I was going to push back and say that those are things that Apple's own products also don't make use of (other than the iPhone itself), so excluding those from third party use isn't giving Apple an advantage in selling additional products, which is what I think the whole complaint is about. If Apple is using restricted APIs to sell additional stuff that works with iPhone, but competitors can't, I can see why that would be an issue the courts would be concerned about.

So the "I was going to" was before I realized that Apple does have just such a product: The Apple Watch. I haven't used one, but I expect it wants to work as an extension of the phone, so it would need to do many things that normally are only allowed to be done by the phone itself, including access to all notifications and sharing WiFi login data so it can also connect.

So, yeah, that's an issue.

The key word in the summary is "bankruptcy." Assuming the ISP is in bankruptcy, this settlement is an easy thing for them. They record companies are just another creditor, so all that really matters is that the bankruptcy court agrees that the settlement is fair. The real losers are the other creditors.

" I watched some old episodes from the 70s recently and they were pushing feminism back then but it was never the focus of the show."

THIS! Very much THIS!

Which has been a problem for the last several years. It's focus!

Seriously, Joy to the World would have been a decent Christmas show but again, even in TINY areas, the focus is obvious, annoying and can take you out of the moment. In the train exchange when the Doctor is asking "Ham and Cheese on toast with a pumpkin latte" to a lone woman in the 1950-60s train car" Later in the show while doing the Drs victory lap the woman on the train car indicates clearly she's going to break up with her girl friend. She makes a strong point of it! To a stranger at a time when it was something people didn't talk about.

Why? I'm sorry, but it's forced and it's constant. Very annoying. In my daily, every day life I've don't encounter people who either are vocal about being gay (or straight) or are clearly in a relationship with someone of the same sex (or different sex) as often as the Doctor seems to lately. It's a distraction when it's in pretty much every episode and it's NOTICABLE. It's like seeing a boom mic in the corner of the screen, or catching a misplaced prop where it shouldn't be -- only worse -- because it's deliberate.

Don't even care that 15 was gay -- or black. Didn't matter. It shouldn't be the showcase of the show. The writing was horrible most of the time (Boom was good and there were maybe 2 OK episodes) and this constant redirecting everything to "Oh, look -- a gay couple!" or "I need to break up with my lesbian lover" or SOMETHING.

Besides, before River Song, the Doctor really had no "romantic life". And that arc did not dominate the the show or get mentioned in some way or another in every episode, yet the Doctor in just a single episode met and apparently fell head over heels with a a guy who was a space bounty hunter. That had never happened before and was out of character.

I watched every single episode of Dr Who since Pertwee and all the episodes that predate him that still exist. What's happening now started "full speed ahead" with 13 -- enough that they brought back Dr12 for a short run as Dr14. Looks like pushing the "gay focus" "over-drive" button on Dr15 didn't help the ratings at all -- and now we got Doctor-Rose for 16 to pull another "save" attempt after just 17.5 episodes of Dr 15!! 2 short seasons, the last 20 mins of Dr.14 bi-regenerating to 15 and 1 xmas episode). Haven't seen that short a run since Dr. 9.

The Disney deal was hoping to get Disney dollar$ to cover the production costs now that BBC is totally changing their "business model". That plan was for 2 seasons and 1 Whoniverse mini-series (about to air). I've heard nothing about anything beyond that from Disney so far so far... so I'm thinking Disney is out of the picture now and Doctor Who will, if we're lucky, still have an occasional Xmas special (hopefully with Moffet writing without any RTD influence). And this had nothing to do with Disney -- this was ENTIRELY RTD.

Look! AI has reproduced the Slashdot effect! Something that's been mostly unheard of for at least a decade!

Awe... all the good feels of days gone by. What old is new again.

If it's such a security risk to open those internal APIs, just eliminate them entirely. Make all the Apple applications work without them as well, and then everybody is on a level playing field without terrible security risks.

If Apple really needs extra access to make add-on products work nicely, then the EU really does have a point. (And I assume that's the case.)

While generally this is a great idea, on unintended consequence is that laptop makers will limit the number of USB-C ports if adding support for all the features is a challenge.

Let the celebration begin! We have again sent six mega-rich people not-quite to space, so they can gawk at the Earth for a few minutes before coming back down, having accomplished nothing but causing additional air pollution and creating something for them to talk about on their social media feeds like they have had a religious experience, but will not influence their behavior or actions in ways that benefit people in all walks of life the way actual saints have.

I mean, this site only got any attention at all SOLELY because it was "AI everything". Otherwise, who would have even really gone to the site in the first place given how many hundreds of other recipe sites are out there?

and the thing about AI marketing is that, well, that's pretty damn obvious when you see it currently, for the text and images (never mind the copyright concerns), and then require more money to actually get out there in advertising.

No, that's the point (to them). The hardware is too open. They want devices that will only play DRM'd content signed by the special services. Just like a cable TV receiver is generally worthless to a normal person without a cable TV subscription.

Not always possible. And even when it is, nothing is assured. I've checked in within 1 minute of the start period and had over 100 people ahead of me. Unassigned seating is absolutely the reason I refuse to fly southwest, I will happily pay more to assure I get my aisle seat.

I call those Wookiee Brands, as the brand names appear to be random Wookiee names that aren't necessarily pronounceable by humans. If Amazon's search did a good job of showing me the cheapest options first, then I wouldn't mind them, as seeing all the Wookiee Brands for a product make it clear what it is, and I can check the reviews on one that has been around longer, knowing they're all the same. But automatically combining them into a single listing would be much better, along with a note "Product may contain different branding."

Possibly all of them!

A few weeks SO staff posted a "we're rebranding" post on the site in the Q&A format. They've been throwing out all kinds of supposed strategic expansions lately, which look scattered and less than coherent.This particular post generated comments and the CEO Prashanth Chandrasekar started responding.

Observation: The CEO (unfiltered by editors, legal, or PR) can barely write a coherent English sentence. They're not making any sense at all with their current plans, as far as I can tell. Their goose is probably cooked. Remember when Slashdot came off its peak and was sold and shuffled around a couple times by corporations grasping for some way to leverage its former popularity? Like that.

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What I hate is how all the streaming services fill up their interface with shows that you have to pay extra for. No, I don't want to add another streaming service, so I don't want to see Hulu content in Disney+. Prime is probably the worst, as they're trying to get you to subscribe to numerous other services, as well as rent or buy anything they don't include.