The ruling might not help Rawls very much, however. The government says it has piles of other evidence suggesting that Rawls possessed child pornography. For example, last week's ruling notes that Rawls' own sister testified that "Rawls had shown her hundreds of images of child pornography on the encrypted external hard drives, which included videos of children who were nude and engaged in sex acts with other children." Rawls' smartphone also contained "approximately twenty photographs focusing on the genitals of Rawls' six-year-old niece."

So then why go through all this trouble about the hard drives? Almost seems like they were more interested in setting a precedent for unencryption than nailing this guy.

"The government argued that this provision didn't apply to Rawls because he was a suspect, not a witness. Also, the rule applies to a "proceeding before or ancillary to any court or grand jury." But because the government hadn't formally charged Rawls with a crime, the government argued, there was no court proceeding under way."

Shouldn't the burden for imprisonment be higher if someone is not formally charged?!

Looking forward to this hitting Fedora. I don't know if it will come to F31 or if I'll have to wait until F32 (if so, I'd rather wait than add a separate repo, etc). A lot of the changes I'm reading about are minor, but welcome. Things like a more streamlined system settings application, etc.

I remember when Windows 98 USB support finally matured...it was the first time (in my memory at least) that devices beyond a mouse or keyboard were truly plug and play, and something like an external drive could be mounted and unmounted without something like a specific script or a reboot. The first time I saw a USB socket/cable I thought "wow this is odd, where are all the pins and the screws to hold the cable in?"

I have a feeling most of the people supporting this rule "to protect consumers" probably didn't buy an iPhone in the first place. I don't see the issue with just...not buying the phone that has the adapter you don't like, as opposed to enforcing some arbitrary rule. I have had iPhones over the years (since the first one) and have had the lightning connector since the first model that had it, and have never had an issue finding a cheap lightning to USB cable almost everywhere I've gone. For most of the time I've had lightning connectors, most of the other devices used micro-USB which I found to be flimsier, easier to break, and can only be plugged in in one orientation...I understand that USB-C has addressed a lot of those gripes, but it's far from ubiquitous.

What about everyone with Android phones that have micro-USB ports? Are they getting "constantly dicked over by capitalist greed" considering that USB-C is hardly a universal standard? I totally understand a preference for one over the other, but I really don't understand the vitriol surrounding it and desire to have one's preferred charging cable port legislated. (I don't understand the vitriol between iPhone vs. Android either, some people prefer different phones, so what?) What happens when someone (be it Apple or one of the many Android manufacturers) develops a connector better than USB-C if it becomes an official EU-sanctioned standard? What hoops do they have to go through in order to be able to manufacture and use their new, better connector, or will at that time everyone be forced to put up with USB-C (and forego a better option) for years as the slow cogs of government warm up to changing the "international standard" port?

I also think the comments equating this to standardizing electrical outlets are asinine - there's a big difference between the safety issues inherent in poorly manufactured/not matching basic electrical outlets (and the dodgy adapters, hacks, and workarounds that would be entailed before any standardization) and the charging cable one prefers for their phone or tablet.

At the end of the day, I don't understand why "if you prefer USB-C, buy a USB-C device" is so unacceptable to some.

I think this is heavily dependent on the merchant.

At local grocery stores, for instance (in my case, Harris Teeter) it's a royal pain because the machine has to weigh and confirm every item ("please place item in bagging area" or "unexpected items in bagging area" happens a lot) and if you have more than just a basket's worth of groceries they won't fit in the bagging area so you have to get help when you move things into the cart to be able to scan more items. I avoid these for anything more than a handful of items because even counting the time waiting in line the manned lane is vastly quicker. Especially if you're buying booze...then you have to wait for someone to come over and type in their code and your birthdate.

Home Depot, on the other hand, has a scanner gun, which works very quickly. If your cart is full (or there are heavy items in the cart) you just shoot them with the gun, and bag some of the items at the end of the transaction. I can fly through those quicker than the manned lanes because I know which side of the cart the barcodes are on my large items, etc. That's why at that particular store I always go through self-checkout.

If done well, self-checkout is awesome. If done poorly, it's a painful process.

I wonder if this is where all those Ray Ban bullshit ads were coming from. They were prevalent for a really long time, but I haven't seen one in a while.

to turn this off.

I don't think it's fair to claim Windows being in charge of updates as an automatic updater while also claiming the problems that come with/because of it are a "Windows problem, not an Edge problem." Love or hate Edge, it seems to me it should be one or the other.

Yes.

And you can close your account at a bank. I have yet to discover how to delete all the data the Square compiles solely because of the times I've used a debit card at something like a food truck or small business. Square is the single reason why I've started to go back to carrying cash.

I'm sure there are some situations that I am wrong about...but I feel like if you can't trust your spouse/significant other to have their own Facebook profile, it should say a lot about your relationship.

"Why pirate when you can easily have access to 5+ streaming services at $12-15 apiece, each with varying libraries with little to no overlap, and offering service for different subsets of available devices?"

than they do building laptops.