There are millions of people that have iPhones, none of them are your friends? This whole "must be chargeable with micro USB" was already mandatory in the EU, they are just changing the regulations so you don't need an adapter like the iPhone currently requires. They had to, because evidently vendors weren't having it and found ways around it, so yes, there really is a need to legislate this.
This is not about human DNA, it's synthesized. They already tag stuff with "micro markers" that are extremely hard to get all off. These micro markers have lots of "serial numbers" on them. By making specific "micro markers" that have DNA-style serial numbers, you can make the markers even smaller.
Unless you have your own synthesizer to make these micro markers yourself and you are able to make a zillion different serial numbers, you spray bottle of "stadium dna" won't help a thing here.
Then again, it's already common for criminals to steal hair from barbershops so they can litter a crime scene with random DNA samples. It's also not uncommon to steal DNA from criminals they want to frame for a crime and place that on a crime scene. DNA testing and finger prints are by no means a solid proof someone did commit the crime. It only proves that their DNA or finger prints were placed on the scene at a certain time.
Actually, most DNA "proof" is only a statistical probability. Given the fact that a large part of that probability is based on extremely common genes, the likelihood of someone's DNA being "unique" enough is rather limited. Just the fact that it's male DNA and from a certain ethnic group may rule out 7/8th of the world population easily, but more often than not, a male hispanic is a rather common denominator when you have to solve a drug crime just north of the Mexican border. There are many more genes that are common to a region or demographic that are typical to that region or demographic. Plotting those against a full world population and saying it increases the likelihood that someone from that demographic and region has a higher chance of being the source of that DNA isn't proper, but it's common to do that in DNA "proof". It'd be much more fair to look at the amount of people that actually match the identified markers in the immediate area of where the sample was found, the likelihood of them being a perpetrator and then do a statistical match. Chances are, you'll find that a large portion of the possible people that could have done the crime, have at least a lot of common denominators with the sample and you'll need to do a lot more thorough testing to find a single match that can rule out all other people on the planet, except identical twins.
Taxing every transaction would be too drastic. However, if you trade stock soon after you buy it, you are either gambling (taxable) or have prior knowledge (illegal). Assuming people that do that will be at least gambling, you should tax profit as gambling profits and not make losses tax deductible. Adding a 40% gambling tax on all gross profits made on each transaction that has a sale of the share within a week and putting the burden of bookkeeping of this on the gambler^Winvestor, will make it a lot less profitable to do HFT, but it wont hurt actual investors. Not only that, but it would give the government a nice income they can spend on improving the infrastructure of the USA and making government work better. In the same line, all derivative trades are basically gambling on a value going up or down, so should be taxed the same, unrelated to how long they run or when sold/purchased.
The news is, that patent trolls will have to invest in real offices with real people staffing them. Not only that, but the chances that even if they have a sham company set up to protect them from getting hurt if it explodes in their face, they may still be found liable for the damages of the party they sued. If it's obviously a sham company set up for just such a case, I doubt any judge or jury will let it fly and give the actual trolls a break.
Maybe you should instead buy a new PC to replace the power hungry CPU and small storage you have in it and gain faster GFX with the built in on the CPU? Without giving specs of what you are replacing, your comment sounds awfully like a fake review.
There are roughly 400 nations connected to the internet. Only a part of one of those comes up with a law. Granted, it's one of the "bigger" ones when it comes to internet presence and hosting services, but it's not a majority any way you look at it. If stuff these kids do happens to be stored by a non US company on a non US server, they have exactly no US constitutional, or CA state jurisdiction whatsoever.
Given the fact that a lot of companies are now very aware of the way the USA government treats data that is on USA servers, or hosted by companies that are located in the USA, chances are that in the near future, popular sites will choose not to work from the USA. FaceBook and such may now be USA based and I don't see them leave in a hurry, but who knows what will happen in four years from now? What sites and services will be popular and where will those be hosted? Apart from these things, mirrors of data are made everywhere and a stupid drunk kid that makes it as an internet meme, will be all over the internet in every country you can think of.
