"when it starts encroaching on my IT sites"
From the article: "The Reg has written 720 articles concerning or mentioning Brexit"
NOW IT STARTS ENCROACHING ON YOUR IT SITES?
NOW?
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Electric cars can't cut carbon emissions while your burning fossil fuels to power them and mining rare earth minerals to make the batteries can't be good either. Add in price, lack of range, lack of charging stations, time to charge, etc, etc and they are a technology that is just not viable in its current state.
I've read a number of similar accounts recently and they all claim to have done nothing wrong but I'm not convinced. "Dynamic bytecode loading from a local app resource" that triggered AV warnings sounds dodgy to me and is going to look very dodgy to Google's automated scanners. Every similar report I've read has included questionable behaviour either from the app or the dev. The biggest problem really is the lack of a support rep you can contact to resolve possible false positives.
Another thing I've seen reported a lot recently is people claiming newly published apps and updates are now taking 3 days to go live. I can't comment on newly published apps but none of my updates this month have taken more than 3 hours. Again I suspect the people experiencing 3 days have been pushing the boundaries of what is allowed so have a bad rep with Play.
shutdown -h now
for a second time: Mag editor fires parting shot at proprietary software
"Eric Raymond wrote... about the problem of critical internet services being dependent on unpaid volunteers... The big corporations will always step in to fix things, but to Raymond that is part of the problem. "Wouldn't you like to have an internet that's less beholden to the mercy of large corporations and governments?"
Unpaid beardies who can't afford to keep services running or corporations that can. Pick one, you can't complain about both Eric.
Once a user chooses a search provider...
it will be set on the home screen - I don't want any search provider on my home screen
as well as becoming the default search engine for Chrome - not much use since I never use Chrome
It will also install the search app from the chosen provider - no fucking thanks, I chose what apps I want to install there is enough pre-installed crap as it is
All this is going to do is annoy the hell out of me as well as giving me ANOTHER app to uninstall.
“We are not talking about protecting the nation’s nuclear launch codes,”
No, my data is a lot more important and secure than 00000.
"a terror attack or some such may conveniently swing the population toward outlawing strong cryptography"
The CIA have something in the works do they?
Ron Wyden seems like a good man, whenever I hear of him he has something intelligent to say. I don't suppose he feels like becoming British PM?
"multiple, global digital currencies available for payments, working seamlessly within our smartphones"
Sounds dreadful. How is requiring my phone to be present, working and charged an improvement over unpowered cards & cash? And, how am I going to buy milk, bread and other daily sundries when most of the local shops near me don't take cards and those that do have a minimum spend of £10?
"Digital currencies, built on blockchains, will leave a transaction record of everything"
The more you data fetishists tighten your grip, the more people like me will slip through your fingers.
"there's no reason *not* to have online voting... tax discs... state pension... online benefit application, etc"
Except for the people who don't have internet access which is most likely to include the old and poor such as those on state pension or benefits. And, that's before we get into the problem of verifying your identity for an ANONYMOUS vote.