Only if you have something that someone else needs, such as oil. Without that, nobody will bother.

Given how corruption usually works, they probably sold them to some even worse third-world country and deposited the resulting money in a private Swiss bank account.

No, that's actually the only correct interpretation of those words in English. If someone's actions caused the leaking to stop, then a native English speaker would say, "After Half a Decade, the Russian Space Station Segment Leaks Are Fixed" or "... Leaks Have Been Stopped/Fixed". (Or they would avoid passive voice and explicitly say who stopped it.)

Saying that something stopped is different from saying that something was stopped. That helping verb indicates that there is another actor other than the leak who caused the event. Without it, the only correct way to interpret that sentence is that the leak stopped on its own, and that nothing was done to make it stop.

This headline would have caused my newswriting professor's forehead veins to rupture.

Yep, and those aren't high-vulnerability jobs, making this a strawman argument - some example of high-vulnerability jobs would be graphic artists, voice actors, and translators.

I'm not sure how that's possible. Unless Wikipedia is wrong and Google search is equally failing to find a later version, the last version of iOS that the iPhone 5s supports is iOS 12 (2018). The last version of iOS 12 ever released was iOS 12.5.7, which was released in January of 2023.

Are you sure you're not talking about the iPhone 6s?

The last security update for the iPhone 5s was in January of 2023 — three years ago.

Security updates.

At no point did I claim that size doesn't matter. I said thickness doesn't matter, at least within reason. Width and height both matter a LOT, because they dictate how hard it is for you to hold it in your hand and control the phone without having to use both hands. Thickness does not meaningfully affect usability unless you are carrying it in your pocket, and only to a limited extent even then.

What I'm asking for isn't even difficult. You have three dimensions, and they are mostly interchangeable. If you need more board space, just stick a second board behind the first with an interconnect, and you're done, so long as you're not sending high-speed data or something. If you need more battery space, stack them front to back. Use the third dimension instead of being a moron who focuses on making products thinner — something that exactly NONE of your customers are asking for, BTW, and so many design problems become so much simpler.

Now to be fair, the phone I want will *massively* piss off all of the app UI designers who try to cram too damn many buttons into their user interfaces as they try to find ways to scale back down to a 5s-sized screen, but that's somebody else's problem.

Only unlocks 40% of the time, and that's without a mask. 10% with. Requires you to look towards the phone, which makes it impossible to unlock it while you're pulling it out of your pocket before paying attention to it. And the lack of a home button means a much clumsier overall experience. Home becomes swipe up from the bottom, which is hard to do with a case. Double-home becomes a very careful swipe up from the bottom, being careful not to go too far, and you will screw it up two times out of every three.

I'd also be okay with a 5s-sized foldable with a screen on the outside and a home button. Unfold if you want a bigger screen.

Yes, please. And give one version touch ID and a physical home button. I still hate the gesture-based interface even after using it for a long time. It is way too easy to accidentally do things that you did not intend, and way too clunky to do things that you do intend, like swiping to kill an app or turning on the flashlight. The need to touch the screen right at the edge is problematic with cases, which makes the design even worse.

And Face ID still isn't half as reliable for me as Touch ID was, and worse, demands attention, or at least having my face pointed in the general direction of the phone, to work, which means I can't unlock the phone while doing something else. That extra several seconds of latency used to not matter, because I could be doing something else while waiting for the phone to unlock, only occasionally glancing at it to see if it had finished. But with Touch ID, you incur the entire latency penalty by design.

I'd also like it to be smaller — no bigger than the 6s, and ideally closer to the 5s. That way, I can usably operate it one-handed. Even the most recent "Mini" is huge from my perspective, at almost an inch larger in the diagonal direction than the 6s, which was already too big.

What I want is an iPhone 17 Micro that's about the size of an iPhone 5s, but with the same cameras and CPU and maximum storage as the iPhone 17 Pro model has, so that I'm not having to settle for a cut-rate feature set in exchange for a usable form factor. If it has to be thicker for battery life reasons, that's fine. It's going in a case with a holster anyway, and getting clipped to a holster on my belt. Thickness doesn't matter. Features matter. Width matters. Height matters. Usability matters.

It's the same argument every single time IPv6 is mentioned. "I prefer NAT because it gives me security". People just don't understand the difference between a stateful firewall and a NAT.

I stopped trying to explain this. You'd think that the slashdot crowd would understand some basic networking concepts, but nope.

Actually yes, Ukraine intentionally attacks shadow fleet tankers when they're empty to avoid environmental disasters.

Some houses are inaccessible, sure, but there are plenty of disabled-accessible hotels and condos and stuff.

That's probably a third of SF. And before you say "make them one way", that is likely to increase pedestrian deaths.

True. But buses also use those streets. So while you could theoretically do this, you'd have to start by building a proper subway system. The cost of doing so would likely be infeasible. It would probably be orders of magnitude cheaper to build a second-story pedestrian walkway system with stairs and elevators down to the sidewalks in every block. :-)

Additionally, there's the ADA problem. Having large distances between the nearest road and housing or businesses can make cities inaccessible for the elderly and disabled. I suspect that the folks advocating for car-free cities have never tried pushing an elderly parent in a transfer chair around the streets of SF. The real-world fallout from such designs would be devastating, IMO.