When did it transition from some project to 'advanced communication service'?

If I create an imessage clone in my home lab am I required to let anyone access it? WTF.

Apple runs the servers, they can do with them wtf they want to do with them.

Fuck you if you want your blue bubble without an iPhone, grow up. Buy an iPhone or stop having the stupid ass blue bubble envy. This is a stupid thing to even be talking about.

Private company runs private service and doesn't allow random users to access private service against rules that it made up IN ITS OWN HOUSE.

Please explain to me why the fuck apple has to 'open' this up to anyone?

FWIW - I use android, I get shitty videos pixelated from iPhone users (i.e. everyoen else in my family), I don't get a blue bubble, AND I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY YOU CARE.

If you thought Beeper Mini was going to last, you were an idiot. If you paid for it, you are definitely an idiot.

Apple can let whoever they want into their house and changing that is like saying I can't control who uses the servers in my closet. Fuck you if you think Apple should be forced to let you onto there servers for ANY reason. Their house, their rules. If you don't like their rules, GO THE FUCK HOME - make your own if you think you're billy bad ass and want to be in control.

Florida is in the top 5? That alone tells you the study is complete bullshit.

Tell me you're an ignorant Linux zealot in one sentence without using the word Linux.

I wrote a long reply to this illustrating the level of ignorance, willful ignorance it appears.

Then I deleted because the first line really is all that needs to be said. 2003 called, they want you to come back and return your slash dot UID and try again. You've missed the last 20 years of reality apparently.

Pictures are representations of a pattern of photon impacts at during a specific time period. It is true that they do not reflect reality EXACTLY as it was viewed by a human being. Thats true, but no two points in space ever see the same view of the world either. We all get different photons with different properties hitting our sensors, being preprocessed by our systems and then used for something in our brain. We all have different preprocessors, our sensors work differently, ect ect ect.

Doesn't change a damn thing though.

Some pictures are meant to represent the patterns that were present at the time the photo was taken, and other photos are manipulated into something else.

Most humans assume 'real picture' to be unmanipulated. If you want to argue like you are, then we're talking about arguing 'truth in advertising' style crap where you're trying to tell me that a definition that while technically correct, NO ONE WOULD EVER USE OUTSIDE YOUR BUSINESS PLAN, but thats ok, because you came up with a clever, evil, but not technically against the current rules way to do it.

Manipulative assholes like this are why we have to say stupid things like 'real picture' in the first fucking place. String them up by some super sensitive body part and make them out as what happens to rich assholes.

Sure ya did.

Tell me where you found a version of ms-dos that reported itself as version 7 when running the 'VER' command ... in 4k of ram ...

Defunding the police means taking away their armored personal carriers and assault rifles and stop letting them act like a completely untrained idiot army. We have a TRAINED national guard and military that knows how to go into combat without spraying bullets in the cardinal direction of someone that may or may not be doing anything wrong.

America's cops are mostly angry cowards who toggle between being so afraid of a traffic stop they hold their guns and tremble ask they ask for your ID.

They even think they see a weapon and they'll close their eyes and empty a clip in your direction- God forbid the guy standing in his own back yard doing nothing wrong reached in his pocket for his phone.

Most cops in the US want the power of being a pig, not to protect others.

They start being cops so the get to have a gun and arrest people. Not to protect them. Ask the students at Robb elementary why a 100 cops with all sorts of firearms, automatic weapons, body armor and 'training' stood down the hall cowering behind a corner while ONE KID actively shot others.

I've yet to see body cam footage of a cop discharging a firearm in a way that's acceptable. Every video shows a coward shooting in fear with dumb luck being the only reason they hit a target 10 feet away after completely emptying the clip with their eyes closed and spraying bullets in the general direction of 'the bad guy'.

American cops are rarely heros, most are controlling asshole with anger issues that couldn't find any other way to force their will on someone else. I know drug dealers and thieves that I'd trust my life to, but you'd be hard pressed to find a cop I would trust. Never once have I been involved with a cop for more than 30 manys that they weren't blatantly lying about what happened in order to make themselves look good.

