While it's fun to point out components, I think the bigger story would lie in where the signal processing board(s) are coming from. Russia does have fairly modern in-house electronics design and manufacturing but without vendor support integration of things like Jetsons into bespoke designs is pretty difficult. I would expect that they're actually sourcing whole boards and sensors (cameras) and hacking together interfaces to their known missile control systems.

You know the nice thing about "expert witnesses"? They come in both flavors of a case, depending on the amount of money you want to spend. Who's got more money to spend?

Again, I'm not in either side of this merger. I think that the states' AGs are spending taxpayer dollars for the wrong reason. The mega-media market is going to change, like it did when TV changed the whole landscape of Hollywood. A Paramount-WB hookup is not going to save either company's influence on global society.

That's easy: states issue bonds. In California, voters decide if there's to be a bond issue for some project or need. The results are predictable, especially if the bond propositions are written in a manner that makes it hard for the average voter to understand what they're voting for.

Care to point out the part(s) of the Clayton Act that you can prove would be violated by this merger? Market-share concentration, perhaps? HHI, maybe?

Bonta's claim is that the merger would result in market shares of about 27% cable-channel licensing and the same in wide-release film distribution, and around 30% in "anticipated blockbuster distribution". This last one is a real reach as it is very tough to predict what's going to go big at the box office in any given year. See https://oag.ca.gov/system/file... for the text of the suit.

So...where's the "FOLLOW THE LAW" part? The numbers that Bonta states rate the merger somewhere between "lower concern" and "significant scrutiny", not "strong concern", which is a pretty bright line.

I don't have care about the merger either way. I just find it amusing that Bonta and his merry band of AGs think they can predict the movie industry over the long term.

Not sure what credentials Bonta has to determine how the media and entertainment industry is supposed to operate but he sure seems to be confident in his private opinions. Given how entrenched the labor unions are in California politics I expect he's getting info from that group. Too many of these unions think they can pin companies (and "the rich") in place while they slowly rape them because the size of California's economy is such that it's hard to not do business there.

The era of the big Hollywood studio, providing 10s of thousands of employees and contractors a middle-class lifestyle, is over and has been since the 2010s. The infrastructure to stand up large set-piece productions is now very portable and not as labor-intensive as it used to be. Paramount leaving Hollywood would be more of an acknowledgement of the above realities than a threat to California's tax base. David Ellison is an idiot to frame the move as a threat. He should just start moving the office and production out.

Overall, I think the merger is just another rearrangement of deck chairs on the SS Mass Media. It won't matter much in the long run as the ship's down heavily at the bow.

No, there are at least 10 and I think most of them have systems that support 30nm masks, which is typical for DDR4. I don't know too much about Chinese capabilities, but I would think they could probably do DDR4 masks these days.

What do you put that into? Used MBs? What about the CPUs on those MBs?

I spent a month earlier this year scraping together a bunch of NOS servers, CPUs (early-gen Xeons) and DDR3 RAM for a legacy contract (with "frozen" software) that was nearing its term. It's tough to find and assemble 10 year-old tech at scale these days but it was kinda fun.

It's not a general solution for today's needs though.

It's the T-Mobile O&O stores that are getting phased out. There are many 3rd-party locations that will happily take your money on overpriced accessories and "insurance" in exchange for the in-person experience. The basic cellular service market in the US is price-compressed now so there are not a lot of services to up-sell.

It's quite expensive to operate broadcast TV stations because they're designed to keep the barriers to access to their programming very low. No subscriptions or intermediate distribution networks between the licensed transmitter and the consumer...just some cheap and easy to find commodity hardware. At least, that was how TV used to be.

ATSC screwed that up in the US. The transition was huge bungle at a time when internet bandwidth was about on-par for the purpose of delivering video content. These days a cell phone gets you more entertainment than the combined programming of all broadcasters in a market and everyone has a phone/tablet...part of the cost of living in the modern world.

Allowing large collections of TV licenses to be held is, in this day, a leveling of the playing field from my point of view. We've had DirecTV and Dish, Comcast and Cox, all national footprint content distributors, for decades now. I don't see much of a difference between a Comcast and a Sinclair anymore.

If you wanted to really be fair, you'd subject companies that hold more than a certain national percentage of broadcast licenses to the same standards that are applied to a common communications carrier, maybe?

Not sure how quickly 3rd-party parts will be available or if they'll work the same. A lot of the issues with Deere equipment is in the distributed nature of the software. Lots of sensors and actuators run Deere-owned software. Even if the part OEM branches out and sells directly to consumers (which is not likely as I bet most of the sourcing contracts are exclusive to Deere...no direct sales of Deere-designed parts) the software loads are still going be under copyright.

It's one thing to crank out monkey-copy taillight lenses. It's a whole different thing to do that to LIDAR/RADAR assemblies that automatically adjust cutting heads to follow the ground contours.

Acronym collisions are unavoidable, but you're think someone would've done some research on MXC before going with it?

Care to explain the recent Starlink whitelisting event that locked most Russian terminals out of the network and arguably resulted in the collapse of a number of their offensive operations while giving Ukraine a large operational advantage?

You mean, like cPanel?

Don't even need Copyfail. The broken auth logic grants root itself.