Exactly.

In plain language?

BSA: "We hate open source because we can't make money from it."

Everyone else: "Yes, that's the point."

While there's an element of truth to that, it's also always been full of complete bullshit, propaganda, likes, trolls and sore losers. And that was before the bots took over.

As shown by the current box office, with the latest Star Wars regurgitation being pasted by not one but two indies.

Universe was one of the most festering pieces of garbage ever put on television. The entire premise was anti-Stargate. Instead of a competent group of dedicated heroes doing heroic things, it was a bunch of whiny, pathetic losers doing nothing.

The only character on that show that I cared whether they lived or died was Sgt Psycho, who I very much wanted to see killed by his own side, and his body rendered down for its food value, but that was clearly never going to happen. I only made it through two or three episodes before it clearly evoked the Eight Deadly Words.

Because Deere is going to be paying big bucks to lobby every government in the world to apply strict emission control standards on tractors that will be impossible to meet without all their electonics.

China is also Russia's biggest customer for oil, and both sides desperately need that to continue.

That's the point. If it comes from someone you know, who keeps it on, and it's off, you know it's not them.

It's not about identifying who they are, it's about identifying who they are not.

(I agree, though, that it's largely useless except to give Google more data to sell.)

Of course the phone companies know who is making the calls. They use ANI, not Caller ID, because ANI is used for billing purposes, rather than a placebo for the victims/customers/product to be sold. The end consumer, of course, does not have ready access to ANI info (and it would take some significant upgrades to the system for it to provide reliable information to the end consumer anyway).

If could be done, but the phone companies will never do it without being forced to.

If they can fake the caller ID, they can likely fake the text, as well.

And they'll have to pay more for it than . . . nothing for another rehash of a franchise they already own.

You're blaming me for not knowing what you refuse to tell me. Where I come from, that's one of the definitions of "asshole."

Attitudes like yours are why the "year of Linux on the desktop" is 20 years away, and always will be. Enjoy your tiny urine soaked sandbox.

High quality hallucinatory slop is still slop.

And lawsuits over false positives in 5 4 3 2 ...

Newsom doesn't give a shit. He's termed out this year, it is no longer even possible to set up a recall election in time to shorten his term by a single day.

And nothing anyone does will alter his being the next Democratic candidate for President, except, possibly, Kamala Harris deciding that the Democrats need to lose again by running (and somehow bribing or blackmailing her way back into the good graces of party leadership, which isn't likely at this point).

Plus, anybody who know their ass from a hole in the ground (which, sadly, is very few Californians) knows that the governor of this state is entirely ceremonial as long as the Democrats have a supermajority in both houses of the legislature. He can veto his heart out, and they'll just override in a straight party line vote.