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At least it’s a quick death. The crater left by the asteroid that theoretically killed the dinosaurs is 100 miles wide. That mushroom cloud covers like a thousand times that direct impact area and will burn until there’s no oxygen.

I would recommend disabling functionality while driving rather than outright not having the phone available because if you need to call for help, you might have to do it quickly. There are apps like Dumb Phone for iPhone and devices like Brick that will do the work for you.

I set a focus mode on my iPhone to trigger when connected to my car’s Bluetooth (not the standard Driving focus mode) that switches the Home Screen to one with only the widgets I’d use for driving, such as Maps, Music, and various playlist shortcuts. Notifications are limited to VIPs. I also have an automation that locks the screen if sensitive apps, like Settings and Wallet, are opened when away from home (I have a shortcut to disable the automation when necessary).

In your situation, I’d expand that to lock out every app except Maps, parking apps, etc., when in driving focus. Audio apps would be locked so I’m not doomscrolling through choices, options would be limited to what’s shown in the widgets and accessible through Siri and/or a preset shortcut. Could add further measures to dissuade me from disabling the lock.

A secret order that requires going to secret court to refute is not a request.

That’s an actual use case, not future. Camera Control enables quick access to visual intelligence.

A few things to keep in mind: military service is mandatory in Israel, and Unit 8200 does signal intelligence, corresponding to the U.S. National Security Agency, which is our largest employer of mathematicians. Any Israeli with advanced knowledge of mathematics, cryptography, etc. has almost certainly served in Unit 8200.

Nothing. They’re investing in glass and chip manufacturing. “Apple is establishing the American Manufacturing Program (AMP) […] partners include Corning, Coherent, GlobalWafers America, Applied Materials, Amkor, Texas Instruments, Samsung, GlobalFoundries, and Broadcom.”

Note: none of this covers Apple silicon, but there are like a dozen other chips in an iPhone, and iPhones can’t ship without them.

And I’ve hit the age when I am angry to see an old still from The Price is Right features pre-ozempic Drew Carey and not Bob Barker.

The dumbest fakes fool the dumbest people.

“Both incidents occurred in California, which despite its immense wealth and resources ranks second only to Texas in the number of workplace fatalities in the United States.” — As the most populous state, California should logically have the highest number of workplace fatalities. That they come in second after Texas, despite having 20-25% higher population, indicates they have far fewer workplace fatalities per capita.

The solid decision to stay out of that business was made when Jobs signed the deal with AT&T for the iPhone. Apple handles the device. AT&T handles the network. This ensured iPhone would not get bogged down by carrier software, branding, etc.

By contrast, Android launched on carrier devices, like the T-Mobile G1 and Verizon Droid, and Google has gotten deeper into those devices over the years, from app stores to messaging. Taking on the carrier role is in line with that creep and Google’s mission to access and use the world’s information.

Color printers weren’t good enough for high-quality counterfeiting when Xerox introduced the encoding in the 1980s, and they’re less capable of it now that bills are improved, but counterfeiting doesn’t stop being a crime because the fake bills suck.

Also, if appeasing the Secret Service isn’t the real reason, why aren’t black and white printers printing gray dot codes? Since yellow dot encoding was introduced, the vast majority of office documents were churned out on BW printers. Seems like a big miss for mass surveillance.

To be clear, yellow dot encoding is done voluntarily by printer makers to ensure their printers cannot anonymously enable counterfeiting schemes. So yes, there is no legal obligation to do this, but only because printer makers don’t want Secret Service intervention. Basically, there’s no law requiring yellow dot encoding because they already do it. Black and white printers are exempt because they are inadequate for counterfeiting, but they are certainly capable of gray dot encoding.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printer_tracking_dots