Google bugs me a few times a week to use Chrome on iOS because I use the Gmail app...

How much of this, I wonder, is that Qualcomm has patents on things integral to the physics? So that inherently anyone else trying to make a modem has to use alternate means to make it work, which are basically poisoned by the standard so of course they won't work as well?

It can't really be that hard to make a radio from a physics standpoint, but I bet it can be difficult to work around patents. Especially if it's a "dumb" patent like "put a filter here" which should have invalidated the patent due to "anyone skilled in the art" of radio devices... but because of it competitors can't put a filter in that exact spot, so have to figure out some other place to put it which of course doesn't work as well because it isn't where you'd want it...or "we set this frequency so it can only be done using a component with this material's band gap, and we have the patent on this material" or something like that.

You have a point.

But what large group of people has there ever been where there has been no toxicity or social problems within?

Facebook, Twitter, social media in general, IRC, ICQ, news groups.... I've been around a looooong time on the internet, enough time to understand that the problem is not the platform, its the people.

How do we solve that?

Theres no real reason why those "illegal hotels" cant get properly licensed and offer the same product at the same time (ie accepting pets).

The "illegal hotels" wont do that tho because it costs them money and means inspections so their rooms arent death traps.

Inaccurate.

Broadcoms cease-and-desist to perpetual license holders was in regards to applying updates after the support part of the contract expired. The perpetual licenses are still in effect, frozen at the last update that was included under the support part of the contract - perpetual license holders can extend the support contract separately.

It's not just that.

Its the US shouting "protectionism" while simultaneously restricting a lot of tech transfer to China in an effort to try and block their development.

If China cant rely on other countries for what they need, because the US forces restrictions on other countries trade with China (see the banning of an European countries chip UV manufacturing technology sale to China), then of course they are going to reduce their reliance in all areas on other countries.

Silicon has grades of quality, and while many beaches are made of silicon, barely any of it can be used for high quality purposes.

Until recently, EVs were exempt from road user charges, but in the past couple of years they have been phased in.

Basically, for petrol vehicles the taxes are built into the fuel costs - but because diesel vehicles are used a lot for non-taxable purposes (eg farm use off of public roads), there is no road user charges on diesel fuel. Instead, NZ has the concept of a Road User Charge fee that you have to buy per 1000KM of usage on the public road - the fee varies depending on type of vehicle and weight of vehicle, so heavier vehicles pay more, as do those who travel more.

EVs weighing up to 3500kg currently have to pay a RUC charge of $76NZD per 1000KM, which is the same for diesel vehicles in the same weight class.

Yeah, sure, trust the hacker.

And it doesn't matter that it's not been released right now, that can change at any point in the future - the fact is, the data is out of the control of the original site now, so you should be acting like it's public.

Or the data can be cross referenced with data from a hacked ad provider or common JavaScript cdn provider, either now or at a later date, to provide probable identity information...

Again more bullshit from you.

Sure, devices have been known to catch fire while charging, but it's far from a normal occurrence, so you are allowed to use and charge devices in a flying aircraft.

But a damaged device is another matter entirely - stop trying to justify your own stupidity with ridiculous comparisons.

You are the idiot here.

Battery fires do not require the device to be charging, and the summary notes that the device was already showing deformations caused by operation of the seat, so the integrity of the battery was a real concern.

Diverting the aircraft was a sound decision based on safety.

Fuck people like you.

Aircraft safety is paramount, and a damaged device is a fire hazard - calling the airline stupid is the real stupidity here.

Is there any chance of Disney Lucasfilm ever being run by adults again? They announce new movies several times a year, but none of them get made, which is good, because the ones that do get made are all garbage. Well, all but one.

I can't believe they haven't damaged the company so much they have to start selling properties off, and I'll be happy when they do.

Disney delenda est.

I always laugh / cry when people say something about "stop indoctrination!" because what they really mean is "we don't want that kind of indoctrination, we want this kind!"

What we really need as a society is critical thinking skills, the ability to draw conclusions from evidence instead of reporting only supporting evidence for a preconceived conclusion and suppressing other evidence. We need to have people that can determine if the evidence is complete and conclusive, not just matching what people want emotionally.