In my opinion, that message would be lost on the bulk of Americans who seem to believe that the back door would only ever be used for good. The UK is our ally and can be trusted etc. A blunt statement equating the request to that of a country that has no illusions of privacy casts a wider net, and captures the nuance of the erosion of privacy that is commonly sought by governments around the world and at home.

If this was a criminal court you might have a valid point, but you already know that it isn't. What do you think he should have said verbatim to keep people like you from attacking his comment? His message was on point and aligns with the Slashdot I remember. It's sad that Slashdot people are more hateful of Trump than respectful of a right to privacy. The corporate media has done it's job well.

Maybe instead of spewing hate you could stay on message about the loss of privacy the world leaders seem bent on engineering. It is fine to despise Trump, but by turning the debate into another Trump is sweaty and eats fast food cesspool, you are doing nothing other than shifting the conversation from the real problem and helping the media gloss over the painful truths. Trump is not the problem here. What he said made sense and people should recognize that this is not a partisan issue. If any world leader stands up for privacy, we should celebrate. It doesn't mean that world leader is not an asshat by every other metric.

ArchieBunker.,..Do you think that the UK government should have backdoor access to all encryption? Do you hate Trump so much that his declaring the request as something you would see in China as being abhorrent to your values? It seems to me people on this site used to think things like the Clipper Chip were wrong. Now when the acting President of the United States condemns a strikingly similar request what you do is spew hate against him versus his message. Even if you hate him this is not a sentiment that used to be derided on slashdot.

Wyden was the only person on the Senate Intelligence committee to have the integrity to ask Clapper under oath about the Government Agencies spying on citizens. Partisan bullshit aside, that doesn't sound like a socialist to me. Yes there was a time when some Democrats were fighting the surveillance state alongside a few Republicans.

Nixon through executive action (no vote from congress) removed the convertibility of the dollar into gold. This effectively took us off the gold standard and set us as a fiat currency. I think the president has capacity to make significant changes to currency.

The surface pro is an expensive device with extensive hardware QC issues and is tethered to an Operating System that sucks when used as a tablet that fits a specific niche. What is the killer application on Windows are users unable to take advantage of when using a laptop vs a Surface?

Well, out of the thousands that we deployed in our offices people couldn't wait to get rid of them. Almost none of them use them as a tablet. I had multiple surface computers of which none of them worked well. Endless driver issues and GPU not being recognized when connected (Surface laptop pro's) etc. Most end users decided they wanted a laptop and an iPad.

Its actually a Windows PC that tries to pretend it is a tablet. Most people are buying them as a laptop/pc first and liking that it has an option to run as a tablet. Then they try to use it like a tablet and realize that it actually operates like a pc with touch capacity and not much more.

How is the battery life on that Intel CPU/nvidia gpu? The benefit of the ARM cpu is that it sips electricity vs the intel /nvidia chugging those watts.

What were they saying that CoPilot was intended for? If it is screenshotting your desktop/use every few seconds, when you are doing things like composing an email or writing a research paper, what do they do with that data onther than ingest it for now and then give you nothing in return? It reads to me like CoPilot is just a way for MS to get enough info out of you to help them and to monetize ways to automate your routine.

Why is a CEO the easily replaceable role in a company? I'd say AI is suited to easily replace jobs like data entry. Maybe AI will change technical writing. How does AI do a corporate acquisition with negotiations and all the trimmings?

Youth are not going to Facebook. The age of the average user is increasing. The youth have spoken moved on and their younger replacements have not returned.

Take some ownership and responsibility. It is your fault. If you are stupid enough to be swayed by the media and lying politicians, own it. Unless you have the intellect of a fifth grader you own your own ignorance. Carlin wasn't wrong. He knew that his audience were pathetic weak willed creatures that let people like you say it isn't your fault. It is your fault.

The issue with Biden wasn't his age, it was the cognitive decline that came with his aging. I suspect you realize this and want to fabricate a worthless argument in bad faith.