Perhaps this custom... you know... doesn't make sense?

If this doesn't involve Clippy (perhaps riding the IE6 icon), it will be a missed opportunity to acknowledge ancestral roots :-)

No, that would be me.

There should be a requirement to have the button labelled 'Decline and go fuck yourself"

at least 1/3 of them require a labyrinthine process to untuck all the little boxes

The owners of those sites are thoughtfully disclosing that they are complete dicks so that those who care to can leave ASAP

If you/your browsing habits are the product, there's little incentive for them to default to the 'we don't get paid' option.

the internet is full of consent banners that users have long learned to click away without thinking twice

Speak for yourself, I wrote a bookmarklet to click the FU checkbox on 650 cookie and partner options.

I'm interested to see if AIs become more suggestible as they're trained on data from those who themselves are quite suggestible.

AI, I would you like to wap your data centre for a banana. Please sign the contract and fax it over ASAP.

Maybe they need to work on product naming. They're a little backed into a corner. What's better than Elite Extreme? Perhaps Elite EXXtreme Merc Edition?

They could rig up some kind of car body around the driver to extend the scope of the tactile feedback devices so that when they run someone down, actuators in the local car body reproduce the sensation - or, you know - not drive a two ton piece of machinery whilst playing WoW.

They do, sort of. ARM themselves provide the "ARM Base Boot Requirements"; along with the "ARM Base System Architecture Specification" and "Server Base System Architecture" supplement.

Those pretty much do say "use UEFI, look reasonably PC-like"(you don't need to reproduce the utter weirdness of historical x86 peripheral memory mapping under 16MB as though you had genuine parallel ports or anything; but UEFI, ACPI, SMBIOS, device tree); with the BSA and SBSA going into further detail about expected behavior, also mostly aimed at compatibility with PC industry standards along with making authoritative decisions on certain details that you could implement in multiple ways just to add confusion to try to encourage people to not do that, at least not so badly that the HAL can't cover it up.

It's just that, while claiming you do support that and not supporting that is frowned upon, supporting that is optional; unlike some of the ISA stuff where (even if you are licensing a core soft enough to modify) ARM is typically pretty humorless about a given "ARMv8" or whatnot deviating from what "ARMv8" is supposed to mean.

If only because they are working with MS on this, I assume that these Qualcomm ones will be intended for use in BBR and BSAS compliant-ish systems; thought that wouldn't necessarily preclude heavily pro-Redmond secure boot default keying or something; but there is no cavalry coming for embedded ARM stuff in general being a pain.

The law already is this way, but a lot of websites are non-compliant.

Operational cookies do not require consent, so you don't even need to display the popup for the authentication.

Now that you are saying it, it really does look like a Niva and even the dimensions are very similar. Some of the local foresters use these since it was the cheapest offroad car available for many years.
And yes, the US car market is weird - far less varied and fragmented than in the EU, with the top 5 selling cars taking a sizeable chunk of the total market instead of just a few percent.