...Young buyers prefer the newer controls...

They also prefer affordable cars. Wonder when the industry's going to work on that problem?

It could certainly just be a numbers game; tons of ICE vehicles out there; or whether there's an issue with accumulated cultural assumptions and engineering priorities.

I can at least imagine that there's a difference in mindset between "this is a 12v lead acid starter battery; it'll put out a solid few tens of amps for the starter motor assuming it is working correctly; but its energy density is kind of trash and we mostly prefer not to dump additional systems onto it, especially when that exposes them to the slightly gross output of the alternator" and "This battery has been designed to fully provide for all energy requirements of a vehicle; if you displease it it will probably kill you and then burn vigorously for a day or two. A foundational assumption of all systems that need energy is that they'll be connected back to it in one way or another because there aren't other energy sources here."

Not like electric vehicle designers couldn't/don't make mistakes, and certainly some of their mistakes burn with the really exciting commitment of a large light metal fire; but the engineering culture around an ICE vehicle seems much more likely to produce a string of individually reasonable, collectively dangerous, "c'mon, it's just one little 12v system" requests that get bolted onto a fairly antique battery without too much broader thought; while analogous feature demands in a fully electric vehicle will either be judged high energy enough to potentially get brought into the high voltage wiring(which, barring gross negligence across the design is treated like it can and will kill you) or totaled in to some low voltage system budget that will be handled by a DC-DC converter designed with actual care because going from 600v to 12v isn't something you do as casually as just slapping another 12v requirement in parallel with the other stuff on the 12v battery and calling it good.

As opposed to closed source where no one will ever know that a 20 year vulnerability is being exploited by unless the company acknowledges it (if that company is till around).

That's a false dichotomy argument that people are against computers or security cameras. What people are against is the state using automated surveillance with LPR. People are also against police using that technology with little oversight including many, many cases of stalking. People are also against the tax payer paying for all of that.

It is all about "winning" but not for US companies or China. By making everyone else lose, Trump is winning.

Xinuos ' legal argument in this suit seems to be that even though IBM settled with SCO Group, IBM technically never got a license to the code they used in Project Monterrey under the settlement. Under copyright laws, this was infringement by IBM. As the court clarified, even if they that ignored that SCO Group did not grant them rights to sue under their purchase agreement, infringement lawsuits are defined by "accrual" and "notice" when it comes to statute of limitations. When did the infringement occur and when did the copyright holder know about it. The court ruled that an infringement can only accrue once and that was settled by SCO Group. The second part is that Xinuous knew of the infringement when they purchased the assets in 2011 and they would have had to file a suit by 2014. Both courts did not go into the merits of the suit only that it is effectively dead due to statute of limitations.

On iPhone and tablets, there are many restrictions on 3rd party software. On a Mac, the OS prompts the user the first time they try to run downloaded software that did not originate from the Apple Store.

Blaming Apple for RAM apocalypse is the same as blaming PC, smartphone, tablet, [electronic device] makers for the RAM apocalypse. They are all "contributing" by existing. How dare they. ;)

Those are called laptops. Yes some manufacturers throw in a keyboard and mouse for free but few throw in a monitor for free unless it's an all-in-one. Mini PCs generally do not include keyboard, mouse, or monitor. At my company there were bins of keyboards and mice in the computer supply closet that no one used. I think you can buy them used by the pallet.

That's your opinion that they look bad but the main reason Apple disabled subpixel font rendering since Mojave (2018) is that does not look good on higher resolutions displays like Retina.

Why? Unless your ancient keyboard uses ancient 5 pin DIN, USB keyboards works. I've plugged in Windows keyboards into Macs and they work. Sure, the mapping of certain keys is different but I don't need a new keyboard.

Again why? Any USB mouse works. I've used Dell mice with Macs, and, again, they just work.

Have you actually used USB keyboards and mice with a Mac in the last 30 years because it seems like you have not.

This sounds like it was written by someone who actually knows what they are doing, so I assume that they know better than I; but I am surprised to hear that it is impersonating a system dll; since (in all comparatively recent windows versions) system components are signed. Absolutely tons of fuckery you can do to them and around them; but if dpapi.dll doesn't have a signature that checks out the mechanisms that try to keep OSes up and running on marginal hardware subject to random power loss will likely eventually object and attempt a repair, even if there isn't any more paranoid EDR tooling in place.

Is the on-disk copy of dpapi.dll untouched and only the in-memory instance tampered with?

I just can't believe that It was the guys with their finger on GPU allocations, not just the expendable PC OEM they were trying to throw under the bus, the whole time. Whoever could have guessed?

It's funny to think that not long ago just getting a bipedal robot to even walk was difficult. WABOT-1 took it's first steps in 1973 and looked like it was made from and Erector set and needed wires to connect it to it's power and control systems. It walked about as well as an old windup kids toy on a flat surface.

The Honda P2 was the first self contained robot that could walk and was introduced in 1996. It walked about as well as a 1950's sci-fi movie showing walking robots.

Honda ASIMO in 2000 was a bit more natural, but still fairly clunky at walking. I believe it could "run" at around 6mph.

The number of advancements in computing, material sciences, etc to get to the point where a bipedal robot can run faster than a person is astounding. In another ten or twenty years we may be looking at general purpose robots who can not only outrun the fastest human but also cook dinner. Hopefully it will be more Big Hero 6 and not Chopping Mall.

Please cite where Starship launch costs will be pennies. I will wait. The total cost has been $15B for 13 launches with less than a 40% success rate according to SpaceX's own standards.

Part of concern back then was anonymity was not guaranteed as the US government was rumored to have some way of breaking encryption that such a service would use. It turned out later that one standard, dual elliptic curve random number generator is suspected to have been backdoored by the NSA.