Truck rolls are mostly dependent on the local plant architecture. If you're stuck with aerial spans, you're going to be doing more repairs and maintenance. Underground spans are generally more robust. This is somewhat true for PON systems, but less so if it was installed properly.

FFTN with local coax distribution is still more expensive to operate than PON. You need to power bidirectional amps in the coax legs so your nodes need to have either a backup generator or a good-sized battery bank. Those amps also have a life span so you're replacing them on some schedule. PON aggregators require much less power and not as many POPs.

The other real issue with coax distribution into the home is that a lot of homes have old coax setups that can cause problems. Unidirectional splitters (or even taps!) and leaky cable (i.e. RG-59) can cause issues with installs. DOCSIS 3 pushes coax signaling way past what older cable installations can handle.

That depends on the where you live in the US and the age of your home. Plenty of homes (including all the ones I've lived in, the newest being built in 2003) don't have a 240/50 4-wire outlet for a dryer. They have a gas line and a 120V circuit.

Religious schools in more poverty-stricken areas scrape for every dime so subsidizing internet service via E-Rate is important to them. They don't pay the teachers that well, either, compared to the unionized public-school teachers. That 11:1 student/teacher ratio speaks more about the sacrifices the students' families are making (i.e. paying tuition, doing "service hours", etc.) than about being a posh learning environment.

Pirate streamers may use outsourced platforms that then use CDNs (think Discord). The stream originators may not be aware or care about the infrastructure. Going after CDN operators is valid as they carry the actual pirate traffic.

Going after public DNS providers is like going after the guys that deliver phone books to your doorstep (or used to, back in the day). The domain registrars are the place to go if you don't like certain domain names. After all, any bozo can stand up a recursing DNS server that directly queries the root servers and follows the chain of answers. No "public DNS service" needed.

He's waiting for his hosts file to load into vi so he can edit it...

It's hell of a lot easier to lug a few hundred pounds of "improvised gadget" in the back of a truck to your target. The rocket is a "nice to have" but not a "need to have" if you're looking to nuke someone.

Most of the world, including the EU, signed off on this deal. This is a global merger, not just a US thing.

This is a generational shift in the global entertainment industry, nothing more. It's happened several times over the past 100 years.

If you're so worried about a change in editorial policy at CNN and/or CBS, maybe learn to change the channel? ABC seems to be doing a good job defending themselves against the scary MAGA monsters. Or maybe subscribe to a newspaper or three? They sure could use the money to prop up the Forth Estate...

That's only because the FCC said, this year, that they would no longer automatically provide "bona fide news program" exemptions to late-night talk shows. 47USC315 applies equally to all candidates, regardless of party, so absent the normal exemption I'm sure ABC doesn't want to have to give, say, the Green Party candidate equal time. Or someone running on the Democratic Socialist ticket.

A number of US TLAs appear to be actively developing in Rust and requiring contractors implementing "high-side" systems to do the same. C++ seems to be on its way out now. Not sure if that's the smart move. There's millions of man-hours in C++ libraries and utilities that likely need to be converted, if the edict is "Rust only" for sensitive systems. Kinda reminds me of the Ada days.

While it's fun to point out components, I think the bigger story would lie in where the signal processing board(s) are coming from. Russia does have fairly modern in-house electronics design and manufacturing but without vendor support integration of things like Jetsons into bespoke designs is pretty difficult. I would expect that they're actually sourcing whole boards and sensors (cameras) and hacking together interfaces to their known missile control systems.

You know the nice thing about "expert witnesses"? They come in both flavors of a case, depending on the amount of money you want to spend. Who's got more money to spend?

Again, I'm not in either side of this merger. I think that the states' AGs are spending taxpayer dollars for the wrong reason. The mega-media market is going to change, like it did when TV changed the whole landscape of Hollywood. A Paramount-WB hookup is not going to save either company's influence on global society.

That's easy: states issue bonds. In California, voters decide if there's to be a bond issue for some project or need. The results are predictable, especially if the bond propositions are written in a manner that makes it hard for the average voter to understand what they're voting for.

Care to point out the part(s) of the Clayton Act that you can prove would be violated by this merger? Market-share concentration, perhaps? HHI, maybe?

Bonta's claim is that the merger would result in market shares of about 27% cable-channel licensing and the same in wide-release film distribution, and around 30% in "anticipated blockbuster distribution". This last one is a real reach as it is very tough to predict what's going to go big at the box office in any given year. See https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Foag.ca.gov%2Fsystem%2Ffile... for the text of the suit.

So...where's the "FOLLOW THE LAW" part? The numbers that Bonta states rate the merger somewhere between "lower concern" and "significant scrutiny", not "strong concern", which is a pretty bright line.

I don't have care about the merger either way. I just find it amusing that Bonta and his merry band of AGs think they can predict the movie industry over the long term.

Not sure what credentials Bonta has to determine how the media and entertainment industry is supposed to operate but he sure seems to be confident in his private opinions. Given how entrenched the labor unions are in California politics I expect he's getting info from that group. Too many of these unions think they can pin companies (and "the rich") in place while they slowly rape them because the size of California's economy is such that it's hard to not do business there.

The era of the big Hollywood studio, providing 10s of thousands of employees and contractors a middle-class lifestyle, is over and has been since the 2010s. The infrastructure to stand up large set-piece productions is now very portable and not as labor-intensive as it used to be. Paramount leaving Hollywood would be more of an acknowledgement of the above realities than a threat to California's tax base. David Ellison is an idiot to frame the move as a threat. He should just start moving the office and production out.

Overall, I think the merger is just another rearrangement of deck chairs on the SS Mass Media. It won't matter much in the long run as the ship's down heavily at the bow.

No, there are at least 10 and I think most of them have systems that support 30nm masks, which is typical for DDR4. I don't know too much about Chinese capabilities, but I would think they could probably do DDR4 masks these days.