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This sounds like something they'd make up on NCIS.

Actually what they were prosecuted for was mainly threatening to blacklist Compaq from buying OEM licenses. Thus they not only had a monopoly (with 90%+ of desktops at the time), but used that monopoly position to coerce another company, engaging in anticompetitive behavior.

I was kind of shocked to find that US law defines it as "any destructive device" and goes on to define that as "having an explosive or incendiary charge of more than one-quarter ounce." Which is 1/26th the explosive in an M67 grenade. 1/4oz is more like a couple of M80s stuck together.

As someone else said, this is presumably so they can charge people with terrorism for using basically any kind of explosive.

https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/USCODE-2010-title18/pdf/...

https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim...

That's true, we used to think of it in terms of access, but I suppose now that anyone can figuratively start their own news network, the issue is who gatekeeps the directories rather than the access.

If we're continuing the parking lot analogy, it's like there's an almost unending grid of parking lot after parking lot, and you can travel to any of them instantaneously and for free. Some parking lots have a lot of people, so you'd rather go there if you want to be heard, but nothing is stopping you from setting up shop in an empty lot, and nothing is stopping people from visiting your lot.

Now, given that major social network advertise pretty much everywhere, this might not be an entirely fair analogy. Some parking lots have ads for them posted in every other parking lot. But it's a point worth making that access is relatively egalitarian on the internet.

Wedding photography is like sports photography meets candid portrait session crossed with real estate photography, fine art, food shots, and cat wrangling. So you have my utmost respect for taking that beast on, and I'll grant that you need the best gear you can get, whatever that may be.

I think it's really a tradeoff for everyone's unique situation. You're being paid to show up in a setting you don't get to choose, and the client expects blow-it-up-for-grandma quality photos. So you're going to use the best possible gear you can, regardless of cost, weight, or bulk to compensate for the aspects you can't control.

As you say - being in a studio means strobes, which means I don't have much choice but to use a real camera. But when I do (ugh) social media content, or one of those ubiquitous photos of an employee hard at work for the background of the About Us page, I'll often switch to my phone because it gives me a comprehensive toolbox of photo and videography tools that are high enough quality for the intended destination.

And I'll also admit that whenever I do anything intended for print I shoot it in the studio with a DSLR and edit it down to the last pixel. Old habits die hard.

Alternative view from a very different kind of professional photographer -- I'm an in-house photographer who produces all of my company's marketing materials and product photography. I shoot mostly in a studio, and am using a 6D these days.

But my personal photo kit since 2010 has evolved from a pile of Nikon gear in a Pelican 1510 to a Lowepro shoulder bag, to a little body-and-two-lenses bag, to my current setup - which is an iPhone and a drone. And that setup covers about 98% of what I want to shoot.

Superwide? iPhone's got that. Panorama if I need wider. Stitching if I need even wider than that.

Nifty fifty? Got it. And Portrait Mode has gotten significantly better. Yay fake bokeh.

Underwater? I love that I can just stick my phone underwater and take photos. I had to carry a second Pelican case just for my old DSLR enclosure.

Telephoto? Ok so this is probably the biggest weakness. With a couple of exceptions where I got lucky, I've never been happy with the quality you get shooting through third party lenses or telescopes with a phone. But to paraphrase an old adage about how use a prime lens -- zoom with your drone!

I do agree that phone photos break down when you zoom in and pixel peep. They've got noise, artifacts, aberrations, all kinds of gross stuff. But you have to zoom to like 100% to see that, and the only person peeping pixels on my originals is me.

Edit: I also like that in questionable lighting conditions, my phone produces photos of a quality that would require multiple exposures and editing in photoshop to do with a regular camera.

Well that's the ridiculous part of all this. Anyone with $20 and a half hour to spare can whip up their own blog on their own domain and post anything they want. As far as accessibility goes, that website will be 100% equal to Twitter.

