you missed a spot - mask mandates I'll see myself out.

You missed a spot, synthetic fertilizer via the Haber-Bosch process

or charge extra for features like the group policy editor. Oh, wait...

I'm curious, and also asking for a friend, do you feel that should also include the ability to modify a device in such a way so that a regulatory requirement becomes bypassed, violated, or otherwise circumvented?

Doesn't matter if you ever gave Sirius XM a dime or not - they, or an agent acting on their behalf, will find you somehow, aggressively market to you, and refuse to leave you alone. I suspect the dealerships are very much in on it. Oh wait... that's very old news. Hooker v. Sirius XM Radio circa 2016. Full disclosure - I was a member of the class and received compensation.

I did that. I've got a VFR single-engine license and a BSEE. Sadly, I haven't flown in years.

Oh, the days of using separate video cards for 2D and 3D support. It was "cool" to have a setup like that, but somehow I was never interested and held out for the TNT2.

Move to a dry dorm. Alcohol indirectly generates noise and vandalism.

If that counts as a GUI, XTree must also count.

Are there any LTE-enabled phones which support Cyanogenmod?

That is certainly the elephant in the room. From the article: "A massive increase in power output - from a maximum of 4.5W to 100W - isn't going to be straightforward, however." I guess expecting an explanation addressing how someone plans on getting that much power over a USB cable was a little optimistic.

Agreed, if the ground pin is broken off, or if the supply is not isolated and the plug is inserted into the wall with reverse polarization, there will be a potential between "ground" of your PC and actual earth ground.

Something very similar has happened in my town - a paved bicycle rail trail was proposed, which is currently a decommissioned "abandoned" railroad. The rail trail real estate itself is clearly unused. Anyone owning property adjacent to the existing "railroad" has a legal leg to stand on for disputing said bicycle rail trail in court. There are a handful of wealthy lawyers who are property owners adjacent to the proposed bicycle trail in each town the rail trail cuts through. These people thoroughly detest the idea of having smelly, loud, potty-mouthed cyclists constantly near their property (I can't say that I don't blame them) and continue to use their expertise of the legal system to dispute the proposed rail trail in court. This has been going on since the mid 90's, and the rail trail still does not exist. The total length of the proposed bicycle rail trail is under 10 miles. If it is this difficult to get a short bicycle path created out of an existing unused railroad, I seriously doubt fast railroads like the ones currently in Europe and Japan will ever appear in the US. Besides, look at the Acela. It's the fastest train in the US, but it can only travel at it's top speed for a very short distance near Attleborough, MA where there are no street crossings. When it's not near Attleborough, it lumbers along like some amusement park railroad. What are the options for solving this? Have everyone and their brother-in-law get big bucks construction contracts to modify the crossings into bridges?

Will there really be mobile devices that can upload data at 1 gigabit? That would consume an absurd amount of battery power. I seriously doubt that that "marketing" bandwidth spec will be even remotely symmetric.

High Speed Rail as it exists in Europe or Japan will never work in the US. In the areas of the country where it is commercially viable, there would be too many railroad crossings. Imagine the cost of involving everyone's construction brother-in-law for making a bridge at every crossing. We already have "high speed rail" in this country it is called the Acela - fast for about 10 minutes, then slows down for the rest of the journey because of crossings. Besides, it's about 3 times cheaper to fly from Boston to New York City than it is to take the train. Much more of a pain, but cheaper. In the areas of the country where it would be possible to actually build a high-speed railroad, with a minimal of crossings, there wouldn't be a market to support it. How many people really want to take a high speed train from Fargo, North Dakota to Omaha, Nebraska? Enough to support the cost of building a decent railway? I don't think so.