"the officer who applied for the warrant reasonably believed he was acting properly. "
Ignorance of the law does not make it okay.

Beyond skepticism, how do you teach an AI the internet equivalent of street smarts? Gullible isn't strong enuf to describe their current state.

Phones can be lost, stolen, and hacked. My phone has never seen a single credit card number, nor have I ever logged in to any bank with it. Letting any app have access to my money is never going to happen. I know my home pc can be hacked, but it's a linux box; I know what's going on with my home network and all the devices on it. Not so for phones. I'd say Elon can kiss my ass, but he'd have to pay me a LOT to do that. Eeeewww.

This, THIS, a Thousand Times This!

Why? /s

The +10 million UID makes me suspect AI, but I like the poetry.

Humans today are growing more medial arteries in their forearms than less than a century ago. I suspect this may be due to the prevalence of typing and mousing requiring more blood flow. Evolution isn't just random DNA mutations; it's epigenetics directing what gets expressed how strongly, which exposes it to more genetic drift.

I was talking about my kindle. Fire sticks are another matter. Good luck; I wouldn't have tried.

You can install linux on them. The hardware is pretty limited, but it will still be a good ereader, and can do more now too.

If this were true they would have found Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and the Yeti by now.

Might this be patient zero for kessler syndrome?

I managed to get [first initial][common last name]@gmail. You wouldn't believe how many mis-addressed emails I get. Retirement financial details from HR, invoices, airline tickets, bank notifications: I could throw one hell of a Family Reunion. It's so common I keep a handy link to copy and paste:

Here's a relevant comic (this happens a lot):
https://xkcd.com/1279/
Hold your mouse over the picture for more info.

I was about to give you a mod point, and then you turned into an asshole. Here's a hint: when you call someone a curse word, you are, in that moment, being that very curse word. No points for you!

A friend and I were discussing this very effect one Christmas in his three cat house. He demonstrated by scooping up a cat that (unfortunately for it) was at his feet, holding it upside down at shoulder height, and releasing it. The cat landed flat on its back, stretched like it didn't give a damn, and then ran off. I think one of the reasons God made cats is to goof on us.

Yes, but... They used the craft itself. Your proposal of a nuke would give a strong, uniform push to the target. But to get it there would cost a LOT more. Nukes are heavy. Very heavy. If the target is legitimately threatening Earth, sure, throw all the money we have at it. For an experiment looking for data, this is fine.