Except it is not a design flaw and has nothing to do with design flaws. It's to do with maintenance issues on engines which make the Airbus planes in question slightly worse than all others. The only aircraft which won't experience this is a 787 since it gets air in a fundamentally different way. There's nothing to change on existing planes, and not only will no one go bankrupt over this, it won't even move the share price.

What's that got to do with incidents getting worse in recent years?

Yes everything looks like a conspiracy to the short sighted. The reality is there was zero reason to expand HDD production at a time when more and more data storage requirements trended towards SSDs. Sales of HDDs have plummeted since their peak in 2010, and it sure as heck isn't worth attempting to predict a bubble 3 years out and investing $1bn to expand HDD production because maybe some AI techbros will briefly hoover up data before their industry implodes.

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Sorry but that is horseshit. Over many decades Democrats have done nothing. The reality is this is a whole industry in a country which gives not one iota of a fuck about the privacy of citizens.

Other countries have been passing privacy laws for 30+ years now while both sides of US politics looked on.

Let me address your questions in order.
Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. If it's one-way use another port. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter.

The alternate modes are a bit more of an issue, but in a general case 99% of what you plug into your device can go in any port you like and will just work. In the cases of DP / HDMI modes they are switch passthrough so if your device supports the feature they usually work via every port.

Back to Thunderbolt 3 and 4 we're at doesn't matter doesn't matter, again, and have you ever found a PCIe tunnelling device? If you did (congrats, that's an achievement) then you certainly have researched your device and why you need it extensively.

Now why do I write doesn't matter a lot? Because it practically doesn't. My drive a bit slow because it's in a 20gbps port? Whoop de fucking do. My laptop charging slightly slower because PD negotiated 30W instead of 50W? Whoop de fucking do.

This is only a nightmare if you are forced to be in a position to measurebate over numbers. The reality is most things will just work when you plug them in without any thought. It may not operated in a perfectly ideal scenario, but I happily deal with that issue vs having specific ports for specific things.

Precisely nothing is entrenched by EU regulations. EU regulations require a review of the connector used for common charging in the radio equipment directive every 5 years. But good work showing the world you don't know much about the regulations you complain about.

You haven't looked very hard. Virtually everyone I know has mice with USB-C connectors, either for charging only, or in my case charging and wired connection, though I use a dongle for one PC and bluetooth for the laptop on this mouse.

Slap an adapter on the end. THey are tiny and cost $2 from Amazon. Why gimp your device with legacy connections that could be better solved another way.

But all of this is beside the point. You clearly have a product that suits your needs so TFA is just a pointless whinge from someone who doesn't want to shop for the device that suits their needs.

What is "correct" about that? I have precisely zero 4 pin USB 2.0 devices. Why should my devices deal with your legacy crap?

A significant portion of the population can't tell an AI from a human, I think the concept of customer service is less certain than you think.

The adult toy industry is a $50+ billion industry. "Sex bots" along with "sex dolls" have been a mainstay for a long time and are pretty normalised in the world that lives outside of LOMO (Lights Off Missionary Only). Improving them and bringing down costs will only make this industry more attractive.

If an automatic telephone attendant is able to do what I need it to do without fuss then I am a happy customer. The question is though, can this be replaced with an internet web form instead. Most people despise speaking to humans on the phone and it's even worse when that human is on the other side of the world reading a script to you without any authority or ability to handle your call in the first place.

I think most of L1 tech support can be replaced by AI and it would be an *improvement* in existing customer support.

For virtually all engineering projects the results tend to gravitate to one "ideal" design that presents the least tradeoffs and best value for money. In this industry that is 3 bladed turbines, and the larger the better up to the a limit where installation of larger becomes too costly or outright impossible. The present designs are peak efficiency.

Engineers deal in the reality of now with things they know. Vertical turbines additionally suffer from something of a lack of knowledge. There's few of them so there's a lot that isn't known about them, especially when scaled up to the size of standard horizontal turbines. This presents engineering and project risks as well. More R&D required.

More windmills are happening all the time. I know this isn't a US Government MAGA approved message, but apparently there are more countries than just the USA in the world, and while America may look inward and pretend green energy doesn't exist, the rest of the world is very much ploughing ahead with windfarms.

Literally your first link is from offshorewind.biz, which on their front page right now has multiple stories detailing new approvals and new proposals for wind farms.

They are not made from 70m pieces, but they are made in 70m large moulds. If you want to see how this is done have a look here: https://www.offshorewind.biz/2...

I approve of real Slashdotters not reading TFS.

I think the real question is whether it should be in the air at all or whether we should accept 70m blades as a maximum and move on with our lives. In the air absolutely that kind of cargo needs to be in a hold.

A 70m long 35tonne object that is designed aerodynamically to be affected by wind is not something you want on the bottom of any aircraft. The weight isn't the issue, the shape and unpredictable wind forces during transportation are.