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zimmie said:

It's also huge. If you haven't seen one in person, it's almost certainly bigger than you expect. And heavy. And the "handles" have fairly sharp edges, which make it unpleasant to move around on a regular basis.

In my role as a engineer in broadcast television, there are completely fair criticisms. The weight and sharpness of the handles destroyed a number of my trousers, slashing across my thighs. 18Kg, with sharp handles is a literal & metaphorical pain to move around. Why those handles lacked bevels, such as the cylinder had along its thermal exhaust, is utterly beyond me. While it’s perfectly fair to note the cylinder’s limits, it was a safer machine to install and work on. The early RAID cards for the early cheesegraters drew my blood on too many occasions, when I had to pull them to get the numbers from the card to order cache batteries. 

I absolutely cannot understand why a driverless vehicle needs to have performance handling dynamics. It seems as though Apple is going out of its way to design a rolling oxymoron.

endscrypt said:

Had problems posting all day yesterday, it kept saying there has been a problem save to drafts.

Same. Additionally, I could only see the first posts of threads.

To me, this just looks like a disguised way for governments to get the back doors they are always looking for. I don’t care which government is involved. I don’t care if you love or loathe them. This just looks like an attempt to gain access to private APIs in order to exploit them, with the usual plausible deniability that will allow for subsequent claims of unintended consequences.

I agree with the first two commenters that it seems implausible that an amber alert, while certainly shrill and unpleasantly loud, could cause an instantaneous rupture as described, when a gun shot or jackhammer do not.