I saw a series of pictures posted the other day with some of the things confiscated from exams.
Like calculators that have been hollowed out and the keypad is removable to expose the phone inside.
Devious little buggers. Holds a lot more info than a long sleeve can cover.

There was an article on this a few years ago. The issue was not that more people were using drugs. It was that commercial industry was diving right into the drug-testing and using tests/standards far beyond even that of the military and the FBI.
It can be harder to pass a drug test to be a mail room clerk than an agent.

*downloads the Simpsons from KAT*

*Plays loops of Nelson saying "HA HA" to them via robocall.*

My most memorable Doom moment was the first time we had a mouse user play on the LAN with us. We were instant converts. Well, after he slaughtered us endlessly and strafed us faster than we could turn.

In Quake 2 my most memorable moment was killing six people with two railgun shots. I freaked out. The other players on the server freaked out. It was awesome.
And no accusations of being a botter, which was nice.

Research on World of Warcraft has been used to study things from how information is distributed to pathogen transmission.
Much cheaper than having to design and populate those systems on their own.

I wonder when we're going to engineer organic brain-in-a-tank (for lack of a better description) that don't age, and if it will beat out a sentient AI to existence.

I don't know if Amazon still does it this way, but a long while back you could choose to randomly fill in items on someone else's wishlist.

Some kid in the Canary Islands had a list of books they wanted for Xmas, so I completed their list for them and Amazon shipped it without any details other than country of the recipient and basic profile info.

Being able to buy a book for someone who can't afford it is rewarding. And I bet they'd appreciate being able to create small neighborhood libraries of the gifts :)

Not-a-lawyer disclaimer.

Anyway, in a case like this the decisions will assign responsibility by percents. If the injured parties are suing to cover his medical and continuing care expenses then they're likely not going to get any help by suing the girl alone. Even if a court says SnapChat could have foreseen the consequences and only assigns 2% of the blame to them it could help cover his medical expenses for years.

The foresight does have an affect legally.

I've had two narrowly avoided head-ons with texters holding their phones across the top of their steering wheels, and neither of them were millenials.
They were people roughly my age -- and my first video game system was Pong.

They should do this with Total Annihilation and see what kind of behavior the AI comes up with.
There was some fun, and devious, stuff in TA -- like using your robot troop transport to fly into an enemy base, kidnap the Commander, and then self destruct.
Tactics that weren't documented, and only emerged in the community over time as they were discovered.

I had an Instagram account, which only consisted of my own photographs, disabled for "copyright infringement"
There weren't even any pictures of objects on which copyright could be claimed.
It was various animal and nature photography I had taken over the years, interspersed with photos of our puppies.

There was no way to reach support or challenge it in any way. I just got the notification that my account was shut down and that's it.

I wonder if they still turn around and license user content if they've deleted a user account.

It's who the people are that influences Apple's decisions:

In America the people are the consumers. They put the money in Apple's pockets. The government not so much.

In China the people are the workforce. The government puts the money in Apple's pockets by making them a very cheap workforce.

Of course they're siding with the Chinese government.

Yup, and even if you go through and set up the settings that *can* be turned off, the next patch turns them right back on again by default.
It has also changed my default apps like Notepad++ back to the MS equivalents after a patch too.

I do like some of the features of it, like on my tablet I can switch between a tablet UI and a full windows desktop for mouse and keyboard usage cleanly (much better than the nasty windows 8), but damn if the intrusiveness isn't a major downside.

You also read Slashdot, and probably get a lot of apps from GitHub, like I do.
But there are tons of people who like the convenience of app stores.

That was two decades before the App Store came into being. The slice they take on that would make up for the hardware sales now easily.
Windows 10 will pay for itself out of its own App Store and MS knows it.