Yes distance learning institutions exist and some of them even have a good reputation but they have remained an exception, not revolutionised education.

Well "incorrectly" is a loaded term. Si prefixes are base-10 but the byte is not an SI unit. The IEC issued a standard saying that binary versions of the prefixes should be indicated with an extra i but only long after the use of those binary prefixes without the i was well established in the computer software industry.

Well kickstarter campaigns are limited length, so it's natural that after a successful campaign a group would switch to their own methods of taking preorders.

The problem with that theory is what is known of as "impulse interference". When some large and sudden electrical event (distant lightening strikes, switching of large loads, that sort of thing) happens it can create electromagnetic radiation that is very limited in the time domain but very widespread in the frequency domain.

With an analog transmission you get a very brief flicker but stuff almost immediately returns to normal. With compressed and error-corrected digital transmissions either nothing happens at all or the error correction is overwhelmed and the system loses sync. Once it loses sync it takes substantial time for it to get back into sync during which you typically get a frozen picture and no sound.

That's the frustrating thing about digital broadcasts. With analog you have a gradual variation in quality and can tweak your antenna to get it as good as you can. With digital if your reception is on the edge you get a perfect picture/sound most of the time but occasionally (how occasional depends on how marginal the reception is and what interference sources you have arround) multi-second breakups when impulse interference causes the error correction to fail and the whole system has to re-sync.

A perfect picture most of the time with periodic multi-second breakups is much worse than a fuzzy picture with periodic interference flashes.

Or alternatively that there is a gentic link but no one gene has a significant impact with instead lots of genes having a small impact each and the impact of each individual gene is too small to distinguish from chance.

Governements control people and entities made up of groups of pople by exerting punishments on them.

There are various ways a government can attempt to punish a corporation beyond their borders. For example they can order those within their borders to make efforts to block access to the corporations services. They can order those within their borders not to do buisness with the foriegn corporation (It's kinda hard to sell services to a market if you can't get paid easilly by people in that market) . They can arrest any officers of the company that enter their territory.

"supposedly"

Yes the technology can do fairly high speeds.
Yes the technology can work over fairly long lines

No it CAN'T do both at the same time. Replacing ADSL2 with VDSL2 without changing anythign else is likely to result in only a marginal imrpovement for most people. Those with the worst service now are likely to see no improvement at all.

The only way to significantly increase speeds over copper lines is to significantly reduce their length by replacing parts of the copper network with fiber. This leaves a couple of difficult questions for telcos

1: how to decide how far to go. Do they go to the cabinets located every few streets? do they go to the distribution points located up every pole?
2: is the cost of building all that active outdoor infrastructure really worth it or does it make more sense to go stright to fiber to the home (which is more expensive but also far more future proof)

If you control the end devices then you can MITM without the users really noticing it. If you don't control the end devices then the users will either get security warnings or have to install your certificate. Either way they will become aware of your MITM setup, will get annoyed and may start asking awkward questions.

If you have sufficient organisational power you may be able to force the users to suck it up but it will certainly be a hinderance.

Just to let you know the services virgin media advertise as "fiber optic" aren't fiber to the home, they are fiber to the cabinet and then cable TV coax from cabinet to home.

I left them because of their crappy upload speeds, afaict the max upload you can get on a new virgin media cable service is 5mbps whereas openreach fiber to the cabinet service offers 20mbps upload.

It's not really about ISPs it's about end user communications providers who may or may not be vertically integrated with ISPs.

They have massive but old networks which are creaking at the seams with current traffic levels. Giving everyone 100 mbps symetric unmetered (heck may as well do gigabit while you are at it) would mean pretty much rebuilding those networks from scratch. Rebuilding a large network from scratch is always going to be expensive.

New upstarts can sometimes make a difference but a combination of regulatory hurdles and the natural economics of the situation mean they are unlikely to have much impact outside of small areas.

Compression algotihms and the hardware to run them on have improved massively in the last 20 years.

Unfortunately SSL certificates have become a lowest bidder shithole market. In this environment ensuring that no CA continues to issue SHA-1 certs is impractical.

Rejecting certs based on issue date doesn't directly solve the problem either because the "legit" and "fake" certs in the collision attack can have different issue and expiry dates. What it does do is strongly discourage CAs from issuing SHA-1 certs which has two positive affects

1: it reduces (but does not eliminate) the risk that the attacker will find a cert issuing service that is vulnerable to SHA-1 collision attacks.
2: it prepares for the eventual complete dropping of SHA-1 support.

Not directly. It is very unlikely that the legitimate certificate for a given site and the fake one obtained by an attacker will have any cryptographic relationship to each other.

I thought chrome moved away from using the windows SSL support some time ago to allow it to support SNI on XP.

I used casios all through school, colllage and universify and I don't think I ever killed one. Here in the UK they seem to be the dominant brand the TI dominance seems to be an american thing.