Yes, the generic and frequently worn (typically used and rebuilt) parts, the more specialized parts that are unique to the car (eg. cylinder head) not so much, you get it either from a wrecker or VW.

And again, unless you stand up to the tyranny, nothing will change. That case won't even get to SCOTUS before it gets reversed, what that judge said should be cause for immediate removal from the bench.

Technically you don't even need a phone, just a speaker and a few capacitors because everything is going cleartext over 100V lines. You could technically build an antenna and with a simple microcontroller get on the GSM/CDMA network the same way since it is also not encrypted.

Here you go, have at it:
https://source.android.com/
https://www.kernel.org/

Apple plans for 7 years of support after last day of sale of the model. Android users typically for 1 update after the release of the device. Now they may get security patches up to 7 years after the device came to market, which still means only 3-5 years of support for "most" customers that don't want to pay premium for an Android device.

You would be surprised where the 6502 or a Z80 or a PIC shows up, not necessarily in DIP format but there are many clones in many formats out there, nowadays they are optimized for smaller footprints and better power consumption although more and more they are changing to Atmel and ARM due to the popularity of Arduino and Raspberry Pi, the previous generation of hackable boards were all 6502 and Z80 and thus that trickled through to the electronics design market from 1990s-2010s, basically take what you hacked on your bench and put it on a PCB is where most of your 'intelligent' washing machines and dishwashers came from (keep track of multiple timers, input/outputs and simple calculations in a single, robust, $2 chip).

In the US, you have the second and various other amendments to protect you from such legal action, even in California in the case of burglary. The fact California tries and frequently gets smacked down on these issues is just a matter of either voting or moving as you can see the long-term results from these policies.

These people found a legitimate loophole however, basically it's the same as the bank giving you a loan and forgetting to put down any schedule for repayment or interest payments (which is pretty much what happened here). At that point, you could consider it a forgivable loan, the fact the government went after them for a legitimately executed digital contract just because that's not what the bank intended should send shivers up your spine.

Youâ(TM)d also need to make every click surface at least 4-10x larger to make it usable for touch at which point you may as well run in 640x480. There is a huge difference between touch+virtual key and click+keyboard based interfaces. How do you tab between form entries without the keyboard being permanently in the way, key + click combinations etc.

You can write the same program across many OS and devices but the UI must be different. This is possible with the way Apple lets you compile your programs (all you do is create different viewports) but takes some minor dev/ux work.

As said above, that is not how Turing complete works. You cannot forbid a processor from not being Turing complete. An iPad or the 6502 in your dishwasher is Turing complete and must be to function, it has nothing to do with use cases. And even if you somehow mentally contrive it so, you are still wrong because the iPad has no legal or technical restrictions on what someone can load either as a direct application (sideloading is explicitly documented in Apple docs) or a sub-application (eg Javascript in a browser window).

It was the chemical known as sodium chloride they were spraying. It is known to be caustic and cause health issues such as hypervolemia, electrolyte disturbances, circulatory failure, pulmonary embolism, and augmented hypertension.

Why should they protect those banks for their mistakes? This is how you get big government and lazy companies that let issues stand because big government will fix it for them anyway. What if it is a foreign adversary that does it next time at bigger scale and with the goal of destroying your economy? The government cannot help you then.

There are plenty of other redneck American farm equipment companies.

Prove it to me, because thatâ(TM)s not true. The fact is these systems arenâ(TM)t designed to have the three people on board and two in the field to run it manually. They are designed to be single operator and generally they work great. The problem here isnâ(TM)t that Deere isnâ(TM)t providing service, they are under contract, the problem is that neither Deere nor the farmer have the people (willing and sufficiently paid) to fix their IT systems in the muck and the mud. This is an insight problem, the farmer purchased the system with the promise that you donâ(TM)t need a sysadmin and Deere thought they could run a tractor like you do a piece of accounting software.

Iâ(TM)m not saying Deere is not to blame, but the problem is more complex. It was the same problem that buying into AWS or VMware would allow you to fire your IT team, and those claims have all proven false.

We are talking about large industrial farms, these things are on a lease, they are replaced, maintenance is contracted. I live in farm country, the problem is not mechanical, but many keep treating it like a mechanic should be able to fix it.

Some smarter companies hired IT people like me on a consultancy basis and do fix these things on occasion or talk to the vendor to figure out what the hell is wrong, rarely did I find that the vendor is hostile unless you did something to piss the engineer on the other end off.

The problem is that everyone including Deere and the farmer underestimated the cost of computer maintenance. I have been part of a startup with the same mentality, they were going to upend the digital signage market with cheap Raspberry Pi. They went under because the hardware is the least of your problems when it comes to remote hardware management, software that works in the worst conditions, that can be updated in the worst conditions etc.

You want a âoesmartâ farm, that exists, but if it is not 100% fault tolerant or foolproof, you will have a tractor stuck in the mud and someone with an engineering degree will have to strap on some boots and a military grade rugged laptop and the people are very hard to find.

Deere does not have a monopoly, they offer the best product for large industrial farms, there are many other companies and smaller farmers have over the past decade switched or never started with John Deere.

They have a monopoly in as much as VW or Toyota have a monopoly over many spare parts, it is just not feasible for third parties to build them because they are so niche. But if you find VW oppressive in the way they do business, you wouldnâ(TM)t keep buying VW, you sell your shit if possible and move on.