I meant to say "It's not about IF YOU'RE in public or private..."

In California, and I assume the other states, there IS a prohibition of recording in public, if there's an expectation of privacy. If you're in public and yelling at the top of your lungs- there's no expectation of privacy there unless you're in a pretty deserted area. But if you're in public and having a normal conversation with someone, there generally is an expectation of privacy- you're far enough from others, and the others are moving around, that you expect your conversation by and large to be between you and the person you're speaking with. So it's not about if it's in public or private, it's usually in my experience about whether or not there's an expectation of privacy. Here's the relevant part of California Law (632PC): "(c) For the purposes of this section, âoeconfidential communicationâ means any communication carried on in circumstances as may reasonably indicate that any party to the communication desires it to be confined to the parties thereto, but excludes a communication made in a public gathering or in any legislative, judicial, executive, or administrative proceeding open to the public, or in any other circumstance in which the parties to the communication may reasonably expect that the communication may be overheard or recorded."

These are fine in states that only require "one party" consent to recording conversations, but are going to end up with people in jail in "two party" and "all party" consent states for recording conversations without permission. California has 632PC- which can be charged as a felony, for recording private conversations without knowledge of all involved. Amazon going to be buried in lawsuits...

Incorrect - Daylight Savings Time is from March to November... we're leaving DST and entering Standard Time. And DST goes for 8 months, and Standard Time goes for 4 months. Not 6 months apart. I know this because it's my biggest fear- having to testify on stand and have to explain this time offset in front of large rooms of people under duress.

There's a chance this kid can be turned around like Kevin Mitnick and can become an asset to society. He wants attention, you can get that in negative and positive ways. He's clearly found the negative ways. Cyber security is our current battle front- we need pen testers working for society. He's clearly adept at it. It might take work, but will be worth it.

Perhaps I should say decrypt instead of unencrypt... wondering why it kept flagging that for spelling lol.

Seems to be a solid solution if your password list is static, though I'm constantly adding stuff and to do that you have to create a new file every time, or unencrypt it and add, then re-encrypt no? I found out every time I added passwords to my encrypted open office spreadsheet file that it was creating a local, unencrypted, cached copy on my drive (I found my passwords using hxd, in plain text).

Funny thing was, after 15 years of thinking how clever and secure I was with my encrypted spreadsheet (open office), I found out that it was for some reason storing a copy in plain text on my main (unencrypted) drive. It must've unencrypted and cached it locally... ðY¦

Ditto on Bitwarden. Until very recently I just kept my files in an encrypted spreadsheet document on an encrypted drive. But that always made it so I had to be home to get them.

Whether or not Apple would fix it is a bit of a red herring (and Apple wouldn't fix it- it's a decade old at least they say). It was whether or not it was fixable. And there are TONS of ifixit / ubreakifix / etc repair centers all over the place that do just that. I repair devices too. And yes, the issue is about Google finding a better way to allow people access to their accounts, but at the same time people often glance over the fact that Google is a free / unpaid service Google provides to users and given that google isn't likely to spend a lot of money adding customer service agents to fix the account access issue (yes, Google makes money off you, but you don't pay them directly in most cases). So the best bet for this lady (actually, the best bet is this article, which will bring it to Google Exec's attention, and probably get her access) is to fix the device she had access to her account in. And then use that device to do a Google Takeout data dump to get all her Google data and archive it in case of future lockout. Another easy fix is if she somehow makes herself a suspect in a case, and then Officers do a search warrant and obtain all her data for her that way. And then she obtains all her data through discovery, and then the case magically goes away (joking, of course- illegal to file a false police report, but this WOULD work).

You CAN fix many iPad problems. IamwaySmarter it seems your noting that Apple chooses not to repair because it costs less for them to just ship a new / refurbished on than to repair it, but that's simply economics. Just like a car that's "totaled" simply because the cost to fix is worth more than the KBB value, but that car can often be fixed at a cost. And all this Ipad probably needs is a new battery or screen, as long as she didn't drop it, then smash it with a hammer, and then dunk it in acid.

I think it might be more realistic to say that Google and a speaker speaking in a monotonous, robotic way are pretty much indistinguishable from another. They both sound robotic to me. When it can imitate what people really sound like, normal people, then talk to me. Not that this isn't cool, but from the cursory bits I read and heard it seems to over-hype itself.

First line "Appel has been ordered to pay"...think it was a spoonerism of "Apple" and "Appeal."