination in employment or services based on personal views - but it'd be very hard to enforce.

I expect the cache could consist of several terabytes of flash (HDDs not liking vibration) - it'd take a long time for LRU cache management to drop anything.

Even for home users it has potential. Think of things like Windows update. Rather than every PC in the house individually downloading the latest huge upload from MS's server and eating into your connection, only the first one to do so results in internet traffic. The others all fetch it from the router's cache, or from another computer on the network. Even a little SOHO router can comfortably fit a few gigabytes of flash, upgradable via USB stick.

I think the idea isn't to replace IP, but to run alongside it.

There's sure to be some approval system, otherwise it'd instantly turn into a tool of massive piracy.

The technology itsself could be good - it just looks like it'll be hampered by business and legal concerns. Which is understandable - the only reason IP wasn't hampered in the same was was a failure to anticipate the magnitude of its impact. If ARPA had known that their technology would one day be used for commiting so many crimes on such a scale, they would certainly have built in some form of control capability to make sure that the government had a way to securely identify everyone and block illegal acts.

That depends where the cache goes. If it's at the endpoint, you're right. But this allows the cache to be much closer. In the cell tower. In the office router.

You could watch youtube video on a moving train with this. As soon as one person tries to watch the viral video of the day the train's router will store it, so it'll keep working for all even through tunnels and dropouts.