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Falling a sleep in the train on your way home is a good way to get your phone stolen, even here in Denmark.
I don't use public transportation now but when I did, I always slept most of the time and woke up just before my stop. Overslept once in 8 years. Now it is unsafe to sleep in the train and the advantage is gone.
I didn't have a smartphone then but I did have a discman, a laptop and later on different MP3 players. We also didn't have open borders all the way through Europe and all the "lovely" people removing the borders brought us.

We are starting to hear stories about people who had their phones stolen in Scandinavia, getting calls from Eastern Europe where the new "owners" of the phone wants the password for iCloud so they can use the phone.
Some have offered a small amount of money to get their password others have been angry with the rightful owner that they couldn't use their phone. Go figure.

Well, they also have their Content ID system so I would think it could remove a lot of videos since there are uploded a lot of videos with music owned by others than the uploader.

How long before they surrender?
Cheese-eating surrender monkeys.

Linux isn't UNIX. Apple is the largest UNIX vendor in the world.

This is why Apple should resurrect its ZFS project. Overnight they would be the largest ZFS vendor to match with being the largest UNIX vendor.

Right on! I tried forever to figure out how to remove the battery from my iMac!

your iMac CMOS battery will die eventually too, how easy is it to replace?

in Italy TVs have been sold measured in inches since the very beginning, and Italy is as metric as they come. Fun random fact, they are actually said to be xx 'thumbs' wide (pollici)

In the olden days, they'd round them all up, lock them in a barn and set it on fire. Now it's a ~disability~.

The gravy train is only a supersized meal away!

I was suggesting that the bulk of the complaints are likely coming from cabbies.

Michael Peevey mentions "safey rules" but then goes on to 'lacking airport permits, as well as lacking proper "trade dress" on their vehicles and lacking proof of insurance.' Ok, lacking proof of insurance I can understand. So carry papers in the glovebox and all is well.
Airport permits? That's just money denied to the airports. I'd wager the complaints that are not from cabbies are from the airport authorities for this very reason.
Trade dress? Fine, slap on a cheap magnetic sign. That is not a safety issue.

They dress is up as "safety rules" but the real motives are financial.

"We have heard numerous complaints that (our) safety rules are being ignored,"

Yeah, the cabbies are complaining. I would guess non-cabbies love the service.

It's a double negative. In reality the wireless chargers work flawlessly.

We have had the ability to send out communications to the cosmos roughly the same amount of time we have had weapons capable of killing us all if used improperly. What are the odds that we will have sent something to someone listening before we either kill ourselves or are thrown back into the stone ages by some natural event? Basically I do not find it hard to believe that intelligent life, over time, may not be so great at propagating itself for the time needed to communicate with other civilizations.

it might not have made sense in the past, but given how nowadays evolution and climate change are most certainly "unpopular" in certain states it seems like tenure protection there would be quite helpful for teachers wanting to teach them as opposed to what is currently mandated by the local curriculum, otherwise if a student in your class asks you a question along the lines of "what does science say about x" you will have to worry about your job if you answer truthfully.

Of course as usual when there is a discussion on social safety nets and worker rights in general in the US there will be plenty of n=1 anecdotes about how this change will improve things for everybody because "deadbeats" will finally get their due, but in the end for every "lazy" teacher fired because of this change I am sure there will be many many more fired because of politics and other reasons.

If people in the US stopped focusing on the small % of people taking advantage of something (universal healthcare, pensions, union protections, safety nets in general) and instead of on the large % of deserving people benefiting from that something society would be so much better as a whole...