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Comment Re:Never heard of a Steam Deck (Score 5, Informative) 107

It's designed to play PC games on the go, the reason it can play PC games even though the specs are relatively low is that the tiny screen means it can get away with running them at a low resolution.

It also excels at being used as an emulator for those who enjoy retro gaming. It's also interesting for tech enthusiasts since it's a tiny form-factor PC at a surprisingly reasonable price, you could probably have fun installing Kali Linux or whatever on it.

Comment Re:Without a vaccine (Score 2) 300

He can't because it doesn't exist. The situation has been stable in Sweden for the past month as can be seen here: https://experience.arcgis.com/...

Economically the problem is that Sweden is an export driven economy and even when herd immunity is achieved there will still be a massive drop in demand.

Comment Re:there should be no "right to be forgotten" (Score 3, Informative) 46

It's not a movement, it's long standing policy common across most European countries that is focused on rehabilitating criminals and make them useful citizens.

You're also proving your ignorance since although this has been written about countless times for many years, you still haven't understood that it's not the records of the events that happened that are being deleted, it's the public indexes of those events.

Comment Re:scabs suck. next you'll skip paying bribes. (Score 1) 507

Uber are allowed to run fixed price runs without a meter (For instance the Airport to City and vice versa is a common one) however Uber also runs normal per minute/km prices which require a meter.

In theory their GPS app could get recognised as a meter as long as Uber can prove it won't lie to the goverment.

Comment Re:US (Score 1) 224

It will work at achieving what it is trying to achieve. You appear to be under the impression it is intended to prevent people from finding the information if they are looking for it. It is not.

It is simply intended to prevent the information from following you around. To prevent people from finding it when they're not even looking for it.

Comment Re:US (Score 1) 224

I think that much of your confusion comes from this idea of responsibility. It's not that google did anything wrong by indexing the information in question, google is still free to index anything relevant just like newspapers are free to publish anything relevant.

When someone is sentenced by court, the newspaper is allowed to publish that information and google is allowed to index it, someone googling that information at that point in time is supposed to be able to find that information. Some years later when that sentencing is no longer relevant the newspaper is still out there and can be accessed in archives, however the information is no longer to be actively published. This is the point in time where people are now allowed to require google to stop indexing that content.

Comment Re:US (Score 1) 224

You're going towards this completely backwards. The European approach to this is not that it should be impossible for people to find out the past history of other people, it should simply require effort.

The intent of this law is simply to make sure that when someone googles your name, then your past criminal record is not the first result on your search history. If someone wants to find out your criminal record, they're still perfectly free to ask for it as it remains a public record.

Comment Re:You can't have services without paying for them (Score 1) 389

Important addendum:
It is minor fraud as per Brottsbalk (1962:700) Chapter 9 paragraph 2 to use transportation with the expectation of cash payment without paying.

However SL can not make use for that law for a number of reasons including
A) They don't take cash anymore.
B) The burden of proof is very high as in order to apply they need to verify that someone hasn't paid for their ticket -after- they've already taken the ride -and- confirmed the person is not willing to pay the punitive fee. Essentially the person has to confess.

Comment Re:You can't have services without paying for them (Score 1) 389

1) The subway police are stationed in the subway to handle the safety of the subway, they are not there to catch fare dodgers. They will however catch you if you jump right infront of them.

2) Riding with a false ticket is fraud, riding without a ticket is simply unauthorised access which is punishable by a fine (ordningsbot) not jail. This is regulated by Ordningslag (1993:1617) Chapter 4 paragraph 6.4 and 10.

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