You must be American, you think 100 years is a long time

Tim Cook thought AR (augmented reality) was the future, that's why he started putting in the beefy hardware. Turned out the future was in chatbots.

Now Tim is not in charge anymore, the things he liked at Apple are like old leaves flowing away in soft autumn wind.

If this persists China will simply build more fabs, and more quickly than anyone else. So what if it's old-ish tech, at least they will have it.

That was a failure, but the first failure was not recognizing it wasn't ready for a research project either. When they realized it was going to have to be heavy and bulky, they should have stopped and either iterated the design again, or smarter IMO, waited for tech to improve (or push it) and then done another design. OTOH Apple can afford to lose the money...

Glad to hear they are still kicking. I hear there's also some Linux-based stuff now but I haven't seen it yet, I'm afraid I'm not much in the market for new cars.

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What code they are based on is irrelevant. Slashdot still has a very simple interface (I am using it right now, it is still the best interface) which is easy for bots to interface to using the DOM. Whether it's Perl or C# or Ada underneath makes no difference.

The real question, therefore, is why are we still being subjected to this cowardly anonymous bullcrap? This management has turned off AC posting before, and you could say they turned it back on only because post counts tanked, but have you seen post counts recently? It's now horribly rare to break 100.

Slashdot needs a major overhaul, and I don't mean of the code though that will of course have to change. I mean specifically that mod abuse and AC trolling are driving away every serious poster. My thanks to those of you who still remain, but most of you post less and less, not that I blame you. I presume you're here less, too.

He tricked them into doing it, if anything that will work against him. They are allowed to lie to you, you are not allowed to lie to them.

Because they're idiot followers and they were awed by an RDF

Yeah but just for protection from the cops

Yes of course it is a police state, but yes of course it's stupid to pretend you don't live in one when you do

The "places that are not populated enough for them to profit" is the reason for the subsidy - the government wants to have equal service to everyone, so they are lowering the cost to bring them into service. Just the same as when electrification was a thing.

The whole thing is bullshit, because for it to be evidence of a crime, there has to be an actual crime to investigate.

Where's the probable cause?
Where's the due process?
Why is he being charged with obstruction of justice, when there is no predicate crime to investigate? Evidence of fucking what?

Unless they can answer that, this goes the same way as the Subway sandwich assault guy, the olympian reflecting pool vandal, and the seashells prosecution of Director Comey.

Yes. Here is why:

If the police are at your door with a warrant, they have already shown sufficient probable cause to a judge to show that a search warrant is justified. Due process is being followed.

If the police are demanding your password, you as a citizen of the United States have a constitutional right under the 5th amendment, and under legal precedent (Doe v United States, 1988) to tell them to go fuck themselves:

Grabbing some dude's phone at the border under the guise of border control, when that dude is a US citizen and has shown documented proof; and then demanding his password to unlock it is a violation of his 5th Amendment rights. Moreover, there was no probable cause for the seizure of property, and without a court order for the retrieval of evidence (a search warrant) it remains his non-legally-encumbered property to do with as he pleases, including giving them the password that is a metaphorical string tied between the doorknob and a shotgun trigger.

There was no crime for them to investigate, and therefore no probable cause to issue the illegal search. There was no court order from a Constitutionally empowered judge to approve agents of the government trampling this man's rights.

HTH.