I just had my first brush with this issue today. To make matters worse, my Huawei phone (supplied by my company for testing, not my first choice) doesn't work with touch gloves like all my previous phones did and ended up having to take them off in the bitter cold.

And sub6 coverage could even give better than 4G speeds to the rest.

Not guaranteed, just orders of magnitude more reliable in places with shoddy mobile phone reception.

I'm in Japan and carried a pager until about 10 years ago when the major carrier shut down their service. Within the first month our on-call people missed multiple pages due to signal-related issues.

As a japanese resident of over 20 years I still wouldn't give up my current citizenship to naturalize even though it'd be easy.

For certain types of authentication you do need to store plaintext passwords - the traditional two types of logins used for dialups/pppoe are PAP and CHAP. PAP allows you to have password hashes on the auth server but transmits plaintext on the wire/air. Conversely CHAP hashes on the wire/air but requires the plaintext password to be available on the auth server due to the nature of the protocol. You choose your points of vulnerability.

The one consistent about Heinlein books was Heinlein blatantly shoveling his political views at the time (which changed over the years) down your throat.

What subnetting? Nearly everything in v6 is a /64.

Trying to scan a v6 /64 subnet (what a consumer gets 98% of the time) is like trying to find a single machine in the entire public v4 internet.

Your arguments against Unicode are pretty weaksauce. If you want strong basis to criticize it, I suggest reading about Han unification and the clusterfuck it really is.

Over 136,000 characters in Unicode and people still can't make their name display right without quirky variant selectors.

They were still in use at Bell Labs in 1997 when I left. On Vaxen.

Found a gaping goatse-sized security vulnerability in a package that had been outsourced and the original contractors long since gone.

It was less expensive to just kill the product which we had been selling for about 3 years than to re-engineer the thing from the ground up with new staff.

There are dozens of alternative chips that can be used:

Prolific (have had their own driver sabotage issues in the past and even the genuine ones are kind of crappy)
Silicon Labs
WinChipHead (I have these on my Arduino-compatibles, seem to work OK)
More chips than I can rattle off from Microchip and Atmel
And a bunch of others.

Around 1990 I came up with a guideline that a power user should always spend USD500 on memory for their desktop. That target roughly held true for over 15 years until the price of memory plummeted in the mid-2000s and you couldn't fit that much in.

SSL certs are pretty trivial to track in Nagios or whatever your monitoring software of choice is.

No two domain registrars seem to format their WHOIS data the same though, making it a lot harder.

There is no hyphen in expat. Sorry, pet peeve.