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Fun fact: According to linguists, a three year old typically recognizes no less than twenty thousand distinct words. The kid is then roughly speaking a thousand days old, and must have learned about twenty new words every single day of his life!
What are the twenty new words you have learned today?
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I get called "Boomer" now by the millennials, and I am not even a baby boomer era person. If they are going to call people names at least get the age correct. ROFLMAO OMG WTF!! 
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Slacker007 wrote: ROFLMAO OMG WTF!!
You can replace all of that (i.e., reduced overhead) with:
LSHIWM
(Laughted So Hard I Wet Myself).
As a virtual 'boomer', you will find that easier and easier . . .
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That's what a boomer would say, boomer 
I'm a millennial, but not a typical one because I have a house, a job and not a crippling student loan and you don't hear me complaining about how I can't get either of those because you boomers destroyed my chances 
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W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote: in just a few generations, the organ used to laugh and, for that matter, think has changed
Well, one of the other expressions has never been "you're talking out of your face" to begin with.
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I can't say I'm surprised - Apple does at least claim they have a privacy bias. And hopefully the API mentioned in the article you link to (quoted below) will give governments just enough access to the underlying devices to permit what's required for finding interactions with infected people without leaking personal data.
Quote: Apple and Google hope to issue a developer API in a "first stage," followed by operating system integration at a future date. The initial API will only be made available to public health organizations, presumably including those in France.
I wonder about the article only mentioning the French wanting changes to iOS - does that mean they can already get all the access to devices/system services that they want in Android?
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Stuart Dootson wrote: I wonder about the article only mentioning the French wanting changes to iOS - does that mean they can already get all the access to devices/system services that they want in Android?
Also, how do other countries bypass Apple's security? 
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From looking at TraceTogether, a Singaporean tracing app, I'd say they don't - you need to keep the app in the foreground on iOS...
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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That doesn't work at all when you're on the road! 
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No, it doesn't.
But if you're in your car, you're self-isolating 
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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Stuart Dootson wrote: The initial API will only be made available to public health organizations,
That's reassuring. I'm sure the hackers are disappointed and will promptly move on to another target then. Because that's what hackers do. History shows that's exactly how this works.
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Also known as "Security Through Obscurity".
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AppleInsider wrote: On iOS, apps that transfer data over Bluetooth are prevented from running in the background
I wonder if anyone has ever played music in the car from an iPhone over bluetooth?
The claim is obviously bogus.
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I play music in my car from my iPod Classic 160 GB, the only Apple product I really like 
Unfortunately, they don't make them anymore 
Perhaps the difference between the French government usage and your car usage is that you open the app to select a song, it connects using BlueTooth and after that it keeps working until you disconnect (walk away or stop the car).
I'm guessing your music doesn't continue playing after you get back to your car or restart it.
This COVID app needs to connect even when you haven't opened the app and connected to other devices.
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It continues playing until the connection is broken.
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Strange - I do that all the time with Android: works like a charm and provides handsfree as well ...
I guess iPhoneys are just as far behind the curve as I always suspected. 
"I have no idea what I did, but I'm taking full credit for it." - ThisOldTony
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No, it works just fine for my wife.
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OriginalGriff wrote: I guess iPhoneys are just as far behind the curve as I always suspected.
They've flattened the curve before it was popular
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I would imagine some of the more limited Bluetooth profiles (like A2DP, which is the music playing profile) are implemented entirely within the operating system, so are trusted services that can operate in background processing. On the other hand, transferring arbitrary data is probably going to be implemented within a third party application, so isn't trusted and thus isn't permitted background processing access?
That said, the relevant Apple docs do talk about applications having background access to Bluetooth, but it's limited in comparison to foreground access.
Java, Basic, who cares - it's all a bunch of tree-hugging hippy cr*p
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From my daily e-mail from the Oxford English Dictionary:Quote: As our lexicographers monitor the language developments related to Covid-19, 21 words, sub-entries, and revisions have been added to the Oxford English Dictionary in our latest update, including self-isolation, flatten the curve, and social distancing.
[^]Quote: It is a rare experience for lexicographers to observe an exponential rise in usage of a single word in a very short period of time, and for that word to come overwhelmingly to dominate global discourse, even to the exclusion of most other topics. Covid-19, a shortening of coronavirus disease 2019, and its various manifestations has done just that. As the spread of the disease has altered the lives of billions of people, it has correspondingly ushered in a new vocabulary to the general populace encompassing specialist terms from the fields of epidemiology and medicine, new acronyms, and words to express the societal imperatives of imposed isolation and distancing. It is a consistent theme of lexicography that great social change brings great linguistic change, and that has never been truer than in this current global crisis.
Now, if JavaScript frameworks for the web would only stop multiplying like proverbial bunnies ...
«One day it will have to be officially admitted that what we have christened reality is an even greater illusion than the world of dreams.» Salvador Dali
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