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Crime blotter: Teenaged Apple Store robber agrees to pay security guards
You are right, of course, when we are talking about courts. This isn’t a court case and words have meaning.tokyojimu said:In the US you are innocent until proven guilty in a court of law. Until then you are a suspect.noun | a person thought to be guilty of a crime or offense: the police have arrested a suspect.
per-pe tra•tor l noun a person who carries out a harmful, illegal, or immoral act: the perpetrators of this crime must be brought to justice.
In this case, the perpetrator of the crime made a FaceTime call and proved they did it. There is no suspicion here.
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Crime blotter: Teenaged Apple Store robber agrees to pay security guards
This is one of my pet peeves. Why is the person that the victim and the police have photographic evidence of being called a suspect? They are the perpetrator of the crime, there is proof. Without proof the person could be a suspect, but when there is proof they are no longer suspected, they are the perpetrator. This happens all the time in the media and I don’t understand why.AppleInsider said:A 42-year-old man from California has been arrested on charges that he stole a semi-truck. Police say he used the victim's iPad to FaceTime him during the theft.
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VVNG explains that FaceTime call led the victim to take a screenshot of the suspect's face. The truck was later found, without the iPad in it, and the suspect began sending threatening messages to the owner.
Ultimately, the victim was able to ping the iPad and notify officers of the suspect's location, leading to his arrest, although he did resist it. He was charged with vehicle theft, possession of a stolen vehicle, possession of stolen property, burglary and resisting arrest with violence. -
Justice Department demands Google sell off Chrome in new filing
My wife has a sub to ChatGPT and uses it all the time, several times a day. Just 30 minutes ago we were coming back from the market and a question arose about the dates and times of an upcoming play at our local high school. She did a quick google search and got no results that matched what she was looking for but DID get ads and sponsored links and other cruft.badmonk said:
You could make the argument that all should be broken up but I suspect AI will change the story on search sooner than we expect.
Then she opened the ChatGPT app and asked it for the dates of the play and mentioned the name of the school. I was expecting it wouldn’t work since the info she is looking for is so recent and about a small event at a relatively small town. It came back with 3 days and the times it was showing. No ads, no sponsored links, just the answer she needed.
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iOS 18.4 will force users to upgrade to the latest HomeKit architecture
I held off from upgrading to the new HomeKit architecture for quite a while. I had heard about people having difficulties with it and didn’t want to bother. I figured the longer I waited the better off I’d be. I finally did it in the fall of 2024. It was relatively painless and I’ve had no issues with the new architecture.
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Justice Department demands Google sell off Chrome in new filing
I thought I read here and at other places that Apple did not contribute to Trump’s inauguration. Has that changed?AppleInsider said:The case brought by the DOJ is in spite of efforts by tech companies to curry favor with the new administration. Google, like Apple and other tech giants, contributed to President Trump's inauguration in January. This has resulted in an inquiry in the US Senate over the donations.
