For me, the timeline is a 10 year trip down memory lane where I've been.
Fortunately, the backups were possible to restore (after app update to the latest version).

To be safe from the next mishap, I wanted to download the location backup to my own backup, or the timeline on my device.

It does not seem to be possible! The "encrypted backup" is locked in my google drive, only accessible to the maps app for storing and restoring.
Even Google Takeout does not export the data.

Do I need to jailbreak a device to be able to archive (and possibly restore) my own data?
Or do a GDPR "give me the personal data you store in machine format" request?

Article is dated May 8, 2015.

2015 - 1994 = 21.

As previous posters said, this is clearly not a "sharpie" or manual blackout, and it's hard to think it's accidental.

It could be planted numbers, in the pretense of being "obfuscated" so they can be denied either way,
but the real numbers and text can be something else entirely.

Nice spindoctoring.

I can see why. The device needs to be able to listen to the transmission *of other devices* when they query for access points. Not just scan available AP's around. This requires the wifi-card to be in monitor mode, which is not accessible to apps, nor on the pi itself. Hence the need for an external wifi adapter.

So here's an existing system tracking Media and government access in Sweden:

https://mediacreeper.com/index
http://gnuheter.com/creeper/senaste

Basically, you put the 'creeper' tag on your home page, and it logs accesses from netblocks known to be used by media and gov't.

No, not funny. Go write a better init replacement yourself then, no need to even joke about violence.

With Bluetooth 4.0, hopefully the Wahoo Blue HR can now be supported by runkeeper et al.

That is a strange argument.
Do you mean that they taken the test and failed?
Or maybe they are just not interested in measuring their IQ, although they would pass if they did.

With the same specs? With hot-plug drives, true hardware raid, iLO/iDRAC lights-out management, secondary bios if flashing fails?

Get a refurbished HP gen 5 or 6 server instead of building your own. Perfomance will be sufficient, don't worry. It's well below $3000, and you get enterprise quality hardware.

Scatholm? Almost makes you think it was misspelled on purpose.

The researchers ("they"?) physical access to one chip. Presumably the key is the same in all other chips of the same manufacture.

A proof of concept on laser pointer networking was done two years ago, if you are interested see
http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/record.jsf?searchId=4&pid=diva2:325270 - Fulltext at
http://www.diva-portal.org/smash/get/diva2:325270/FULLTEXT01

So what is the carbon footprint for powering the laser?

Ah, electricity from nuclear power. Zero emissions. Unless for the Germans, who are dismantling their nuclear power stations and burn coal instead.

In Sweden, this is standard health care. Well, maybe not the most expensive equipment, but what is deemed required, along with nursing.

Severly disabled persons can even be nursed in their homes, 24x7, by their relatives, getting an average salary by the state. This costs the tax payers million SEKs a year, per disabled person (~USD $120k), covering three full time "employees" (3x8 hours=24 hours).

One of the reasons why we have some of the highest taxes in the world.

Point being?