The summary is misleading. What they are banning is any car sales that do not go through a dealership. It just happens that EV companies would prefer to sell direct from the manufacturer.

Texas is the same way. The reason for the law is that car dealerships have a lot of clout, because in rural areas they may be the biggest business. So they can put a lot of pressure on the state lawmakers to make rules that car manufacturers must go through a non-company owned dealership.

The poll has "No" (No I'm not on Twitter), but if you are on Twitter, the next lowest usage option is "I check Twitter, but very rarely tweet, or not at all". That option implies that you do check Twitter, and to me "check" means you go out to Twitter to see if something's in your timeline.

But what if you are on Twitter but don't check it? I only use Twitter once a year or so to contact a company's support account.

HP and HPE don't share a brand. HPE got to keep the (unhyphenated) Hewlett-Packard name (Hewlett Packard Enterprise), but HP Inc. doesn't get to use it. HP is just HP now, the initials don't stand for anything. All HP got to keep was the hp logo and the HPQ stock symbol.

You've said this twice, but as you also said, IPv4 isn't compatible with IPv6. There is no possible way for an IPv4 site to communicate directly with an IPv6 address. It can't use IPv6 TCP/IP packets. It can't use IPv6 addresses. It would not be able to establish a TCP/IP connection, let alone return any data.

So if your connection to the Internet is truly IPv6 only, it would mean you have no IPv4 address on the Internet, and you would not be able connect to IPv4 sites such as Slashdot.org.

Therefore either you are not as IPv6-only as you think you are, or there is a NAT64 gateway between your desktop and the Internet.

If you don't believe me, try using one of the "What is my IP?" sites. Does it tell you that you have an IPv4 address on the Internet? If you do, your connection is not IPv6-only.

And, if you are going to say that "I said my desktop is IPv6-only, not my connection", then that doesn't mean that IPv6 is backwards compatible. IPv6 is not. ISPs can work around it with IPv6 transition mechanisms such as NAT64, but they still need to have a pool of IPv4 addresses for the gateway to allocate.

HP had one block of their own. The other was originally owned by Digital Equipment Corporation; HP got it when they acquired Compaq.

HP has already given up both of its class-A allocations.

which doesn't makes sense. VW keyless entry ("Kessy") systems are also keyless start. There's no ignition key to remove.

The true subject vehicles are in the NHTSA Safety Recall Report which specifies that the vehicles are "without Kessy (keyless entry)".

This does raise a question. If you have Kessy and forget to put it in Park, you just get a warning message when you turn off the ignition. So does that mean that cars with Kessy are less safe?

"Purchase at a 30% discount" is ambiguous. Does that mean at 30% of the retail price? Or at 30% off retail?

Even if it is 70% off, this still a huge price increase.

Before: $15 every 3 years = $5 per year
Now: 30% of $70 subscription = $21 per year.

That's a 320% increase in price.

For one thing, the Windows 10 Start Menu doesn't allow for program subfolders.

For example, if you had something like a "Microsoft Office" group, containing the key applications at the top level, but the lesser used utilities in a subfolder "Microsoft Office Tools", all of that nice structure is gone. It just throws all of the program icons into the single folder allowed per application.

Microsoft's answer is, apparently, to redesign the application so it doesn't use the Start Menu for program links. But what happens when you have an application that was designed for Windows 7, which has a perfectly functional Start menu, that supports subfolders? It is just a horrid mess.

And what possible reason is there for this limitation? Oh yeah: it is because Windows 8 was designed for tablets, not computers, hence the whole "metro" interface. For some reason Microsoft didn't bother to fix the Metro-emphasis in Windows 10, so we're stuck with limitations that make no sense.

It is the same as in any Google query: you can enter a number of search terms that you think may be in the result, but they don't all have to be. (Compare this to AltaVista, where every term was mandatory.)

All we're doing here is the same concept with one or more phrases. For example, maybe I want to find pages with "red team", "penetration test", or "white hat" (perhaps along with other terms), but I don't require the hit to have all three phrases. And I don't want to get returned every page that talks about the red hats or white teams or hat tests or whatever.

The point was this was all very simple before Google+ decided that a plus sign should link to a service that no-one uses.

That's what Google said when people first complained about the usurping of the "+" operator.

At that time, there was a clear difference: Quoting a term was used to indicate that the phrase must be as is. "Search syntax" would get a hit on that exact phrase, not just any result that included the words search and syntax somewhere. But it did not mean that the phrase was required.

Between then and now they may have changed it so that a quoted phrase is a required term. But if so, then how do you indicate that a phrase must be as-is, but is not a required phrase?

Exactly. From what I've experienced, Agile is just an excuse to not think about requirements until it is too late.

Customer: I want a house...

Development team designs and builds a house.

Customer: ...that I can drive to the lake.