Wake up call, police aren't your friends or helpers, most wouldn't know honor from a pile of dog shit.

That doesn't mean we turn a blind eye to petty crime like California is doing, but your little fantasy about it being because the dems 'refunded them' is fucking ignorant as shit

Can we rename slashdot to

404 Media presents

Or something, Jesus christ no one visits your scrappy site so you have to buy Slashdot to get eyeballs, just redirect the darn URL and stop pretending

Yea, I'm sure you would be Billy Bad Ass it it happened to you. And you'd be a big bold dickhead who quit is job on the spot, without considering his family or obligations ...

And you would do it because you think you're so amazing you can instantly get a new job in what isn't the best job market because YOU are the only one that has your amazing unique skill.

You talk a lot of shit, but I wouldn't be the least bit surprised by the way you talk if you were typing your message from your cubicle in downtown SF because they told you to get your ass back to work.

You guys that try to act like you can just do whatever you want at any time are transparent as fuck. VERY few people can do that, and you of course are one of the people that can do that ... just like the other million people with slashdot uids lower than you, or the other 6 million people with IDs higher than you ... YOU are that snowflake who has the magic ability to tell employers to fuck off ... but you don't need to cause yours is perfect.

I'm not sure what you are smoking but you live in a fantasy. People that talk shit like this general are the least capable techies I've worked with. The more you have to tell people that you're Billy Bad Ass and you get special treatment, the more clear it is that you're just another person just grinding your way through the day.

I know, I don't know anything about you or your situation ... but I don't have to, how you speak for yourself tells people everything they need to know. I'm sure you'd absolutely get hired anywhere you applied on the spot with your wonderful personality, loyalty and work ethic. How dare those bastards even question you about your leet skillz

Someone please explain to me why parents are letting these kids go to school with phones in middle school and such.

I can see it being more important once kids start driving themselves but there is no reason for a kid to have a phone at school.

The whole 'but I need to stay in contact for this emergency that might happen' excuse is bullshit - the school has had an office phone that could dial in and out since before it started accepting students in almost every school in america, the ones that are older still had phones installed 2 generations ago. There is no reason a kid should bring a phone to school before driving. Period.

They don't need a phone. They want a phone and have shitty parents. Thats different than need.

Yea, and I'm sure you have the proof of that like Trump has proof the election was stolen. What fantasy do you live in

Many people prefer the walled garden, including techies. Their stance on privacy are large part of it. I have a galaxy, but everyone else in my extended family has an iPhone because they don't want to live their life around figuring out which apps will F them. And mostly NO ONE CARES that they have to use the app store. You guys rant against Apples walled garden like whiney little bitches.

There is nothing compelling to these people about the wild wild west of apps on phones that you envision in your delusional app store utopia. Being able to install random apps that you think might be useful has exactly 0 value to them.

The walled garden is a feature that nutjobs like you seem to feel the need to destroy because God Fn forbid someone doesn't do it YOUR WAY.

You're a hypocrite, and it burns you up that every one doesn't agree with you. You're life must be miserable.

I'm fairly certain Left4Dead is the game being referenced here.

Right, because no one thought of using serial numbers from legit parts before on their knock-offs ...

QR code, crypto and NFT, now magic and it can't be scammed, can't copy the serial number from another part anymore...

Except of course you can put the same QR code on more than one device

Reality - if you don't make minimum wage with your tips, they just stop scheduling you and you make no money.

No company makes up the difference more than 2 paychecks, you either aren't that good or they can find someone who will make enough tips to not cause them to have to pay extra.

The whole minimum wage or tips to minimum wage think is BS.

You do understand that it is possible to write code without being full of exploits, right.

It is possible with proper processes and competent developers who understand wtf they are doing.

Unfortunately that's hard, most developers are not even to the ChatGPT generated code level of good, and there is pretty much 0 incentive to encourage companies to not cut corners and produce shit.