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Comment Re:Linux (Score 1) 164

How would I implement this?...
The birth date could be stored in a new field in /etc/shadow.
Then maybe a DBus service listening on the system bus that can be asked for the age bracket of a user. The existing systemd org.freedesktop.login1 service would match nicely.

It is too difficult to require the birth date to be entered on account creation. Instead allow the API to return that the information is missing.

To limit API usage to app stores, the DBus policies should be used. So this has to be configured on distro level.

The list of possible age brackets should be configurable, because not all countries/states will specify the same age brackets as Colorado.

Maybe we also need a mechanism that will ask the used if they allow an application to know something about their age that is not covered by the age brackets (e.g. "is at least 21" when the age bracket is "18 or older").

Comment Re:What about a driving licence? (Score 2) 75

But the US in contrast to the Philippines did not sign the Vienna Convention on Road Traffic signatory. The signs in the US are completely different from the ones I had to learn for my EU driving license. And as far as I know, there are even some rules that differ from US state to US state, e.g. turning right on a red traffic light. I would not dare to claim that I know the US rules better than a Waymo car.

Comment Happened on TV (Score 1) 97

We have had this happen in "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" when someone wanted to use a telephone joker.
The host just lied using a (more) famous person's name and was accepted.
Later they wanted to call a different person and accidentally called the same number again, having to repeat the process.

Comment Re:BS (Score 1) 83

They believe European manufacturers will eventually build models that are as cheap as the minimum price set for the Chinese cars. VW's ID.Polo is said to arrive in autumn for 25k€. The Dacia Spring can already be bought for 16.9k€. Chinese models still have the drawback that it is difficult to get spare parts.

But it is true, Germany still has no good strategy to make people buy EVs.

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