How is that different than a company paying to bypass a cap? how does that not give them an unfair advantage over the company who can't? And how does it not provide incentive for the provider to decrease caps hoping to force more companies to pay to bypass them?

It's hard to say, imagine a world where your data cap is zero, overage is $100/meg, and certain sites don't count. How is that not the same problem as one where providers are being extorted for money if they want people to see their data? And why does it become any different if the data cap is now 500 meg instead of zero? or the overage is $5/meg instead of $100? Adjust the numbers any which way you want, but the whole idea that one company can pay to get access to the customer while another may not be able to afford the same access is where the problem lies, and allowing this paves the way to a future more like cable TV than like a free internet.

Tesla P85D 0-60 in 3.2 Seconds.
Toyota Mirai 0-60 in 9 seconds.

I think we know how that drag race will go.

You think any service that does rescue missions gets money for this sort of toy? not a chance. This will be used by DHS, Police, maybe even the TSA. But you won't see paramedics flying in one of these things.

kph is routinely used in many metric countries. it's not at all unusual to see it.

I live in Canada, and I see kph all the time. I have also seen it used in places in europe.

You think the Japanese drove individual cars to the station? That's actually rather funny... Everyone driving their own car everywhere they go is not the culture in Japan (nor would it be even remotely practical with their population density in their major centres)

I'll agree that the train was likely quite safe though.

kph is a very normal abbreviation used in much of the world for kilometres per hour. Nothing unusual at all in seeing it here.

Sure 500kph is a great achievement, but put it in perspective of what places that are interested in rail travel do, don't compare the speeds to the rail backwater that is North America. Normal trains in Europe do 300kph routinely.

The problem with North American rail travel has never been a technology barrier, it's always been about having any interest in doing better.

And if that works, we just permanently stop upgrading all links that don't have someone handing us piles of cash from the other end.

We get to claim that we don't throttle any connections, and at the same time, we get to extort money from anyone trying to send our customers more than a ping reply.

Comcast is claiming that not upgrading does not equal throttling, but that's exactly what it is. Their customers are paying for access to the internet, if they don't provide adequate bandwidth on their peering points to support that, it's them that are in the wrong.

This whole thing is really just an attempt to stop government regulation though "you don't need to regulate us, we're already doing what you want!" which really just shows that they're scared because they AREN'T already doing what they fear would be in the rules.

Depends on your bank. I have credit cards with 2 different banks. At first both of them flat out refused to send me cards without NFC, and as the NFC chip is integrated in to the chip-and-pin setup you can't simply destroy the chip as many Americans can (swipe isn't the usual way of paying around here)

More recently though one of the banks has wisened up and has sent me a non-NFC card, the other one is still NFC enabled.

That said, I have modified my NFC card to significantly reduce it's effectiveness, I scored the edge of the card near the chip deeply enough to break the antenna wire that runs around the periphery of the card. I know I can't make it detect on any NFC pad anymore, so hopefully that makes it relatively secure.

As for people suggesting Faraday cage wallets and such, I'm unconvinced. A proper Faraday cage has to have no gaps, and most of these are not that tightly constructed. I would not be at all surprised if many of them provide only a feeling of security rather than actual security.

I don't want to get her emails whenever she has a statue for sale, and neither does the rest of the planet. If people want to get them, they'll go to her.

I don't care if unsubscribe work. once it's in their inbox it's too late.

The poster complains that some email marketing (spam) companies don't provide any way to avoid being caught by these anti-spam tools... sounds like a good thing to me...

That's a very long way away. These systems aren't being put in place by the government, they're being put in place by the corporations. Corporations have it in their best interest to avoid doing things like that because it would draw attention to their surveillance, without any financial benefit to themselves.
What you suggest may happen, but it won't be until the world is wired and the general public is already well aware of it.

In other parts of the world they're covered by default. In Japan for example there's never s vi visible from the outside. (I have a Japanese domestic market vehicle, the VIN is on a plate under the hood.