So, in order to protect against possible military applications(known for their cost-sensitivity...); we are making the sale legal as long as El Presidente gets his cut? That's in character, sure; but what's the paper-thin excuse for that being a cogent policy idea?

One major difference, assuming you've got full platform support(should be the case on any server or workstation that isn't an utter joke; but can be a problem with some desktop boards that 'support' ECC in the sense that AMD didn't laser it off the way Intel does; but don't really care); is that ECC RAM can (and should) report even correctable errors; so you get considerably more warning than you do with non-ECC RAM.

If you pay no attention to error reports ECC or non-ECC are both rolling the dice; though ECC has better odds; but 'proper' ECC and Linux-EDAC support will allow you to keep an eye on worrisome events(normally with something like rasdaemon, not sure what other options and preferences there are in terms of aggregating the kernel-provided data) and, unless the RAM fails particularly dramatically and thoroughly, will give you much better odds of knowing that you have a hardware problem while that problem is still at correctable levels; so you can take appropriate action(either replacement, or on the really fancy server systems, some 'chipkill'-like arrangement where the specific piece of DRAM that is failing gets cut out of use when deeemed unreliable without having to bring the system down.

Sometimes you'd get a BSOD that was a fairly clear call to action; when the error called out something recognizable as the name of part of a driver; but that is mostly just a special case of the "did you change any hardware or update any drivers recently?" troubleshooting steps that people have been doing more or less blind since forever; admittedly slightly more helpful in cases where as far as you know the answer to those questions is 'no'; but windows update did slip you a driver update; or a change in OS behavior means that a driver that used to work is now troublesome.

Realistically, as long as the OS provides suitable support for being configured to collect actual crash dump material if you want it; it's hard to object too strongly to the idea that just rebooting fairly quickly is probably the better choice vs. trying to make the BSOD a genuinely useful debugging resource; especially given how rare it is for the person with useful debugging ability to happen to be at the console at the time of crash(rather than just an end user who is ill equipped to make sense of it; or a system that mostly does server stuff, quite likely not on actual physical hardware, where nobody has even touched the physical console in months or years; and it's more or less entirely useless to display a message there; rather than rebooting and hoping that things come up enough that management software can grab the dump files; or giving up and leaving the system in EMS so that someone can attach to that console.

Trump would use those to go after jaywalkers...

The scrap metal deal would pay about $10,000 for it. Scrap bronze currently sells for $3.05/pound.

"There is no way this plastic we melted into this part could possibly ever melt again!"

Don't give Trump and Musk any ideas!!!

I have my own private septic tank, so no, actually. Anything that comes out of my butt essentially goes into a black hole.

What a shitty idea!

I've got like 80 GBytes of MP3's from ripping my entire CD collection, amateur. And you know what? I just listen to YouTube music, because it's easier to say "google, play" + anything I can think of than to find tracks on a USB.

My best friend and his wife both drove Subarus, because they were good for carrying their dogs around. I just wished he would stop demonstrating the out-of-your-lane alert while driving in traffic.

"There are dozens of us! Dozens!" -- Arrested Development

Touch screens are a STUPID idea for cars for a very simple reason: one cannot use a touch screen without looking at the screen instead of the road. Voice input with audio confirmation would work fine for most of the things car manufacturers are using touch screens for, without forcing users to take their eyes off the road. That being said, my Toyota has adaptive cruise control and lane holding assist, so I can watch porn while driving the freeway anyway...

Then they all get sued by customers claiming the ads caused their accidents.

I use Android Auto 100% of the time when I am driving. A popup would make me miss my exit, which would piss me off. I'm not happy about the constant driver alerts from Waze that Google inserted either. Or the fact that every time I ask google a question, it pops up a survey of how I liked my Google experience... while I'm driving.