It's also not Lorde, it's a stunt pelvis. Hell of a thing to put on your passport, Occupation "Lorde's pelvis".

No mod points but yes, you're correct. There's nothing to say you can't do whatever you want in vendor-defined messages, that's what they're there for. This sort of stuff has a long, long history, going back to smart cards with similar messaging and PDUs, everything, and I mean everything, interesting was done in the vendor-defined messages, with only the bare minimum to appear compliant done in the standardised messages.

Note that qualifier, not "ever designed and manufactured", but a much much narrower "designed and manufactured in the US". Ouch.

I think all Intel has to do is offer the use of their fabs to Huawei and they'd never have to worry about cashflow again.

But not in the US, because it wasn't invented there.

Actually Microsoft's historical strengths have always been hardware: MS Mouse, MS Keyboard, Surface, Xbox, etc. It's only when they make ill-advised forays into software that things reliably turn to crap.

Wanna bet it's DOGE? $30B handed to Oracle's trolls sounds like just the thing the Department of Government Excess would do.

Your certification idea actually has merit, so you'd have some sort of certifying authority or CA that issues certificates to each cell tower and you can rely on them to dutifully and carefully only issue certificates to legitimate entities. In fact if we could migrate this idea to the web, all online crime would go away overnight. Dunno why no-one has thought of this before.

I see it as another example of the great thinking that brought us Brexit: There's a country that gets a bazillion hours of strong sunlight a year and we get about six hours total (Tuesday 16th April, 10am to 5pm), but let's not use their solar power but instead think about doing it here, or at least talk about it for years, and at least we won't have to deal with any damn foreigners.

Well you've got to admit, changing the screen colour is the most innovation Microsoft have done in at lest ten, if not twenty, years.

I foresee... I foresee... a large donation to King Donald I, and the whole thing will go away again.

Typically clickbait headline, what the real story is "Ship carrying large numbers of ICE vehicles, huge quantities of other toxic and dangerous substances, and a few hundred EVs, catches fire". Fires on ships carrying vehicles were relatively common well before EVs came along (example, the MS al-Salam Boccaccio 98, 200 ICE vehicles, around a thousand dead), but they never make the news because there are no EVs involved.

And that seems to be about the only thing it's good for. I have the whole house cabled up for GbE, of which about 95% of the cable runs carry maybe 9600bps of traffic, a few carry maybe 10Mbps, and may one or two 100Mbps, with occasional bursts of a few hundred Mbps. And I'm a technical user, most of my nontechnical neighbours are using well under 100Mbps for the whole house despite being on gigabit fibre.

So yea, FTTR is great for press releases or shareholder reports or something, but not much else for most of the population.

Because throughout the entire history of these things there's never been a single recorded case of any of them ever being used (outside of conference papers and press releases). Which in turn is because there are about 10,000,000 easier and more straightforward attacks that get you what you want.

They've already essentially dumped it somewhere else, Wittelsheim is more German than French: Les Allemands can have ze toxic waste, non?