It is safer to piss off a few developers/users than to face the wrath of the US government.

Tim Walz hacker extraordinaire!

More: "It is dangerous enough to need strict government regulation. Regulations that are far to onerous for any small/new competitors to meet. Only large, established, well-funded businesses like ours can participate."

Well, that is a dumb argument for them to make. I googled it and they publicize it as "daytime talk show". They can't have it both ways.

Yes, I know Fox claimed in court that its "Fox News" program was entertainment and that "no reasonable person would believe" what was said on air. That was also bullshit.

I do not accept that just because one corp does dumb shit another should also do dumb shit. Two wrongs do not make a right.

What difference does that make? The FCC is not threatening the license of "The View", it is threatening the licenses of the American Broadcast Corporation.

FYI, "The View" bills itself as a daytime talk show -NOT A NEWSCAST.

By the rules that have been adopted, a contributor cannot take substantial implementation produced by an LLM, clean it up manually, and then treat the resulting patch as if it had been originally written by them. Once a contribution has been derived from generated content, it is still subject to the policy.

All this will accomplish is to encourage contributors to lie. Or not contribute.

You cannot put the genie back in the bottle.

You are missing the point of apprenticeship.

A licensing exam is just a test: it measures memorization and test-taking skills, not actual work quality.

The hundreds of hours of repetitive labor involved in apprenticeship builds "muscle-memory", it makes the basic parts of the job automatic. This is critical in the trades.

This is a short term demand for skilled labor. It will peak, and then it will crash.

If you have the skills, you can cash in now. But... do not invest in training to make it a career based on what you are seeing today. By the time you are trained the demand will have passed. These are skills you can use to make a life-long living, but there will be an overabundance of skilled labor when the demand drops off again. It will not be a get-rich-and-live-the-life payout. It will be competitive, and you will have to hustle for a livable wage.

I got into construction for a while in 89-90, after the loma prieta earthquake when the companies would hire anyone willing to do basic labor and train as you went. I made some cash, and learned some stuff -mostly that it was hard work and not what I wanted to do with my life :)

Eternal payments without the burden of owning property! /s

I know many people who are using old hand-me-down iPhones. They were gifted them because the trade-in value was low enough to be not worth bothering: just give it to a poor friend.

If everyone just turns in their iPhone at the lease expiration and leases the new model, Apple can control the hardware better -no danger of someone having an (ick) older model that might need support. It helps to maintain the Apple mystique if everyone is seen with only the latest generation iPhone and no older models are seen in common use.

Plain language understanding is that these sites offer online gambling.

The Federal Government has issued licenses to operate via the CFTC. Gambling on these sites is therefore legal in the United States.

Individual states may be able to regulate (but not outright prohibit) them. The CFTC may have difficulty claiming exclusive authority over these sites. It is common for states to regulate things in parallel with the federal government, as long as the states regulations are in addition to the federal regulations and do not attempt to replace the federal regulations.

It will take an act of Congress to change any of this. Good luck with that!

Probably not.

Private property owners have the right to control photography and video recording on their property. Most clubs have policies against it. They are posted on a big sign by the door. Right next to the bouncer.

You might get stopped at the door. You might get away with it. You might get asked to leave. You might get thrown out. You might get beat up. You might lose your toy in the scuffle. You might get arrested for causing a disturbance of the peace. You might get sued for any video you did capture...

Best not to try it.

I think that they have a good case against him on two counts:

1. making a false statement to federal agents when they asked for his passcode.
2. intentionally causing the destruction of any evidence which might have been on the phone.

His defense would be that he was acting under duress, and that his rights were being violated as they had no reasonable justification to search his phone.

The circuits have previously issued conflicting rulings on the application of the "border exception" to 4th amendment right to privacy with regard to the contents of cell-phones. It would wind up at the Supreme Court (many years from now), and there is a chance that the case could go against the government -setting a national precedent that the government does not want.

Prosecutors are risk averse. I expect they will make a deal or drop it altogether -eventually. Expect him to be dragged thru a couple years of court appearances. There is no reason for the government to make it easy on someone who defied them.

We know what satellites are made of: mostly aluminum, titanium, and carbon fiber, with small amounts of silicon, copper, lithium, plastics, etc.

The amount of crap that burns up in our atmosphere from naturally occurring meteorites and "space dust" dwarfs man made objects in space:
-Approximately 100 tons of natural space debris burns up in our atmosphere every day -or 40,000 tons annually.
-The total mass of all man-made objects in space is less than 20,000 tons, only about 1,000 tons of which burns up in the atmosphere annually.

It is a fart in the wind.

"I do not consent to any search or seizure. I want my attorney and will not answer any questions without my attorney present. I am invoking my right to reman silent." Then SHUT UP and wait.

Oh... and don't forget to ask: "Am I free to go?" The answer may be "yes."

If he actually did what he is accused of, then good for him! I hope the ACLU steps in to provide for his defense.

I would wish that the court would find "Fuck you, he has the right to privacy" (wishful thinking, I know...)

Even if he wins in the end, they are going to make his life hell.