Do you really belong on Slashdot? He didn't hack the damned thing to get clean floors. He hacked it because he was curious about what it was doing (or not doing).

Have you fallen into 'old man who yells at the clouds' mode?

No. Conspiracy brought us here. Conspiracy by people with a LOT of money and power. None of this is emergent behavior, it was all pre-planned over 70 years ago.

ROFLMAO

(at best, they never lied about anything that was important to you, but they most assuredly lied)

You are an idiot. This is not an either/or situation. It is an AND situation. In other words, why not both? WTF is wrong with people like you?

I peaced out on all consoles with the PS3. I was in the middle of Iraq and bought a secondhand PS3 for dirt cheap. I went out and bought a game disc for it to play... and the game wouldn't even launch without getting an update. An update. In a combat zone. In the middle of the desert. From a freshly bought disc.

The disc was useless. It didn't have to have any data on it at ALL because it was programmed to download the game when you inserted the disc. They had no intention of all of providing a playable game from the start.

Fuck Sony and fuck Microsoft and fuck Nintendo. They can all lick my balls. None of them have received so much as a penny from me since that day. No matter how or what they change, I will seek their destruction for as long as I am alive.

Locks were perfected over a thousand years ago in the Middle East. The only thing new is the materials. The only reason the public does not have easy access to quality locks is that their governments prohibit them from doing so. I wonder why that is.

I know that anything that is called a straight line actually isn't a straight line, it is nonsense. A series of points that appear to be straight from our point of view.

There are points and curves. Curves are points that are spread over time with the curvature correlating with time. The shorter the time period, the tighter the curve. That is how Space is defined. If you examine it from a different perspective, the curvature of space describes time. (which is why gravity is always an 'attractive' force)

I still have no idea why spacetime exists. Just that it does.

Consciousness is 'merely' organized energy. Some amount of physical 'matter' is required to organize energy into useful 'groups'. Energy that is not constrained by physical 'matter' is chaotic, moving 'away' at the speed of light in our frame of reference.

Only if it is Type 1 Diabetes. Type 2 Diabetes is trivially treatable... for various definitions of trivial.

(no carbs or sugars for 3 months will reset your insulin levels, i know, i did it)

You are being forced to live in a post-truth world. In other words, you will know nothing and be happy about it. Trying to make sense of it is impossible as it was designed that way. This is a genuine, 100% authoritarian push to overthrow the US Government and nobody appears to be able to stop it or even slow it down. Too many vested interests. Say bye bye. The Democrats are part of the corruption, which is why you see no real pressure against the post-truth world we are entering.

The amount of death and destruction that we will be seeing will dwarf anything seen in the past. :(

I do not think it is the companies; rather, it is the government sending memos and such. The coordination and similarities scream outside action to me.

(the companies are all evil, don't get me wrong here)

You are justifiably hard on the consumer here... as it should be. Ultimately, everyone is responsible for themselves and requesting other people take ANY responsibility is a step too far... However, you are a jackass. What makes you think these folks had any other real choices? You either buy an Android or an Apple and are fully locked in regardless of which 'ecosystem' that you choose. People should have more choices than two companies that are clearly not offering fair deals to people in the name of maintaining vertical monopolies.

Treat women as equals?! WTF dude. Seriously? I guess the woke virus got you too. Ah well, Slashdot will survive.

*blink*

I can see the mechanism for Trump's backers successes here. Yours is the first comment questioning whether or not Apple's policies are reasonable. Everyone else just wants to roll with how Apple decided things should work, despite it clearly being anti-consumer, regardless of the current issue.

It is almost impossible to engineer a system to do ANYTHING reliably when money is the primary focus. That is why Microsoft will ALWAYS fail: They are a monopoly and don't really have to succeed.