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Comment Installed, and disabled Google Maps (Score 2) 36

And then you still have to force it to stop after disabling it, because disable doesn't mean disable to Google. If they don't actually quit the app, how will they continue to steal your location data?

Oh yeah, from play services.

We've gotten to the point where phone makers shouldn't be allowed to bundle any apps with the phone. Gross.

Comment Re:If we're wondering why (Score 1) 71

Exactly, a passport is insufficient as an actual ID as DLs are used today for a number of reasons

The passport is more than sufficient as an actual ID. It is sufficient for ID in all situations. The Driver's License verifies the right to drive, and the ID at the state level. It's the driver's license which is insufficient as an ID, not the passport. The passport always verifies identity.

ID.me is also a private entity which makes it a total non-starter for an actual national level usage.

Welcome to capitalism.

Comment Re:If we're wondering why (Score 1) 71

The USA has national ID, it's called a passport. (Real ID was supposed to be a national ID, but it's been watered down so that it effectively isn't one.) The passport or passport card is the gold standard of ID because it verifies both nationality and citizenship.

The USA also has national online ID verification, it's called ID.me. It's shit, but it exists.

Comment Re:Unless you do something (Score 1) 241

The strength of the US governmental system never rested on the Constitution. It rests purely on the willingness of the people to behave in proper ways.

I believe that's universally true. It doesn't matter how well written a set of rules is, it can't cover every eventuality and for the ones it does cover, it can be creatively reinterpreted with sufficient motivation to mean almost anything, no matter how obviously absurd.

Comment Re:As expected (Score 1) 33

Even if you're not stupid enough to gamble because you know you have to lose

Obviously unless your a whale like Kerry Packer who is bigger than the casino and knows how to tip - however I digress.

I know there is charitable gaming however I've never understood, beyond organized crime, why all casinos profits aren't regulated into charitable causes and institutions to put people's desire for a non-lethal adrenaline rush to some good use.

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