Seriously, this one gave me a chuckle: Combatting the scourge of illegal robocalls remains the FCC's top consumer protection priority... - Yea, right!

I also found this amusing: ...but not telcos that operate solely as wholesale or intermediate providers. - So, in other words, they're not even going to bother grading the ones actually doing this.

I give this plan 1 star.

Soon just half the population of the USA.

[ducking and running]

How do you think these "car rental offices and dispensaries" capture and transfer ID images? Pretty much the same way web sites take a picture of your ID. It's just using a specialized scanner. But otherwise an image upload.

Or at least a booth: Quick and painless or slow and horrible? :-)

Good thing too as, unfortunately, data centers will probably need all the electricity - and water.

In future news: Classes in "How to be Amish" become very popular.

Scarcity is what keeps humanity governable. If you have everything you need, who can then tell you what to do? Try telling a homeless bum to stop doing something. Give him a house, two car garage and chicken in the pot and he's at your beck and call.

How will breaking search and the browser off of ads help with giving the customer a better browsing experience? And by customer, I mean advertisers. They need the market-oriented search and browser tracking hooks to capture more consumers. And they need them all to work together seamlessly.

So, she's ancient and terrible too.

What experience does Blue Origin have with building and operating a space telecommunications network? Any?

It's been well documented that angels can't necessarily be trusted either.

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Their New Glenn vehicle has launched payloads into orbit three times, that's more than just "barely making it to the Kármán line". One of the three was delivered to the wrong orbit due to an underperforming second stage engine. That's a definite failure for the customer, but still beyond the Kármán line.

Failures in early launches of new vehicles are not unexpected.

So, like Gen Z. Order from DoorDash, work from home. And then there's that Gen Z stare.

Don't care. I'll buy my Mars service plan from Consumer Cellular.

Those simple flip phones with the oversized buttons are easier to operate in space suits.

True. Most of the problems with "throttling" a base load plant have more to do with the turbines and generators. Not the reactor itself. It takes a certain amount of steam to spin a turbine up to synchronous speed. Once the generator is connected to the grid but "idling" (putting out zero power), the system will actually be hunting between generating and motoring. That's not good for its windings, so operators try to keep a minimum amount of power going out.

We are, for all intents and purposes, a conductor for such small charges. As such, the potential needed to move those charges and equalize them is low. Lower than that needed to break chemical bonds in most materials.