50 years ago, people were saying the exact same thing about Japan.

Here, let me show you my shocked face

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This is not necessarily true. Some jurisdictions have "Theft of services" as a distinct crime.

That article is from almost 8 years ago. I'm sure we could find some other Slashdot article from 8 years ago that you commented on that you've completely forgotten about by now.

To somebody born in 2000, that probably is "similarly aged".

It's generally pretty good, especially if you want Zigbee devices from a company you've heard of. I've had a couple things not work quite right, but their newer products have been getting better.

I still don't think the incompetence is quite advanced enough to be indistinguishable from malice. Saying the photo's text is probably in a foreign language isn't wildly unreasonable if you haven't bothered to examine it, and up until a year or two ago it was more likely to be true than that the photo editing software did a bunch of garbage without the user telling it to.

They might have tried to get the facts - a supervisor in charge of the matter asks the PR person, "Did you make these alterations to this photo?" and the PR person honestly answers no. You can fairly criticize their incompetence, but there might not have been any malice.

They aren't editing an evidence photo, they're editing a copy of an evidence photo. The edited version would never be entered as evidence, only the original would be.

If the summary is correct (which isn't a guarantee, I know), they didn't straight up lie; nobody intentionally made the modifications, it was the photo editing software that tried to be helpful. You can certainly criticize them for not noticing the changes, but my guess is that whoever originally said they didn't modify the photo just asked other people and didn't personally check for themselves.

Most "don't feed the animals" rules are because people tend to feed animals "unnatural" foods like processed grains and meats, which aren't safe for the animals to eat.

On the Internet, nobody knows you're a cat?

The expression is "script kiddie". It has nothing to do with kittens.

Slashdot has always been a news aggregator with a comments section. There has never been a significant amount of original content.

Exactly what "more private information" are they demanding? You already have to upload photos of yourself.