Why on earth would any competent IT staff have SMB open outbound? If at all possible desktops should not be allowed to make direct connections to anything outside in a corp network.

If your laptop is connecting to any random open wifi and does not have a strict firewall, it should get a STI aka Stupid Transmitted Infection.

It requires a man in the middle attack on traffic that should never go across the internet outside a vpn. Yes it's a problem but not exactly a significant one for a well put together network.

Effectively paying twice for one piece of content.

If they would just cut out the DRM I would buy it from them. I want my media to play on my devices and I want to own it not rent it.

They should not be using electricity in the first place. Desalination is a perfect pairing for cogeneration with Gen IV fission plants. Added benefit is you can put the entire output to desalination when demand is low to avoid using peeking plants.

No they are not, you certainly can use traps as offensive weapons, have you looked at what IAD's are used for? They restrict movement in both time and resources to clear them. They are used to harass supply lines. They can be well unitized to cover potential escape and maneuvering routes that you can use you own maneuvering to make appealing or push your opponent into.

Automated weapons are potentially much safer to civilians than land mines.

How long in archive do you think that consumer grade USB drive will last?

You do realize that for either of those two use cases they are not in typical enterprise settings. No hardware raid controllers (or at least being used a jbod) means no need for TER. They are not buying anybody solution the tech is a core business function. You average enterprise cares about somebody to call to fix it more than we saved 50% on hardware.

For my own company you better beleive we use consumer grade drives internally. Things like ZFS mean all the hot data is on SSD anyways (and while you can use a consumer ssd for write cache a lot of research is needed).

The environmental impact of creating new lakes is pretty significant. You also want it to be near other methods of generation so you no going through double conversion.

The vast majority certainly can not get excellent speeds from wireless. Nomatter how to slice it it's a limited resource. Expensive point to point gear on licenced RF can be touchy.

Wireless is a great adjunct to a well planed fiber network but your never going to replace whats potentially terabits a second per home of a well laid out fiber network.

Apple limited carrier choice for a very long time, that whole 5 year exclusive to AT&T.

I own many nexus devices, the phones all bought directly from google (about have the price of buying them from my carrier). Current gen I can put a sim in and work on every major us carrier CMDA or GSM with one phone. Hell my carrier (ting) is working on phones that are on the GSM and CDMA networks and roam freely between them. The radio does get updates from the carrier PRL updates and the like.

Google figured out that the carriers were a barrier so they went around them.

They take forever to ramp up/down. A NG turbine can ramp up down as needed. The only clean baseline that can ramp up/down is hydro but thats pretty much tapped out in the 1st world. This is what the greenies do not get the grid is not some battery, you need to balance inputs with outputs. Some heavy industry does this aluminum smelting etc that can shift it's demand to use up excess capacity and often get the power for next to nothing. Smarter building can help we have extremely little cogeneration where otherwise waste heat is put to work.

Some countries have used that excess capacity to pump water uphill to use as hydro peeking but thats very terrain specific.

EV's could help this, a typical car is parked at work or home most of the time. These are big batteries capable of soaking and sourcing a lot of power individually but a parking lot full is potentially capable of massive amounts (parking lot of 200 cars with 30amps at 240v is nearly 1.5 megawatts either way). Now thats a lot of infrastructure to get in place to actually use. It's also a huge monitoring and security issue. Do you want the power company to be able to infer you had strenuous activity in your bedroom at these times and these dates? Do you want those record to be available for criminal/civil subpoena, national security letter, or the NSA hacking in because they can? Do you want every major appliance in your home reachable somehow from the power company? Considering that this gear may well affect billing one way or another there will be a big push for it to be closed source black boxes that could end up in everything that plugs into a wall socket. We need strong protections from all this to keep the information private, the system open, and allow individuals to protect themselves with technical means.

Because ground transportation in gridlocked cities takes forever.