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Luckily it's only horrid Apple that work this way.. Thank goodness for Samsung, HTC, Motorola, LG, Lenovo... 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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The difference between Apple and those companies is that Apple cared enough to put codes of supplier conduct in place. The report started off with questioning why the companies that are supplying Apple are only paying lip service to the standards. It also questioned the company that is in charge of reporting on conditions back to Apple.
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Well, the only way anybody is going to care is if consumers make different choices. And if Apple is at least trying to mandate decent work conditions, I can only imagine how much worse the rest of the playing field is, and not just with phones, but with everything manufactured in China, Malaysia, etc. and not just tech.
It's a sad state of affairs and the gadgets that I enjoy definitely express in their price (as in, low cost) the manner in which human beings are exploited.
Marc
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GitHub data shows that developers are showing a healthy interest in the programming language that was designed to do everything. *1200* repos! That's it, the industry has spoken.
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There are lots of Linux laptops, but none that have the Free Software Foundation's blessings. That may change. Isn't that all of them?
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FSF (Stallman) states that the only free software is the one comes with source code..
So even 99% of the developers (and 110% of users!) never will change hardware drivers it must have open-sourced to meet FSF demands...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Microsoft filed a lawsuit on Thursday against a bogus tech support service that allegedly used the company’s name to persuade victims, many of them seniors, to pay hundreds of dollars for worthless advice or even viruses. You mean that call *wasn't* from Microsoft?
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Quote: to pay hundreds of dollars for worthless advice or even viruses.
Like the time I bought Windows Vista... oh wait they were M$ after all...
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Boom Crash! 
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A critical Git security vulnerability has been announced today, affecting all versions of the official Git client and all related software that interacts with Git repositories, including GitHub for Windows and GitHub for Mac. Something about 'all your eggs in one basket'
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Neuroscientist Randal Koene has the answer. Instead of allowing robots to become our cold, lifeless overlords, why don't we just become partially robotic ourselves? "My birth cry will be the sound of every phone on this planet ringing in unison."
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Mind-uploading sounds like a good idea, until you find that the server farm you uploaded yourself to is going to be hosting the next version of GTA.
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So clearly he hasn't watched the movie Transcendence[^].
cheers
Chris Maunder
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When you're stuck 40,000 feet in the air for 16hrs you watch anything. And I mean anything[^].
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Ouch. You so have my sympathy.
Cruel and unusual punishment. Must have been Air Canada.
TTFN - Kent
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I liked that film. It meant that the family and I had a theatre pretty much entirely to ourselves while others were next door wasting their money on that one.
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I remember flying to India before the era of personal entertainment sytem, they had the same movie twice.
I'd rather be phishing!
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Cpplinq is an excellent open-source project that uses C++11 features to provide extensible LINQ-like list manipulation to C++. "And what will become of us if a weapon, such as I now have, falls into the wrong hands?"
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Approval rating plunge of 20 points caused by layoffs and 'karma' comment. Are they going to vote him off the island then?
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I think they should. Yes it was one comment, and yes he apologized...but let's face it no one believe the apology. He said what he thought (without really thinking it). Organization with so much female in an industry that as it is hard on woman should not have someone like that heading it.
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