I really wouldn't worry about how constitutional it all is. I'd worry about the stupidity of the people that thought this would fly. After all, they are elected by the people of California and this is evidently the smartest thing they can come up with. California really needs to flush their politicians and find people with functioning brains to replace them. Now it's just some fad about how the internet should be enforced to protect your privacy, but what if it's about something like taxes, education, road building, city planning, criminal law and such? Those things matter to the people of California and I don't have a lot of hope for them if this is the level at which the decision makers operate.
Flu isn't prevalent in Q4 or any specific time of the year at all, especially on a global scale. The reason why people get flu more often in bad weather conditions is because they all crowd inside and the contamination risk is much higher when the people density is up.
Also, it has nothing to do with your "resistance" and vitamin C doesn't help cure the flu. Flu is not a common cold but an entirely different strain of virus. Both are not the least impressed with people eating vitamin C or drinking orange juice. The only thing that vitamin C will help against is a vitamin C deficiency. Whether you will get ill from any of these viruses is mostly determined by how well adapted you already are against that particular virus or something close enough related. You will get infected, you possibly will spread the virus, you just won't get any major symptoms if your body is able to deal with it in an efficient way.
You'd get a very large amount of out-of-sequence deliveries and packet loss. Better get a Toyota Hi-Lux or something like that if you want your data to actually arrive in a predictable amount of time.
This is true. That is exactly what they do. They even check CC: headers to see what sort of link you have and weed out the mailing list sender addresses and stuff. Since the amount of people allowing LinkedIn access to their account is so big, even if you don't give them access to yours, they will still be able to figure out about 80% of your contact list. This company is extremely good at "Big Data" and correlating it. It's why their platform is the most popular and by far the biggest "business contact" social media network.
I've had it explained by them a while ago when I asked them to remove everything they pulled from my e-mail account. They had stuff that they couldn't have pulled from there and I never gave them permission to get. They then explained that they most likely got it from the other party involved and that they do a lot of correlation on the stuff they harvest to come up with possible matches.
Even though I don't approve of what Linkedin is doing, it's not illegal (in the USA) and I really doubt that these people Sueing them will get anything out of this case. I think it may be illegal in some countries in Europe because gathering personal information on people if they are not a user or customer of your services is illegal there. They are one of the companies that are known to keep "ghost profiles" (Google and FaceBook do too) of you. I have yet to see any of them brought to court in those European countries, but I doubt they'd win a properly prepared case there.
Natural resources have no influence on poverty in countries like Nigeria, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and many others. They have a lack of control over their resources. Or, to put it a bit more in perspective, a few corrupt bastards have control over all of the resources. The have so far successfully managed to keep the rest of the people either not unsatisfied enough to tolerate this, or oppressed them successful enough to still be in control. It's in the best interest of "western" countries to keep this status quo, because it means overall lower prices and less powerful other nations. Third world countries would stop being third world countries if we stopped exploiting them pretty fast. We're still pulling out more resources and money than we're sending back, even after the colonization has ended. By supporting their corrupt assholes and destroying their local markets we keep the status quo without having to resort to sending soldiers, usually. Sometimes the price of oil is in danger, or they might actually revolt successful enough to become an actual threat and we need to send military to "support democracy" and "regain stability in the region".
In fact, it needs equipment that can take extreme radiation and hits from dust particles travelling at 10000 km/h and faster. The parts you would use on earth wouldn't last a year in space, probably more like a week. The initial design called for a way shorter life time than they got out of it, so parts failure to sensors or other electronics due to impact or radiation is a likely cause. Try running a car without maintenance for 5 years. You may get lucky and still be driving, but chances are extremely small. This mission was similar to that.
There is no causation between beer consumption and a "beer gut". People should keep urban myths like this out of "scientific" oriented texts so people might actually learn the truth. Beer guts exist because people exercise less than they should and have a diet that doesn't match their metabolism and activity pattern. The fact that beer often is part of that diet is a correlation at best, but no causation.
