They never could be trusted. Cisco proved that the government will demand back doors ages ago. But then, you can't trust AMD on the same basis.

We have to first enforce antitrust so we don't have any companies which are too big to fail.

Like it or not, and I don't, we do have those. And Intel is one of them.

"Fortunately for us, we're still a nation of laws"

Hahahahahhahahahahah

They're not wrong, drumpf is genuinely evil and demented.

The US and UK are both members of five eyes, an intelligence sharing coalition created to get around certain countries' laws against spying on their citizens by having other coalition members do it for them.

But wait, the US is altering the deal, and wants to stop that sharing.

That is what this is really about. They want to spy on us and not share the info with these former allies.

I'm not against stopping the information sharing, which was always really just a way to go around laws designed to protect citizens. But this is not for our benefit, it's for the purpose of punishing other nations by reducing international cooperation.

"Elections are State controlled"

He's in the process of deploying the military to the states that would oppose him right now. He's BEEN in the process of eliminating the generals who would oppose his illegal use of the military against the citizenry.

I'm ok without those apps, not excited but I don't use them anyway. (I have used Uber about three times, but not in literally years.) My employer issued me a phone because they are not stupid enough to embrace the security nightmare that is BYOD, so my authenticator has a place to run.

I don't pretend it won't be inconvenient, but this is unacceptable.

"I recent swapped out my wife's cheap Motorola for a Pixel precisely because I wanted to get us all on a platform where we have more control and where we can disable invasive AI and microphone monitoring that seems to be the latest fad in the mobile industry"

But that makes no sense. Google is one of the most invasive purveyors of that crap, and Moto/Lenovo only pushes Google's on you just as Google does, so what you've accomplished is spending more for a phone that will do exactly the same amount of unwanted AI spying.

He tried real hard not to leave last time.

This time he will have more help, assuming he lives that long

Correct, Newsom wants to force medicate the homeless, he is not a hero.

It's still fun to watch the maggots lose their shit though.

OK, coward

No such thing. A week is plenty.

Well, shit. I'm going to have to get an alternative phone I guess.

All affected users should sue Google in small claims court for bait and switch for the apps they sold through their app store. Almost certain to fail, but at least it will cost them money, the scum.

I go to the office once a week. I actually like being there, because my coworkers and even my manager are great. But I also like working from home the rest of the week, because it saves me three hundred bucks in fuel alone per month. And my commute is just slightly SHORTER than average.

My employer required that I demonstrate the ability to work independently before I could WfH. Seems like this solves a lot of potential problems, at the expense of limiting the talent pool to people who are in a position to do that. But at least this is logical and not just made up to preserve the value of real estate investment.

If I were caught not working when I'm supposed to be at work, I would lose my job, yes. Not the first time, no doubt, but subsequently. I don't see anyone arguing that should not be the case.

I do about as much work at home as I do at work. It's pretty easy to determine whether I'm "at work" from records of my presence in IT systems, though you'd have to look at the work itself to determine whether I'm doing my job. But then, it's part of my manager's job to know whether I'm doing mine. Going to meetings is not their entire function.