Comment Re:Some good data... (Score 1) 434
The far better solution is to Disable apps (can be done from the app settings) and then they effectively don't exist to the operating system (though they do still reside on the disk)
The far better solution is to Disable apps (can be done from the app settings) and then they effectively don't exist to the operating system (though they do still reside on the disk)
That's why it's not a problem. It wasn't chosen to be offensive.
I'll buy it wasn't chosen to be offensive. So? Someone has to want to offend you, to be offensive? They were sitting around at work, with porn magazines out in the open. Does that really not strike you in any way to be misogynistic?
Why would we think he would say anything else? That's his job, and presumably he's surrounded by plots and threats that he needs to counter every day, so his perspective is going to be a little biased.
The important thing is that whenever a policeman or agent says something like this, we respond by thinking "well obviously he would say that" and take a view on whether that is proportionate based on the wider civil liberties consequences. The fault is not that they would want that, everyone always wants more power to do their job more effectively, is that we have weak politicians that grant it too easily.
Mystics always hope that science will some day overtake them. -- Booth Tarkington