Tell that to the people of Fukushima, Chernobyl or Sellafield, or several other sites. In theory, it's cleaner, but those pesky humans keep messing up the "near perfect" statistics. I'm not saying wind or carbon is the solution, but Nuclear has proven to be a lot less safe and clean than the statistics promised so far.
The exact same arguments you are giving can also be used to advocate getting rid of VMs. Why construct an entire VM if you're only going to run one application on it? You can just as easily run it on the bare metal and put the redundancy and failover and all that on the application layer. You don't need an entire virtual machine to just run one application in a single security context. VMs are useful because they allow you to be flexible in where and how you run your applications and operating systems. If you get rigid and only allow a single security context to exist on a VM, you are taking away the flexibility and therefore it's usefulness. People want the extra clutter, since it's easier and thus cheaper to use it this way.
These days, you can't get more features out of your gamer card by tricking the card or driver software into believing it is a "Pro" card any more. If you buy a Pro card now, it's usually based on the previous generation of chipset, with a well stabilized and thoroughly tested driver, compared to the very short time to market that top range gamer cards get. The big problem is that newer chipsets often are run on the same driver and iterations between the chipsets are often nothing more than a die shrink size and maybe some optimization in memory path, controllers and such. This means that drivers are essentially the same for all chipsets and the single code base requires both stability for Pro cards and bleeding edge features for the latest and greatest gamer stuff. Essentially, the Pro users of GFX cards like the CUDA and engineering people, suffer from the big pull of the gamer market demanding ever increased high resolution and frame rates because the manufacturers work with a single code base for both lines of product.
Sorry, but wine does change taste once it's in the bottle and even more so before it is bottled. Beaujolais Primeur is a wine that is best very soon after it is made, it deteriorates rather fast and is ready for vinegar after a year or so. Other wines are the opposite, they require longer time in the cask and even longer time in the bottle to reach their best taste. The famous French Bordeaux region chateau wines are a good examples of this.
Wine price is a combination of rarity, popularity and taste. Once wines get "expensive" the price of production, packaging and storage isn't a major factor any more, but for most wine, it is. The prices you pay in fancy restaurants are often way more than the same wines would cost in trade or in a liquor store. I don't know about the USA, but in Europe, many restaurants only break even on the food and have to get their profits on the drinks you order while you are in the establishments. That means that if you and your dining partner are in the shop for an hour, your bottle of wine you share will basically have to get enough money out of you to pay for the wages of the people caring for you during your stay and the profit of the restaurant owner. Don't be surprised if there's a $30 or more markup on that single bottle...
The research suggests that the excretions of the bacteria and the bodies reaction to that are the cause -> effect mapping. However, your suggestion that toothpaste may have unknown carcinogenic properties could be just as valid.
They sell several amounts of already soldered chips on the main board. That means that you will have to either replace components on the main board and reprogram the SSD controller, or replace the entire main board.
Modern drives for the last five years at least, have calibration factors for platter/head packs on the EEPROM on the controller board. If you swap boards, the board most likely won't be able to read the data on the disk, since it's not calibrated to the head/platter kit.
You have a software feature in a server OS that supports certain client OSes to do backups to the server. RAID may be a software feature, but even if it's "software raid", you often have BIOS bootable raids that even work with one of the drives missing. This essentially means that you can work OS agnostic on a lower level than "I have a backup system that works". For Linux, you can have a backup system too that will restore from a LiveCD/USB stick and stores on a remote server. The same amount of time roughly will be needed to backup and restore, differential, incremental, full backups, the works. The solution you are providing is really nothing comparable to RAID. It's fundamentally different because it works on a totally different layer, doesn't prevent downtime and it's not OS agnostic. RAID should prevent downtime, making working backups should prevent data loss. Maybe WHS is the shizniz, you rock for making actual backups, but other than that, your post is totally offtopic in this context and doesn't even begin to solve a problem that Linus was facing with his desktop.
