Better tried-and-true solution:
Don't make wiring with edible insulation.

As happened with 3D TVs, I waited for them to get the tech right, then put off a purchase because we were upgrading from an apartment to a house so we wanted to get a larger 3D set. By the time the house was ready 3D TVs were killed off and the ones with the specs I wanted were no longer available as "new old stock."

Now that I am going to be ready to upgrade from my Xbox 360 to an Xbox One along with other AV upgrades (mostly to get 4K capability) they're killing off the Kinect.

The universe hates me. :D

Obviously the solution is to buy now before stock runs out, but...

> there's a secret pedophilia ring under a pizza parlor. ...being run out of a basement that doesn't even exist (it turned out the pizza place is on just a slab, not over a basement).

“There's no such thing, unfortunately, anymore of facts.” -Trump supporter Scottie Nell Hughes

And also, while health risks were suspected by many even back then, it was still being touted as a remedy for certain health issues at the time. (it does help treat some health issues, but causes far more problems than it solves).

I partially agree with this, but where you can only zoom so far digitally and it isn't always practical to "zoom out" using your feet, in a small room, etc. portrait/vertical shooting is the obvious solution.

What DOES need to die is the godawful trend of framing portrait/vertical videos with sidebars of blurred portions of the video; this kills the ability to properly enjoy the video; rotate it and you don't get much of a zoom, and you can't zoom in to the video in portrait mode because of the fucking blurry sidebars. Please shoot - to kill* - the hipster who started that fucking trend!

*please don't be a deplorable by shooting the fucking hipster.

I dunno. If a presidential candidate and his sons attempted treason and collusion with an enemy of state, and if I were a prosecutor, I would file treason and espionage charges even if they failed, for example, if someone were to try to leverage money laundering and real estate deals to get dirt on an opponent and ended up in the White House. I would absolutely file those charges and push for the maximum sentence allowed by the constitution, because the intent was clear, in this purely hypothetical case, that they tried to sell an entire nation out to the enemy for personal gain.

Sometimes an attempted crime is every bit as bad as one which was successful, and should be punished just as harshly to deter others from attempting the same.

Ack!
s/laptops/phones/
D'oh!

Bytes from PCs are bigger than from laptops, obviously, which is why they disallow tethering on the unlimited plans. /s

Honestly that is far more reasonable than what the big three were doing previously to throttling (cutting off Unlimited customers for using "too much" data or switching them from unlimited to metered plans).

Well, naturally, but PETA terrorists will protest if you describe bird feeders as what they are: cat food lures!

Be glad they don't do the Sony model, which Samsung have recently adopted with their Samsung Galaxy line:

* Sell item advertising features that are deal-makers for some customers
* Remove those advertised feature at a later date, calling it an improvement (Samsung did this with the S7 Edge)
* Try to get same customers to upgrade to $newflagship

What I want in a TV is:
* a multitude of inputs (despite using an AV receiver I like additional inputs) including composite, component, HDMI, and VGA
* 4K resolution w/ HDR
* 3D (granted it would be = 1080)*
* frame interpolation/"smoothing" (I hate 24Hz jitter when scenes pan)
* Multiple selectable video setting profiles (I like bright settings for some shows, "movie" settings for most, and a custom profile for late-night viewing with blues diminished)

What I don't want:
* Apps that will be orphaned before the warranty is expired
* Microphone/camera (I'd tape over the cam then when warranty is expired, open it and de-solder the mic and cam or break the lens and diaphram)

*Manufacturers fucked up with 3D; they pushed it before the tech was ready, then when the tech finally matured they killed off 3D. They should have not focused on 3D in the beginning but offered it as a 'free bonus feature" and should have waited until the tech was matured before pushing it as the killer feature. I want a 3D set now and can't find a new one; just "new old stock" from brands I don't want, or smaller screens. :-(

Also since the GPS tracker was installed into the vehicle and the vehicle transferred ownership and then the stealership accessed it without authorization he should press charges for unauthorized access to a computer system (actually many counts; add up all the impacted computerized circuits in the path of the ECU, ignition module, CAN bus network, OBD network, and the GPS tracker/immobilization unit itself) plus wire fraud. Those will have some serious teeth. :-D

You sure can take back welds! ;)

Owner should find a really successful attorney and push to have the stealership prosecuted for unauthorized access to a computer and for wire fraud; both of those have some serious teeth and could land the mechanic in prison indefinitely.