I did a lot of small Apps/Stacks, notable an Japanese - English/German dictionary.
I did not know that you could install a jap. keyboard, lol. So I made a card/page with hand drawn Hiragana. As using the mouse to type was a bit cumbersome, I wrote a parser from roma(n)hi to Japanese characters. Basically I only looked up the picture of the char in my keyboard, and drew that where it was needed. All data was in "roma(n)ji". No Japanese characters. Did Unicode exist at that time (~1990)?

At some point a co student mocked me about my "crude looking font". When I explained, I had drawn it with my mouse, he looked dumb folded and "installed" in front of my eyes a Japanese (and a few other) keyboards.

At that time it never came to my mind to check system preferences for more languages or keyboards - lol.

I read somewhere, he programmed his first version, in just a few weeks ... astonishing!

And your plan is to *rob* that house?"
Nope, you run now out of that house.

In Germany it is illegal to listen to police radio.

I think meanwhile it is encrypted.

It is actually illegal to listen to conversations that are not intended for you. E.g. if a ship has a "phone call" via a coastal radio station, you have to leave the channel.

I think the main result would be:
that they finally think about real security. What we have at the moment is security by obscurity.

It can simply not be that my 15 year old Mac is secure, and can only get infected when I install malware myself, or open a hacked PDF file (or insert file format) with an Application that has a known bug.

And on the other hand, iOS installs every damn App completely isolated with its own user (and group?) and should not be able at all to break out of that isolation, and attack the OS.

And certainly should not be able at all to access data from another app.

So what is left? Contacts. What else?

Occasionally a real vulnerability pops up and get's published. But why that always was possible, the root cause behind it, is never really was clear.

(OTOH, I do not regularly read what exactly got fixed in the new OS and why)

40% of the market has a completely open ecosystem with no restrictions on side loading what so ever, and they are doing just fine.
Technical.

But most people do not even know what side loading is.

And installing an app by simply downloading it: is not "that" easy or intuitive.

In other words: most people never heard about it.

They have two app stores, and that is it. I have 3 as I have FDroid, and as I have Android Studio, I have a 4th option, and I know how to download something (which is tricky, as the fucking browser unpacks the *.app and repacks it as *.zip, and after renaming: it can not be installed. So I need a special browser, that does not do that. Actually I forgot which one I used ... I think "eInkBro.app" was okay ... or was that the culprit ... I forgot.)

So while you are technical right, the are hurdles.

Australia does not have a "2 party system".

It has a system like for example Germany: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpeo.gov.au%2Funderstand-...

Apple can't just say, "You were stupid and now you've voided your warranty," because EU law doesn't let them say that.
European law does let them say that.
And if it is true: they have nothing to do for the customer.
And that is likely easy to prove with system logs.

Ah, but you can't grow bananas in America, right?
You could if you wanted ...

Bananas are not "that" picky.

I mean in some areas where water is scarce you grow alfalpha, for cattle to produce milk. Makes sense, right?
And at some other places you grow Almonds, and so much water they have there not either.

Bananas on the other hand are not "that" water intensive. But in general a plant gives fruits only once, like Maize or Wheat.

The Arrow required no spying- it literally used US jet engines, and was a considerable part of join US+Canadian defense planning, lol.
Yes, the Canadians did the research, USA contributed substancially, but was not involved in development. They actually "tried to" develop a competing craft, and had massive bad luck. Hence they stole the plans from the Canadians.
And during the Sputnik - time, it got clear that interceptor fighters get less and less unimportant to intercept Russian bombers.
When they withdrew the money, with the attempt to took the know how into their own research/development the Canadians gave all know how to France.

You truly do have a warped sense of history.
No I have not.

This part of history is to close before I was born: hence no personal knowledge, only random pieces from books here and there.
And it is to close to the start of my school time, so "as history" it is (was?) not taught in school. As "the history classes" more or less end with WWII - because then you are about to leave school.

So, being wrong by a year or a few: does only prove my knowledge is not accurate. Has nothing to do with "warped sense of history".

Not sure what exactly you want to say. The Sputnik launch was 1957. You say Atlas D was operational 1959 ...)

In the history dramas I have read or seen, the Sputnik launch was the core reason that the Arrow project got canceled -slash- failed.

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...

Thanx I was just curious.
Stuff like this probably never pops up in school.

Of course it can use more via bank switching.
So? What did you want to say?

At any given time, it has a 64k address space ... to access some "other bank" it has to switch.
In general 16kB are always the same ... and the lower 48kB gets switched in and out. But there are different approaches. The bigger Apple //s had the main memory split into 48+16, and the second bank worked different, as far as I remember.

And you have no history education, or access to wikipedia.

And: you could have told us why you think Russia is invading Ukraine: as I do not know why.

Sounds pretty cool!

Yeah, something like this.

Or like "Lebensraum", after all Ukraine is a very fertile land and Siberia not so much ... and they speak nearly the same language ...

The underlying problem is: he is insane. Had to judge what the real motive is.

So we have this odd situation on the planet that two of the biggest powers have insane leaders. Both destroying their own country, and one is trying hard to take another one with it ... And the other one looks like he wants to ruin the rest of the world at least financially.

Last weekend's dronefest took out at least one, and probably two.

It seems like a pretty significant loss of capability.
Definitely!