"From 2021 until 2024, the co-conspirators allegedly impersonated more than 80 U.S. individuals"

It's called identity theft. Are you new?

I've had my identity stolen, the problem is that courts don't punish corruption. In fact, they enable it.

Someone bought a car using my identity. Their proof of identity was my social written on a check cashing card. They had my same name, all three names. But the DOB didn't match so the person who sold them the car was in on the scam. Then a court (in Nevada City, CA) awarded a judgement against me based on my social being written in pen on a check cashing card. This does not meet any reasonable standard for SSN verification, but they got the judgement anyway.

That courthouse should be sold and the funds distributed between the court's victims.

The identities of people who mod posts should be public. That's the single most broken by design thing about the Slashdot moderation system.

That wouldn't make sense if everyone had modpoints and comment scores could be higher, but they don't and they can't.

This isn't a community, and this is a big part of why.

Who's "we", the USA? Or do you imagine that all nations which aren't China are on the same page when it comes to... anything?

The only thing they're good at is breaking the law.

Sending them "there" is just as good, Starship is already adequate to get the real job done.

The senate lunch system was designed as a jobs and wealth redistribution scheme first and a space craft development project second.

For that matter, you can already get WiFi 7 equipment... you can get m.2 modules for 20 or 30 bucks, even with master mode. I spent under $30 for a complete MT7925 kit, 802.11a/b/g/n/ac/ax/be 2T2R 2.4/5G/6GHz. It's only a 160 MHz chip but it was cheap and has pretty snazzy bluetooth as well. Anyway, oh well, at least it does all those other things. Anyway, can't vendors "solve" this (except for the customers being pissed off part) with firmware which prevents selecting 6 GHz? That seems like a pretty simple patch.

At the time I had no credit due to being a victim of identity theft.

Now my credit is fixed but I just like not having a contract, and it's $35/mo. I only get I think about a dozen GB of internet, but that is fine for my purposes since I don't stream video.

I realize I wrote that wrong, but what I meant to say, it's not slower than the old M chip. That is, it's not slower than all of the M chips. I realize that's a very different thing than what I wrote, my bad.

But it's also true that it's within the range of the M chips, and it's intended to be low cost and low power, and if you have low expectations then it should be plenty of machine. For your average web surfer, it'll be fine. I wouldn't buy one, even at their most Open, Apple was irritating at best to deal with. But to me the tradeoff is reminiscent of my AMD laptop, which has only a couple of cores and a few GPU cores (literally) and does all the things I expected it to do while using very little power. It was $300 in a retail box a couple of years ago. This is the Apple-priced version of that, which is another reason I wouldn't buy one.

"So when Microsoft continually abused their monopolistic control of 90% of the PC market, they were let off the hook"

Apple has not actually been punished yet. They still have the opportunity to pay a bribe.

"just allow side loading like mac os and alot of issues go away."

"Not really. If you aren't on the App Store your sales will take a hit."

Uh, you think the sales of apps which most users cannot now load on their devices will go down?

"Android makers are whining when they already own the biggest slice of the pie?"

They do not in the US, which is what this story is about.

IDGAF, I scarcely use gimp any more due to the interface still being shit even after they allegedly improved it.

I'm a VZ prepaid customer in the US and I get unlimited text.

It's not less capable than any old M chip.

Got any actual points?