(And Google. Duh.)

Weren't they one of the biggest players in that space? Who's left in the premium tier, Samsung and Motorola?

Porsche 964: https://www.elferspot.com/en/magazin/porsche-active-aerodynamics-paa/

Later, also the Audi TT (most models): https://press.audi.co.uk/assets/documents/original/23095-AudiUK00016101AudiTTSCoupéFullUKText.pdf

Probably others, but the 964 was the vehicle I remember most distinctly.

Back in 2013, where it got left.

I'm neither condoning nor condemning what any participant did, but I found this part (emphasis added) a bit ... Well. Given the various Civil Rights Acts in place in the U.S., e.g., the federal Civil Rights Act of 1964 2000e-2 and Pennsylvania's 1955 Act 222, both prohibit employment discrimination based on sex ... So kinda, yeah, they had a right. Whether or not it was appropriate for them to exercise it, I'm not going to dive into.

Hell, my Con Law professor was saying that in '02, and I'm sure he'd been saying it for years.

Strictly speaking, that’s true. But. BHO expanded Title VII by executive order (see, e.g., E.O. 13988), to include “gender identity.” But that was in the wake of the SCOTUS ruling in Bostock v. Clayton County , 590 U.S.—(2020), expanding the statutory term “sex”to include “gender identity” (and sexual orientation). So while technically no federal statutes protect “gender or gender identity,”in practice, under Bostock (and of course various state laws; the most populous state in the country having, e.g., the Unruh Civil Rights Act, which expressly does protect “a person’s gender identity and gender expression [a person’s gender-related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the person’s assigned sex at birth].”

You're aware that basically every laptop coming out the past several years, from MacBook Air and Pro models to Lenovo ThinkPads (basically, anything but gaming laptops with power-sucking GTX GPUs etc) are using USB-C PD to charge, right? Current, widely available devices allow for 100W (20V @ 5A PDO), and up to 240W was standardized a couple of years ago.

The script (and that dialog) was written by Lawrence Kasdan and Leigh Brackett, and the movie was directed by Irvin Kershner...

It is known.

https://www.businessinsider.com/smart-tv-data-collection-advertising-2019-1

https://www.cnet.com/tech/home-entertainment/as-smart-tvs-become-the-only-option-your-privacy-choices-fizzle-out/

https://www.theverge.com/2019/10/11/20908128/smart-tv-surveillence-data-collection-home-roku-amazon-fire-princeton-study

https://www.wired.com/story/save-money-buying-dumb-smart-tv/

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/01/smart-tvs-sony-lg-cheap/672614/

I look forward to seeing the product page and "sold out" button... :) https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/22/07/01/218236/pine64-is-working-on-a-risc-v-single-board-computer#

iTunes or ... Floola, or AmaroK, or gtkpod, or gPodder, or Rhythmbox (this is the one I use, to manage music on my iPod Mini, in Lubuntu), or aTunes, or Yamipod, or Banshee, or ...

The first iPods used Firewire, an IEEE standard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_1394

Later iPods used the 30 pin connector, which was pretty trivial to unwind (https://pinouts.ru/PortableDevices/ipod_pinout.shtml), and could be sourced from any number of sources. It's also worth remembering that, at the time, pretty much *every* device used a different proprietary connector (looking sideways at my old Palm Treo, Palm Pilot, Samsung and Motorola flip phones, etc), or had basic connectors (SanDisk MP3 player with a Mini USB B socket) that could *only* be used to manage the media, with no audio transmission or playback control etc.

There are 7 generations of Nano, only the 5th gen had a camera. I had a 1st gen (no camera), and then 6 years later (2011) Apple recalled it and gave everyone a 6th gen (no camera, Apple Watch-ish form factor). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPod_Nano

Pedantic, but, “the late 1990s dotcom crash” didn’t happen in the late 1990s. I was there, Gandalf The dot-com boom survived through the quadruple digit calendar year flip (LNX set an IPO record in December 1999; I had some code in the Linux kernel and so I got to participate :)). https://www.wired.com/1999/12/va-linux-sets-ipo-record/

The bubble started to burst immediately after peaking in March 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#Bursting_of_the_bubble

Thing is, with iOS, you can do exactly the same thing. Case in point: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/manual-raw-camera/id917146276

The IIgs had a separate keyboard (in fact, it was the launch device for ADB).