If this limiter interferes with heating or critical care equipment and leads to death, management at the company can face manslaughter charges in Canada.

Put solar panels on the wings of an Airbus A380 and hope it still flies? No. The answer is no. You can not get away from oil.

This isn't true at all. Jet engines run fine on B100/biodiesel (though certain components - particularly seals - need to be rated). The cost of fuel would go up, but it's going to go up, anyway.

Bet the NIMBYs will change their tune when nothing but dust starts coming from the taps.

A few nuclear reactors dedicated to desalination sounds like a good way to deal with this problem.

The market is ready for a new competitor. Google is a shit company and has ruined Android as they do most of their successful products.

The market is ready for a new OS and devices that have replaceable wear items (ie. batteries), easily replaceable screens, actual privacy protections, no DRM trash, and correctly functioning battery management that doesn't harm the device's ability to be useful.

Ads are fucking cancer.

Distributions should seriously consider forking Qt, and refusing to participate in this nonsense.

Why not fire the idiot who decided to get rid of the dislike count? Literally one of the most important features, allowing us to decide whether or not a video is worth our time?

Then, bring it back, and apologize.

It's not just bugs, people also hate the UI changes. Google has a "change for change's" sake mentality, and no adult supervision.

I'm convinced Google's competitors train the corporate version of saboteurs and pay them huge money to quit and go get a "UX expert" job at Google, with the goal being to sabotage their projects. I can imagine a legion of them whining to product managers that the UIs on their top products are toooo complicated so let's remove a bunch of features and change it to greyscale!

Or it could simply be incompetence. Sigh.

5-10 more turns to win the space race? The heat is on!

... watch out for Ghandi.

Corporations exist to convert legal activities into profit. That is their reason to be.

The correct action here is to establish consumer protection laws - limits on what is legal. Anything that changes the performance of a purchased product should be a criminal act.

Establish this law, and you'll help corporations by saving them the effort (and cost) of exploring consumer abuse tolerance thresholds. You'll also save a lot of grief on behalf of voting citizens. Win/win?

It's disheartening that today, batteries rule our world. We live in a world powered by electricity. It runs our lives. It's of critical importance to each and every one of us.

And yet, even technology journalists don't fundamentally understand units of energy.

storage capacity of 123 milliamp-hours

A useless metric, in the context of this article. How many mWh? Joules? Anything? Beuller?

"This car gets fantastic milage thanks to its 42L tank!"

"Your household consumed 120V of electricity last month."

Sigh.