California ID just has a thumb print and has had it for decades. Renewing mostly gives them reiteration of info that they already have.
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They have identified a suspect, 57yo dude, named in the article below. The cop car was apparently fake but was an SUV dudded up to look like a real one.
https://apnews.com/article/minnesota-lawmakers-shot-d7983e1e4f1a7573a487cab1a98cd172
I thought airplane mode or power-off disables that, but maybe on some newer phones, that is left running because of "find me". Hmm. BLE shouldn't be able to reach any cell towers though.
It will help stop the phone from broadcasting your location, but the danger is the private stuff on your phone getting copied if your phone is seized. Better to use a burner phone with nothing private (such as contacts) on it. Used that way you don't need multiple burners. Just keep it powered off til you reach the protest. I'd be hesitant to keep it powered (such as for mapping) on the way there, unless you don't mind GPS track potentially being retained on the phone. OTOH they will probably track you anyway, through license plate and face recognition.
BTW the cheapest place I know of to get phones with minutes is below, especially the basic flip phones that are probably better for this anyway.
https://www.qvc.com/electronics/phones/tracfone/_/N-mlt0Z1z1393y/c.html
Wanna bet that a curfew is next?
Other article said all 201 members of the state legislature are in protective custody. I have been wondering what that exactly means.
Generally don't install extensions unless you really need them and they are well regarded. Otherwise it's like looking for new prescription drugs or medical procedures. The browser is a huge attack surface.
https://socket.dev/blog/the-growing-risk-of-malicious-browser-extensions
Some very cheap phones with minutes included, here:
https://www.qvc.com/electronics/phones/tracfone/_/N-mlt0Z1z1393y/c.html
OTOH they can probably be traced back to you since you have to order them with your presumably real name. You can buy phones and prepaid cards anonymously in phone stores but it will cost more.
A buddy of mine has a foldable Samsung and likes it. IDK what model but it's big, looks like a full sized phone when folded, and opens out into something with 2x the screen space of a normal phone, basically a mini tablet.
I had a number of flip phones in the old days and they all broke at the hinge. So there's that.
>>> import random
>>> random.sample(range(1,71),5),random.choice(range(1,25))
([43, 8, 15, 66, 28], 17)
National guard no, US marines yes? Hmm.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/10/us/marines-los-angeles-newsom.html
Android was initially developed by some other company, that Google acquired when it decided it wanted to do smartphones. The alternate universe that I see is they pick a different company instead, and things play out about like before. Maemo (Nokia product) unfortunately died before its time, but maybe it could have been where Android is now. PalmOS and maybe others also might have been viable. Dunno about the Blackberry OS. Windows Mobile (spawn of Windows CE, I think) always stunk.
What? No that would be an aspect of the programming language. Ok, maybe if you study compilers. I know there are also books about garbage collection so maybe there are courses about that too.
When I first saw the question I thought you meant bulk transfers, like in data communication or parallel programming. There is a topic called "the data center as a computer" that could be relevant. Like if you're trying to split a problem across 1000 computers, a lot of the planning will be shovelling data around between them, in addition to the computation itself. You could look for Hadoop books and docs.