I'm not modding you down, even though I have mod-points, but I'm telling you exactly why I think you shouldn't have posted this. I hope you learned something from it and in the future will implement both backups and RAID when unscheduled downtime is important. Maybe you would even implement a system that works for all relevant OSes in the environment you have to do it for, without relying on a single vendor that offers a closed source product. It's a risk that means you'll have to support their product and licencing and other requirements until the data isn't relevant anymore, even after you have migrated to a competing product.
Open up a single dealership, all shares owned by Tesla themselves. They don't even have to own a showroom, just a mail drop off point at a forwarding service should suffice. If that's what the system demands, make them see that it's flawed.
They made perfectly good 5.25" Hard Drives for quite a few years before they went with the 3.5" and now the 2.5" format. The size of the platters isn't really the problem at the lower data densities that drives had back then. When you move to higher densities and "smaller bits" on the media, the bigger platters tend to vary in exact placement a bit more, both due to the distance they could have from the spindle and the basic fact that almost all solid materials expand as they get warmer. This means that you can't get spindle speeds as high with big drives, or you have to invest in a lot of technology and materials to keep the whole thing stable. That would make the drives too expensive, resulting in a price/performance trade-off that put the bigfoots at the wrong side of the curve. Also, because you can't counter all of the effects completely, data density would still be lower on the bigger platters than on the small ones. You could by some really crappy hard drives in the era of the bigfoots, but their capacity got superseded by reliable 3.5" drives in less than 12 months at the same price point, so Quantum figured it was no use investing in the product line pretty fast after they introduced them.
The patent states they will aim the antennae in the charging device at the receiver. This will make it a $100 charger for only one device at the time. Given the fact that people have at least a dozen chargers per person wandering around the house these days, often using several at the same time, you'll have to have a cupboard of these in the average family home to keep all your devices charged. At 1W effective charging energy, possibly more. Also, your devices probably won't charge a whole lot if you move around, since the transmitter antennae won't be aimed at it, so you may still need to charge them another way as well.
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There are millions of people that have iPhones, none of them are your friends? This whole "must be chargeable with micro USB" was already mandatory in the EU, they are just changing the regulations so you don't need an adapter like the iPhone currently requires. They had to, because evidently vendors weren't having it and found ways around it, so yes, there really is a need to legislate this.
This is not about human DNA, it's synthesized. They already tag stuff with "micro markers" that are extremely hard to get all off. These micro markers have lots of "serial numbers" on them. By making specific "micro markers" that have DNA-style serial numbers, you can make the markers even smaller.
Unless you have your own synthesizer to make these micro markers yourself and you are able to make a zillion different serial numbers, you spray bottle of "stadium dna" won't help a thing here.
Then again, it's already common for criminals to steal hair from barbershops so they can litter a crime scene with random DNA samples. It's also not uncommon to steal DNA from criminals they want to frame for a crime and place that on a crime scene. DNA testing and finger prints are by no means a solid proof someone did commit the crime. It only proves that their DNA or finger prints were placed on the scene at a certain time.
Actually, most DNA "proof" is only a statistical probability. Given the fact that a large part of that probability is based on extremely common genes, the likelihood of someone's DNA being "unique" enough is rather limited. Just the fact that it's male DNA and from a certain ethnic group may rule out 7/8th of the world population easily, but more often than not, a male hispanic is a rather common denominator when you have to solve a drug crime just north of the Mexican border. There are many more genes that are common to a region or demographic that are typical to that region or demographic. Plotting those against a full world population and saying it increases the likelihood that someone from that demographic and region has a higher chance of being the source of that DNA isn't proper, but it's common to do that in DNA "proof". It'd be much more fair to look at the amount of people that actually match the identified markers in the immediate area of where the sample was found, the likelihood of them being a perpetrator and then do a statistical match. Chances are, you'll find that a large portion of the possible people that could have done the crime, have at least a lot of common denominators with the sample and you'll need to do a lot more thorough testing to find a single match that can rule out all other people on the planet, except identical twins.