These private platforms are only being conflated with public infrastructure because people have such a narrow view of what constitutes "the internet." It's ridiculous for a politician's primary means of communication to be over a private platform to begin with. Could you imagine if Clinton only talked to the press via AOL chatroom? The fact that we're debating it as though Trump is being censored by CSPAN just shows how much the abnormal has become normal.

At the moment there's essentially zero debate that having as many people work from home as possible is beneficial to the people, the environment, and the economy.

These articles are introducing FUD so that when companies start recalling employees, the opposition won't be as universal as it would be otherwise.

This would actually be an interesting test of that decision and the law of Business Judgement, which normally shields corporate directors from micromagement via lawsuit.

I doubt it would pass the threshold of "grossly negligent" that you'd typically need to sue a CEO as a shareholder, but it's certainly different from an otherwise positive action that simply uses company resources - like raising salaries or making charitable donations.

In all seriousness, not giving your own brands prominent placement would be ignoring the benefits of vertical integration, leaving money on the table, and violating your fiduciary duty to stockholders.

I finally got to try one around 2002, and I have to say it completely changed my opinion. The price didn't matter, the wacky overhyped introduction didn't matter, self-balancing was such a revolutionary technology that I immediately saw where it was going.

Now I ride a Onewheel.

"Outbound recruiting" is eminently practical, but still one of the most chilling phrases I've ever heard.

It's not enough that you essentially have to know someone on the inside to get your resumé reviewed anywhere, now they're not even taking applications.

The MacBook Air has had a retina screen since the 2018 3rd gen update.

My new Microsoft Ergonomic keyboard comes with an "emoji" key in place of the right-hand Windows key that I can't remap.

False advertising is, in fact, illegal. If in your opinion they've crossed the line into actual factual inaccuracy, it's your right to take legal action against them, or request that your state's attorney general do so on your behalf.

If, however, one is beset by insects and doesn't have many child visitors, the safety can be disabled by moving the switch to the unsafe position and putting a screw into the plastic next to it so it can't re-engage.

I also note there's no mention of recouped legal costs, or any kind of penalty.

They filed a frivolous lawsuit with the intent to harass a critic, and have faced no consequences for doing so.

Whether the restriction is reasonable or not is up for debate. The issue is that they created a vehicle that only works within a specific geographic area, then failed to document that area or warn users that it existed.

I guarantee on the first day, at the first meeting, someone said "well what happens if they drive a car out of cell range?" and they were immediately shut down.

All of these devices have been reverse-engineered and packet sniffed to death, and no one has ever produced any evidence that they're doing anything other than what it says on the box.

While I do appreciate that the cited sources in their paper, I would have appreciated actual information security papers rather than mainstream media articles.

Bit of a chicken and egg issue. It's hard to convince people that this is a viable option until a third party receives a critical mass of votes at least once.

It seems a little irresponsible for an academic publication to make a claim like

> always listening, recording, and possibly saving sensitive personal information

without any evidence to support it. I get that they're just setting up context for their device, but they're also making some pretty serious (and widely disproven) accusations.

Yes, blocking 911 calls is inconsiderate.

My connection goes:

MacBook > Thunderbolt dock > USB-C to Dual DisplayPort > 2x DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort > 2x Mini DisplayPort to Dual-Link DVI > 2x Cinema Displays

Ridiculous but effective.

I encountered most of these issues, with the additional one that some games would force themselves into 3840x2160 regardless of scaling, and then run terribly.

Eventually I just bought a ~2008 30" Cinema Display and have been incredibly happy with it.

Amazon?

"Someday we'll find out that cell phones cause cancer and it'll be a big scandal" is possibly #2 only to "Apple is dying" in tech news reruns.

I tried it and I'm pretty sure that's all it does. There's also no way to import your own SVGs.

Kinda seems like the blog post was just there to sell the app, which is just there to sell 'premium' icons.

It's almost as though the publisher of an anti-malware app has some motivation to exaggerate the problem, and knows how to take advantage of tech reporting's never-ending appetite for negative Apple news.