oh, but just try getting any of them on the www. The horror! I think perhaps that 3.5 was the first with some kind of built-in modem access, those before depended on unauthorized hacks and third party software to even connect to the modem, and mostly one ended up spending hours, days, or weeks in a frustrating search for a solution, and if you didn't have the right pieces of hardware you just had to give up
that is, the desktop user interface was ok - that was back when windows actually had windows. Way before that pesky "Start" button. The desktop was similar to most smartphone desktops with lots of icons - only they were grouped in nice userfirendly panels that could be opened and closed (those were the "windows". Mac had something like it at the time, only mac had the annoying feature that its windows always opened new windows so after a short while of work you had so many windows open that even closing them was a drag.
Nope. Privacy Shield got ruled out years ago. Then some people invented SCCs in the hope that could evade GDPR. Not so. GDPR is key, no matter what kind of evasion technique you try to cling to.
You seem to be an American. Things are not quite the way you imagine when seen from an European perspective.
>> you have to apply that argument everywhere and ban all EU personal data exports to the US
Done already. That is the essence of the Max Schrems verdict. No US firm is trustworthy in EU at all.
All US firms are subject to the EU court decision, and from an European perspective it is a wise decision indeed, that will boost EU industry, regardless of US industry.
Americans crossed too many of the wrong lines too many times, and we just don't want to play with you anymore.
> The client itself has no direct control over WebSocket connections. They can silently start when a webpage loads.
"No client control" is misleading. A client that blocks JavaScript will not issue a JavaScript WebSocket request in the first place, and hence the connection can NOT "silently start" when a web page loads.
(this may stop some functions of the web page from working, which -- in this case -- may be a good thing)
> help you order replacements if you're running low on something
Way to go keeping alcoholics away from stopping, or to keeping those with eating disorders to, well, their disorders.
"I really tried quitting but that dang fridge...."
> Piles of leaves will kill a lawn in as little as one season.
Who told you that? In my experience this is not so. Grass is just about the most hardy weed you can get.
> I need for the massive amount of leaves my oak trees drop on my yard.
What is the nature of this need? If leaves were left to decompose and act as nourishment for insects and then soil, what damage would be done?
The noise pollution these devices produce is significant too. Add to this that they are often in use in urban areas where blocks tend to amplify and echo the sound.
And then, the idiocy of it all: the leaves are never collected, just blown to some other location from where the wind will eventually return them. Talk about a bullshit job.
Let people learn to use a rake and/or a broom. I say.
>> "the sometimes rigorous entry process for foreigners, which they see as a deterrent to tourism"
Rigorous? Is that the word you choose?.. wtf's up with you? It's bloody harassment and outright disrespect for human rights, that 's what it is!
A whole lot of hearsay, rumours and fearmongering... But honestly, do you really *know* anything? And can you *prove* it?
This goes for the original poster, too.
The optimum committee has no members. -- Norman Augustine
