In most countries, getting a phone in a store is something done only by people happy to pay lots extra for a little human help, surely? The average user now signs up online and gets a phone in the mailbox.
Not watched yet, but I suspect AI edits are using hallucinated citations with ISBNs that don't even pass a checksum test. AI may improve on this if someone trains them about ISBNs better, but it's cool if this sort of test weeds some slop out for now.
Yeah, there were a few mistakes in the search that will amuse most English people, but basically Ben didn't get far enough away. Partly that was because service out of Scarborough sucks, I guess.
Why's Sam hating on his hiding city at the end so hard? It seems likely to render many photo questions useless in the end game, if he picks the hiding spot well, such as inside Queen Square or Lloyds Court or in one of the many underpass connectors, because photos will narrow it only to one of many similar places built around the same date in a similar style. One steel+glass block or polished granite wall looks much like another. The street grid will nullify the Strava traces. It's unlikely to be a winning run, because it's too easy to get to and the "tallest building from the station" photo will probably be a giveaway to anyone who's seen it - or Superman IV - so there won't be much long game, but the final half mile could be carnage.
when it comes to large projects that have been around for ages or are household names, people might not even notice the fork. But with Vivaldi’s relatively smaller footprint, we could be easier to overshadow, making our brand more vulnerable.
They put their brand before user security and sustainability. And still have the gall to claim to be ethical. Sorry but that's absurd. If imagined how it looks from outside their firm, they might wake up. Instead, they'll probably putter along for a while, then get bought or fail or change direction or something, and their browser will be lost like the Presto Opera before them.
None are so cursed as those who fail to learn from history.
The EU that seems to be considering the evil "chat control" law to spy on everyone's private messages? Yeah, right. Von der Leyen is a snooper at heart.
No, you have IRV, not any proportional system. IRV is better than most-takes-all but it's still a malfunction. Labor ended up with 55% after voters for smaller parties were denied their first choice entirely.
In other words, whatever information you collect to do the age verification, unless you already have it, with the user's consent, for some other purpose, you must not store their information.
A lovely fairy story, based on ignoring all past and current law-breaking by the tech bro companies!
But again, you mentioned the US government. What does that have to do with this? This is a law passed in Australia, but the Australian government. An entirely different country, and one with an actually functioning government and legislature.
Most of the media companies are subject to US government control. If US says to track someone but Aus law says not to, who do you think they'll obey?
Australia doesn't have an actually functioning legislature at the moment, with Labor getting over half the lower house seats from about a third of the votes, but I doubt that's changed this bad law much. If anything, more L+N input would probably have been worse and I don't know the other party views on it.
I hope you're right that it's nonsense but it's way too obvious that this law ain't gonna achieve its stated aim and has huge negative drawbacks for me to dismiss concerns so readily. Governments and oligarchs around the world seem mad keen on getting everyone's ID and biometrics with broad consent, including the exceptions to most privacy laws, and they usually seem to tie ID laws to "won't somebody think of the children" pleas.
As others point out, the big media companies don't have to change their algos to stop harming children or adults. Just gather their ID and whatever lies about age.
No mention of enforcement in that article. No kids getting fined or arrested for using VPNs or buying accounts off others. This law is primarily a Trojan horse to build the ID document and facial recognition databases and smash the scourge of anonymous people criticising governments and oligarchs.
Not sure why Sam is dissing Milton Keynes so hard. A good hiding place there could break tons of the end game questions: tallest building pic? A steel and glass corner. Pic straight up? A steel and glass wall. Pic of you? In front of a polished granite wall. The underpasses and crosswalk covers all look pretty similar too. However, it does look pretty distinctive, so they might reach the end game too fast.
And what have they done to the flag? It's like a creepy funhouse version!
And does it share with Chinese intelligence only, or the NSA too? 😉