Galaxy XCover Pro
Weight: 218g
Dimensions: 159.9 x 76.7 x 9.94mm

Pixel 4
Weight: 162g
Dimensions: 147.1 x 68.8 x 8.2mm

Pixel 3a:
Weight: 147g
Dimensions: 151.3 x 70.1 x 8.2mm

So it will be noticeably heavier than the 4 or 3a, particularly the 3a, thickness would be perceptible but it's not hugely much more than the other two. Other dimensions are a bit bigger, but again not hugely so.

but in the United States these are used to weed out qualified local applicants so the company can apply for a (cheaper and already trained) visa holder. Their algorthtm mostly boils down to ( if (!has4YearDegree) { sendRejectLetter()} ).

Nope. It's always beets.
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Push to talk with Microsoft Teams?

Count me out. Kthxbai. This is the company that shipped everyone's private conversations, and I'm going to go out on a limb and bet that included a fair dollop of trade secrets. How could you even justify allowing their equipment into your business?

Both deal with ideas, who can market them and to what extent. Whether it is a piece of software or an idea for an invention, it is about who gets to control it. The way you phrase it, you are putting a murder trial and a divorce case in the same arena. The point I am making is around the realm of ideas, not the court system in general.

No you've missed the point entirely. If the FBI has a backdoor in their sole control, it's no longer secure. Every single, "super secret" tool that the FBI has ever laid hands on has slipped to our enemies. The FBI couldn't keep a fucking burrito secure in a locked fridge. So if the FBI ever lays hands on the backdoor and rips it from Apple's hands, then the devices are pawned at that point. As sure as the sun rises in the east, the FBI will fumble the fuck out of keeping something under wraps.

And to be clear, this is on unrooted devices, totally stock.

You forgot the 2 or 3 levels above that problem. Why was the clock issue not detected? How did the pre-launch testing not simulate the "real thing". What tests need to be re-run to check for similar problems? Since this one was mission time vs actual time, a review of everything that checks the time should be done, what if this wasn't the only copy of this bug? Then, why wasn't the fact the test didn't simulate the "real thing" detected? What in their development process let them build a testing system that didn't simulate the "real thing" closely enough to detect this? What other tests might not be like the "real thing"? If what caused the above issue was some kind of management decision, what other decisions did they make that could be a problem. If it was a risk management odds failure, then you need to go through and recalculate the odds in that area...

It used to be, and it still is in some cases. Adobe is releasing new versions of product that only run on Win10 - they do not work on 7 or 8.x. They also periodically remove the ability for older versions of their software to be installed from their launcher tool. With the constant updates to their software, the result is that any versions that work on non Win10 are dropping out of the list of installable versions.
Sure we should be running Win10 by now, but we're not (yet). In the meantime, our users are disrupted in performing their jobs.

Adobe should show that latest version compatible with the OS it's installed on, at a minimum.

The transition from perpetual to subscription is nearing completion in my organisation, and the licensing - and associated budgeting - is becoming much easier to manage. It does costs a heap more, though one positive is that both Adobe and us no longer need to worry about licence compliance and auditing. When federated Is is working it will be even simpler to manage.

It's fairly horrible, but our users can do their installs now whenever they want.

That's not true at all. I speak as someone who installs everything to their SD card on a Samsung Galaxy, S7 through S9+ now.

You go into the developer options and force allow moving apps to the SD card. Bang, done. Move almost anything you want.

At that point you might as well say "the legal system in general is abused by the powerful," to which I say "no shit."

Joke at work: it's always dns.

They say the button on the side of the phone can be programmed to operate with a walkie talkie app. I'd like something like that.

Here's a problem I see with every walkie talkie app I've seen so far, they need a WiFi or cellular connection to work. That's not helpful for me. If they have a cell connection then I'll just call them. If I'm crawling around a basement, and I know the other person I need to talk to is on the other side of the wall or floor, then I want to be able to talk to them with the hardware I have in my pocket without having to push a bunch of buttons. It's got all kinds of radios and computing power but what it can't do is a point to point call.

Adding the point to point connection is just half of the problem with all of these "walkie talkie" apps. The other problem is an easy to use button to open the channel. A button on a touch screen isn't all that helpful, I have to have the screen in view to be able to hit it right. I want a button I can feel without looking, press the button, and then talk to everyone that is on the same channel. Getting it to be able to have full duplex communications would be nice as well, the hardware is certainly capable of it. The push-to-talk is just so if I'm cursing at myself for hitting my head while crawling around that I don't have to listen to co-workers laughing at me in response.

I have a four pack of FRS radios for this, and they work reasonably well in most cases. Sometimes there are power/range issues. I thought about getting some more powerful radios to resolve that issue. A walkie talkie app would be better if it worked with or without a cellular or WiFi connection, and if it could use one of the hardware buttons on my phone to activate the mic. I would even consider buying a new phone to get that, because it would likely be cheaper than the radios I was looking at, and I would hopefully only have to buy one since others could just load the app on their phone to make this work for their end of the connection.

Sometimes I just wish I had a walkie talkie, not a cell phone. I don't always have my walkie talkies but I'm rarely without a cell phone. Put the features of both in one device and I would be happy to hand over money for it.

I kinda want Oracle to win, and Google is forced to pay them. And then Intel and AMD hit Oracle with a quarter trillion dollar lawsuit for back-pay on using the x86 and amd64 instruction sets without a license. Oracle settles (spending all the money they got from Google and then some). By which point Congress realizes just how stupid copyrighting APIs is so amends copyright law to explicitly exclude APIs. And Intel and AMD use the money they got to improve processor speeds.

Sure, but we can draw some paraelels...no? Can we perhaps agree that both are abused and stymie creativity rather than encourage it?

The funny thing about grammatical categories is that generally in linguistics they exist until they don't. Even if just pronouns keep them alive, it's still a grammatical category.

Well, you don't. At least not easily.

Most security these days is done at the application level. If your browser gets hosed, your entire Home folder is ripe for the picking. It doesn't matter what OS you use. So, just use some decent 3rd-party apps instead of the crap that came with Win7.

It was the person or people who decided to put Windows on their network. Everything that happened after that was predictable.