This company has been selling flame throwers for years, why would you think it's a fake? They have a lot of legitimate uses. This is just a product that they thought would improve safety and personnel costs for their end users, and they're probably right.

Iran's attack demonstrated a serious hole in the way that anti-missile/drone tech has been developed. Patriot, Iron Dome, etc. systems have been deployed under the assumption that there will be only a few targets which need to be handled at a time. Instead what we saw was that Iran launched less than 400 devices, between missiles and drones, at two targets (an air base and the Mossad headquarters), from over 500 miles away, after it warned the US several hours ahead of time. The IDF says that it spent around a billion dollars to defend against the attack and at least a dozen of them got through, it's unknown how much the US, UK, France and Jordan spent attempting to intercept them before they reached the border but I'd be surprised if the total weren't at least that high. Now the IDF says that their air defense systems need replenishment, too.

I guess the lesson everyone learned is that if you launch 1,000 missiles and drones at a time (and Hezbollah alone is estimated to have ten times that many on hand) the country's air defense system will be entirely overwhelmed.

Read the thing. I clearly refers to its validity within the United States, it was never meant to be applied to extra-territorial domains. It was intended to apply to non-citizens though, since at the time new immigrants made up a large portion of the population. I really can't conceive of any reason why you wouldn't want the Constitution to apply to non-citizens within the US, unless you think that abusing people without your luck to be born in the right place is a good idea.

Sounds good, how about a landscape slider phone? My F(x)tec Pro1 is getting a bit long in the tooth...

Yep. Mr. Raghavan isn't the illness, he's just a symptom of ordinary market forces that innovative tech startups can only resist for so long.

No, the only mention in the Constitution of "citizens" is in reference to the qualifications to hold certain offices. It applies to everyone here, citizen or not.

As I posted in another forum this morning:

The issue is that it's a propaganda conduit that they don't control. Google, Farcebook, Bing, etc. are infested with "former" intel agents of the US, Britain and Israel, everything that they present you is algorithmically calculated to support the Official Elite Narrative.

Tik Tok on the other hand is far more like the Internet in its original configuration, a free wheeling mess where users can run into pretty much any random thing. Our elites are disturbed that people are being presented with information contrary to the Narrative, which they are unable to control. For example support for Israel among the young collapsed when videos of the atrocities in Gaza started showing up in their Tik Tok feeds, and support for Biden among Tik Tok viewers followed the trend.

Perhaps almost as alarming to the Elite is that Tik Tok users are being presented with news sources that they don't control. When the NYT and WaPo were considered the only voices of authenticity and Hollyweird formed our view of the world it was easy for them to control the narrative, now people in the "West" are finding that their counterparts in the rest of the world aren't the monsters they've always been portrayed but just people like themselves. Third World countries are not necessarily crime-ridden hellholes, women in Islamic countries do not all live lives of miserable servitude, children in Africa play just like children in Iowa.

Everyone in Congress KNOWS very clearly why Tik Tok is a danger to their continued hold on power, this bill was pretty much inevitable.

Ukraine is not free, and never has been. Even before the conflict it was the poorest and most corrupt country in Europe, with a military second in size in Europe only to Russia (hence the poverty). The situation has only gotten dramatically worse since then, except of course for the political and economic elites in Kiev.

Israel has been claiming to be free and a democracy for 3/4 of a century, while enforcing living conditions on a very large portion of the people who live there even worse than the most miserable slaves in history. Now they've progressed to outright blatant genocide. Using our tax dollars to give them weapons to continue the genocide makes us all parties to their acts. The elites in Brainwashington convinced Americans to reelect an international war criminal in 2004, now only 20 years later they intend for us to do it again.

Taiwan is a tempest in a teapot. Neither China nor Taiwan want to change the status quo, all the noise from Taipei is just to get another influx of free US$. Bankers in Singapore are drooling at the graft that's about to be deposited in their coffers.

Yeah, I tried their "combine your order, deliver on Amazon day, less deliveries!" option a few times when the date would be convenient. And had one too many times where they still sent separate boxes early. And, like you, had a box sitting out all day.

Oh, goody, so we can pour four times the annual budget of NASA into the bottomless pit of war toys. Yippie skippy.

And it's not a very well done thing, mostly due to the not so stellar resolution even in the middle of the field of view. Works for workload where one doesn't need super fine resolution (e.g.: video editing), but forget about using this with walls of tiny next (not usable for coding, for example).

Another use that some people have experimented and Apple has touted with their "spacial computing" moniker: leaving multiple windows and applet floating virtually around a large real-world space (e.g.: have various control apps for your widgets in the work area, have browser with receipe and cooking timer in your kitchen, etc.) so as you move between real-world space, you get the revelant stuff already open and floating wating for you.

The problem is that, at the price of that Apple asks for the Vision Pro, and at the price one finds electronics on, e.g., AliExpress: for the 3500 bucks that Apple asks for their "Spacial Computer", one can buy 35x sub 100 bucks no-name tablets, and leave actual tablets lying around the real world to have "already opened and ready to use apps" all-over. Meh.

My impression is that this is more like the Newton, when Apple utterly failed at making a succesful portable/pocket computer, to the point that they abandoned the form factor, and it took Palm to teach a lesson in how to actually make a success in that form factor before Apple made another somewhat less lackluster attempt with the iPhone and iPod Touch (after having seen a demo of the Handspring + modem Springboard).

Also Vision Pro doesn't have a killer app.
(The "extra screen while on the move" is very limited in practice due to resolution limitation of VR).
It's clearly more of an early prototype to start exploring the platform, that somehow marketing stumbled upon and decided to push through. As you said it:

Sadly, those pesky physics stand in the way.
(No controllable way to "project black", meaning you need some blocking/filtering;
No practical way to project a picture without at least some optics: all the alternative things - like waveguides - which were tried turned out rather crappy)

There are some attempts at making smaller headsets (e.g.: some like Bigscreen are trying to be as light as an immersive VR can be) or less isolating (e.g.: stuff like Lynx has roughly similar optic to the AVP, but the mask is optional it's also usable with peripheral vision unblocked), but all these are still somewhat clunky, and still cost a lot due to manufacturing scale (compared to, e.g., Quest).
Note that they still cost a fraction of Apple's turd and also weight a lot less.

The Moon is right next door. Thinking that we can pole vault to Mars before we can really even do more than crawl to our nearest neighbor is foolish.

NASA is stuck exploring where politicians and generals allow them to explore. The abandonment of the Moon exploration is what you get when you allow lawyers and soldiers to run an engineering program. There have been tons of paper printed with more interesting and important missions that they could be carrying out, but they can only spend the money Congress gives them the way that Congress tells them to.