I suspect a lens made entirely of sapphire glass would have pretty shitty optics. Using it as a cover would allow improved scratch protection and retain acceptable optical properties. Not much different than putting a lens protector over a camera lens. What's the problem?

So, someone shitposted on buzzfeed and someone else actually noticed?

Get out.

"..leaving dozens of Canadians without Internet."

I read somewhere that there was no contract but rather Akamai was providing the service pro-bono.

If that's the case, and it was starting to impact paying customers, it's an understandable move.

The country still has more than 1 million cars running on old-fashioned gasoline

You mean they all just don't swing from vine to vine to get around? Who knew?

....and NO headphone jack.

Man's best friend, my ass. Hahahaha

This.

So now, they can start throttling even sooner!

Which is why you should reboot your phone (or power it off) if you're expecting an inspection.

The scientists are giving them the finger?

Pretty neat idea but in every air-gapped environment I've worked in, getting the cellphone or recording device in would be the more difficult portion of this exercise.

If it's reflective of the content being indexed, the only way to "correct this bias" is to add bias.

You can't keep arguing for equality while at the same time highlighting differences.

It just wasn't in California so no one cared.

This testing actually started last month. We got notification through several DHS related channels.