Because it has tabs. Seriously, I first used Firefox back when IE6 was the norm, and Firefox brought tabs and better standard compliance. Haven't turned my back since.
I guess it would be more difficult to get approval than the average treatment if it's the first of its kind.
Also I'm not an expert in the field, and there are probably many factors that makes speculation difficult, such as funding, and does-it-work-in-humans, and funding.
I wish the article had more context or comment from other experts in the food industry. It's good to interview the article's authors, but it's not clear if the hype is warranted.
Protesters are calling on Biden to stop federal approvals of new fossil fuel projects, phase out oil and gas drilling on public lands, and declare climate change a nationa emergency. They want the U.S. to halt oil and gas exports, and transition to a reliance on renewable energy.
Easy goals for a smooth transition could be set 20 years ago.
Now, we're left with rough and less-than ideal options for transition.
Sadly we can't negociate with physics. Laws governing the greenhouse effect and feedback loops don't care if some humans think stopping their emission is asking for too much.
Disabling 2G isn't a practical solution outside the US. As the article noted 2G networks are still up and running in most countries 30+ years after being first commercialized, and even if 3G/4G/5G are available.
It's a good example as to why it's a bad idea to weaken communication standards for legal/surveillance reason. Protocols remain in use for decades for comptability reasons, and it's hard enough to build secure protocols without politicians actively trying to weaken them.
The Patriot Act and other laws with provision for invasive surveillance didn't come out of nowhere. There are officials and/or lobbies who have always argued for more surveillance in the name of security. They have proposals on standby, and are waiting for opportunities to turn these into laws.
When an attack do happen, these people are going to push their proposal, present them as the solution. It doesn't mean they had anything to do with the attack. I assume people who wrote the Patrick Act are genuinely looking to avoid terrorist attacks, but their solution isn't effective nor right.
Things can suddenly or progressively break after a while if a system gets too far behind regarding updates.
A few plausible examples:
The navigation system can send you to non-existing road if it doesn't know about recent major roadworks. Or give you old/bad speed limit and cause you to get a ticket.
The GPS receiver may fail to obtain a location if satellite orbit or other parameters shifted too much since the last update (happened to me once after several years).
A bug may manifest itself only after a while or a given date (similar to y2k) and break some features.
A vulnerability may be discovered, which make cars that aren't updated easy to steal as knowledge of the vulnerability spread
Physically disabling WAN can be a workaround, assuming is can be done and reverse without damage. But it's not a good solution.
Manufacturers have ways to degrade experience/features when the owner physically disable WAN: deny features and security updates (by doing OTA updates only), drag their feet or void warranty if WAN is disabled, design some features to be unnecessarily dependant on some cloud/online services (eg navigation, media features, ...).
In many places there's enough vacancy to do that with either exiting appartements, or with empty office space waiting to be converted.
The answer to why it hasn't happen probably is complicated: lack of political will, ideology, the cost of building/buying appartements then maintaining and managing them so they don't turn into a shithole, NYMBY, etc
Part of the reason is that people don't know how to provide feedback in a nice way. I'm guilty of that sometimes, when I use software and make a bug report or write feedback, I realize after the fact I sound passive agressive.
It takes conscious effort to provide feedback in a nice way before it becomes a habit. I'm told a compliment sandwich is a good way to provide critical feedback without sounding like an asshole.
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