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I agree that it’s very frustrating, but law is a language game between opposing parties. There is always going to be willful misinterpretation, because, well, sometimes people want incompatible things. If you add a spirit of the law TLDR, you’ll need a spirit of the spirit of the law, and so on.


Zero click exploits are a thing, but they are very expensive and have limited shelf life (once they have been used a few times, they tend to get found out and patched). Most actors won’t use one, unless it is a very, very high value target. It seems that the EU parliament member was not high value enough, and got lucky.


Putin has “updated” term limits several times. For the UK and Germany, this makes sense, however.


If he would choose to leave after 2 terms, he would be a positive figure in Russian history. Now, he will be responsible for the collapse of the Russian Federation.


They also have offers where you only pay for email || vpn || cloud-storage. Their payment structure is somewhat confusing, but very flexible.


The Palm Pre had the best mobile typing experience I have ever had. I tested a lot of different stuff (Blackberries, various weird looking Nokias), but something about the Palm Pre was just... better. It had the perfect amount of resistance, the keys were well defined and had a nice rubber touch.


webOS in general was amazing. I still prefer it over iOS, especially on tablets.


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