works for spammers & scammers

Wow, you trust the Trump administrations values so much you want to pass those along to kids?

That's certainly a choice.

Even a broken horse shits correctly twice a month. (Or something like that.)

I don't think a better Constitutional can protect a democracy against conflicts like the culture wars. Cultish demagogues will always exist.

Assuming that the measles vaccine works like the Covid vaccine or others, even if it doesn't entirely prevent someone from contracting measles, the immune boost from the vaccine typically ensures that the disease experience is much milder than it would've been otherwise

I don't know what an mkv is.

But VLC is available for the phone.

Apparently it's around $4 per device. The margins are thin on their low end models, and they are greedy, so I guess $4 is too much for a feature that few people care about or will notice not being available. Anyone who wants to do H.265 encoding will probably be looking at the higher end models anyway.

The real blame here is on the patent holders. AV1 is the solution for everyone else.

It's worse, they recommend software for encoding as well.

It's because they have to pay licence fees for HEVC. Most streaming services use AV1 now, which is free and supported.

In theory, you can use "AirDrop", but I can rarely make AirDrop work and usually end up just giving up and emailing it to myself.

I don't remember offhand, since I've only done it once or twice in the 12 or so years I've had an iPhone.

Usually I just email myself a file if I need one off the phone. I know you can do it in "bulk" by connecting the phone with a cord, I just don't remember the process offhand.

He clearly wasn't that good, or he wouldn't have been caught. These amateurs don't seem to understand that they way to do this is to make the system so complex and reliant on you doing certain undocumented actions, that if they fire you it will all collapse on its own. Then you can't be accused of causing damage, because you didn't, you just walked away as asked. It's not your fault that they didn't recognize how essential your services were, or pay you to do a proper rebuild and handover.

The rational response is to either not stalk users, or to have a small checkbox somewhere that lets them opt in to the privacy invasion.

In my day we only had a 2D Ruxpin, we called him Clippy...

> the companies that make and sell these toys are putting their stockholders at risk of a future privacy lawsuit.

Own 20 risky but profitable companies. 9 may go south and declare bankruptcy, but between the time the 9 were bringing in revenue and the other 11 that haven't puked (yet), you are still net profitable.

Privatize profits, socialize loss, the Plutocrat Way.

The guy screwed HIMSELF.

He also got off a lot lighter than he would have if I were sentencing him.