Male, 178cm

93kg

about 12% body fat percentage

Can bench well over bodyweight (110kg last time of trying some point last year),

can pistol squat with hands behind back

Between 40 and 45 years old.

That's not too bad for a keyboard jockey that doesn't gym.

In Europe at least, when using Google Pay, the hard transaction limit before pin being required at the vendor device is much higher. For my purposes the payment will progress without having to unlock the phone when tapping when the transaction is under 30 Euro or so. For larger transactions the limit is removed once the phone is unlocked.

The PIN entry is deemed to be equivalently done when the phone security is deactivated by phone PIN or pattern entry. If the phone has the unlock dropped to a lower security level (swipe to unlock for example) then the Google Pay app will not activate.

I'm not seeing a new Google Pay app in my stores here at least. Then again, our banking regulations are significantly more strict.

Or possibly just peacefully protesting, and being picked up by the secret police?

(Hard to imagine that I'd be writing that sentence seriously about a 2020 USA...)

Hitler's rise to power was by definition democratic - no less democratic than the US is currently. One can see parallels between the (Orange idiot + Republicans), and Hitler, in the abuse of the democratic process, especially when you see the level of bribes and corruption, rampant gerrymandering, vote rigging, "faulty" voting machines, tribalism voter registration prevention, and all of the rest of it. I would even go as far as saying that Germany in the 20's and early 30's was more democratic than the US is now.

It's effectively no different at the end of the day whether the votes were given under duress, or if the "wrong" voters were prevented from voting in the first place. I'm reminded of the Simpsons, when Bart goes up against Martin Prince for the class president, and Martin gets in because he got the only two votes, and a recount was not what Bart thought.

Don't remove the statement - let it stand and fall on it's own merits of lack thereof. Adding links outside of the statement is perfectly correct - as long as it's objectively truthful. Fact checking is not untruthful. It might hurt, but that's the nature of truth.

Option B - every political post receives a fact check link. Clear, across the board, level and fair. No problems there. It would appear that the politicians that rely on overt lies don't like having that platform removed. It's not censorship to add clarity after all.

The parent post is not flamebait, mods on crack again :)

The parent post is factually correct. Twitter did not censor or moderate the speech coming from the Orange one. Adding context is not moderation - it's perfectly obvious that the fact check links are not Trump-sourced.

I am of the opinion that the tweets should be published, permanently, and remove the option of deletion.

Then, it's perfectly correct to add a rider to each one pointing to the fact check, even colour the tweet background to show how many lies are in it..

Putting appropriate context onto the orange buffoon's senile ramblings would be exceptionally useful.

Of course - do the same for anyone in the political arena, keep a level playing field, it'll likely show more clearly the current Presidential incumbent's digital diarrhea for what it is..

Pretty much every time that moron opens his mouth in public so.

It's going to be fantastic when the American people get some sense and vote someone else in.

(assuming that there's sense in American politics, of which there appears to be very little of late..)

Not being satisfied with shitting all over the Fallout franchise, Bethesda Softworks have now managed to effectively ruin the Doom franchise.

It's a bait and switch, two months after a successful release, swapping a decent game with a malware-ridden executable. No way in hell is Denuvo getting to run anything in kernelspace on my systems. They can fuck right off in fact. The only non-Microsoft kernelspace items in my system are items controlling hardware I've installed. There's no software-only components, at least as far as I can verify at this point in time..

Denuvo are by definition an untrustable company. Given they came up with SecuROM in the first place, they can go to hell for that. Also, seeing the heavy load that the Denuvo Anti Tamper places on a modern game, they can go to hell for that too, unnecessary crap getting in the way of what I paid for.

The insidious thing about this situation is that it feel as though Bethesda are using this quietly sideloaded addition patch of a successful game to insert the testing of the market to the DAC crap, in a move to see if it'll fly for their next instalment of whatever microtransaction-laden and grind-full game they've planned next. DAC is specifically tailored to ensure that the single-player "experience" is as the game publishers want it to be. No more trainers to bypass long and useless grinds that can be bypassed by purchase of something. I also suspect that there are people at ID that are aghast at the requirements from their owner for the inclusion of this shit in the game they spent so long working on, hence the very explicit notes in the release notes calling out the presence of Denuvo malware.

I've at least received my refund already, within a few hours of realising that Bethesda were breaking European consumer laws with this update (the game is no longer fit for the stated purchased purpose after all, it's now a real security risk) I had uninstalled the game from all of my systems and notified steam of the requirement for refund. Hopefully it'll add to the statistics that Steam can beat Bethesda over the head with - and a possibility that Valve will take note that customers will not stand to have their systems abused in this manner.

I've also left a scathing negative review on Steam - and of what a beautiful graph the past 54 hours are showing on Steam, with at least a 10-1 ratio of negative to positive reviews. There's no possibility to astroturf their way out of that one.

The fact that the mainstream media hasn't had a chance to get the information out there (later on a Friday when the update was pushed after all..) it'll be very interesting to see just how much mainstream news takes the idea that a game publisher is performing a bait and switch, and opening a major security hole on many many PCs. Will there be notes in the broadsheets on Monday with this information, that there's a huge number of refunds being given to gamers when their game was destroyed by the publisher?

Also interesting to see who are among the major shareholders in Bethesda - iirc TenCent are about 10% owners of Bethesda Softworks, so you can see the lack of problems from that group with the opening of security holes on non-Chinese computers..

Maybe.

The next time the game executable is run, it re-installs the Denuvo malware.

Personally I wouldn't trust an uninstaller from the likes of Denuvo - an untrustable company.

(just a clarification, not aimed @colourspace)

It always amazes me how many US-based people misunderstand exactly what "freedom of speech" means for those that are in the US.
It does *not* mean that opinions can't be shut up.
It *only* means that agents of the governing bodies cannot prevent the press from publishing truths.
As an example, if I run a server, I can remove any and all comments I disagree with, if I'm not a agent of the government, and not a damned thing the afflicted can do about it. Nobody gets the right to push their opinions on others, when in non-governmental settings.

But he guaranteed he was going to die by refusing the appropriate treatments. Strange way to suicide really.

Exactly, such as X10 home network devices, the first major sponsor of popup ads I remember seeing.

They were permanently added to my shitlist as a result of that.

Would someone please get that buffoon out of the Oval Office - he's a disgrace to the human race. However you do it, either through Mueller or your Second Amendment rights, please just get him out of there...

At least it looks as though Mueller might be on track for a classy impeachment setup soon enough after Manafort's lies negating that plea bargain.