All the Pi's have the same USB IP, so I can't imagine there being any significant improvements between hardware versions. I believe only Pi3 can boot from USB, but the bootrom's USB drivers are not very compatible, especially with devices that are slow to enumerate. I do notice that the linux drivers have improved over the years and I am running with fewer problems from USB. The other big factor is sometimes people draw too much current from USB and instead of shutting down the device becomes unreliable, especially from USB harddrives. A bigger powre supply helps tremendously. And the new firmware updates now throw a little square in the corner of the screen when you are starting to get voltage sags.

I am sure many people would love to "get the fuck out of it"; however, there is nowhere to go that is not claimed by one society or another. Your solution for dealing with an individual's unhappiness with society is therefore unworkable.

Even worse is that when we follow your line of reasoning that the importance of society outweighs individual freedoms, we end up in a very nasty place where whole sections of society can be "eliminated" for the good of the whole. Defining which sections and what is good can turn out to be quite "interesting". If you do not think it can or will happen, you are not very familiar with history.

eMMC is quick compared to SD, I wish they'd just throw a 4G eMMC on there. I assume it was because they wanted to meet the $35 price point.

adding SATA is more expensive as the SoC they used does not have SATA, so they'd have to get an external controller.

USB boot is possible on RPi, but it's kind of a pain to get working as it is not compatible with every USB storage device.

There is not a limitless amount of bandwidth to broadcast in a small area. Most of these devices are operating in the same spectrum (since they are WiFi, UHF and SHF). The FCC almost certainly has the exclusive legal right to regulate the radio spectrum, but the organizer of an event should be given some way to coordinate and organize access to the limited resource. That the FCC lacks any way for an event to legally do something that I believe they should be doing. I argue that the FCC needs a form and a fee for this sort of thing before organizers are allowed to restrict WiFi access. And that requests are temporary and limited to santioned events and not for a coffee shop or theme park that wants to gouge customers.

Of course I'm ignoring the issue of free speech. Does your right to free speech include running your own WiFi network to circumvent a potentially malicious organization's WiFi?

$200 per head seems about right on price, if I had to hire some consultants to throw together a network for 3 days, then tear it all down, seems like a bargain.

I don't think much will happen, considering business executives don't go to prison for knowingly putting tainted water into the pipes or leaking gas into people's homes. Leaking passwords seems like a minor thing, maybe if the banks and credit companies got tired of paying, but I suspect those guys have figured out a way to pass the costs onto customers or the individual account holders.

They won't do anything unless something has immediate financial consequences. And even when they are hacked, they cry about being the victim and how hackers cost them millions of dollars. They need to be told: No, not spending a few thousand dollars on regular audits is why you lost millions of dollars.

Because that is how it is done, and I've never been given any alternative.
The NDA is that you cannot disclose, it is not the same as a non-compete agreement. Which I agree you wouldn't sign, but also I live in California where non-competes are usually not valid.

Or replace it with one that is more transparent and perhaps spends less time trying to regulate individual behavior and more time organizing the infrastructure that is beneficial to all. I want a small government that stays out of my day to day life but also gets stuff done. (maybe strong local government and weak federal government, but that is not it exactly because most of my local government is ran by busybodies who worry about how many plastic flamingos I might put out on my lawn)

It kind of creeps up on you. You sign a bunch of papers, and the deal is done.

If any of us actually read the fine print, we wouldn't sign anything. Not even an NDA to get a job interview. These days you end up having to believe that someone isn't going to totally screw you over even if the document you sign seems indicate that they will. Not signing any documents is not realistic, if you want to go to school or have a job.

Some people are intelligent but overly trusting of people who seem nice.

I've been taken in by actual con artists before, not a huge amount, but they did abuse my overly trusting nature. Otherwise I am quite a rational and intelligent person.

There is more evidence for Thor causing thunder and lightning: We have never seen anyone raised from the dead but we have seen thunder and lightning. Just sayin'

Places like ITT give you quite the song and dance when you visit their campus. And "walk you through the process". The simple mistake people make is not getting a second opinion. Are students responsible for their own mistakes? Sure. Is it fair? No. Should we shut down those who exploit other people, that is gain profit without offering something of equivalent value in return? Absolutely.

I bought some like 10 years ago (Apple TV), it's in a landfill now.

Even more, I would argue that such a "species" would not want to live in a gravity well anyways. I would suspect that advanced species would place their "habitats" in nebulae and asteroid belts and such where resources are plentiful and movement is easier. Once you are on a planet, it takes insane amounts of energy to move away from it.

Yes, I would like a list of accounts that were NOT hacked.