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Many governments (including the one that occupies my country Switzerland) drove economies into the ditch. These governments won't admit that this was wrong from the start. Now they have to pretend the USA is too dangerous.

IMHO companies should include older designs, or allow people to adjust everything. So Windows 10, for instance, could come with the designs of 10, 8 and 7.

How superficially do they check their customers?

I'm not an expert but maybe they just believed in the books. Or maybe they checked the documents, but the documents were forged, so checking the documents would have been useless.

One country should decide to fine Apple. The fine should be a tenth of the market capitalization. Problem solved.

I think the public must get the message that there was no terror virus. This will let the idea terror virus disappear. People who are having the idea will have to realize that have been taken in by charlatans. This won't feel nice.

I think the fear of a terror virus was so great that a virus that didn't have such a bad quality was mentally turned into a virus that has this bad quality.

Isn't it also possible that the PCR test was wrong and it was something else, like a cold?

I'm not sure if it's the case but maybe 60% is the possible maximum?

I hope I understand it correctly how germs spread. Is it like this?

Imagine an infected person infects 4 other persons, and the incubation period was 1 year. Probably everyone would get the germ.

But if the incubation period was 1 second, at a certain point 1 infected person would find less than 1 person who is infectable (not already infected / had an infection that is gone now / has had an immunity? / etc.).

They are so annoying that I block scripts of captchas in uBlock Origin. So far I've blocked the scripts of recaptcha and hcaptcha [1]. If a website uses a script captcha I leave. But recatcha told me once I was a bot, so I guess it's OK that I don't use websites that don't like bots.

[1] The 3 uBlock Origin filters:

  ||www.google.com/recaptcha/*$script,important
  ||www.recaptcha.net^$script,important
  ||hcaptcha.com^$script,important

Is there a market for these tiny photographs?

I do the same on 19.10. I also use another Chromium anyway, one that has hardware accelerated video playback.

https://launchpad.net/~saiarcot895/+archive/ubuntu/chromium-...

It's available on Ubuntu 20.04.

Once the regular Chromium had a higher version number than the Chromium in the PPA. aptitude updated to the regular Chromium. I then gave the PPA Chromium a priority of 1000 by creating a file called /etc/apt/preferences.d/saiarcot895-chromium-beta with the following content:

  Package: *chromium*
  Pin: release o=LP-PPA-saiarcot895-chromium-beta
  Pin-Priority: 1000

If Bilgex(Bill Gates) can be trusted, why didn't he rescue Achaogen, for instance? He apparently doesn't know what's needed. Also, vaccines can only make sense if the target doesn't change all the time and the benefit is orders of magnitude higher than the possible damage.

I don't know why Canada has an extradition treaty with the USA. Hostage-taking for the USA doesn't always work well apparently.

If people cared about spying, there would be end-to-end-encryption in 5G. Maybe it'll come with 6G.

Masks reduce airborne transmission.

Not as much as Ebola suits: https://www.welt.de/img/gesundheit/mobile130688133/039162761...

1 Ebola suit for everyone, with an air supply rucksack.

part of our money back

A replacement CPU would make more sense. It should support the same operating systems and motherboards. I wonder if Intel would be asked by a lot of people to replace their CPUs.

I think the cloud was a dumb idea all along. CDNs are an exception though.

From https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/14/technology/trump-tsmc-us-...

Mark Liu, T.S.M.C.’s chairman, told The New York Times in October that T.S.M.C. had been negotiating with the Commerce Department about a possible U.S. plant, but said it would require substantial government subsidies. How much, if any, public money might be associated with the company’s decision was unclear.

And from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-48917705

The US State Department has approved a potential arms sale to Taiwan, estimated to be worth $2.2bn (£1.76bn), the Pentagon said.

Maybe TSMC thought it would be really good if Tawain were protected better thanks to these weapons, and TSMC would also like these subsidies.

It's unfair that non-US companies must annoy Huawei. Non-US companies usually don't benefit from this. It's like forcing foreigners to be part of your army.

