Re: Green card holders and the immediate family of US citizens get a pass.
Well that's just fucking Trump.
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I regularly tell people they shouldn't rely on products from Google or insidious crap like Alexa because they are being silently monitored and tracked and they look at me like I'm standing semi-naked on Oxford Street with a huge placard reading "The end is nigh!" The average member of the public does not want to hear about it, they just want their music, security cams, Facebook fix or whatever.
Its an obvious scam and I'd have told the person so. Even if the person being impersonated was a close friend I'd have no sense of guilt because it is obviously a scam and they would talk (type) differently. For an internet only contact I'd never met? Well they are not a friend so I'd refuse even if it wasn't a scam.
This is even easier if you have never used social media, like myself. I don't think I've ever used Skype either.
Supply shortages..
Meltdown, Spectre, SpectreRSB, RIDL, Fallout, Zombieload, Plundervolt, Zombieload 2, TPM-FAIL, NetCAT, SWAPGS, SPOILER, Foreshadow, Machine Check DoS, BMC flaws, Lazy FPU context switching issues, etc.
High price.
Core counts and performance starting to lag.
Why would anyone buy Intel?
(other than the CEO has heard of them so won't question it)
Exceedingly personal patient details left on open web... Threatening lawyer's letters... Stay classy Rotherwood Healthcare!
No doubt the ICO will fail to fine them the apropriate max GDPR fine and their laissez-faire attidute to potentially vulnerable people's data will continue. This is common in care sector IT (which I recently left).
Sounds like a nightmare. Whenever organisations (usually my bank) try to use such questions to determine if I am who I say I am my replies consist of "I don't know", "I can't remember" and "maybe xxxx?" After much humming and hawing I usually pass the check but it always leaves me feeling that I'd be much hapier if they refused than taking my awful non-answers as good enough.
Apart from the first sentence they don't actually deny the allegations.
State AG: "Google unlawfully collected kid's data"
Google: "schools control account access and... obtain parental consent" "We do not use [kids data] to target ads."
At no point do Google actually state they don't collect kid's data.
> Gartner analyst Mikako Kitagawa said.. switch to AMD-based kit, but she said it is "time consuming for business users, especially large companies where a large number of PCs are deployed."
In what way is it time consuiming? It takes just as long to buy an AMD based PC as an Intel one, ditto installing Windows, apps, etc. Other than creating a new master image with the required drivers I don't see what is different and you would need to do that for a new range of Intel based PCs anyway.
Maybe if these analysts had actually worked in IT at some point they might understand the subject better and make fewer stupid remarks like the one above.
I know of several automotive and computer manufacturing plants that used demo software on the production line about 20 years ago. It was often my job to call the supplier and get a key asap. When the likes of HP, Dell or IBM absolutely have to get a line running today you sort it and worry about licenses later.
> The Register asked Google whether the corresponding developer accounts have been deleted and, if so, how the company can be certain those developers will never be able to re-register under a different identity. We've not heard back.
This is Google we're talking about, they know everything about everyone and can connect all your various email addresses. And yes, they do ban developer accounts for life when they are found to be repeatedly breaching Play policies. Just look at r/androiddev for lots of examples.
I was the person who told them Firebird was already taken (by an Interbase database clone). They weren't too pleased having spent several weeks coming up with that name to replace Phoenix.
When they suggested Firefox I laughed and said "you know there's a Clint Eastwood film..."
As a consumer the Surface Duo looks interesting, depending on price I could see me buying one.
As a dev its the old chicken and egg problem - what's the point modifying my apps to take advantage of the new features when few users own a compatible device. These features don't work with foldable devices from other manufacturers because they only have one screen. The Xamarin team have done a great job getting everything working cross platform for both Neo & Duo but unless you're writing internal business apps with Neo/Duo as standard corporate issued devices I don't see the point.
While Google are certainly evil and in most cases I would like to see them lose in this case there is far, far too much at stake in the precedent it will set. The very nature of programming and the use of libraries and apis could change.
If Oracle win then Intel could charge everyone a license fee if they write code for x86. Plus another fee for AMD if it is 64 bit. Plus fees to IBM and Microsoft and... and... and...
It could become impossible to write anything more than 'Hello World' without employing a lawyer to sort though all the licensing and rights issues.
> groundbreaking technology, that is trusted by and protects everyone in the UK
Haha I've got news for you Nicky. I don't trust anyhing you espouse, especially technology, and if it's anything like the Pirate Bay blocks it won't "protect" anyone in my household and many others in the slightest.