Re: Such "cults" are usually perpetrated by secret services in the US.
Of course they are. Just send an FOI request to "the secret services, the USA" and they'll send you back a spreadsheet of all the cults they run (excel mind, not open office!).
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It generates a lot of "news" articles.
Dilligent research provides: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/17/new-mathematical-record-whats-the-point-of-calculating-pi
extract: Mathematicians have estimated that an approximation of pi to 39 digits is sufficient for most cosmological calculations – accurate enough to calculate the circumference of the observable universe to within the diameter of a single hydrogen atom.
No it isn't, read what you quoted:
"the checks are done on their servers, not on your local device"
It's like you sending some of your stuff to your landlords house for storage and him taking a look to see what you've sent. Very different to them coming round your gaff and looking at whatever they choose.
But we're discussing what google and MS currently do, not what apple are proposing, which is maybe where you're getting confused?
"Now I have a new keyboard after the lauding of Pottering and his breaking of what was not borked, increasing complexity and creating multiple dependencies the author has a good point which all of us, bar the newbs, have heard over the millennia."
Yeah, get back to us when you're coherent.
Well I'd certainly take the opinion of a random internet poster over whatever the so-called "Judge" might have handed down. Surely all the detail we need is in the report we just read?
Why do we even bother with trials? We could just have a survey underneath a news report. Soon as we get 12 guilty clicks, job done!
It's never too late to complain.
It's never too late to call out bullshit management speak. Leverage is used when you want to say "used" but want to sound clever.
I'm quite happy to carry on complaining about that bollocks indefinitely.
You missed the third, far more likely possibility. This is nothing to do with sueing anyone, it's a cash raising exercise. His die hard fans will donate millions to this. The gullible media have been played and are promoting this cash grab like it's a genuine court case.
It's not difficult to work out if you think about the man, his previous behaviour, and what he stands for.
It's all to do with control. It's easy if you can choose when to be available. You're happier on holiday knowing that emergencies will be raised with you immediately rather than waiting for your return. That's not the same as being contacted without your consent (or with your grudging "I need to keep my job" consent).
However, if I was a client of yours, I'd be wondering why there's only one person in the company who can handle the really important stuff...
Yeah, IR35 came in, then loads of umbrella companies sprang up to fleece contractors who were trying to comply with the law.
These new companies wouldn't have lasted five minutes before IR35, everyone was working for themselves for a salary of £10,000 on a business with a turnover of £250,000 (with appropriate profit related dividends to the single director at the end of year of course). Why be an employee of an umbrella when you can be a director of a thriving business?
Why the government wanted to put a stop to that I can't fathom, sounds about as Tory as you can get.
Why would you think that comment was a sensible start to a discussion about government and tech giants?
If I didn't know better I'd think it was a deliberate attempt to derail the conversation by getting the nerds to talk tech instead of politics.
If it also happens to be a con trick that doesn't invalidate it as an artwork. In fact, isn't that part of the work?
All works of art are objectively pointless, or at least the art bit of them is. A picture of a haywain can cover a stain on the wall but not because it's a picture of a haywain, because it's a square of canvas.
And the disbelieving comments are a lovely extension of the work, nudging it slightly towards reality.
Smashing!