Just to repeat my earlier post, my understanding is that he is on trial not for teaching people how to beat a polygraph test, but for claiming he would teach one or more people specifically how to beat a FBI polygraph test.

He's on trial for being stupid. If he had just stuck with "I can teach you how to beat a polygraph test", he would be still be fine.

But [allegedly], he claimed he could help one or more people specifically beat a FBI polygraph test, and presumably there is an antiterrorist law about how you can't help someone lie to the FBI when they are required to tell the truth.

Because the article is very misleading.

Smartphones MAY have a chip in them that is capable of receiving FM transmissions [probably as part of the Qualcomm/whomever chip for processing cell phone signals].

But not a matter of 'just turn it on' and everything magically works.

You need an antennae/other external hardware that receives those signals properly. I'm not an antennae engineer, but you either need a separate antennae [which would totally be a non-starter] or you have to compromise the design of existing antennae, because now it has to work for more frequencies.

You also need the software side to work. Since the signal is [most likely] coming from the cellular chip, it also affects the separate baseband software, as well as the main OS.

Then they need to see how it affects battery life with an additional radio turned on, as well as how it affects cellular, wifi and bluetooth reception/transmission.

And don't forget that NONE of the wireless carriers in the US would want the phone to have this feature, because it means the user can be listening to music that they are streaming to their phone FOR FREE, and the carrier would be making no money from it at all. They would rather the user just have the choice of 'do without or preload the music on the phone or pay for streaming music on the phone by paying the carrier extra money] (and they would really prefer to prevent that middle option, but that would have been a really tough sell earlier and impossible now].

Finally, these whiners wouldn't stop at just 'enable the FM reception' capability. It would be 'automatically detect an emergency broadcast and switch to FM automatically when one is broadcast'. Which means another radio always be on. And if that happened...how many days before an FM station sent a fake signal that would trigger this feature without really sounding like an emergency broadcast signal, so the phone would automatically switch to their station for a few minutes. And they could just say it was a bug in the cell phone, that they didn't broadcast a full, real emergency signal.

Anyway, Apple never did this, because they want people to get their music from the iTunes music store, and everyone else doesn't because the carriers won't let them [at least here in the US].

this assumes the FBI and/or Prosecutors actually want accurate results.

they don't anymore, if they ever did.

time spent on fingerprint analysis, dna testing, whatever with the result of "this is not the person you want" = 100% waste of time for everyone involved.
If the result is "this is the person you want" = 100% useful time for everyone involved.

And if an investigation into a crime takes an extended amount of time, but it is focused on a specific individual, the pressure to ONLY find that the evidence makes the person more guilty gets greater and greater [as finding something that says "this person is innocent" means more and more time and money has been wasted and the only head sticking up is the guy in the department pushing for innocence].

For the 'prosecution' side of the equation, you ONLY get advancement for finding people guilty.

And the rationale that this is all OK is that the defense lawyer should have been able to poke holes in the evidence if the person truly was innocent.

Course, none of those terrorists were muslim.

At least the UK is polite. They actually sent letters to terrorists saying they wouldn't prosecute them for past crimes.

Can you imagine the FBI doing that for ex-mob bosses?

This process may have to be repeated periodically, because these industries tend to not have a very long-term memory. Maybe start with every 5 years and go from there.

Alternately, get University yearbooks with all their MBA graduates, and methodically hunt down and kill each one, to also tip the scale of humanity towards the better side of things. The next guy can work their way through derivative traders. Next up could be upper management of the 10 largest banks and investment houses.

Or even just kill every second one, and leave a note for the ones you don't kill saying you are watching them.

Actually, you need to run from these people, because they only have these microbes because they have been messing with some nasty viruses.

Uber doesn't work that way. Their way is to ignore all regulations until the local gov't forces them to follow said regulations with a court order that shuts them down.

Here in Edmonton, Uber is busy doing a "just try to figure out you have to try to get in court" shell game with the city.

Yes, just think of all the benefits of being under surveillance 24/7/365! And remember to vote [it doesn't matter for who], as it indicates your consent.

My 2004 GMC 3500 factory radio has all the warnings bells go through it [door open, lights on, seatbelt not buckled, engine has exploded, etc]. 3rd party stereo (Alpine 4000NEX) needed an external 'adapter' that plugs into the existing truck radio plug, and that has a small computer/speaker that beeps as necessary, and also provides all the right speaker and power lines, as well as supporting retained accessory power [radio turns off when you open the door after taking out the key] and as a 'reverse gear is selected', so the display shows my backup camera when I go in reverse.

Nope. They kill you for being a loser.

You have to go for a draw.

It was totally the last CEO's fault. The $50million golden parachute was money well spent getting rid of that guy so we could hire someone competent.

yes they can, but when they lose, they kill you.