Taxing every transaction would be too drastic. However, if you trade stock soon after you buy it, you are either gambling (taxable) or have prior knowledge (illegal). Assuming people that do that will be at least gambling, you should tax profit as gambling profits and not make losses tax deductible. Adding a 40% gambling tax on all gross profits made on each transaction that has a sale of the share within a week and putting the burden of bookkeeping of this on the gambler^Winvestor, will make it a lot less profitable to do HFT, but it wont hurt actual investors. Not only that, but it would give the government a nice income they can spend on improving the infrastructure of the USA and making government work better. In the same line, all derivative trades are basically gambling on a value going up or down, so should be taxed the same, unrelated to how long they run or when sold/purchased.
The news is, that patent trolls will have to invest in real offices with real people staffing them. Not only that, but the chances that even if they have a sham company set up to protect them from getting hurt if it explodes in their face, they may still be found liable for the damages of the party they sued. If it's obviously a sham company set up for just such a case, I doubt any judge or jury will let it fly and give the actual trolls a break.
Maybe you should instead buy a new PC to replace the power hungry CPU and small storage you have in it and gain faster GFX with the built in on the CPU? Without giving specs of what you are replacing, your comment sounds awfully like a fake review.
There are roughly 400 nations connected to the internet. Only a part of one of those comes up with a law. Granted, it's one of the "bigger" ones when it comes to internet presence and hosting services, but it's not a majority any way you look at it. If stuff these kids do happens to be stored by a non US company on a non US server, they have exactly no US constitutional, or CA state jurisdiction whatsoever.
Given the fact that a lot of companies are now very aware of the way the USA government treats data that is on USA servers, or hosted by companies that are located in the USA, chances are that in the near future, popular sites will choose not to work from the USA. FaceBook and such may now be USA based and I don't see them leave in a hurry, but who knows what will happen in four years from now? What sites and services will be popular and where will those be hosted? Apart from these things, mirrors of data are made everywhere and a stupid drunk kid that makes it as an internet meme, will be all over the internet in every country you can think of.
I really wouldn't worry about how constitutional it all is. I'd worry about the stupidity of the people that thought this would fly. After all, they are elected by the people of California and this is evidently the smartest thing they can come up with. California really needs to flush their politicians and find people with functioning brains to replace them. Now it's just some fad about how the internet should be enforced to protect your privacy, but what if it's about something like taxes, education, road building, city planning, criminal law and such? Those things matter to the people of California and I don't have a lot of hope for them if this is the level at which the decision makers operate.
Flu isn't prevalent in Q4 or any specific time of the year at all, especially on a global scale. The reason why people get flu more often in bad weather conditions is because they all crowd inside and the contamination risk is much higher when the people density is up.
Also, it has nothing to do with your "resistance" and vitamin C doesn't help cure the flu. Flu is not a common cold but an entirely different strain of virus. Both are not the least impressed with people eating vitamin C or drinking orange juice. The only thing that vitamin C will help against is a vitamin C deficiency. Whether you will get ill from any of these viruses is mostly determined by how well adapted you already are against that particular virus or something close enough related. You will get infected, you possibly will spread the virus, you just won't get any major symptoms if your body is able to deal with it in an efficient way.
You did that on purpose, and you're wrong.
You'd get a very large amount of out-of-sequence deliveries and packet loss. Better get a Toyota Hi-Lux or something like that if you want your data to actually arrive in a predictable amount of time.
This is true. That is exactly what they do. They even check CC: headers to see what sort of link you have and weed out the mailing list sender addresses and stuff. Since the amount of people allowing LinkedIn access to their account is so big, even if you don't give them access to yours, they will still be able to figure out about 80% of your contact list. This company is extremely good at "Big Data" and correlating it. It's why their platform is the most popular and by far the biggest "business contact" social media network.
I've had it explained by them a while ago when I asked them to remove everything they pulled from my e-mail account. They had stuff that they couldn't have pulled from there and I never gave them permission to get. They then explained that they most likely got it from the other party involved and that they do a lot of correlation on the stuff they harvest to come up with possible matches.
