Since the login page is going to come from at least the same organisation (and likely the same server), if it's been compromised then that won't help - it just means the attacker has to do marginally more work adding a bit of code to the stuff sent to the browser to harvest the plain text password there instead.

Serial and parallel doesn't refer to the amount of signals, but how they are clocked. If you took 16 RS-232 ports and split your data into 16 parts and transmitted them, it would still be serial as each port is independently clocked. With a parallel port there's a single clock for all the signals. Every separate signal (there's 4 of them for USB-C super speed) is independently clocked, so it's not a 4 bit parallel link, but 4 separate serial links.

The red blue and yellow crimp connectors are actually very reliable (we use them in aviation) - if:

- you have the proper crimp tool (and a good crimp tool is quite expensive - at least as much as a mid-tier soldering iron), a proper ratchet tool with a properly made die, not the cheap Chinesium things you get for £6 at Halfords
- you don't get the cheap crap crimp connectors (good ones aren't really that expensive either)
- the person crimping them knows how to use the crimp tool - which isn't hard, you can probably teach a chimp to crimp.

Do all that stuff and you have connectors that take 1/10th of the time to install vs. soldering, and there are far fewer things to go wrong.

If the connection has proper strain relief and the cables are properly supported, a soldered joint will outlive the car.

However, crimping is faster and easier and needs a lot less skill to make a good connector. Making a good solder joint and doing all the things to ensure it will last takes a modicum of skill and it also takes time. But you can teach a chimp to crimp. (That's assuming you have the correct crimp tool, and a good one, not a cheap one made from Chinesium).

No, scientists aren't getting constantly "surprised" or even "baffled". These are words journalists are putting in their mouths as a way of making a story more interesting.

Fossil fuels are finite too. (Also "rare Earths" aren't particularly rare despite their name). There are battery technologies that don't use cobalt. There are technologies under development that use sodium which is enormously abundant.

There are other types of battery technology being developed for stationary storage - for mass power storage, you don't have quite the constraints you have for mobile power like an electric car so you can use materials that would not be optimal for use in a car or a mobile phone. Unconstrained by weight, you can use flow batteries (some of which have been developed with tremendous energy densities and very high numbers of charge cycles compared to conventional lithium ion type batteries).

Batteries are a *huge* part of our future of electrical generation. It might take a while before the grid is transformed, but it took a long time for the grid to develop in the first place anyway (how many years of engineering development did it take to arrive at the modern highly efficient combined cycle gas turbine power plant, something that would have been scoffed at in the 1970s?)

Obesity doesn't make your legs longer nor your body taller. Someone so obese that their stomach would touch the seat in front probably doesn't have the mobility to even get tot the airport, let alone in the plane.

The airline easyJet has a load factor of 95% (so nearly all of their flights are totally full). Ryanair is probably similar.

The A321 isn't the A320's successor - they didn't stop selling the A320 then begin producing the A321. The A320 is a family of aircraft, all being made concurrently (so the current models being sold are the A318, A319, A320, A321 - numbers smaller than 320 are a shrink and numbers greater than 320 are a stretch of the base A320 model).

You must have people in much worse than average health, then. Around here there are plenty of over 50s, and there's hardly any sick days. We have no problem planning. Only being 75% certain that people will be well enough to work four days per cycle sounds like you have a catastrophically unhealthy workforce at any age.

The production countries will notice: undoubtedly demand for their products will fall with an increased price due to tarriffs.

However, wind generating capacity does tend to be the greatest when we need lots of electricity. We tend to need the most power during the wet and windy winter months...when the wind bit of the wet and windy means wind generation is at or nearly at peak production.

Google aren't merely offering their services, they are attaching exactly the same strings that Microsoft used to attach. Microsoft used to say: if you want to ship Windows, you may only ship Windows on all of the PCs you sell. If you ship one with OS/2 or Linux on, then the deal is off.

Google are doing the same thing. If you want to ship phones with Android and Google Play (which is increasingly necessary for many apps to just work), then *all* your phones must ship with this, and none with a competitive operating system or environment.

This is the monopoly abuse they are being punished for. They are not being punished for making good apps, they are being punished for using their dominant position (which on the lower end is 100% dominance) to prevent competition from even getting going.

What where they even thinking to launch a smear site like that? It's certain to backfire: the message such a site gives is that RISC-V is a serious challenger to ARM, if ARM has to go out and smear it, and people who've never even heard of RISC-V will now be checking it out because this kind of story gets picked up by the computing press and gives a huge amount of free publicity to RISC-V.

Because Apple isn't in a monopolistic position. Apple has quite a small marketshare, but Google have an effective monopoly (and an actual monopoly for non-premium devices). It's not about whether Apple is doing anything better or worse, it's about whether Google has an effective monopoly or not. If the situation were reversed (iOS being on 90% of devices), then the EU would be going after Apple.