I have a Nexus 5 with a long boot time encryption password and a shorter unlock pin. Seems it was already fixed.

You left out the important word "constitutional".

Canada is a constitutional monarchy that holds it's own parliament and elects its own leaders. The main power of Canada is in the Parliament of Canada. Not even the Prime Minister can rule by fiat. everything they do needs to pass through parliament, not sure about Canada but Australia has dismissed Prime Ministers before for trying to force their acts through. The Queen's representative in our respective nations, the Governor General (GG) does not hold any real power besides the power to dissolve parliament which can only be done under specific circumstances (such as a constitutional crisis, but more commonly because the ruling party has called an election and the first step is asking the GG to dissolve parliament). If Parliament is dissolved, the government goes into caretaker mode while we (as in "the people") go to the polls.

The first line from your link is:

"The monarchy of Canada is the core of both Canada's federalism and its Westminster-style parliamentary democracy,"

England has not been an absolute monarchy since the 1600's. Your information is wrong in so many ways.

To what data are you referring? Google holds keys for some stuff like email, which is sent in plaintext anyway and which they need to offer webmail access. They claim not to have the keys to synced browser data though, and apart from some innuendo and "of course they do" you offer no evidence to the contrary.

Unlike Apple, Google can't recover your backups if you are completely locked out of your account and don't know the password. That suggests that they really don't have the key.

Besides which, local encryption on your phone is designed to frustrate thrives and other people trying to rape your phone like the police. It also makes wiping easy and effective when you want to sell it.

The language is very specific. Maybe they didn't get a request for bulk data, maybe they just had to provide a back door into everything so that law enforcement could serve itself. Then again, maybe not, we have no way of knowing, which makes all American company's claims that they resist the government worthless.

The Scots are not ruled from Westminster, since 1997 they've had their own elected parliament making their own laws in Scotland apart from a few reserved laws. Even before then they weren't ruled from England, they were part of the union and got an equal say (as in a vote per person) same with the Welsh and Northern Ireland.

The Scots already have self governance, the vote is about leaving the union which is mainly an economic and military co-operation. The Union Flag is a combination of the Scottish flag (St Andrew's Cross, white diagonal lines), Irish flag (St Patrick's Cross, red diagonal lines) and the English flag (St George's Cross, red cross).

In this case, they'd be right.

They were targeted by a government that is extremely unpopular at the moment to serve as a distraction from the other problems Australia has like increasing unemployment and a worsening economy (all the things that the previous Labor govt kept ticking along). This couldn't look more staged if Joe Hockey came out and said, "we staged this". Unfortunately there is a large wave of xenophobia in Australia and the xenophobes and racists are the LNP's (Liberal/National Party) most core audience, Abbott is trying to capitalise on this to try and improve on his woeful disapproval.

No evidence was actually presented to the media (the government doesn't need to) and the desired affect is to sow more xenophobia and distract the people. They can expect a show trial at best but more likely they'll be released without charge (and the media will ignore this).

It's not the first time this government has used this kind of misdirection, Abbott declared a "terror emergency" on the same day that thousands of students protested against uni fee hikes and HECS reductions to prevent papers from reporting on the student protests.

With apologies to Martin Niemoller (and for the reducto ad hitlerium):
First they came for the Muslims...
With any luck, next election Australians will be coming for the LNP and put an end to their charade.

And 5 minutes later it will be hacked to send false signals.

Car modding is the most prolific modding scene. Germany mandated limiters to 250 KPH decades ago, other countries have done similar but you still get cars flying down the deresticted parts of the autobahn at over 250 KPH. Limiters were easily removed or disabled, when the they started inspecting cars they made the modification so that the limiter can be easily connected to fool the tests and disconnected afterwards.

If police and insurance markets make collecting this data mandatory, a large grey market for false profiles will start.

Pretty much this.

Its classic misdirection to keep people distracted from the increasing unemployment, worsening economy, political infighting and other Abbott government failures. Seeing as shouting "boats, boats, boaty boat boat boat" stopped working a while ago they need a new plan to keep people from seeing the horror of the current government.

At least we only have two more years of this fool to go.

This Chevy sounds like an arsehole, good thing I drive a Nissan. Japanese cars dont question the boss.

Italian cars should become more popular, they know what will happen if they break the omerta... either that or you'll see a lot of ad's for "pre loved Fiat 500, only one shotgun hole".

True, but why should we get monkeys as politicians forever? I dare say we deserve better!

The problem is that in a market where supply outmatches demand by a sizable margin, capitalism cannot provide an equilibrium. And workforce is such a market. Supply outmatches demand by at least tenfold. And the usual market instrument of capitalism will not produce a sufficient solution, i.e. the supply simply vanishing because there is no demand.

People refuse to simply vanish because you don't "need" them. They'd probably rather kill you to get your money than die off peacefully.

Maybe answer the question? Should the "permission to breed" depend on your job?

Usually such a thing happens when a butt-kiss artist meets a boss who is susceptible to being kissed up. Sadly our system does support such moochers. That has less to do with being sober or being on time, or even with competence. It's just that con artists will always prevail as long as people suffering from inflated levels of stupidity and people able to spend money are not two distinct groups.

If you start with PHP, even Brainfuck looks fun and refreshing. Jesus pal, talk about damning a language with faint praise.

Another attempt by a vendor to try to lock in software development and make cross platform development incredibly difficult by introducing a new language.

Fuck, I do tire of the sociopathic tendencies of corporations.