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Comment Re:The 40 billion dollar company was Temu (Score 1) 16

I hardly ever shop online - and never in China - so all I knew about Temu was the name. Here is what the UK Consumer Association has to say about them. If this is a nation-state attack, I wonder if it's the NSA behind it - the nation which most dislikes China is the US (apart from Taiwan which would not dare).

Comment Re:Nope. Not even close. (Score 2) 24

My guess would be that a fair proportion of the accounts are genuine - would bots be complaining? - and that Pinterest unleashed AI onto the pictures.
"Adult Content" also sounds realistic - are kids interested in quilting, cross-stitch art or Minecraft bunk bed builds? The problem is that the AI process looking at the pictures does not realise that "Adult Content" means "porn".

Comment Look at other countries (Score 1) 186

Great Britain has had this problem multiple times.

AAA nnn - the original scheme, the very first numberplate issued was "A 1".
AA nnnn - ran in parallel when the pool was almost empty.
nnn AAA - replaced the previous scheme some time in the 1960s
AAA nnn A - followed a couple of years later, the final A started off as "A", a year later it was "B" and so on. I think they skipped "I", "O" and maybe "L" and/or "Z".
A nnn AAA - was next, the first "A" denoted the year.
AA nn AAA - is the current system. The nn started out at 00 and denotes March-August of year 2000, then came "50" which meant the following six months. A year later it was "01" and then "51". Nine years later, "10" and then "60".
There's no need to implement something that stupid, Jan-June and July-December would have worked instead.of March-Aug and Sep-Feb.

The Germans have a totally different system, AAA-AA nnnn where the first AAA (can be 1-3 chars) indicates the issuing authority, for example "SD" could be San Diego and Los Angeles could be "L" or "LA". The other two characters and the 1-4 numerics just need to be unique. When cars are scrapped their numberplates become available again.

Comment Re:Do they pay, or pay? (Score 1) 27

"violate the law" seems pretty clear-cut. If it's twice been found to violate the law, and they're still doing it? That's textbook "wrong."

Does this still apply if Samsung is based outside the US? I don't live in the US and bought a new Samsung phone a few days ago (the old phone no longer gets Android updates and Samsung have about the longest software support), it has Gemini. Why should that worry the courts in the US?

Comment Regulate the Intertubes? (Score 0) 45

Firstly, I can't imagine politicians getting a new technology right. They would probably have passed everything on to the military or the NSA (and I just checked, they date back to the Kennedy administration).
Secondly, other countries would also have had the technology. Regulating the internet would presumably have inhibited the founding of Yahoo, Google and a large number of other companies. The iPhone would never have been invented and my guess is that Apple would have foundered.

Comment Re:They Wonder (Score 1) 127

Sounds like you work in an open plan office.
I was working in a 2-3 man office (where one was hardly ever there) and then the company moved to a new location - empty desk, open plan with no fixed seating.
I left.
The 2-3 man office had been annoying enough, the one who was always there is a diabetic and he had reminders for various "must do, now" events set up to make various noises at fixed times of the day. He retired eventually.

Comment Re:Hybrid third option (Score 1) 146

I'd say it's more important to wean off of Windows and iOS as quickly as possible

A necessity China was confronted with during Trump's first term. I think I read that they were developing some Linux (or bsd) based OS which would be specifically Chinese, but have no idea how that panned out. Maybe the EU should ask China how they went about it and what the results were.

Comment Re:Smart choice of words (Score 3, Informative) 146

At this point I have to raise the name Shamima Begum.
She was convinced to leave the UK as a 15-year-old to join ISIS in Syria as one of three teenage girls, once there they were "married" to IS males and used as brood mares for the cause. The other two girls died (I think in air strikes) but Shamima turned up in a refugee camp with a baby boy, her other two children having died.
The then Home Secretary Sajid Javid was trying to curry favour with the Daily Mail to get them to back his bid to lead the Tory party, he made a decision where children of first generation immigrants could have their citizenship revoked if they did something really naughty and had dual citizenship. Bangladesh stepped up to say she did not have citizenship rights and was a British subject, but the Tories then got either MI5 or MI6 to claim her return would endanger the United Kingdom. By then her child was long dead - pneumonia. What Sajid Javid did was only legal under international law (the UK is a signatory) if she really did also have Bangladeshi citizenship, but the courts have mostly backed the government.
Curiously, Sajid Javid is also a child of first generation immigrants so he could presumably be deported to Pakistan under the rule change he introduced, and he never did get to take over the Tory party. He stood down as an MP at the last election.

Comment Re:I am shocked! (Score 1) 290

The Australian who was living in California - with a valid visa - but then flew back to Oz for his sister's funeral. When he got back to the US a couple of days later ICE refused to let him in ("things have changed") and essentially locked him up until he signed something saying they could deport him. His pregnant partner was checking for reports of air crashes because the last she had heard from him was a call from the airport before boarding his flight to the US.
The English woman who had been staying in the US, she left for Canada but was then stopped at the border because the Canadians decided she had the wrong kind of visa. The US refused to let her in sho she could fly back home, locking her up instead. The whole process took several weeks because the ICE man responsible for her case then went on holiday.
People who have made unflattering comments about Trump, that is apparently a reason to send them back.

I read newspapers from two countries in two languages, the reports cover different cases but they have so much in common.

What part of "random ICE detention" was unclear?

Comment Re:Winning (Score 1) 290

how special Americans

Special needs?
I never actually got around to looking at an analysis of the voting results, but read that a segment which was solidly (decisively ?) for DT was young males, or maybe young Latino males. If that last variation is true, it was turkeys voting for Christmas (or for Thanksgiving in the US).

Would the Muskrat have gone so 100% pro-DT if his son had not decided to become his daughter? He must have noticed in the meantime that he qualifies as a turkey in that respect.

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