I mean, you can sue pretty much anyone for anything, but fair... It is technically a ruling
It's still just a policy though, which means it's easy to change or to do unofficially if the courts reject it (which seems unlikely right now, but I'd love to see it happen)
And if everyone used E2E encryption for their private messaging like everyone who understands the topic has been pushing for decades, signal users wouldn't stand out
The state cannot enforce this, it still relies on compliance in advance
It's not a ruling, the FCC was ordered decided that they're not going to certify any new foreign made home routing equipment. No certification means the radios won't be legal for consumers to operate
Technologically, yes, they could easily identify non-compliance with how much data is being collected these days
Logistically though? How are they going to enforce this? Sue every open source project that circumvents this? Block downloads of it with a great firewall? Fine end users? It's just not feasible
Realistically, they're going to go after the OSes with the biggest market share. Google, Microsoft, and Apple will be forced to comply on new devices, and maybe they'll try to make an example or two to get compliance in advance
Well you should probably let the engineers at Boston dynamics know your views. Maybe they just aren't familiar with wheels. They'd probably feel very silly having spent all that time on an inferior tech tree
Seriously though, these are being used for a reason. Have you ever once seen a video of one of these stuck out in the wild? Because I've seen plenty of compilations of wheeled bots stuck on curbs or sign posts
Have you seen these dogs move? It seems like you're not very familiar with them. They can jump fences and outrun a human, they're also remarkably stable for the body and can have a higher center of gravity which sensors appreciate... The tech works prettywell
And tracks take a lot of maintenance and tend to tear up floors if they're tough enough to handle the outdoors. They're also very heavy and expensive, and far less efficient or fast as wheels. They're uncommon for a reason, they're an even more specialized version of the wheel
It also serves the purpose of a generator, and with solar you might be able to cut your grid draw to basically zero
The fire risk is generally overstated, plus different battery tech, like sodium, are much less flammable. Weight and size are much less of an issue, so as adoption increases they're going to get much cheaper and longer lasting as production ramps up
Not to mention it does meaningfully reduce load on the grid with increased adoption. Not everything needs to be financially min-maxed... If you've got the money, it's a good thing to invest in
I mean, sure, wheels would require an essentially impossible evolutionary path, but they're still very dependent on terrain
Some goats can climb grades no wheel could touch. Wheels have issues with long grasses and roots, don't work great if they don't have good contact with the terrain, aren't good for climbing or ledges, and fast to wear in dirty environments
You can specialize to overcome these challenges, but they're less general purpose. Wheels that would let you travel over uneven terrain need to be big and/or very complex
Wheels work really, really well on suitable surfaces, but they're specialist technology. Quadrepeds are very stable and control their weight distribution much better
From an engineering standpoint, you'd be better off putting the robot dogs on skateboards or in a wheeled carrier then making the kind of high-torque wheels that can lock to work like feet when needed - that's what we use when designing wheels for the kinds of travel these dogs were designed for
Wheels are obviously incredibly useful tech, but they're not the ideal solution for every problem
Because wheels aren't all that great in less than carefully managed paths. Quadrupedal motion is just fine in most all situations... Wheels are most efficient, followed by swimming with boyancy, then flying with the wind, then bipedal motion... But quadrupedal motion isn't everywhere for no reason. It's very stable and robust. It's very practical and forgiving in most all situations
He hasn't stabilized his rule. The maga coalition is falling apart all on it's own
Will Trump wiggle out of real consequences? Probably. There will definitely be election fuckery.
But the maga coalition failed to grab the crown, and does not hold the keys to power. That's even more important for a dictator, because they don't have the legitimacy democracy grants leaders
This is a pretend problem. When have EVs ever caused rolling brown outs?
Grid can't handle the current of all the cars charging at once? Charge them slower. Get a battery bank for your home to smooth out the demand curve. Throw banks of supercaps at fast charging stations. Fix the fucking grid as you go. Use battery banks on the grid to even out demand at any level. Hell, you can use the cars themselves as battery banks and bring back rooftop solar tax breaks
It's a fake problem, our grid and production do genuinely need work, but in practice EV adoption hasn't been a limiting factor at all
Maybe God just loves us like a gardener loves plants. Right now looking at the garden and being like "oh no... This is a real mess. It would probably be easier to start over... But I've spent so much time on them, let's give them a chance to pull through if I leave it for a while"
Gas prices are one of the key indicators of economic activity he sort of skims before napping during briefings... Actually scratch that, he doesn't pay attention to any others reply
He's already getting antsy. He's been asking the generals what's taking so long and getting annoyed at the worm tongues that convinced him to get into this mess
Trump lives in a bubble of sycophants who present the narcissistic alternate reality he lives in. He has no idea what's going on, but he's clearly getting more and more upset
I mean, you can sue pretty much anyone for anything, but fair... It is technically a ruling
It's still just a policy though, which means it's easy to change or to do unofficially if the courts reject it (which seems unlikely right now, but I'd love to see it happen)