Even though I don't approve of what Linkedin is doing, it's not illegal (in the USA) and I really doubt that these people Sueing them will get anything out of this case. I think it may be illegal in some countries in Europe because gathering personal information on people if they are not a user or customer of your services is illegal there. They are one of the companies that are known to keep "ghost profiles" (Google and FaceBook do too) of you. I have yet to see any of them brought to court in those European countries, but I doubt they'd win a properly prepared case there.
Natural resources have no influence on poverty in countries like Nigeria, Afghanistan, Iran, Iraq and many others. They have a lack of control over their resources. Or, to put it a bit more in perspective, a few corrupt bastards have control over all of the resources. The have so far successfully managed to keep the rest of the people either not unsatisfied enough to tolerate this, or oppressed them successful enough to still be in control. It's in the best interest of "western" countries to keep this status quo, because it means overall lower prices and less powerful other nations. Third world countries would stop being third world countries if we stopped exploiting them pretty fast. We're still pulling out more resources and money than we're sending back, even after the colonization has ended. By supporting their corrupt assholes and destroying their local markets we keep the status quo without having to resort to sending soldiers, usually. Sometimes the price of oil is in danger, or they might actually revolt successful enough to become an actual threat and we need to send military to "support democracy" and "regain stability in the region".
In fact, it needs equipment that can take extreme radiation and hits from dust particles travelling at 10000 km/h and faster. The parts you would use on earth wouldn't last a year in space, probably more like a week. The initial design called for a way shorter life time than they got out of it, so parts failure to sensors or other electronics due to impact or radiation is a likely cause. Try running a car without maintenance for 5 years. You may get lucky and still be driving, but chances are extremely small. This mission was similar to that.
There is no causation between beer consumption and a "beer gut". People should keep urban myths like this out of "scientific" oriented texts so people might actually learn the truth. Beer guts exist because people exercise less than they should and have a diet that doesn't match their metabolism and activity pattern. The fact that beer often is part of that diet is a correlation at best, but no causation.
Tell that to the people of Fukushima, Chernobyl or Sellafield, or several other sites. In theory, it's cleaner, but those pesky humans keep messing up the "near perfect" statistics. I'm not saying wind or carbon is the solution, but Nuclear has proven to be a lot less safe and clean than the statistics promised so far.
The exact same arguments you are giving can also be used to advocate getting rid of VMs. Why construct an entire VM if you're only going to run one application on it? You can just as easily run it on the bare metal and put the redundancy and failover and all that on the application layer. You don't need an entire virtual machine to just run one application in a single security context. VMs are useful because they allow you to be flexible in where and how you run your applications and operating systems. If you get rigid and only allow a single security context to exist on a VM, you are taking away the flexibility and therefore it's usefulness. People want the extra clutter, since it's easier and thus cheaper to use it this way.
These days, you can't get more features out of your gamer card by tricking the card or driver software into believing it is a "Pro" card any more. If you buy a Pro card now, it's usually based on the previous generation of chipset, with a well stabilized and thoroughly tested driver, compared to the very short time to market that top range gamer cards get. The big problem is that newer chipsets often are run on the same driver and iterations between the chipsets are often nothing more than a die shrink size and maybe some optimization in memory path, controllers and such. This means that drivers are essentially the same for all chipsets and the single code base requires both stability for Pro cards and bleeding edge features for the latest and greatest gamer stuff. Essentially, the Pro users of GFX cards like the CUDA and engineering people, suffer from the big pull of the gamer market demanding ever increased high resolution and frame rates because the manufacturers work with a single code base for both lines of product.
Sorry, but wine does change taste once it's in the bottle and even more so before it is bottled. Beaujolais Primeur is a wine that is best very soon after it is made, it deteriorates rather fast and is ready for vinegar after a year or so. Other wines are the opposite, they require longer time in the cask and even longer time in the bottle to reach their best taste. The famous French Bordeaux region chateau wines are a good examples of this.
