That is a HUGE if.

These places tend to be asset-less companies that do not care about being sued, they simply form another shell and fold.

Well maybe for combustion, but wait til we put fusion plants in every car...

Think about how much dirt the CIA has or can easily get on people. Would you rather have one story or years of them?

In the TV market, they were valued because the cable/broadcast/satellite services had no idea what frequency band users were paying attention to and thus no idea what was effective and what was not without some proactive examination of the viewer base. This was important for the program producers to value product placement, integrated advertising, and for the cable/satellite people to know what content was worth/not worth licensing.

For unicast streaming, the streaming service knows *precisely* what the users are paying attention to. For content producers, they control the licensing terms so they should be able to force Hulu, Amazon, and netflix to provide data as part of the deal of licensing it, in order to have data for soliciting things like product placement.
The streaming services themselves have all the data they need to entice advertisers that are independent of the content. Additionally, the advertisements are in no way hard linked to the streaming media. If the service wants to show you that ad, they don't need to give a rat's ass about *which* program you are watching.
Certainly the people providing the service know which pieces of content they license and how much they are watched to evaluate relative value of their library.

So the two remaining purposes are to let Amazon know which parts of Netflix library are valuable enough to fight for versus not bothering, and academic curiosity of the viewership. Of course, the former might be workable by requesting the data from the content owners as part of negotiations, and the latter doesn't really mean revenue...

Neither side is being particularly constructive in helping fix systemd's issues.

Those in the systemd camp largely plug their ears and just think doubters are merely stubborn or unsophisticated enough to understand just how *awesome* it is and that it is worth the downsides (if they'll even admit something is a downside).

On the other side, mostly the criticism is just roll back and leave things as-is. Which leaves systemd advocates unhappy because they don't get their shiny capabilities at all. Not much discussion is had on how to amend certain strategies to placate the sensibilities of today while delivering the capabilities of something new. For example, if journald simply made plaintext logging alongside (not as a downstream add-on by piping to syslog, natively doing it alongside binary data), people would probably not balk nearly so much. If a systemd unit could degrade to start without being able to talk to pid 1 or cgroup support available (with loss of function), then some debug activity is made more straightforward in a rescue environment that may chroot (yes, spawning a container is usually possible, but why not degrade to cope to the extent possible). If open ended init scripts were better accommodated and didn't try to forcibly constrain sysv init scripts to force it to fit the only models that systemd understands.

Of course some concerns are more fundamental (bringing everything possible under one monolithic development effort rather than modular design that has discrete owners using simplistic yet consistent vocabulary to communicate with each other). But a lot of the specific technical issues could be alleviated by modification of systemd while preserving the stuff that there is to like.

That is the problem your getting free "storage" from the grid. Traditional generation can not spool up and down as fast as wind/solar output changes. So in effect grid tied solar is getting a free ride as everybody else pays for that excess peeking capacity required. Better long distance transmission can help be balancing the system but it still requires a good amount of overbuilding to meet instant demands.

Now there is a good option for this. EV's have big batteries and plenty of computing and connectivity, making them a great fit to soak up baseline plant generation in the middle of the night and pump that back as needed. Go far enough down the line and hydro could be used to fill the gap since it's a fast responding clean base load generator.

Absolutely nothing and that leads to the desired effect of deliver as promised or go under.

And the solution is to do a chargeback for item not delivered. Suddenly kickstarter will feel the pain of the chargebacks and stop trying to foist the responsibility onto it's customers.

This is exactly the reason why micro investments are not legal in the US, VC capitol needs to be two things able to be lost and able to afford to sue. Yea it sucks to need a pile of cash in a bank to make what are very lucrative investments. People forget that VC is also adding contacts and business acumen besides cash.

Not throttling is part of the point of net neutrality. Requiring ISP's to build the capacity that's required to deliver what they paid for and requested by there users, not what they want them to offer. Sure sell 1mbps internet 1gbps comcast junk service but you better deliver that 1mbps of whatever your customers want and true in advertising better mean the 1mbps number is the big shiny one not the all you can eat comcast stuff.

Good ISP's are proactive and increase capacity using forward trending, it's not cheap but it's really not that expansive either. Most correct the issue quickly under 90 days. The bad leave connections saturated daily hoping it will go away and refusing to put anything into their product. Need to make the bad practices illegal for monopoly holders and the various corp constructs to separate monopoly and long haul carriers.

More of Cogent potentially having issues with the other tier 1's if this pushed them to be to asymmetric.

Cogent is a tier one Comcast is not. Cogent could drop the link forcing Comcast to pay for the traffic elsewhere vs getting it for the cost of peering (nearly free).

It's like predicting how these 'automobiles' will be a big part of our lives (news is 100 years too late, but at least accurate). Predicting the future by simply stating the present, brilliant!

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of these...

Having worked at a DOT the primary stumbling block to high speed rail is the NIMBLY's that have a house that backs up the the rail lines. The secondary issue is wanting to keep stations every town aka every few miles making the effective speed hard to get above 30mph with all the stops.