True. But then these semantics were often applied to people's role in their society. Such as Hatshepsut. The labels may not translate exactly into modern languages.

You misunderstood GDPR. It's saying that your personal data belongs to your, you get to control how it is used. There are exceptions for legitimate interest uses of that data, but beyond those it's your property and treated as such.

The football game is on now.

Yeah.

I just POP them all to my local system. And then read/delete or juust delete them as I see fit. I don't want the remote server to know which ones I just delete, when I read messages or how I manage them.

Too much spam coming from GMail. If they figure out who's mail I read, they'll just tack that From: address onto everything.

... millions of Nigerian princes cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.

My phone doesn't have a little red light. I can put it in my shirt pocket and start it with a voice command or a BlueTooth remote.

It's likely already illegal in GDPR countries. It seems like the law has fallen behind technology in the US.

I don't mind facial recognition if it's just matching the owner's faces and all done locally on the device (easy enough these days), it's when it gets uploaded to the cloud or worse shared with law enforcement that it becomes a problem.

The problem with feature updates that change the behaviour of the car is that they can be dangerous. Drivers come to rely on expected behaviour, and there are examples of accidents in Teslas where the driver seemed to rely on past behaviour to be repeated. I know, it's never a good idea, but that's how human beings are and you have to engineer stuff with that in mind.

Other manufacturers do alter behaviour as well, but typically only rarely and by requiring a dealer visit the owner is made fully aware. The worst is when they nerf cars. There were some Mazda hybrids that had performance nerfed when they found that the batteries were dying prematurely, and of course the dieselgate scandal resulted in a lot of cars having reduced performance and massively increased maintenance requirements.

Most of the work is done between civil servants in unofficial meetings. They hammer out a deal and then the political leaders sign off on it, or not.

It's obviously not great having to get 45k people together, but the real proof is in what deals they actually manage to do. Sadly those tend to be lacking, especially when it comes to Europe and the US.

The EU takes a very dim view of malicious compliance. I doubt Google would try to subvert the EU's rules, and they have shown a willingness to comply (unlike Apple) in the past. Sure they get their lawyers to argue against it, but when the decision is made they follow it.

We shall see, but I imagine either the carve out for hobbyists and alternative app stores will be huge, or Europe just won't get this requirement at all.

I use Cloudflare to forward email from my domain to Gmail. It has the advantage of Cloudflare not being blocked by any of the spam lists because so many people use it, and it's free. I know, Cloudflare reads all my spam, my data is going to be hacked any minute now, but it works reliably and the price is right.

They lost the war, it's our country. Fuck 'em, we'll beat 'em again.

That is in no way unlike IMAP. Nothing about IMAP prevents local caching/copies. Thunderbird will do it.

Thank goodness it's not a creepy fuck walking around with a phone camera.

Red Electrica has a public-private ownership structure. So, who to blame? Shareholders? Corporate interests? The government that the people elected (i.e. blame themselves)?