It doesn't say they got arrested, but apparently the person in question didn't turn off the Bluetooth device when asked to. Ignoring or disobeying the instructions of flight attendants is a federal offense.

There were movies but they weren't very good.

From the 1700s, Magic lanterns had moving parts, and there were magic lantern shows.

The Phenakistoscope was a kind of simple movie, and was projected on a stage by the mid 1800s.

The Zoopraxiscope was used with a projector from 1880 in public lectures. It is of interest because it used actual photographs.

The Kinetoscope was a little later, by 1892.

If your company relies on "oral tradition" to maintain documentation, then your company may not survive with or without AI.

"Oral tradition" is the engineering process of knowledge being lost. That is to say it's not engineering.

Maybe he should have made a backup earlier.

Apple's got many faults, but their hardware has a very premium feel. I presume this is where Dell's additional hundred bucks went, because Apple's used to doing that and Dell isn't. They think they are, but they aren't normally as good at it. But they're going to deliver this PC with Windows, and there might be Linux issues — there's no way to know until it's in reviewers' hands exactly what hardware is actually used around the parts we know about. And unless you specifically need Windows, it's very hard to imagine getting excited about spending more money to run that.

I have to admit that I find the lack of a headphone jack offensive, but I wouldn't even consider buying a Dell that's trying to be a Macintosh over an actual Macintosh, and I say that as someone with very little respect for Apple. I don't hate Dell, but I've never been impressed by them either. I would describe them as "less terrible than HP".

The fact that it's a garbage off-brand speaker makes it more likely that it's possible, because people with valuable brands are the ones who are most likely to want to prevent you from changing it, and also the most likely to actually design their own product internals or have them designed to spec. The cheap brands are most likely to grab a complete PCB off the "shelf", or even more likely than that, just have their crappy brand put on someone else's complete product.

But, and it's a big one, they won't be offering the user the tools to do it with. They'd have to figure out who actually made it and/or what chip is on it in order to identify the tool, then they'd have to track it down, then they'd have to maybe short something on the PCB because it's not necessarily as easy as holding down a button, they'd have to do it on a windows PC or at least by attaching a USB hub to a windows VM so that when the device inevitably changes IDs during the reflashing procedure it remains connected, or with some kind of reflashing tool which is cheap but which they definitely don't own.

You are assuming that some garbage off-brand bluetooth speaker allows such things. I mean, these are people so stupid as to make the default device name "Bomb" and not think through it for even half a second as to why they probably shouldn't do that.

Some, you can. It all depends on what the device manufacturer allows changing in the firmware.

Or, why would a potential terrorist put a bomb on a plane with an active Bluetooth beacon advertising a bomb, if they don't want it found pre-explosion?

The whole thing is stupendously idiotic. Even if someone built a bomb to put on a plane, they wouldn't use Bluetooth. They'd use WiFi and have it automatically connect to the in-flight WiFi SSID once it's in the air, and then use the pathetic security that allows you to download an app from the app stores to breach the router to get to the Internet.

Nobody intent on doing actual damage would have left a Bluetooth device beaconing "Bomb" because that would be pathetically stupid. Like, even more stupid than the shoe bomb guy.

Oh don't worry. We have connected aircraft now, and ESP32s are cheap!

Next time he'll name his bluetooth device "SUPER NOT A BOMB" and I'm sure he'll be just fine.

For their hardware. When you want to move to someone else's hardware, will it still be solved?

He was clearly only trying to differentiate to determine the scope. Save your professional offense for an offensive situation.

This is the first stage of the Mole People coming up to take over and declare their edict of only eating sub-surface agricultural products.

Better get to enjoy beets!

How does a surface sinkhole get caused by a change of direction in magma flow, in your mind?

That's surface erosion. Even in the case of some crazy change in Coriolis effect, it isn't going to cause a local sink hole or mud slides.