I don't know how they manage to mux all that I/O. It must be several hundred phones (maybe thousands) all connected to one computer.

The one you saw is probably the fake one. However, Chinese phone farms do exist and they advertise in the open.

Sorry about the obvious typo.

Are you talking about the average child-molestation-sentence compared to the average sentence for testing fraud of this scale, or are you cherry-picking cases?

Also, context mayters: If you are looking at the average child molestation care, is the average case one where a 20 year old is busted with a 15 year old girlfriend (where you could make a case for 35 months being a reasonable average sentence) or is the average more like a 50 year old serial rapist who molested dozens of people 12 or younger (where 350 months may be considered too lenient)?

What would really make them worth something is an easy upgrade path to an operating system that was still getting security updates.

Google, Apple, and the major phone vendors could score big PR points be extending security updates to 10 years on products introduced since 2016. In the long run PR points can translate into customer loyalty which can translate into "Step 4: PROFIIT!" in a non-sarcastic way.

Please, find me an example of this fantasy.

Here you go.

For a slightly less gruesome story, this guy misrepresened himself for years, lying about his credentials.

There is a market for parts that aren't crypto-locked to or residing on the motherboard.

Cheap small usable high-quality camera for my next project? Yes please.

is and always will be impossible.

Even car-only phones would've benefited from early-1980s-style cellular analog radio if the tech was available in big cities in the 1950s.

I remember reading somewhere that Apple kind of foresaw this coming and purchased extra memory so they wouldn't have to raise prices as long as possible.

It looks like they've reached the end of their extra supply.

That timeframe is ridiculous. There's no reason why the courts can't operate more efficiently than they do other than that the lawyers and judges have no incentive to move things along.

Tell us you don't know how courts operate without telling us you don't know how courts operate.

The parties have to file the appropriate paperwork and there are specified timeframes when they have to be done. For example, the plaintiff files to start the case, the defendant generally has 20 - 30 days to respond. Then the plaintiff has additional days to respond to the defendant's response. And so on. This doesn't even take into consideration the discovery process. Just getting to the point to start a trial can take up to a year with all the back and forth filings, motions, and so on. In many cases, one or both parties will wait until the last moment to file just under the last possible filing date to drag things out.

Then the court has to schedule the case in between all the other cases they're dealing with. The parties may be ready to go to trial on April 1st, but if the first available slot in the court's docket isn't until June 1st, guess when the trial starts.

1) assume the AI may or may not be lying, so ignore anything it says
2) remove or block connections to the outside world
3) remove electrical power

Really, only #3 is needed but #2 may be faster than removing batteries. #1 is only there as a reminder, in case what the AI is trying to stall you achieving #2 or #3.

Now, if your evil AI is moving around like a robot or drone, or replicating itself like a virus, then you have more work to do.

Um, okay.

... will be this but priced at $99.

People who are too young to have used a Commodore or who were adults when it came out and who never had one at home, university, or work come to mind.

But yeah just about any American who was school-aged between the late 1970s and the late 1980s probably used a Commodore computer or gaming system somewhere. Throw in the Amiga users, K-12 teachers, and it's a whole lot of people.