There are plenty of cities in western countries where drones are entirely prohibited and you need to drive to the countryside to fly it, observing various nature reserves and restricted airspaces.

It is also very common that training, a test or license, insurance, etc. are required.

The odd thing is that buying is restricted. Does that include ordering online?

Were the X-Wing and millennium falcon kits out by the late seventies? For some reason I thought we didn't get those until the 80s. Although I never really built kits until I got into gunpla. I guess I did do a few Macross kits back in the day. I seem to remember the Star wars kids being kind of pricey. At least initially

Nah. There are plenty of small businesses whose CEOs are normal people. Same with most nonprofit CEOs. I guarantee you won't find very many local arts organizations whose CEOs are psychopaths, for example.

The real problem, IMO, is that corporations are allowed to grow so big that only lunatics are able to run them.

Going to be an interesting case to follow, as it will likely set at least some precedents in UK in terms of how much you can squeeze other businesses in B2B contracts in "terms of service", as well as how much you can retroactively change terms on "perpetual licenses".

They're ramping up regardless through. Quite a few new fabs are being built and capacity of existing ones is being expanded. Also we're seeing new entrants into the market, like Chinese CXMT that have brought their DDR5 tech to the market. Finally Taiwanese are taking another shot at the DDR market as Nanya is finishing build-out of their Fab 5A which is intended for 10nm grade processes, which means that DDR4 and LPDDR4 supply will soon grow significantly as that fab starts.

It takes 3-5 years to build and start a RAM fab.

There are quite a few being built around the world. First ones are expected to be started in about two years.

Your post is nonsense.

I don't think I could make it any plainer. If you voted for left-wing candidates that would enforce antitrust law other companies could safely enter the ram market. There have been several companies that talked about it and started to look into it and then they backed off for no apparent reason.

And no the bubble isn't going to pop. Ram manufacturers have orders locked in for the next 3 years. And RAM prices have been elevated for almost 2 years now. There was already a supply chain strain from those blockchain idiots. The only risk is not the bubble popping it's the antitrust violations you refuse to acknowledge.

And there are several companies that are already involved in semiconductors and can get a factory building ram up and running very quickly. This isn't 1984 dude. I am so sick of old farts who just don't understand things change. You need to take Ronald Reagan's what's it out of your mouth.

Tech is fun.

Also there's a good reason to spend extra money sometimes. I think I've mentioned it before but the newer Qualcomm phones have vastly Superior 5G modems compared to the Samsung ones or heaven help you those cheap Mediatek ones. If you're in an area with good signal you won't notice it but if you're in a dead zone like I am having a more expensive phone with the fancy Qualcomm chipset is the difference between me getting text messages and phone calls and not.

It's not always about keeping up with the Joneses sometimes people want things because of what those things are and what they do

Worth noting that in some regions, it's called DCM

Fundamentally, it's a module that integrates online connectivity. Data Communications Integrated Module, Data Communication Module, etc.

Without it, car will have zero connectivity unless you give it access through your phone or something similar.

Incompetence at its finest!

Disconnect/power down DCIM.

You can find instructions how to do this for most popular car models on youtube.

Word of warning: this will nuke all connectivity, including emergency call one.

Could, may, etc. does not make for useful predictions. And while resilience to hardware failure sounds nice, the things degraded by ageing are the higher-power elements, like com line drivers. These give you full-chip loss and they are relatively homogenous in effect, i.e. they will take out almost all your hardware in a relatively short time.

On the minus-side, LLM results look less and less valuable every day as actual research (not just gut-feelings and hype) starts to roll in.

In theory, your professor was right. In practice, not so much. The thing is theory requires perfect proofs. Practice only "good enough" ones. (We will ignore that the one-time-pad is mathematically proven secure, because it has little practical relevance...)

So that state of things is that ElGamal has a security proof relying on an unproven assumption that is very likely true. RSA is much weaker on the theory side and current block ciphers or crypto-hashes are even weaker on the proof side.

As to QC, the problem is that effort seems to scale exponentially with qbit numbers and (!) computation length. That means there are not very large sizes of computations they will never scale to. And, for example, doing RSA 40960 (i.e. 10x larger than the larges typically used today) is not that much of a problem. The second problem is that there is no quantum computation in existence that actually conclusively proofs it even works. The theory may well turn out to be a tiny bit inexact and then everything fails. And "quantum insecure" does not matter one bit if the machine for it cannot be built.

As to QC algorithms, block ciphers are safe, hash functions are safe, some other things may be as well. The reason is the compute mechanism cannot really break them (half bit length for block-ciphers, for example, still completely infeasible to attack if that is 100 bits remaining or so).

Unfortunately, the CRA only goes active end of 2027.

And no you can't really drive a car that old anymore. The only people making parts for them make pretty cheap parts and they break constantly. If you can do to work yourself and you don't mind replacing your hoses and lines and radiator every 18 months more power to you but for everybody else once a car hits 20 years old that's it it's game over.