Indeed. About time.

Indeed. But the proponents of the hype are not rational.

The easy way is to check the odometer reading every time you renew. If you decide to lie, well, it's easy to verify because eventually you'll either have to scrap the vehicle or you'll sell it to someone else and they'll have to report the new odometer reading. And it all catches up from there (because the new owner will likely not want to pay for the difference in taxes). And scrapping the car likely needs paperwork so they can cancel the title and deal with tax issues. Of course, if you find a scrapper who is willing to fudge the mileage information maybe you can save some money.

It also makes odometer tampering all that much more criminal since they can then get you for tax evasion.

The reason is simple, Android already offers 2.4/5 GHz. When you go to the hotspot option, the 2.4GHz option is marked "Compatible". Unselecting it means the hotspot will operate at 5GHz.

The reason it generally can't do dual 2.4/5 is because that requires dual radios to operate simultaneously. Your router that does 2.4 and 5GHz has two separate WiFi adapters, one operating at 2.4GHz and the other at 5GHz. These are independent and the underlying software bridges the two with the Ethernet ports.

Phones, generally only connect to one or the other so they only need one radio. This means hotspot mode can only work on one band or another as there's no hardware to work on both simultaneously. (There are two analog sections - because it's hard to re-use the transmitter/receiver hardware for each band. This lets it do a periodic scan of available access points even while connected).

This option lets the hotspot be moved to 6GHz, and depending on the phone hardware, it might be able to do 2.4/6 simultaneously since a lot of 6GHz units have a separate radio unit. But if it's using a single radio triple band, then it can only work on one at a time.

Depends. If it results in people spamming you with AirDrop requests because they can have a tool that just sends AirDrop requests to everyone all the time on Android, Apple might start doing stuff about it.

Of course, if it's because of the DMA, they'll likely leave that as a feature saying - the law makes it impossible for us to prevent this, Too bad so sad. Everyone else though, gets the ability to filter AirDrop spam out.

But chances are Google just reverse engineered the protocol, either with or without Apple's permission. It might even be Apple just gave Google the protocol specifications because it was silly for it to be limited and it's much more useful to be cross platform. (Plus, by giving the specs to Google, it means Apple doesn't have to do any work implementing anything.)

I suspect that it's more symptom than cause, and probably not at the top of the list of causes; but I cannot overstate how much I loathe the hyperbolic use of the term 'unthinkable' in these sorts of situations. Both because it's false; and because it often acquires a sort of implicitly exculpatory implication that is entirely undeserved.

Not only is it 'thinkable'; having something awful happen when you perform a procedure that requires longterm hardcore immunosuppression and then let them follow through the cracks is trivially predictable. It's the expected behavior. Successfully reconnecting a whole ton of little blood vessels and nerves is fairly exotic medicine; predicting that thing will go poorly without substantial follow-up is trivial even by washout premed standards.

This isn't to say that it isn't ghastly, or that I could imagine being in that position; but 'unthinkable' is closer to being a claim of unpredictability or unknowability; which is wholly unwarranted. None of this was unthinkable; but nobody really cared to check or wanted to know all that much.

Probably the fact that Trump recently clawed back the previous 6GHz spectrum allocation so he can give it to his billionaire buddies.

We've seen how this movie ends, yet they're still pursuing this?

You are welcome.

Right now the drive to diversify is entirely political.
Ok great you hate Trump, congrats.
The FACT is that there is no serious alternative to the USD as a reserve currency.
The currencies mentioned (euro, yuan) are indeed probably the closest in a basically empty field.
The yuan is controlled by a deeply dishonest tyrannical government that hasn't authentically reported financial information for decades. The EU is an anti democratic talking shop that can't manage to stand up a coast guard, much less manage a monetary policy.

Don't get me wrong, there are major, major issues with how the US handles economics. Inter party vacillations every 4 years. Dishonesty about inflation or economic data when it's politically inconvenient. But to the point of real-world contexts critical to underpin faith in a currency, the US remains economically dominant, more militarily secure than all others, and well supplied with food, water, oil, and raw materials.

Crappy people at work. We really need to make greed a punishable offense in some areas.

You mean unlike the US pharma price-gouging, where people pay 20x as much as they do for basically the same product with the same safety in other places? Let's hope so. Americans may find out that most things can actually be treated without sending you into medical bankruptcy.

Indeed. Profit-driven is not enough.

Like hat has never happened before and nobody could anticipate that....
Japanese cameras and then electronics for one close example. Or look up where "Made in Germany" came from.

Sue Taco Bell!