Wine price is a combination of rarity, popularity and taste. Once wines get "expensive" the price of production, packaging and storage isn't a major factor any more, but for most wine, it is. The prices you pay in fancy restaurants are often way more than the same wines would cost in trade or in a liquor store. I don't know about the USA, but in Europe, many restaurants only break even on the food and have to get their profits on the drinks you order while you are in the establishments. That means that if you and your dining partner are in the shop for an hour, your bottle of wine you share will basically have to get enough money out of you to pay for the wages of the people caring for you during your stay and the profit of the restaurant owner. Don't be surprised if there's a $30 or more markup on that single bottle...
The research suggests that the excretions of the bacteria and the bodies reaction to that are the cause -> effect mapping. However, your suggestion that toothpaste may have unknown carcinogenic properties could be just as valid.
They sell several amounts of already soldered chips on the main board. That means that you will have to either replace components on the main board and reprogram the SSD controller, or replace the entire main board.
Modern drives for the last five years at least, have calibration factors for platter/head packs on the EEPROM on the controller board. If you swap boards, the board most likely won't be able to read the data on the disk, since it's not calibrated to the head/platter kit.
You have a software feature in a server OS that supports certain client OSes to do backups to the server. RAID may be a software feature, but even if it's "software raid", you often have BIOS bootable raids that even work with one of the drives missing. This essentially means that you can work OS agnostic on a lower level than "I have a backup system that works". For Linux, you can have a backup system too that will restore from a LiveCD/USB stick and stores on a remote server. The same amount of time roughly will be needed to backup and restore, differential, incremental, full backups, the works. The solution you are providing is really nothing comparable to RAID. It's fundamentally different because it works on a totally different layer, doesn't prevent downtime and it's not OS agnostic. RAID should prevent downtime, making working backups should prevent data loss. Maybe WHS is the shizniz, you rock for making actual backups, but other than that, your post is totally offtopic in this context and doesn't even begin to solve a problem that Linus was facing with his desktop.
I'm not modding you down, even though I have mod-points, but I'm telling you exactly why I think you shouldn't have posted this. I hope you learned something from it and in the future will implement both backups and RAID when unscheduled downtime is important. Maybe you would even implement a system that works for all relevant OSes in the environment you have to do it for, without relying on a single vendor that offers a closed source product. It's a risk that means you'll have to support their product and licencing and other requirements until the data isn't relevant anymore, even after you have migrated to a competing product.
Open up a single dealership, all shares owned by Tesla themselves. They don't even have to own a showroom, just a mail drop off point at a forwarding service should suffice. If that's what the system demands, make them see that it's flawed.
They made perfectly good 5.25" Hard Drives for quite a few years before they went with the 3.5" and now the 2.5" format. The size of the platters isn't really the problem at the lower data densities that drives had back then. When you move to higher densities and "smaller bits" on the media, the bigger platters tend to vary in exact placement a bit more, both due to the distance they could have from the spindle and the basic fact that almost all solid materials expand as they get warmer. This means that you can't get spindle speeds as high with big drives, or you have to invest in a lot of technology and materials to keep the whole thing stable. That would make the drives too expensive, resulting in a price/performance trade-off that put the bigfoots at the wrong side of the curve. Also, because you can't counter all of the effects completely, data density would still be lower on the bigger platters than on the small ones. You could by some really crappy hard drives in the era of the bigfoots, but their capacity got superseded by reliable 3.5" drives in less than 12 months at the same price point, so Quantum figured it was no use investing in the product line pretty fast after they introduced them.
The patent states they will aim the antennae in the charging device at the receiver. This will make it a $100 charger for only one device at the time. Given the fact that people have at least a dozen chargers per person wandering around the house these days, often using several at the same time, you'll have to have a cupboard of these in the average family home to keep all your devices charged. At 1W effective charging energy, possibly more. Also, your devices probably won't charge a whole lot if you move around, since the transmitter antennae won't be aimed at it, so you may still need to charge them another way as well.
That's because it's dead and biologists only study living things