lloydsparkes

https://xkcd.com/927/

Even if the ToS are pulled from the web, it might just pull the document, not the UI, providing opt-outs, etc

If google had made software updates available, which gave the correct options and are GDPR compliant.

But the OEM, Network don't approve / supply those updates, is Google at fault? (In this case its a non-Google phone running Android)

I am reading through the complaints,

The first one: https://noyb.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/complaint-android...

The User sets up a "new" (non Google) phone, and isn't given an option to decline consent to Googles ToS.

Now how does this work with a physical product? It needs to be compliant on the 25th of May 2018, but the version of Android may be old and not updated (given its Android). Even if there was an update waiting to resolve GDPR related issues, you would need to agree to the ToS to get that update, to enable opt-out?

In that point of view, it seems a rather unfair complaint. I havn't checked the other's yet, but I start to feel that perhaps these have been filed too early, without enough thought and examination, just to get headlines?

I think this article misses a key point about fairness that seems to be ignored (I have not read the underlying paper, so perhaps its bad journalism)

In this scenario:

"In the first scenario, participants had to decide if they wanted to transfer two coins from person A (who already had four coins) to person B (who had one). Researchers note the “transfer would reduce inequality,” (as there’s less of a gap between them), but person B would end up one coin richer than person A, reversing their status."

"Just 45% accepted the redistribution when it changed the hierarchy."

They have focused on changing the hierarchy, and this is where fairness comes in.

Should people who have "wealth" be forced to a redistribution mechanism, where that person ends up poorer than everyone else? - Its one thing to redistribute for to reduce or eliminate inequality, its another to make them poorer than everyone else (even if the overall equality is reduced)

So I don't think its about maintaining the hierarchy, but a sense of fairness in the redistribution

This solves my biggest issue, and will make a few projects I'm working on much much easier.

It was such a pain to do USB networking on the old zero. But its a great size and form factor for projects

Adding in Bluetooth and Wifi will make it much easier to work with

The code name is all that's related to Mojang

Microsoft has used a number of minecraft terms as codenames.

RedStone Cobalt

As its a standing desk I have, having everything on the desk makes life easier.

Mini ITX would have taken up alot of deskroom. My old case (Antec P183) I had sitting on a side desk before hand

It performs fine for development. I'm having some screen flickering issues at the moment (not 100% sure what)

I'm C# Dev mostly at home, so VS2015 etc, also some linux VM's, mobile VM's, its pretty good

It is a standing desk!

Its about the size of a VHS tape

Intel say it can drive 3x 4k Screens at the same time (2 over DP @ 60Hz, 1 over HDMI 2 ~ 30Hz if I recall correctly)

I got one of these the day it came out.

Yes its potentially more expensive than an Mini-ITX system. But it depends on your priorities.

For me form factor, and power usage, were most important.

This is my new setup: http://lloydsparkes.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/CCaptur...

And for a development work station, with light gaming (I have an Xbox One for gaming) the performance is amazing!

Its nice because it makes payments significantly faster especially for small transactions.

When your in a busy shop getting lunch, or a bar, it saves a significant amount of time and effort.

Although any nation state that does not like capitalism, surely would not be signing a trade agreement to open up trading markets.

FYI:

If you looking for the Raspberry Pi 2 downloads or the x86 download for Embedded Device you need to sign into your plex pass account first, then theres a button on the downloads page called "Plex Pass Downloads"

It seems as its a beta its only open to plex pass subscribers.

It's Taken me 30minutes to work this out (luckily I am a subscriber)

Microsoft is working on 4 Bridges of which this is one of them.

Android is another:

https://dev.windows.com/en-us/uwp-bridges/project-astoria

The other two are for web apps, and legacy win32 apps.

They all take different apporaches. So this one for iOS is a recompile and modify approach, Android is more of an Android SubSystem within the OS approach (like the old Unix subsystem that they had)

I'm generally a fan of this idea, as long as its implemented correctly.

At the moment lots of western countries, spend billions on welfare entitlement, and billions more administering a complex system, so that politicans can change particular benefits to win votes from certian groups of voters.

Under this system, all benefits are replaced with a single, universal level, so politicans can give rises either to everyone, or no one. (The only additional benefits should be for those with serve disabilities).

You also lose the withdrawal issues of going from out of work, to in work, you can get rid of things like minimum wages, as their not needed any more, and you can support a more flexible labour market.

Politicans cannot fight over, how particular benefits can change, say increase pensions, but cut unemployment.

If you also merge this into the tax system, with a flat tax as a negative income tax, it is even more efficient.

And eventually you also get what alot of people on the right want - a smaller, more efficient goverment, while doing what alot of people on the left want.

How is this possible?