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Amazon used to provide free networking for its readers... I think that it is very cheap to transfer text/"meta-data"... It might even be sponsored by the government...

Any of them automatically connect to open wifi networks or maybe cellular networks?

The FBI stole my Litecoins from BTC-E ... I didn't even claim that loss because it was very small.

If you are talking about the NSA, yes they do have a special channel with Apple... not sure who else does...

unless there is a secret law that prevents them to actually do it...

For two programs that do the same thing coded in the same language, I would pick the one with the least amount of lines but that doesn't mean that less work went into it... Probably the opposite

Tesla is already starting to see competitors... if they don't get better quality control, it will probably hurt them soon enough

This government is sick...

In the US, many counties/cites have license plate readers installed already... Not quite as bad as facial recognition but....

That's not a real flame thrower.... I used to do something similar to this when I was 10 with a hair-spray can and a lighter

Most homes would probably benefit more by having better insulation... If you are only talking about dollars...

I get your point, but if soldering is the only problem, just get a spring loaded solderless connector for JTAG pads? then it is about the same as USB for many more people?

but it's not physically broken... it's just a different way of connecting to it... so yes I would call that hard bricked, but not broken, since you don't need to replace components