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Comment Re:How a Society Kills Privacy. (Score 1) 62

I have a long-dormant FB account, but the privacy settings have always (since the setting was introduced) been set to not allow people to tag me.

I do not have a FB account and have never had one. How do I say that I do not want to be tagged ? The only way would be for the default to be no, but FB will no do that.

Comment While they are at it ... (Score 0, Troll) 33

mandate another note when they are presenting fake news - ie made up 'facts' or stuff of high bias. There always has been spin in the news, especially when covering politics but these days it has got completely out of control. Things like BBC Verify help but are not nearly enough when faced with the huge torrent of lies generated by those of low morals who will do anything to benefit themselves.

I accept that this is a pipe dream.

Comment Re:Low hanging fruit (Score 3, Insightful) 102

A big problem that will remain is that Microsoft is subject to USA laws eg the Cloud Act and others that let the USA government grab your data and remotely disable services and software. The USA could never be completely trusted (think: Edward Snowden) but Trump has thrown this into sharp focus. There is a move within the EU to move away from American technology. Microsoft cannot fix this problem.

Comment So what happens when ... (Score 2) 57

A USA owned company that has a subsidiary in, say, Ireland that is staffed by Irish people (citizens & domiciled) and USA based staff cannot ssh (or similar) in to do things. The USA government makes an order under the Cloud act on the USA company. This then orders its Irish subsidiary and the Irish staff decide that obeying the order would breach the GDPR/similar and so tell the USA parent to shove it.

What can the USA government do ?

Comment Re:British English and [North] American English (Score 3, Insightful) 121

If we changed spellings so that they followed how words are pronounced:
* We would have words spelled differently in different countries and also different parts of the same country.
* Over time spelling would change, this would make it hard to read old texts. By old I mean 100 or 200 years; even older would be worse.
* Dictionary compilers would have a harder task than they do today.
* Mechanical (ie computer) analysis of texts would be harder, more errors.

If anything we should use a single world wide English spelling. I am English and so I think that it should be the King's English as spoken & written in England. I do not expect those in other countries to agree with me but it would be good if they saw sense.

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