The original version of DOS that Microsoft bought to license to IBM for the PC was written in 6 weeks.

Is this actually true? From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Paterson

When a book appeared in 2004 claiming that 86-DOS was an unoriginal "rip-off" of CP/M,[6] Paterson sued the authors and publishers for defamation.[7][8] The judge found that Paterson failed to provide any evidence regarding "serious doubts" about the accuracy of the Gary Kildall chapter.

I hope YouTube only removes a little bit. It seems so to me. A lot of similar information is still available.

Also, the videos that should be deleted before any others are the videos about the claim that it's better to be too afraid than too little, for instance. If people deliberately increase their fear, they become irrational like Francis E. Dec, who believed in the "Mad Deadly Worldwide Communist Gangster Computer God". The difference is that Dec had no doubts, and didn't choose to ignore doubts and to deliberately be afraid the most.

https://blog.google/documents/73/Exposure_Notification_-_FAQ...

"a. Can I turn it off?

Yes. The choice to use this technology rests with the user, and he or she can turn it off at any time by uninstalling the contact tracing application or turning off exposure notification in Settings."

Does this mean the device owner has to turn it off? Or is it opt-in? Also, can random apps turn this on again after it has been turned off? And how can the user not get this update at all?

Can the pin be 1111? I use a similar pin for the app Threema. Better than nothing I guess and easy to remember. (Also, after restarting the device I have to enter a complicated password.)

Edit: Now I see. Signal wants to save data in the cloud. My Threema PIN is just for my device.

You were meant to destroy everything once in a while.

This was even the main takeaway for some people. [...] SimCity 2000 [...]

Nooo! I didn't like the disasters in SC2000. If your city becomes too bad a delegation of citizens gently escorts you from your mayor's office[1] (game over). Also, getting disasters under control takes work and there is no progress in the city during disasters.

If there is a fire, I had to place firefighters around the fire. Sometimes it made sense to take the bulldozer and remove structures, which would have been fuel for the fire. I hope people didn't miss their houses :^). After I had successfully learned how to always get the different disasters under control, I disabled them in a menu.

BTW I wish a Windows emulator with SimCity2000 for Windows would be sold. Right now only the DOS version is sold.

[1] https://www.simtropolis.com/objects/attachments/monthly_2016...

If we treat those platforms as private. Then we are playing in s/o's backyard. You are totally at their mercy. They have every right to kick you out if they don't like your face. It's their property. You are a guest.

Maybe this depends on the laws of a country. Also, IMHO either a company offers their services to everyone or to no one. There are, of course, exceptions that aren't really exceptions. Creative work in an "exception". For instance, French painter Monet was so popular that he could choose his customers.

I know but what if TSMC had to apply possible US sanctions against China? First, TSMC would be a US company, which could give the USA an excuse to tell TSMC to apply sanctions against China. Also, the USA could take the US factory.

Isn't this risky regarding industrial espionage? Also, what if the USA sanctioned China? Wouldn't it be bad if TSMC had a factory in the USA?

Can anybody tell me where the change will be? With [1] I've saved every apk with "play" in its name (Google Play Store, Google Play Music, Google Play services and Google Play Movies & TV). If the update happens, could I revert the changes by installing the extracted .apk files? Also, I've disabled the Play Store because my guess is that the Play Store will install the new API. After all, the Play Store also installs/updates regular apps. Can you tell my if my guess is correct?

[1] https://f-droid.org/en/packages/axp.tool.apkextractor/

Does Google send this message to random developers ([1]) and then look at the changes that developers make to get a list of things that developers apparently think are not so good?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Six_Stratagems#Stomp_th...

a flight overflying the US will often land in the US, and a plane ordered by US authorities to land while overflying has to comply. Lots of US influence in this area.

Is it possible that some people are afraid of being charged with "Conspiracy against the United States" [1] and that they have to wait a long time in the USA until a jury decides that they are innocent?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_against_the_United_...