They'll probably end up doing a home-grown, Francophone clone of American cloud services. It'll be really expensive, but they don't care about that, as long as it's French.
They already did, but it's not expensive - it's free and open source: https://framasoft.org/
They are not electric mopeds. EU e-bikes top out at 25 km/h (16 mph), and you must turn the pedals to make the engine go. It is a bicycle with aid, not a moped.
As a blanket ban that sounds fine, if one defines minors as under 13. Between 13 and 18 there should be strict regulation, but not a ban.
The CDC's system assumed that if a date was provided, then the "no" or "unknown" answer was an error, and the system switched the answer to "yes."
As someone who processes unclean data, this seems an entirely reasonable data processing normalization step. If a date was provided, I would also assume the respondent simply forgot to toggle the other field, because it is natural for respondents to assume that inserting a date would also imply a "yes".
This is *exactly* why I stay on Apple! From one version to the next and one device to another I don't have to relearn where everything is.
Bullshit. One of my major complaints about iOS (and macOS) is exactly that too many things change with every major update. Settings are routinely moved around or removed, for no good reason. Apple has the exact same problem as all the other big companies - change for change's sake.
21-W:5 Proprietary Software on State Websites specifically says proprietary javascript - not all JavaScript, just proprietary. Nobody is proposing banning HTML5 or Ajax outright, simply that all the used JS should be open source. That's a perfectly acceptable and noble goal.
companies that see the call center as a critical part
No ffs, I do not want to talk to support. I just want to send an email with all the technical details. Phone support is worthless.
Why would anyone trust a 3rd party app for this? The functionality is built-in to both Android and iOS, and even if Google/Apple aren't wholly trustworthy, they're orders of magnitude better than some 3rd party tracker.
I'm with you on this conceptually, but don't know how it would work practically.
That's how it works in the rest of the world, and it works quite well. It's also how it works in 41 US states, so the idea is not that alien to Americans.
Mr Thaler (no idea where "Dr Thaler" comes from)
He has a PhD, so he is rightfully titled as Dr.
From the summary:
The charity conducted its own tests on samples returned by 81 schools and has confirmed that 14 samples have lead above 50 micrograms per litre...
So even if the tests that the kids used were hobby-class, it was confirmed by better tests.
As per https://en.digst.dk/news/news-archive/2020/december/denmark-launches-new-digital-driving-licence/
Since 24 November 2020, Danish citizens have been able to download their driving licence in a new app and leave their physical driving licence at home.
We also have our health insurance card as an app. And vaccination information. And government 2FA that we use for all public services. And several payment methods. We are getting rid of as much paper and plastic as possible.
So, this is simply not news or novel - it's just business as usual.
It would be possible, but it would be a LOT of work. It would be like trying to pry out Perl as a dependency for a major Linux distribution.
Fedora did that. There is no Perl in the base image. Surprised the hell out of me a few months ago.
Debit cards for kids is even a thing?
Absolutely it's a thing. I made sure my daughter got her own bank account and debit card shortly after she turned 7. That makes it so easier to manage allowance and everything else. Nobody wants to deal with cash.
Money is abstract these days, and the sooner you learn to keep a mental handle on how much money you have in the bank vs. how much you're spending, the better you're set up for reality. And learning about managing money in the abstract sense is equally useful for the rare cases where you get handed hard currency.
In the EU, e-bikes are limited to 25 km/h (15.5 mph) and 250w motors, which is already a very safe limit. There are very few non-e bicyclists who go faster than 25 km/h. And you have to actually pedal for the motor to help you, which is a big mental aid that this is a bicycle and not a scooter/moped, so people behave like bicyclists.
An e-bike that can go 30 mph (48 km/h)? That's absurd. EU scooters/mopeds are limited to 45 km/h (28 mph).
You scratch my tape, and I'll scratch yours.
