... so maybe they'll get that down pat someday, before Huawei steamrollers them. Maybe they can buy a light field imaging startup or two.

"If you want to apply the rule of law ..." I don't think they do, man.

If so - please don't.

... hire halfway competent computer people.That would work.

... news would be if they didn't do stuff like that, like every secret service ever, and everywhere.

what I like about stories like this one is the aspect of missed opportunities. In one sentence: Use sea water instead of drinking water, and, hey presto - desalination. Not that simple, you say? I say: That's what the "engineering" in "engineering company" is for.

... how Cuba, being embargoed and unable to purchase regular antibiotics, specialised in this, and was so successful they had the odd US tourist visiting to get treatment for some intractable infection that western medicine just wasn't quite up to. Thought that was amusing then, still do now.

Do you hear a whining sound when you accelerate? No? Then it has CV joints.

"[...] uses the signal protocol, which has no such weakness." well ... to be precise, no such weakness that is known to the public. Let's be real.

Bullshit. Try that argument on Twitter, but on /. people recognise your implicit argument that reparability and theft-profing are mutually exclusive for what it is: Bullshit.

Maybe, just maybe, Apple thinks it'll give them a worthwhile advantage over their competitors - but it's far more likely they want to "support" it, so they can influence it, so they can change it, just a tiny little bit, so as to render it as useful as a eunuch on a stud farm.

... bat-shit insane than launching a Twitter competitor as app-only, is to launch it only in some regions worldwide, and not all at once. This thing deserves to fail, hard.

... will it do FSD?

They ... didn't play by the rules. Did you not read the summary, or are you just an Amazon apologist bot?

...an Angular app that contains nothing but the framework itself is supposed to be 9MB, and that's the way we like it, ya Luddite.