How much money is the United States giving them to do this?
And how much will be side shuffled into pockets?
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Not even in the 4th Amendment, where it states:
"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and
seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue,
but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched,
and the persons or things to be seized."
Nothing about "privacy", even though it is described in the 4th amendment..
The word "private" is mentioned in the 5th Amendment, as in private property, i.e., land.
That's it as far as the Constitution is concerned.
Therefor being religiously based, control by medically ignorant political bodies, has no place in modern law. Abortion is and should be a medical decision between the woman and her doctor and not be the political football is has become.
When will women get full human Rights and as much autonomy of their own bodies as men have?
I have been collecting adapter cables and adapters for years. Both cables and actual adapters for different types of plugs. I can and do adapt USB2 chargers on USB3 devices and vice versa.
And the old wall warts? I have a drawer full. If working, I never throw any away. Saves a lot of time and frustration.
Back in the day, vinyl only had tube/valve amps. Tubes/valves do not have a sudden hard cut offs when the limit was approached and reached. Digital/solid state on the other hand does. When a solid stare amp hits the limit, square waves, full of harmonics are generated. These have a strong tendency to not sound good to even normal listeners.
Our government does not take care of its citizens. Where is the Universal Health Care? There is too much of "Your Money, or Your Life".
Why are our prescription drugs so costly?
There is too much racism, to much sexism.
How about paying people what the job is worth? Wages haven't kept up with inflation since the early 1970's. Inflation cause by profit taking.
Development often means displacing the people of color living there.
Our prisons are full of people who have harmed no one before going in. Not so much getting out.
Our country is being run by people that get off on hardships, death and destruction of others. Even profit from it.
Too many firearms doesn't seem to be enough.
Need help? Got any money? If they had money, they wouldn't need help!
Federal marshals need to descend on the upper management, starting from Jeff himself, and put them in jail on remand, until such time the requested document are produced.
That is the only way to get their attention. Otherwise, with Amazon's power, money and lobbyists, the government will never overrule Amazon.
BTY, Amazon is so bad, they are hard pressed to defend, except for their size and wealth.
Why do we have to protect the 2nd Amendment? Are not our kids more important? I know my kids are, as are the rest of the kids in the school, or anywhere else for that matter. The same goes for most adults anywhere.
That is a badly worded question. It assumes the importance of the 2nd Amendment equates to the importance of our children.
Our children are our future. Firearms pokes holes in that premise.
Like when they started to use computers for automobile designing, instead of clay models. All cars started to look alike. That only lased for a few years, till the designers wised up, otherwise a Yugo would have been shaped pretty much the same as a high end Land Rover.
All these new and improved ways to log in either involve a gadget, or or something that can't be changed when needed, like fingerprints and faces. Or gets changed because of damage to same and can't be updated because - Damage.
The problem with passwords is passwords commenced with the beginning of computers and have been working reasonably well for decades. That means some people think passwords are old and need to be replaced with something "new".
Never mind this "new" can't cover all the devices that need passwords. Different devices need different way to sign in. The have been trying to eliminate password for how many decades now? There is a reason they are still around.
My 2005 HP, with a fresh load of Linux Mint and an IBM Model M keyboard would be hard pressed for facial recognition, with no camera, led alone any fingerprint reader. It works just fine for what I need it for. Word processing, banking, web surfing, any of several web sites I frequent... All without a hassle.
It is gearing up to go full bore, here in the United States. Currently their main targets are pregnant women, or woman wanting to avoid pregnancy in the first place and anyone who helps them with any kind of birth control. Even going across state lines to drag both the woman and anyone helping them back to stand trial.
Some people still do not see women as autonomous human beings, with equal Rights, but somehow women need being told what and how they are supposed conduct themselves, especially in matters involving sex and reproduction. But not the men who have no knowledge of the lives of the women they are trying to control, of course.
This is the start of a very slippery slope, that get slipperier the farther it goes down. Rights? You have no Rights. You helped a woman living in this state violate the law! Crossing state lines, country borders to do so makes no difference. You living in another state does not protect you. You are now a felon under our state laws.
Think of all the money saved in war equipment not needed because the two sides talked things out. Yeah, I know peace is not as manly, or profit inducing, as fighting is.
BTY, why is it assumed that war is inevitable and diplomatic negotiations are always after the fact? I think we need better leaders.
"The analysis points out that contact-tracers weren't involved in the app's design, so it is little wonder the software's output was not useful."
End users are not involved in the design of the app, program, etc. Too often we are being told what we want, regardless of what we actually want or need.
Some flavor of Linux, or Apple's Mac OS? Either, or both, applying themselves to take over the general business part of needed business software?
Microsoft should not be trying to set new hardware requirements as a goal, but to work on a stable, reliable OS and software, with the IT department and stable, ease of use for the end user in mind. MS is failing miserably.
I have an idea? Stop collection so much useless "information" for just in case, or for $$$.
You know, like If I buy something online, then for a month or more after they send me, or try to send me, more ads for like stuff, or adding me to a mailing list I did not sign up for and from an outfit/s I never heard of. There is a reason for Junk and Spam filters.
That is basically what I was planning to post. I have both a MacBook Pro and a Linux machine for when windows become unusable. Unusable is when my Windows 7 machine becomes too hard to keep going.
I use both Linux and the laptop on a regular basis. They both have their own functions and I trust them both much more than Microsoft anything.
Microsoft really needs to clean up its own software act before forcing their third party hardware "security" on everyone else.
Physical keys have a proven track record for a thousand or two years. Radio for a little over a hundred years. The internet for a couple of decades. Guess which has the best track record for reliability.
For me a key fob, with a physical key in it that will open the door and start the vehicle.
There is such a thing as being too fancy and complicated to be reliable. The newer high end and not so high end vehicles, with all their computers and electronics for simple mechanical stuff, have crossed that line a few years ago. Centrally located touch screens in place of physical knobs and buttons border on safety hazards. Today's vehicles are a whole course work of Just Because It Can Be Done Doesn't Mean It Should. JBICBDDMIS.
In 2019 I bought a MacBook Pro because of Microsoft. I recently bought a refurnished computer and put Linux Mint on it. Both have many advantages over Microsoft. In fact two tin cans and a length of string has an advantage over Microsoft.
Microsoft has lost the scrip. Personal computers are not owned by MS. They are owned by the people who bought them.Too bad our government is so corrupt, otherwise a nice class action law suite would be in the works,
Microsoft needs or be broken up into its component parts. Then maybe they can have a real personal computer operating system again, that people can setup as they wish.
Let alone what its customers want. Apparently, after a while, lock-in produces paralysis and confusion, without a clear path forward.
Listen to its customer base? Why, do they think your computers are really theiirs?