Or F-droid users can just wait 24 hours to set up our new phones. So what?
It boggles the mind that F-droid and F-droid-distributed apps keep throwing up these scare banners months after Google altered the new policy to one that allows us to continue as before with only a minor one-time speed bump.
The government had consistently argued that the vast majority of schools had already banned mobile phones
Assuming this is true, headline is a no-op. However,
The bill is regarded by many as the biggest piece of child protection legislation in decades and includes proposals for a compulsory register for children who are not in school, a crackdown on profiteering in children's social care, and a "single unique identifier" to help agencies track a child's welfare.
Did you mean for your post to be a reply to this one that mentioned prize drawings? I'm not seeing anything lottery-like in TFA.
I confess the intensity of my own comment was triggered by the other reply throwing shade at variable rate billing in Texas, which you did not actually endorse.
Because you log basically everything, in a reasonably efficient compressed format, in a circular buffer as large as you can afford, in case its useful to figure out WTF happened when a car comes into the shop with some problem. Or figure out which features almost nobody uses so you might remove them in the next iteration. Or figure out what parts wear out too quickly or too slowly, etc.
Better to log it and not need it, than to need it and not have logged it.
A nonsensical, impossible claim - do you really claim the flash memory in the car stores *every* waypoint the car ever travels? It makes no sense, the data retained would be enormous. The linked to article shows four or five data points per second, extrapolate that over the life of the vehicle and you quickly realize it's impossible.
No, that's quite feasible. Assume double precision floating point for latitude and longitude, plus a 64 bit timestamp. 192 bit * 5/s * 10 years comes out to a WHOPPING... 35 GB.
You can log location essentially indefinitely, without using any compression, and without bothering to stop when the car isn't moving, and you never even need to overwrite anything. The most expensive part of the required storage will be getting it certified for automotive ambient temperature.
"Plan to throw one away. You will anyway." - Fred Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"
