How long before the telescope is renamed "Melania" by Executive Order?

And then there are the few lines of innocuous-looking code preceded and followed by comments like

***DO NOT ALTER THIS CODE!***

I've seen this in production systems. No documentation, of course...

Well I have, since being taught COBOL in 1973 at a New England telephone company. Wonder what Big Balls and the others will do when they encounter an ALTER statement...

I'm not sure even DoD funding for this would be safe any more.

I was in o it's Advanced R&D group in 1979-80. I remember COP-420 microcontrollers and as little hardware as possible. Every resistor mattered, when there were pennies to be saved.

Isn't " 'Do whatever you like' zone" a straw house... um I mean a strawman?

They are absolutely not. One of the major disadvantages to DOCSIS (cable) networks is very low upstream bandwidth compared to XGS-PON and GPON (ftth protocols).

Just waiting for GM to find a dealer to host the transaction. I've already accepted their signed offer. Expect I'll buy another EV in the next few years.

0 doesn't make sense because the FCC operates in the US and is headed by the biggest moron in the tech world.
The problem with A is that is that companies that currently invest billions of dollars per year in R&D to develop the standards will stop. They'll wait until someone else does the work and then just implement it. If we took this approach we would still be waiting on LTE, not even dreaming about deploying 5G which has already begun in some areas.
B is a bit more reasonable, but then device makers will be paying the same royalty on a $25 LTE feature phone sold in India compared to a $1100 flagship sold in Orange County. You basically make the royalty a regressive tax on tech by doing this.

At how many herz?

I'm not a semiconductor fab expert either, but I do know that some times big jumps like that are counter-intuitively easier.

For example, 10gbps network connections were starting to push the physical limits of a single wavelength on fiber and of the electronics behind the laser and photodiode, 25gbps is about as good as it gets with single wavelength direct detection on-off keying photonics. However, with 100gbps optics (real ones, not LR4 or SR10) it forced the need to use DSPs to generate the transmit and process the receive. The side effect is that suddenly the 100gbps optics have much higher noise and dispersion tolerance than the previous generation of 10gbps stuff. Now you can go out and buy a single wavelength 400gbps optic if you have the need and the budget.

Maybe the move to 7nm fabs will also involve a fundamental change in some other aspect of lithography that makes it much easier than 10nm was.

SUVs are minivans for insecure people.

"...remove the unsafe cars..." Maybe we should say remove less safe cars? Somehow I feel like those 293 are still safer than anything made by Fiat Chrysler

When you hold all the cards you don't have to suffer fools, nor do you have to attack them. Simply ignoring them is always an option.

MS performance counters typically use 100NS timer tick.