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Comment Re:I'm really confused (Score 1) 52

Also, on Android there's already a great app called Screentime that parents can use to manage their children's devices. I think it's pretty lousy and hypocritical of Apple to introduce a similar feature with the exact same name. Do they believe in intellectual property and trademarks or not? Do they want theirs respected?

Comment I'm really confused (Score 2) 52

This sounds a little bit confused and muddled. I can't tell if the motivation here is:

  1. App developers might be spying on your kids
  2. Apple already has a feature to do this and doesn't want competition.
  3. It's legitimate for a business to know everything that happens on their devices, but not legitimate for a parent to know everything that happens on their child's devices.

None of those endears Apple to me, and my wife just read this story and said, "Well, that seals it - our kids won't have any Apple devices."

Comment Re:DST all year round for the win (Score 1) 355

There is no reason that noon has to be the time of day when the sun is highest overhead

I think it would be super cool if the sun were highest overhead at noon, but thanks to daylight savings time, the sun's highest point seems to be about 1:30 PM most of the year where I live.

Comment I don't get it (Score 1) 227

There's not enough explanation here for me to understand what is going on. It sounds like a bunch of old guys are upset that kids are playing video games, so to protest they have disrupted a spectator sport? Except one of the protest groups is named the "young" boys, so I dunno?

Maybe explain more specifically what esports is? Is it video game versions of sports? And how does it affect these protestors - or does it actually affect these protestors? What are they upset about? What change do they desire?

Give me enough information that I can judge whether their protest is even appropriate. It sounds like their idea is that it's bad for kids to play video games and they should do healthier things like sports, except these are sports spectators not sports participants, so there's an irony here in their protest they may not realize. And it sounds like maybe they should've disrupted an esports/video game tournament rather than their own game that they think is superior to video games? Or is the game somehow connected to esports?

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