Actually, he may have a case.

Intel did rename MacAffee Security to Intel Security.

And it's not like Intel doesn't have lawyers on staff.

That's a really bad idea. If they really want to punish them, they should use a timer instead.

A few years ago, a friend drove a Prius and the GPS navigation input function didn't work unless she went less than 5 miles an hour, so what my friend ended up doing was slowing down at the most inappropriate places on freeways and highways just so she could use the built-in navigation.

No doubt, frustrated Tesla drivers will just start parking their car in the middle of the roads just so they can re-engage their auto-pilot. That's what happens when one tries to use technology to control human beings. Those human beings start rebelling and start acting like even bigger idiots, possibly causing even more accidents. Also, I suspect that many Tesla owners will just try to disable/postpone this last update for as long as they can.

An MRI machine needs 1,700 litres of liquid helium, which needs to be topped off regularly. That's the equivalent of 12,724 cubic meters. The airship needs 38,000 cubic meters of helium, which I assume also needs to be topped off regularly.

In other words, the airship uses Helium at the rate of three MRI machines (according to my layman calculation). I'm not making a judgement one way or another. I just wanted to quantify the comparison.

Lawyers, the media, and insurance companies already do try to quantify the rulings of judges.

It's not like this is anything new. Plus, it's not like these reports will be posted online for free. Some parts will, to gain attention and get publicity, but most of these won't since obviously the founder is trying to a make commercial product out of it since he's using YCombinator funding.

This is the easiest solution for now.

Bus and trains already have that problem. And that hasn't stopped those services from being useful to a segment of the population.

My mistake. I was thinking of Denmark. That's where the black plane was waiting for Snowden.

I'm sorry. You're right. I was thinking of Denmark. That's where the black plane was waiting for Snowden.

This again? You haven't been paying attention. Sweden did illegally rendition two Egyptians to the United States. Also, the Swedish government admitted as much that its previous government had authorized a US black plane to pick up Julian Assange once he'd get extradited back to Sweden.

Well it does look a lot like this phone, which is a Windows 10 branded android phone.

I don't see how that's relevant. If Google antagonizes some of the carriers, that will just fragment the mobile space even more, because those carriers will just find a different OS that allows them to install whatever crapware they want on it (for instance: Tizen, CyanogenMod, Windows Phone, etc.).

Here is the law in question. https://www.law.cornell.edu/us...

May be someone can point out the relevant paragraphs. I'm afraid I couldn't do it. My eyes glazed over after the first page.

Why should Google do that? It would only sell fewer phones that way.

It's really the responsibility of the consumer to get a an unlocked Android phone with no contract. The consumer has that option already.

No, that's not quite a duress password. That's girlfriend #1 password, or that's girlfriend #2 password. Each password just logs into a different account (but it does it quickly and seamlessly so that the person doesn't know they're login in to a different account). For instance, you could have a picture of your girlfriend #1 as the wallpaper when you unlock your phone with your first password. The email app would lead to one particular email client that girlfriend #2 doesn't know about. The gallery would only contain pictures of girlfriend #1, but not #2. The text app would only contain texts that you sent to girlfriend #1. Etc.

That problem is already solved.

My old Android LG G2 for instance allows me to login under a different profile based on the particular pattern/password I am using. This is handy if you have multiple girlfriends (not that I even have one yet, but I am speaking hypothetically, so let's say I do get one girlfriend, and then a second one). If they see your password/pattern, they're under the illusion that it is your main password, so they can snoop all they want using that same password, and the system doesn't give them a clue that they're in a particular profile.

Of course, you can disable apps and functionality for each particular profile you have on that phone, and that part can be handy if you're loaning your phone to a kid, or to a perfect stranger, but then of course, it may become obvious that they're using a crippled profile if too much standard functionality is missing from it.

And for your laptop, you just need to carry around a Linux laptop, or a Chromebook. What are they going to do? Fine you for not having access to all the accounts on your machine? Or fine you for using your Chromebook in Incognito mode?

As to the traces of cocaine, I don't think that's fair. Almost all US currency has traces of cocaine on it and I assume it's the same with Canadian currency. And if he carried cash in his bag, then obviously their spectrometer is going to find traces of cocaine in it. It would be weird if they didn't.

As to the $5,000 cash (whether it's US dollars or Canadian dollars), I don't see why that's even relevant. It's well under the legal limit and a drug mule would probably carry 50+ times that amount anyway. What do the Canadian authorities want anyway? If they tell their Canadian citizens not to carry cash when crossing the US border, US border officials will find that suspicious and may turn them around back to Canada. It's going to be damned if you do, or damned if you don't.

No, but this time it's different, they actually found a Windows Phone 8.1 user!