No, I guess what I'm asking for here is for a person that represents our legal system at one of the highest levels to not reduce themselves down to the utter fucking stupidity that may be presented in front of them at any given time.

But I guess asking a professional to maintain professionalism in a courtroom is simply too much to ask.

...would dictate we look to other methods of input rather than re-engineering the wheel to fit inside a thimble.

Care to tell me why my IoT device wouldn't simply report into a web server, where another device would serve as the input mechanism?

Frankly I find it laughable that we assume any IoT device would not be reporting all of it's data to a central server. It's kind of the whole point of IoT, for vendors to sell you back your own data and tie it to online alerting systems that can easily be interfaced through a browser or phone app.

We really have a sitting judge who can't seem to separate their bloodlust for a TV show from their job?

What's next, a requirement for bilingual court reporters fluent in Klingon?

It wouldn't matter what criminal charges I was facing, I would be boldly laughing in the face of this moron who feels the need to go all "sci-fi" while at work, as if the Star Trek embellishments somehow helped here.

Perhaps a lawyer needs to boldly go and inform this court that they now need to waste taxpayer money translating the sci-fi bullshit presented as a legal argument. You know, for the rest of the planet that doesn't know what a Tribble is.

100 years ago the Bank of England drove the global economy and the British Pound was the unit of measure.

Today, the most valuable piece of paper in the world happens to be the US Dollar, which lies in stark contrast to our national debt and ability to budget.

Given what our economy has done in the last decade, along with the criminals who almost broke the whole damn thing in 2008 that are still running it, I find it hard to believe that anyone has faith in a system shored up with smoke and mirrors that ignores laws and policy, choosing to operate under and around the law and when caught, laugh in the face of regulators and pay the fine every time because it's worth it.

I promise you it won't take another 100 years for the world to wake up. In fact, all it will take is to allow greed to run rampant again. We sure as hell haven't done a damn thing with laws or regulations to prevent another crash, nor would we enforce them anyway.

The illusion around this entire system makes Bitcoin look like a rock-solid investment.

Well heaven forbid that kind of activity should be a signal to regulators that perhaps they should look to follow their own damn anti-monopoly laws and stop massive entities from buying up "dozens" of companies just because they can afford to.

Here's a monopoly that quite literally can't even figure out how to act like one.

I'm sorry, but can you please identify your location? It seems the rest of us in the known universe are wondering what planet you are from where there is a Microsoft product that somehow isn't vulnerable.

Given that the latest SMB rehashed vuln affects every version of Windows, I'd say the "exploit" is running Windows.

Given my previous statement regarding vulnerabilities still being discovered, it really wouldn't fucking matter what version of Windows they assumed was hacked.

Citizens were forced in front of a judge to spend thousands of dollars to defend themselves against accusations and information gathered illegally, and you're worried about my verbiage?

Speaking of serious accusations, perhaps you should take a step back here and not focus on the petty bullshit. I agree, there's a lot of force being used here, but a fucking thesaurus isn't the damn answer to government abuse.

You find it shocking that criminals loan other criminals money at a decent rate in order to keep the illusion up that the value of the entire system is still worth the paper it's printed on?

FFS, that's more confusing than labeling an 18-trillion dollar debt an asset in loan negotiations.

So, while the device that actually provides real functionality to your iWatch is dead, we're not supposed to believe the bullshit clickbait statements.

There's a true Apple fan...

The country is 18 trillion dollars in debt.

That's the punch line.

The joke would be to assume she could do anything to improve what we laughingly call an economy.

So a taxi medallion at a cost of over $750,000 is somehow justified to you due to the need for scarcity?

Oh, this should be downright fucking hilarious to hear your argument as to why liquor licenses cost so much, but hey I'm up for a laugh if you want to try and justify that corruption too.

Does putting quotes around "monopoly" make it sound more legal or just less corrupt in your mind?

Competing markets want to know.

Yes, because every product our government buys from a corporation they own the source code and fully understand how it works from a technical perspective, which of course is to also suggest they are allowed to.

Harris forces it's gov customers to sign an NDA that essentially says they're not customers of Harris. There's a hell of a way to sell your product. I'm guessing Barbara Streisand is in charge of marketing.

Tell you what, how about we just wait for them to replace the statement "don't want to reveal" to "proprietary and confidential". I'm sure that will satisfy the masses as a legitimized business excuse justified by capitalism.

Uh, you forgot about the methods in which they tell you to fuck the hell off...which would include you standing there with your attorney shelling out a few thousand dollars to defend what should have been thrown out in the first place.

Do NOT underestimate the design of the current system and it's ability to line the pockets of someone, no matter how illegitimate the charge.

In my opinion, THIS is the larger crime here, as the cost to defend ones self starts to easily escape what the average person can afford.

In the end, this essentially means that the establishment doesn't need to defend any action, legal or otherwise.

And they fucking know it.

Would it make you feel better if you used the word proprietary here instead?

A few thousand companies don't seem to mind...after all, how do you think they keep their secrets...