Remember when Microsoft wrote a storage driver for MS SQL Server? And how it interacted with the 'native' MS Server driver?

I'm reminded of the arguments had over SCSI RAID controllers, and turning off read-after-write-verify... Since, at the time, SCSI drives did RAWV in hardware, that was redundant on the controller. And in software.

This came to a head, for me, when I queried a Novell Labs fellow about the 'non-media defects' I saw deactivating SCSI drives on servers. They finally gave in and explained, it was a controller defect. Which I challenged. And they finally stated that a drive hardware write error (RAWV fail) would report as 'non-media' because the intervening RAID controller gave it back as a controller error, which was usually wrong, but that was the way it worked. And since SMART didn't exactly work on SCIS, and log sense was not implemented in most RAID controllers, we had minimally useful diagnostics. So I would keep track of the drives that elicited 'non-media defect' messages, and schedule them for replacement.

It's almost a pleasure to read discussions about RAM doublers, etc., and no one remembers when these were bits of software that actually did not do anything useful at all. Ah, the 80s.

If Miranda rights were written a little like the Second Amendment, police would indeed have a PD in house for this. But even the 2nd Amendment, despite 'shall not...', is regularly sidestepped. Bear in mind, though, that in many big cities the schools are teaching that police are the enemy. They fail, however, to follow that up with 0) know your rights, and 1) STAY OUT OF TROUBLE. But to make big city school systems are cheating students out of a future. It's criminal.

" All cell phones by law have a AM/FM capabilty"

Untrue. False. Made up.

" into the AM broadcast band, which is about 50 times lower in frequency than AM broadcast"

Huh? Maybe you meant 'about 50 times lower in frequency than FM broadcast'. If only FM had better range, but nope.

Bear in mind that the 'emergency' where your car radio could be most useful might, no probably, will also have a power outage in there somewhere. Cell service will not last too long when the batteries die, and the generators don't work, or weren't there at all...

"Who the hell cares if I can get a radio station from thousands of miles away "

Most AM radio listening is to local stations. MW propagation can range a few thousand miles, but it's somewhat unusual.

And not the point of the defense of AM radio in automobiles. Timely information, emergency information, AM is still a popular option, and listenership is not decreasing.

"just buy a radio'. Huh, so that handheld radio would not suffer from interference (Hams call it WRM, but it is really RFI) just like the build in unit? The real problem here is that automobile manufacturers do not want to solve the RFI issues. It is expensive. And complex. And not unreasonable. The AM radio in my Prius does not suffer form RFI, and there is an inverter and HV drive system in there. Tesla etc. will have to employ serious engineers to show then where they went wrong. A Herculean effort? I bet not.

ps - Duke sucks.

I dunno where you live, but police around where I live (and for at least a 100 mile radius) do not think their jobs are boring, unless you think the risk of a bullet boring a hole in your body is 'boring'.

Repetitive? Yeah, domestic violence, homeless overdoses, e-moto kid stupidity, and random-ish shootings, rinse and repeat.

True. Eyewitness reports, a BOLO for 'Durango' out over the radio or network, and Liz gets this treatment anyways.

"'Better Call Saul"

Um, using popular entertainment as an example of real life behavior is not quite as dumb as it gets, but it's on the same block.

"two police officers who she says claimed there was incriminating damage on her vehicle"

"But her car is a different color"

Common police tactics, and generally legal, but not very ethical.

The claim of evidence, whether it is true or not, is a common interrogation tactic, intended to elicit a confession. This is when you, the accused, either demand a lawyer be present to represent you, or clam up and invoke your right to remain silent (and let them prove their case on their own).

The mistaken color is another common police tactic. They know eyewitnesses often get details wrong. Color of your car? Easily mistaken. Or not. Advice above holds here also, lawyer and clam up.

The police generally are motivated to solve cases and close the books. Let the courts figure out true guilt. When you are being questioned, or are detained, you cannot trust them AT ALL. They are no longer serving you. You are their lawful prey, and they will pursue you.

I hope Liz makes them pay enough to deter at least one. But I doubt the police will change one bit.

And a new meme is born. 'Imagine this written in Rust'...

On a Beowulf cluster.

And SLS is delivering, what, what? And Starliner is delivering, what, what?

NASA cannot iterate as quickly as SpaceX. And the costs are so different it is unfortunate NASA pursues their own launch systems at a huge price penalty.

NASA should be pursuing reusable launch vehicles, but there is a COTS solution working, and another most likely coming online, and they cannot match any of it, not the engineering, not the costa, not the impetus. And they really do not have to. NASA just has to accept marginal performance for a while.

Starship is eating their lunch and drinking their milkshake. When SpaceX announces a timeline for building a space-based habitat for launches to Mars, NASA will still be trying to land on the Moon.

'several largely illegal installations in redneckland.'

citations, please.

Chatbots have been biased since I remember. You ask the right question, you get the opinion of someone who was in charge.

I doubt you can trust even today's chatbots etc. to be 'unbiased', though in the current political landscape everyone thins what they disagree with is 'biased', neither genuine nor true.

Such has been politics since Aristotle. Add in violence, and, well, some like von Clausewitz believe all politics is violence of some form. Which I write not to endorse physical violence in any form, but to indict those who do.