There are no "computer problems", the system was never built with the ability to process tariff refunds in the first place (or so claims someone on Twitter who claims to have been involved with building it).
So in order to process the refunds that have been ordered by the court, they need to write a totally new feature into the system that was never intended and that no-one is paying to have written (because obviously the government isn't going to pay for something that is only required because they lost in court)

You are never going to get enough people interested (signing petitions, writing their elected representatives, protesting in the streets, whatever) to overcome lobbying, campaign contributions (i.e. bribes) and other pressure and convince the current US federal administration to say no to mergers like this.

But do apps that care a lot about security (e.g. streaming media/content apps that rely on DRM or banking apps) run properly in this sandbox environment?

And what about people who visit the state? Will people who go to Colorado be in violation of the law for having a device without age verification?

I get a lot of DVDs from a large bi-annual charity book sale. Much cheaper than buying things new (especially for TV series).

The game Command & Conquer 4: Tiberian Twilight by EA requires logging in in order to play the single player (campaign and skirmish). Would this "stop killing games" mean that if EA ever shuts down the login servers, they would have to patch the game to remove the login requirement?

Last I checked, weed is still very much illegal in the UK (where all the pubs have gone bust) so "legal weed" is not the reason for the pubs closing.

Nuclear seems to me like the logical choice for a country like China to be building. Doesn't pollute the way coal does, they have a well established nuclear power industry, they don't have all the red tape and anti-nuclear BS that western countries do (anyone who complains can be thrown in the Chinese version of a Gulag or whatever it is the Chinese government does to people they don't like these days) and they have plenty of places they could put the nukes that are away from populated areas and big cities.

Instead of taking a smartphone to the moon, they should've bringing a proper high end DSLR or mirrorless and some good glass. The cameras they used for Apollo were high end for the time, if we are going back it makes sense to use di.ilarlybhigh end cameras with full-frame sensors and good glass rather than a phone.

Charging ongoing money for features that have ongoing costs (such as costs for cellular data connectivity, costs for the work to keep maps up-to-date, costs for licensing media, costs to improve software etc) makes sense and I am OK with it.

Charging ongoing money for something that doesn't have ongoing costs (like the heating elements built into the car at the factory that should never need to be touched for the life of the car) does not.

We all know that any physical release of a game as big as GTA6 is going to need a day-one patch anyway. So make it that the game wont play until it's been patched.

If disks leak early, they will be useless to anyone until release day anyway.

The moment you have anything that talks to a cellular network, its automatically a tracking device because the network knows exactly where you are (and almost certainly who you are as well)

Here in Australia there is a big distinction between "motor vehicles" and "e-bikes". An e-bike is not allowed to travel faster than a certain speed, the motor can't be more than a certain power and it must be pedal-assist (i.e. there can't be a way to constantly run the motor without pedaling).

Anything outside of that criteria is treated like a motorbike with all that entails (motorbike drivers license, vehicle registration etc).

I want to see a law passed (in a jurisdiction that Apple can't ignore or stop.doung business in) that requires Apple to allow true sideloading. That is, apps installed on the iPhone without any requirement for Apple to even know the app exists (let alone have any approval or veto over it) or collect any money from that app (regardless of whether the app charges up front fees, in-app purchases or whatever).

The problem with takedown notices or other legal processes is that the soccer matches will be over before you can even start the proceedings.