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the article also mentions; Unfortunately, the said-government doesn't seem to worry about the fact that their own systems have been breached over the years

we are having similar issues here in Australia with the government very quickly trying to become the overall "Lord of our Lives". Digital Id, banning kids from whatever/whenever th…

they will apparently be fined around AUD$50M if they fail to do due diligence (not sure how the legislation phrases. I am not sure if any social media company has at this stage. Un…

I assume you mean the LinkedIn legal dept. The problem there is that these companies are so big that a 'complaint' or 'cease & desist' to them would be like a mosquito bite, if tha…

Unfortunately this has been happening almost forever. You can spend 10s of thousands of $$ design, prototyping, building & marketing anything, whether a physical product or softwar…

I found I had exactly that issue ~3 months ago. A particular government department had their systems hacked and 1 of my email addresses became public along with 10s of thousands of…

Applies a lot in life, eh. The old expression re muscles "if you don't use it, you lose it" applies a lot to coding or even in just normal day to day systems maintenance. Asking an…

you had me interested at the word "pancake" but I ain't gonna do maths to get it

Very true & having 6 kids of my own, I know that only too well. I still don't like the idea of Mr Government trying to tell me how to raise my family. Here in Australia the governm…

And in addition to that, it is the role of the parents to be having the say in what their kids should and shouldn't be doing. As far as I am concerned most governments stick their …

I quite like that idea also. And I would not have thought it would be that difficult to implement in most systems these days Having 1 or 2 backup email accounts and/or an SMS sent …

Unfortunately, we seem to lose more than we really gain, much of the time. Often it is 'sold' to us as 'convenient' but, I suspect, more often than not we don't gain that much

Call me stupid maybe, but when I was studying, whether school, college or whatever I always aimed for 100% in my results as I knew I would not get 100% and I knew if I aimed for 80…

I better not show my beautiful, flower-loving wife this article. We already have enough flowers (and I would like to be able to keep our home)

>In my experience, a decent proportion of people have always been nervous about joining in. I'd wager that for many of the onlookers it isn't driven by a creativity/participation t…

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I wish I knew about this site when I was trying to teach my kids to tie their shoelaces. Man, the hours I wasted and the hair I pulled out back then! :)

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In addition, to the fact that governments are still run by us mere mortals, is the fact that even the government is unable to 100% to guarantee that our data is "safe" in their han…

I agree with that too. Whilst we here in the "Land Down Under" (Australia) seem to have a fixation on NOT wanting to go down the nuclear energy route and we seem rather keen on tea…

I have a similar issue with the couple of cats we have in our office (known also as my home). Either they want to go outside, get fed (again), or simply just decide they need atten…