Buick sedans used to be solid, were go-to reliable transportation for teenagers, with low-mileage examples from estate sales being quite affordable. This was many, many years ago.

When you put all secondary controls and even instrument gauges on a screen, it is no longer non-essential.

Plus, the car cannot be driven until this screen is fixed. So this is not something you can live with on an "old" car.

By his second term, most people understood that Trump was a liar.

This wasn't a distinguishing feature since the other team lies, too.

The study is not sensational.

You should have at least read the abstract.

I'd take more RAM over turbo every time.

They won't, because they want in on profiting from abusing your privacy.

Elderly parents of work acquaintance drive a high-end Buick SUV with wrap-around screen. A few months out of warranty screen died. Replacement part was quoted at about $12,000 and there is no possibility of a used part as these are coded to the car VIN. These are "engine failure" magnitude of issues. Insane, considering most people would be fine with analogue gauge screen and want more physical controls for HVAC.

First, I can't imagine any reasonable need for the FCC to define "broadband" in the first place. What's wrong with letting ISPs and consumers settle on what broadband means?

Second, I have no doubt the goal was to force, jawbone, or subsidize ISPs to deploy 1000/500 network connections. But for the vast majority of people, that's wildly overprovisioned. If all you do is watch AmaFlix and cat videos, you don't even need the 100/20 service which used to be broadband.

So I personally would prefer the FCC would STFU about what is or is not broadband and get back to worrying about radio interference.

Exclusive contracts in media have been SOP since forever. If some YouTube sellout signs a specific exclusivity contract with YouTube, then they, you and Netflix have nothing to say about it. It's possible some of this could be found anti-competitive, when no specific contract is in play, but that's a road to a protracted legal battle taking years: feel free to hold your breath waiting for whatever utopian outcome you think you're owed on that one. What I find interesting is YouTube management clearly being un-self-aware and unconcerned, despite being a subsidiary of a company that has just been convicted as a monopolist. I can only take that to mean that they're confident that they've purchased sufficient political influence.

Right. Because the last Google anti-trust conviction was such a huge success and made everything so much better.

"...considering that the goal is not required by the statute and does not serve any positive purpose..."

Does not serve any positive purpose? Positive purpose must mean making him money personally.

Except we aren't talking about a mere definition of broadband, nor do we care what your data rate requirements are.

Maybe you should read the actual scientific paper instead of ranting. It will give you knowledge and improve your blood pressure. (In case you missed that last reference: ranting raises your blood pressure. There you go).

Man, if you're getting your science information from news stories, the problem is you.

We live in a world where the actual study is a click away. At least read the abstract.