Hey, I need to watch *something* while eating this big bag of popcorn I'm having right here...

Same here. I imagine it is because electronics/computers/mechanics all added up is such a broad field that there's enough space for projects to have a small enough overlap that it feels like doing separate things; compare that to e.g. the streamer who is pigeonholed in playing the same game over and over again.

And the guy is free to find his private key in some other way: bruteforcing, astrology, tea-leaves, ... But in the same way as you can't force the dump to retrieve the paper with the safe combination, this guy can't force the council to get the hard disk with the key.

Don't worry, we don't do age discrimination here. Boomer is a state of mind.

Because I didn't know, I'm not from the USA. (Not from China either, fwiw.) I think the Chinese example is salient as people don't just find offenders 'in the wild' as it were, but actually make sure that otherwise innocent people offend and then profit off of it.

Fyi, they did this in Shenzen, in China, for reckless driving. If you sent a video of someone driving recklessly, you could send it in via some app. Video would be reviewed and if it indeed was deemed reckless driving, the owner of the car would get a fine and you would get a certain percentage.

Turned out a fair few Chinese people made this into a money-maker. Go on the road, then irritate a random car to the point where they make a dangerous move because they're afraid to get hit or think you're a stalker or something. Cut that little bit of video out of your dashcam stream, put it into the app, and voila - instant income.

> ByteDance runs the payment processor Tencent.

No, it doesn't. ByteDance is an entirely different company than Tencent. You may be confusing them both as WeChat is owned by Tencent, and seemingly the Trump order is also against WeChat.

...like what?

It's fixed by giving passes to people who have limited mobilty to get inside the city center with their cars anyway, plus dedicated parking spaces for them. Car-free city centers are usually gated with barriers that automatically go down when you show it such a pass.

While I agree with you when it comes down to using these things simply as an information storage unit, you're discounting the fact that these devices usually have communication mechanisms. You are absolutely right that in real life, when faced with a problem, you nowadays whip out your smart phone and do some research. What these watches allow, however, is having the people incapable of doing the research paying for others outside of the class room to do their work for them. That's not gonna fly in real life (in most normal situations, that is).

What you may get then is that the board stores the last known capacity of the battery during its life time. There's no saying what happens if you graft a new cell on: best case scenario the board goes 'huh, extra capacity' and adapts; next best case it will insist on keeping the worst-case stats it saw from the previous runs and that'll throw your battery indicator off, worst case Apple programmed it to recognize the situation and flag the battery as tampered with.

Huh. You'd almost think that 'women' isn't a homogenous group and that there are multiple people with different opinions in it.

Ah, we're going to posit false analogies as truth, now? Here's a few more for you:

If you have a pencil that can be sharpened by any sharpener, you have a normal pencil; if you have a sharpener that will only sharpen certain pencils, you have a shitty sharpener.

A man who can ride any horse is a cowboy; a horse anyone can ride is a good horse.

A function that can be computed by any machine is a simple function; a machine that can compute any computable function is a Universal Turing Machine.

A man who'll dance with anyone is fun at a party; A woman who'll dance with anyone is fun at a party.

To be fair, if you're staring at your screen while doing a phone call, you're doing it wrong. (Okay, there's handsfree mode, but still.)

FWIW, Bing is actually used more than you think in China. Not because it's good, but because domestic solutions (Baidu) are crap for anything not in Mandarin, and all the other search engines (Google, Yahoo, Duckduckgo, ...) are blocked.