Details, details :-)

The Zeppelins of yonder didn't need much in the way of power to get aloft. Not really anti-gravity, just a smart use of differences in densities of various gases. Not fast either, compared to modern aircraft, yet not exactly slow either when it comes to typical city-level distances.

Your "solidly built items" are most likely also mostly made in China.

China produces a lot of crap, but they are absolutely able to produce quality stuff, too. They just don't have the ability to sell quality products (mostly due to the total lack of known brands). And for the lack of a known brand name (which in turn gives a measure of quality - could be low, could be high, at least you have an idea of what quality level you can expect) the only thing they have left to compete on is price, and that in turn means quality suffers as corners are cut to shave off that last tiny bit of a penny.

Would be a pretty accurate description of you run-of-the-mill mobile phone.

A 10% tarriff on a $150 unbranded Android phone makes the phone cost $165.

A 10% tarriff on a $1,000 iPhone makes that phone cost $1,100.

That has two effects: 1) the iPhone may be pushed just out of the affordability range of some people, while that's not likely to happen for the cheap Android phone; 2) the price difference between the two increases from $850 to $935.

I don't see how this is an advantage for expensive Apple over the cheap competition. Also many shipments from eBay or Aliexpress are out of US warehouses so any applicable duties have been taken care of already. Which is a good thing as otherwise your US customs department would be totally overloaded handling all those small shipments.

1) is easy. All material that's not ancient is copyrighted, by default. Everything. Blogs, books, news articles, song recordings - all of it.

2) is the hard part. The US DMCA got that one correct, though: if uploader says they have the right to upload and publish material for distribution, the host is in the clear, and other people that claim copyright over the same material will have to battle it out with the (by then known!) uploader.

Now the interesting thing with WhatsApp, if they have the encryption done the way they say it's done (with messages encrypted before they leave your phone, only to be decrypted by the recipient), the company staff can not read the messages in any way. Not being able to read the messages Facebook doesn't know what's being communicated on their WhatsApp platform, so even if they wanted to control this kind of rumours/misinformation there's nothing they can do. At all.

Except maybe WhatsApp groups. I don't know if those messages are also encrypted to the same extent.

"Facebook did nothing" - this may actually be part of the problem.

Well, that's my first thought as well. But a trap for what? What's there to lose for OSM, really? It's an independent project, the mapping data is open, everyone can copy and fork it were MS to manage to fully take over. This assuming MS is releasing the data under a proper (sufficiently permissive) license.

It's still pretty terrible.

It continues to break the WiFi and touchpad drivers on my laptop when installing updates. Last month I spent two days fixing it - not easy to fix your WiFi without working Internet connection, resorted to tethering over Bluetooth through my phone to my home WiFi - and in the end the solution was to install Win8 drivers. Reinstalling the Win10 drivers didn't work this time, probably because the old (working) drivers were gone when I cleaned up the hard disk to get rid of old, unused versions of Windows. Go figure.

The touchpad at least worked when reinstalling the Win10 drivers. That wasn't the first time.

It's been over a decade since I had any driver issues with Linux. It just works. Same for playing videos, Linux just works, Windows not so much.

The only reason I still have Windows is for backwards compatibility - the Taobao chat app is Windows only...

Good old RS485, two wires offering mutliple drops, can do way more than 300m. When pulling wires anyway it's trivial to add power wires, so no problem there.

The main problem of bringing power that far is the low voltage so relatively high currents and with it high cable losses.

It also makes the answer simple.

Study what you find interesting! If only because personal interest tends to be the strongest, longest lasting motivator.

It will be the same person most of the times. I expect 80-90% of the time, maybe even more. Good enough for most tracking purposes.

That stopped being true at least a decade ago, when more and more speeding tickets were processed fully automatically (by computers reading the licence plates from photos taken by speed cameras).

Some motorways in The Netherlands measure the speed of vehicles over a long distance (so not at a point) and register every single car twice; when they enter and when they exit the area, to calculate the average speed and issue tickets based on that if needed. Fully automated, all machine reading of license plates.

Maybe your country is behind the times in that?

I for one didn't even know it's possible to delete anything from Facebook.

Disable your account, sure. Hide messages from everyone including your self, no problem. But actually deleting stuff? I highly doubt it. Whatever you place on Facebook will be there for eternity.

Just like /. comments, for that matter. But without that much tracking.

Anyway, not going to delete my account. Too useful to promote my local business, and it helps many people to contact me. If only they realise that it's not the way for last-moment contact (that's why I always give my phone number) as I don't have the app. Never had. Don't want to. Too little use and WAY too much tracking/monitoring.