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This and everything else he has done is expected when you have methed out gutter trash in the White House with no comprehension or respect for history. Would not be surprised if the leg lamp from A Christmas Story is near the entrance.

If it makes you feel any better, they don't really have any idea what they are doing, either. Bunch of idiots in control of a giant machine they can't even begin to comprehend. So it is natural for we mere cogs with >3 functioning neurons to be befuddled.

True Christians find all this behavior disgusting. It is just capitalizing on a faith for profit and control while bringing harm to those that can't pay the admission fee and/or have the wrong skin color.

What's going on is religious terrorism/extremism, and taking advantage of the dumbs to enable it.

NYT has not been good journalism for well over a century. I don't understand why people give them the time of day.

Sounds like it is time for Norway, Denmark, and Sweden to finally make peace, and end The Keyboard Wars.

The family created the MVNO off the name, Mango still gets a cut, it's built off the back of another already terrible MVNO on T-Mobile. The same T-Mobile that was allowed to accelerate 5G growth way ahead of Verizon and AT&T under Mango 1.0 when the oh so loved John Legere cut deals to get the Sprint merger accelerated and a fat bucket of n41 spectrum allocated. I'm sure their Chinese-ODM'd "made in the USA, oops, not" grift phone, if it ever sees the light of day, will be full of terrible infected software as well.

It is like a big recursive grift.

I don't get in what universe people would choose their primary telecommunications connection based on association with a person. Verizon, AT&T, and Dish are also terrible in their own rights, and the number of MVNOs in the US is staggeringly hilarious, but... it's meant to be a phone/message/Internet connection. One's cell phone isn't in the Indy 500.

The days of Catherine Zeta Jones hocking GSM/GPRS/EDGE are way over.

Alternate version:

• You don't even bother going to a search engine because they're mostly terrible anymore
• You ask AI to search / parse the web site - bot reads the web site
• Site doesn't get any revenue because the site's so terrible, but you are supposed to feel bad

The open web has been in trouble for a while, and enshittification is just accelerating it.

Not really much reason to pay Federal taxes anymore anyway sooo.....the problem sorts itself out?

That actually isn't a way to prove anything, unfortunately.

A powered off or "powered off" phone wouldn't need to transmit anything. It would be just waking one of the receivers periodically (or even the NFC could be hit by some radio energy as a trigger) to listen for the "secret" activation code. Listening for radio energy doesn't generate any.

If the phone was "powered off" - tracing power draw between battery/phone would probably show something, but likely, the phone's power draw while off is always constant if this were the case and it isn't a new state the phone goes into.

Even if the phone was being used as an offline bug, the user would still not know because it can record audio/whatever and store it internally without ever transmitting. It'd likely be rigged up to just transmit the next time the user "turns it on" - so they'd be unaware, as the transmission would look like normal traffic.

The only case where it would be traceable from a radio perspective is if it were being used as an online bug, which means it would already have to have been put in the online bug state, which means someone has a reason to monitor you.

I mean shoot, if one really wants to go full tinfoil hat, recording audio to temporary storage at voice quality could go on for days with a phone "powered off" - periodically dumped to somewhere in flash. Hours of conversation could be fit in megabytes. The phone could just always be recording while turned off for every user, and when turned back on, that audio file is sent through the ML processor to convert to text, and then compress the text, further reducing the size. That data could be transmitted during normal usage as voice or compressed data, or just stored in the phone as compressed data for years.

Every phone could be doing this right now, and could have been doing this for a decade, although on-device text transcription is a relatively new feature.

Then, let us go next level: phone recycling/exchange processes also harvest IMEI+that compressed data before being shipped off for resale in the event it was never transmitted. Finally, we know why the NSA has the Utah data center.

I keep asking them to send me copies of recordings of old phone calls, but they never humor me.

DISCLAIMER: This is all non-serious but based on what is technically possible right now.

I miss just being able to take it out and have no phone for however long I want.

That's the most telling thing about phones today, right? I have some older flip phones from 15 or so years ago. Removable battery, but even with the battery inserted for 8 years, I could turn one on right now and it would have whatever current state of charge is in the battery, only losing power from physics.

It's obviously possible, as Samsung keeps making these XCover phones with a removable battery and a waterproof rating of IPX8 (SCUBA): https://www.phonescoop.com/phones/phone.php?p=7301

If that phone didn't have a first-gen 64-bit chipset that sucked power for lunch, I'd probably still be using it to this day. It was peak convergence, and even had a headphone jack, and an amazing camera. Only way it could've been perfect would be a user-serviceable battery.

Every damn feature.

But most? Removable flipping batteries. Having a bomb in your pocket computer that you can't remove, and shortens it's effective life without often complex surgery is absolutely criminal.

Removable D batteries have existed since 1898. It was a staples feature of machines. Nobody wanted, needed, or desired the tech brah "disruption" of gluing lithium bombs into phones.