Likely because the manufacturer used of off the shelf hardware that just happened to have GPS built in? That's just how these things go, it's easier to just use pre designed hardware for what you need, even if it has functionalities you won't use.
Hell, I'd argue that the vast majority of computer hardware out there isn't using half of the features that it has.
Just because features are there doesn't mean they're used, and definitely doesn't automatically mean that there are evil or nefarious intentions with its design
A crurl racist pedophile rapist removes protections against rape for a vulnerable minority
Well I for one am shocked and did not see this coming! Get fucked by an umbrella, you assholes
How about just making sure that rape doesn't happen anymore AT ALL in US prisons? It's seriously wild that "don't drop your soap now!" os a joke because its funny because rape in US jails is so normalized that we went from outrage to just lolling about it.
Invest in a few companies, then invest in Bitcoin right from the start, invest some more,. become the first trillionaire by 2010, use my influence to become sort of a benevolent dictator to push for actual democracy, and eventually get multi millionaires prohibited by having counties simply place hard caps on net worth (app beyond a certain level goes to taxes)
So European countries are dropping out while the non European Israel can continue.
Mmmmm, one wonders how that happened. One also wonders if these people that decided to boycott Eurovision over this are antisemitesor just people with a heart.
Fuck the Israeli government.
Jail Netanyahu, retreat all your forces back into Israel, allow an independent Palestinian state, pay reparations to Palestine state, beg all Palestinians forgiveness for your 5+ decades crimes, then beg the world for forgiveness for calling everyone that protested their crimes and antisemite, and then maybe maybe maybe they should be allowed back into the world.
Add to that that they've worked hard to sabotage the competition, especially Linux.
They invested millions in a company that then magically decided that they should sue various Linux vendors and users, claiming that Linux violated its intellectual property rights, which was known bullshit. The goal was to scare companies into using Microsoft and they succeeded.
Then there is their continuous EEE strategy, Embrace, Extend, Extinguish, taking sodtware standards, "extending" those with incompatible functionalities, ensuring users will depend on those and oh, look at that, the files only work with Microsoft? Now you gotta stick with us
They could have invested in actually making their own software better but as usual, its easier to invest in lying in advertising, or investing in sabotage than to do that.
Fuck Microsoft. If I'd see a Microsoft office on fire I wouldn't piss on it to put it out. Now that they're working hard to kill themselves, let them.
Call it a nanny state but companies have been abusing kids to help and back with social media which, IMHO is a much, MUCH bigger problem than porn. I'm all for a ban on social media for kids under 18 at least.
I fully agree that we need privacy and a system should be put in place that does t spy on the citizens bu at the same time we do need protections for the citizens
The entire "he who sacrifices privacy for security" is a bad faith argument. Tell that to a 70yo granny who just lost all of her life savings to scammers. Tell that to the 15 year old that just committed suicide due to some social media bullshit. Tell that to the countless teenagers wrestling with anxiety and can't get themselves away from social media anymore because companies refined their algorithms so far that they're addicting as fuck.
That is where governments are supposed to step in. Not everything should be legal or else we should also permit owning weapons grade plutonium. Yes, that is an extreme, but its to show that we need limits and the question is where
Yes, government can be abusive and very much on the wrong side, like with the marijuana prohibition that broke and ended countless lives. Now Europe wants to spy in all chats FFS.
Those are great examples.of bad government control but just because these bad examples exist doesn't meant hat any government control is bad
I would favor an age verification system that is guaranteed anonymous. That shouldn't be too hard to setup if the government gives out codes to the citizens, and they can give independent non profit foundations a list of the codes with only the birthdate. Citizen supplies the anonymous code to website, website requests age at foundation, that's it.
Foundation can't legally reveal to government (or anyone for that matter) what code visited what, and the foundation doesn't know what code is what citizen
It's just a random idea written on the toilet, I'm sure there are better algorithms out there to do this, but the point is that it can be done in a fair, dependable and anonymous way.
We need SOME control, no control just doesn't work.
At least apply the controls to all the big players for starters
And here i am wondering if anyone knows what avrotros means :)
Either way, good on the!
Edit: it's a combination of AVRO and TROS, AVRO being Algemene Verenigde Radio Omroep (generic United radio broadcaster) and TROS being Televisie en Radio Omroep Stichting (television and radio Broadcast Foundation). I might be slightly off, going from memory here, but Dutch broadcast network names always sounded like a Monty Python sketch about the Judean People's Front vs Judean Front for the People
Also for trump and co to get rich quick. I imagine most people that lost money are magats. Not that i cate about them, they got what they went for, but this was definitely more than just a pipeline
There are always a few shitty players out there. There are European companies that support Israel in their genocide. Just because a few companies do so, doesn't mean that an entire country does so
If you can't see the difference between the batt majority of a country and a few shitty players then go have a talk somewhere else. While at it, take your 51st state bullshit and shove it where the light won't shine
Absolutely
These people don't care about kids that they don't know being abused. Their own children dying on the battlefield though, that's a different matter
Likely because the manufacturer used of off the shelf hardware that just happened to have GPS built in? That's just how these things go, it's easier to just use pre designed hardware for what you need, even if it has functionalities you won't use.
Hell, I'd argue that the vast majority of computer hardware out there isn't using half of the features that it has.
Just because features are there doesn't mean they're used, and definitely doesn't automatically mean that there are evil or nefarious intentions with its design