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Comment Re: Who is "their?" (Score 1) 72

Your assumption is wrong. Gender can be known and it is still fine to use "their" as a pronoun.

From A Comedy Of Errors, Shakespeare, first published in 1623 - Act 4 Scene 3:

There’s not a man I meet but doth salute me
As if I were their well-acquainted friend,

So feel free to claim that I'm encouraging "pronoun dog whistle games". I don't care. You are wrong, and your foghorn of false indignation is far louder.

Comment Re:Still no testing for Coronavirus (Score 3, Interesting) 16

So what exactly is the point of cutting off travel to Europe?

IMHO, it's a purely political move by the US administration. Likewise the references to the "chinese" or "foreign" virus. And how the US administration can ban flights from Schengen countries, but the UK is fine given all our government has done so far is say "old people are going to die" and "wash your hands a lot".

Comment Whenever I travel to the US... (Score 3, Informative) 106

Whenever I travel to the US, one of the first things that I notice is different is the lax approach to card security. In most of Western Europe, pretty much every card transaction uses the chip. I can disable the mag-stripe on some of my cards (through the banks' online systems), and using magstripe anywhere increases the chance of a transaction being picked up by the banks' automated fraud detection systems. Then when you get to the US, you go into a restaurant, settle up by card with no signature and no pin, and then the restaurant can manipulate the transaction later to add whatever tip you wrote on the bill. Madness!

Comment Re:Scanning (Score 3, Informative) 67

I've been involved in negotiations with a couple of contracts relating to Google Apps for Enterprise/Education.

In each one, the "scanning" has been explicitly mentioned in the contract. In each one, scanning for the purposes of advertising has only happened if the domain administrator allows it to happen. If it is turned off, Google will not scan mail for the purposes of advertising content.

There are of course other reasons why google will scan your email. Spam/Antivirus filtering and indexing to enable search functionality are two that come to mind.

Basically, all Google have done is remove the domain administrators ability to allow ads, and I'm not aware of anyone I know who used Google Apps for Education/Enterprise with it turned on anyway.

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