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Who could forget ice cream also came in cardboard packs in one of three flavours which we all know so I won't bore you with repeating them here, and after a few months when the cardboard went manky and mixed in with the ice-cream we ate it anyway and we were happy for it and it never did us any harm (twitch).
So the pack was eco-friendly but judging by the colour the ice cream was probably made of radium.
Sure, let's argue about placement of symbols on the keyboard instead of arguing about having a keyboard which actually works.
How many years are we into this experiment? Can't Apple just swallow their pride and go back to the pre-2015 design or whenever it was instead of sticking more of Sir Jony's juice on it every year?
Upcoming engineers either just can't be arsed documenting anything or literally don't know any better and are somehow unable to figure out for themselves how vital good documentation is. Rigour is dead; RIP.
Training happens by osmosis, code review is dead, and it's all about closing one Jira ticket after another even if the next one undoes the changes made by the first one.
As with most recent Apple problems, the most serious rot seemed to start quite suddenly, around the iOS 7 / OS X 10.7 era.
I think it went downhill when Bertrand Serlet and Scott Forstall left which was around that time.
"We are complying with the order and reviewing the implications. For users of our services, Google Play and the security protections from Google Play Protect will continue to function on existing Huawei devices."
How are they going to do this?
Pull security updates for active phones from now on - madness.
Not accept new Google Account sign-ups or logins from Huawei mobiles - what happens if you reset your phone and it's worked up until now?
Implement by model ID - Huawei can sell current stock for several months.
Only implement the ban from Android Q onwards - someone in the US administration could notice get upset.
Back in 2016, Huawei was reported to be hiring ex-Nokia developers for "secret phone OS project", at the time seen as a way to fend off Google attempts to further tighten its grip on Android. Just two months ago, Huawei's mobile chief Richard Yu was clearly authorised to confirm this information, letting it slip out in an interview with German newspaper Die Welt.
Go Sailfish!
This is the best thing that's happened yet to give manufacturers an incentive to break the Google monopoly. EU fines are one thing but they don't hit the mobile manufacturer, knowing that Racist Grandpa could get upset with your company at any time and tell Google to pull the plug is something completely different.
Android relies on foreign mobile manufacturers, there isn't one home-grown manufacturer except the Pixel slurpmobile which is expensive, not widely available from third-party retailers, and has terrible after-sales service.
"The United States government has strong concerns about any technology product that takes American data into the territory of an authoritarian state that permits its intelligence services to have unfettered access to that data or otherwise abuses that access," the memo continued.
150GB of stuff including data you thought never left your phone and data on you held by other corporations. The data you thought was deleted, shadow profiles, and other sundry information that we think you won't need to export isn't included.
I don't think any rational person could be in favour of adding Nest to a Google account.
(Link originally posted by fellow Commentard Hans 1.)
The problem was he swore and as soon as he did that he was fined.
This is what happened in another trial four months ago, also curiously in Romford.
So the lesson is don't let yourself get riled up.
It's pretty bad that Google has copies of local images which he thought he never uploaded, shared, or sync'd, records of Amazon and eBay purchases, OK Google recordings that start before he said OK Google, and all available via publicly available URLs (long ones that may or may not be predictable)... 150 gigs of Takeout data, and that won't be all of it, there's probably also shadow profiles connected to his account.
Indeed, but that still doesn't affect the Tory party's stated policy for a decade of rescinding the 1998 Human Rights Act, meaning British courts won't have to take it into account into their rulings. People will have to exhaust all British court options before taking their case to the European Court of Humans Rights which takes years and is expensive.
Presumably Brexit makes it easier to do this because all new EU entrants have to have their courts take the European Convention of Human Rights into account in their rulings which is what the Tory party wants to wriggle out of.
0845/0870 indirect access numbers which let you call abroad are still (barely) a thing, and at least when I regularly used them admittedly years ago the person at the other end saw a random number which maybe was from the UK or maybe from the foreign country. Yet somehow it wasn't illegal/didn't have to be be stamped out because terrorism/etc...
GSM gateways are exactly the same thing only with a SIM.
The Home Office is dysfunctional, they'll spend years burning money fighting till the bitter end over every single decision they screw up.
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