In my case it was the plastic pully that broke on the window motor, on a 2008 model. On three different windows. (The motor ran just fine, but it couldn’t DO anything.) But your point on the servo thing is good. The latch doesn’t have far to move, and needs very little force, so it’s mechanically much simpler and…

The warranty was no help to begin with. I understand it was road/debris damage, so not covered, but if a future failure is denied due to “void warranty” then they are right back where they started, with a 16k replacement cost. No worse off for having made the modification.

Do Apple’s remotes seriously not have the “find me” feature that is standard on every Roku remote?

It helps visibility from side angles, so they don’t have to add separate side marker lights.

Yeah, he looked just the right size that I could imagine there being a real animal at least for the more static scenes without the animal being a threat to the actors.

It’s even MCU canon that Loki takes animal form sometimes, such as the snake he surprised Thor as. Maybe this variant just decided one day to not change back.

At least charcoal is carbon neutral and renewable, when you count the tree it was made from.

They are still waiting for the FCC to approve mobile usage. They have already tested it on airplanes and rockets under special FCC authorizations.

They were obviously not the brightest bulb. Are you sure they were doing their computing safely?

As a jury member, you are not there for your intelligence or knowledge. The system’s fairness does not benefit from picking the most intelligent jurors. Each side’s lawyers will bring in witnesses and experts for that. It’s called the adversarial justice system. It’s the prosecution’s duty to bring information that…

It would probably still work within a few miles from home, but not much further. It’s not locked by GPS position, but by where they aim the signal beam.

They want to start serving moving terminals, but the FCC has not authorized that usage yet. But it’s true that the satellite needs to know where you are so it can aim the signal in the right direction. (Being able to form a narrow beam is part of why it can handle so many high-bandwidth customers at the same time,…

There’s been a definite drop in Alexa since 2014, but it’s still in the top 100.

In the adversarial justice system, it’s up to the defendant’s lawyer to point out anything that is unfair to his client. Then the judge can make those determinations.

There’s a procedure for that. They jury can send questions to the judge, which can then be answered in open court, with the lawyers present and able to object or cross. In some cases, the judge may rule that the question is irrelevant to the case.

Can’t say it enough, so 2FA! 2FA! 2FA!

The ICE officer in the case would be a state witness, not a defendant. But yes, there would be no opportunity to cross examine such sources.

It’s not the judge’s duty to give that info to the jurors. It’s the defendant’s lawyer’s duty, if he thinks it helps the case.

Yes. Both. They try to use orchestrated shutdowns of small areas at a time to avoid an unpredictable failure that affects everybody and takes much longer to repair. By orchestrating it, they can make sure each area is only turned off for maybe a half hour each. If the grid failed, it could take many hours or days to…

Because the surface area of a roof only gets enough sun to power 1-2 floors of a 100 floor building. And wind generators might be a hazard to the helipad, or might even break and send large pieces falling 500ft to the road below.