Columbia House wants your address and cc info.

Is it wrong that I want to know what that tool was supposed to be for, and what happens when you use it.

The problem is, digging isn't exactly rocket surgery. It has its majority issues though. I don't believe the hard part is the digging though.

Making people happy you're digging beneath their feet is hard. Not hitting any existing underground utilities, a downright nightmare. The main problem, as always with public works infrastructure, is bureaucracy and nimbyism. The secondary problem is everyone with a modicum of power wants their cut.

How do you get people to agree to something where a handful get rewarded handsomely, some groups get a small net benefit, some groups get a small net deficit, most don't get anything, and usually a small handful get screwed.

The usgs national map viewer for some of the landsat data has recently moved to AWS and it is immensely faster and much more reliable. On AWS you tend to pay per bit though, so I suspect bandwidth charges are now a larger/variable portion of their costs vs before, which was probably a fixed line bandwidth cost which was constant.

Sounds exactly like back in the day. A ton of business apps embedded IE to render text and layouts. Removing it would break these apps because they assumed: I'm running. I only run on windows, therefore IE is available. Hence one reason (good/bad) that MS insisted IE couldn't be removed. It would cause a lot of hassle for the business customers.

The big problem about supplying electricity is the payback schedules for construction usually are of the order of 25-30 years. Anything that changes your assumptions can kill your ROI. Slowing down construction of other sources and lengthening out changes via litigation actually makes sense from that point of view. And infrastructure maintenance being payed for via KWH as an easy abstraction instead but does not cover costs if things like solar are used individually. Changing this to a connection cost would cause costs to vary wildly as well.

That said, maintenance is very seldom actually done, and renewables change the demand on the infrastructure drastically, and improving that is very costly.

As part of the election last november in Illinois. A lockbox provision was approved so that "transportation taxes" must only be spent on "transportation." I have been doing professional engineering services and consulting for IDOT, the Illinois Tollway, O'Hare, UP, CN railways etc. for 17 years, and it STILL took me a while to go through all the legalese on that question. It seems pretty thorough; Alas, I'm not a lawyer and currently waiting for all the legal contortions that will be spent to still spend that money on things that aren't quite related to transportation.

While also simplifying system software and compilers.

Every few years we hear about this. What makes this attempt any more likely than the previous attempt? We have to deal with the software we have now, not what we'd like it to be.

If your number is not in my contacts list, I don't even hear it. If it is not important enough to leave a voicemail of who you are and what number to call you back at, it is not important enough for me to care.

You can't trademark/copyright/patent a normal word. Anybody who doesn't anything with lyft HAS to be making money that is rightfully yours.

But is is a hard drive, a hybrid drive, an SSD, a floppy....

described as 'undervalued' relative to other streaming services

As opposed to those other streaming services continuing to lose money because the content owners keep charging too much and keep raising their rates?

Soon they will either have to make money, or fold. Music is in need of something, I don't know what. I'm still listening to music I bought decades ago, so I'm not sure how well I apply.

VLAN blocks probably won't last long. a simple 3g soc is in the several dollar range now. Supposed they split ad revenue with a cell provider so there would be no actual fee to the consumer and you'd have to wrap the fridge in tin foil to prevent ads, though in that case, I can't connect to the internet = non cold fridge. i.e. fridge is broke, call repairman...

Wonder if it could be structured like vaccination. In that case, some people react badly to being vaccinated, and there is insurance and legal indemnity for those cases, since in the vast majority of cases, it is profoundly useful. Admit it won't always be perfect, but when it isn't, we deal with the consequences and move on. Would laws to that effect ever be allowed?

This is also why they don't give you an option to put a cell modem in their laptops. Their solution: JUST BUY AN IPHONE. That is so convenient, WHY DON'T YOU WANT TO??