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There’s no way to bypass it, if there is, that would be a serious security flaw

Those do happen, but it is probably also possible to unlock the boot loader and then replace the boot loader itself with one that merely pretends to be locked. How would you know the difference?

the kind that would get patched very quickly.

Obviously criminals aren't going to install security patches for vulnerabilities that they are exploiting.

None of this will save you. The boot loader can be replaced with one that merely pretends to be locked and merely pretends to flash the replacement operating system it's sent over the USB port.

If the phone has ever been in the custody of someone you don't trust, you can't trust anything about it.

Only if you enjoy the thought of the previous owner watching you through its microphone and camera.

Assuming you get a phone at all, and not just a cardboard mockup of one. You all remember “P-p-powerbook”, I hope.

Cloud streaming is anti-consumer, so this won't help Microsoft's case unless the regulators are idiots.

Upscaling is for consoles. I don't care how fancy the algorithm is. Render every pixel!

What if some tyrants take over and make it a federal felony to run against them? That's how Putin stays in power. But if being a convicted felon doesn't stop you from taking office, then the tyrants can't use that to keep themselves in power.

Blaming immigrants instead of the actual cause of the problem. Typical.

This right here is why electronic locks could be way more secure than mechanical ones, if only their manufacturers would hire well-trained programmers and not boot camp graduates to write the firmware.

I don't know why I worry. Kids are practically immune to bullshit. It's always adults who repeat their crooked leaders' lies.

Since when were Boston Dynamics robots sentient?

Congratulations on your shiny new equipment! It is shiny, right?

History. No bloodthirsty conqueror ever stopped conquering until someone stopped him, usually by killing him.

All those rocket scientists better start running for the border.

If everyone else also gets it? Nothing; rent and food prices would increase and eat it up.

If everyone else doesn't get it? Avoid homelessness slightly longer than everyone else; rent and food prices would still increase and eat it up, but everyone else would run out of money and become homeless.

Then why can I feel my corneas through my eyelids?

There are physicist, respected ones, that believe the universe is deterministic.

Quantum mechanics involves true randomness, so it is already proven that the universe is not deterministic.

That doesn't mean we have free will, though. Random actions are no more free than predetermined ones.

I'll believe that when he's behind bars. He'll violate those terms before he even makes his way through the parking lot.

Never seems to occur to people like this that they themselves are wicked, for holding such unwarranted hatred in their hearts. Untold millions of innocents have suffered horrible deaths at the hands of these fanatics.

Is there a reason the European powers aren't chipping in? They realize Putin is going to invade them next, right?

That's their entire job: demoralize you so you stop costing their employer money.