> iOS apps distributed from the App Store and/or an alternative app marketplace will pay €0.50 for each first annual install per year over a 1 million threshold.
>Developers can choose to adopt these new business terms, or stay on Apple’s existing terms. Developers must adopt the new business terms for EU apps to use the new capabilities for alternative distribution or alternative payment processing.
You don’t have to pay the fee if you stay on the existing business terms.
> Also today, Apple is sharing new business terms available for developers’ apps in the European Union. Developers can choose to adopt these new business terms, or stay on Apple’s existing terms.
Nothing here suggests the new terms replace the existing terms, just that it's now a choice for developers in the EU.
> Instead of simulating an entire mission from launch to docking, “the team decided they would rather run multiple tests with chunks of the mission,” Mullholland said. “Going forward, for every flight, we will do launch to docking and undocking to landing in addition to the other tests we were doing in our qualification testing.”
Given the amount of money and lives at risk, this level of process short-cutting is mind boggling.
I suspect this is a result of schedule pressure. The legacy AE firms were falling way behind SpaceX and I'm guessing they felt the need to play catch-up and didn't want to "waste" time on testing.
A blanket ban on cell phones in schools will hamper teachers and staff too. Plus, the usual reason why jamming is illegal in most countries: dialling emergency numbers!
Get approval to run your own short-range cell site that has a whitelist of IMEI (or IMSI, if that's not available) numbers, and blocks all non-emergency calls made by any phone that's not on the list.
Put the staff on the whitelist, and give parents the option to put their phones on the whitelist when they're visiting.
We've gone many generations without cell phones at schools with trained professionals who are qualified to handle seizures. You don't need a cell phone to contact someone who can get medical assistance on a school campus.
I don't know how things work where your live, but I'm willing to bet my right hand that there is not a single person in my school that knows what to do in case of a seizure.
I’m not a teenager anymore but have kids in 4th & kindergarten. The amount of technology exposure the 4th grader gets is appalling. That goes right up to addictive little clicky games that remind me of the WoW I spent a year playing.
I get that teaching well is hard, but I cannot rid myself of the feeling that some teachers are leaning on the tech because actual teaching has gotten too hard. For one thing, it seems like they don’t have many options to deal with kids who prevent the others from learning.
It’s just sad all around. I’d put an end to smartphones if I could, and not just in schools.
eh. I was raised watching the iphones go from 1 to 15 while the numbers kinda lined up with my grade levels, so for context I feel like I've seen both sides of the coin when it comes to kids & phones.
I believe in what you're saying, to an extent, and even am grinding my schoolwork with a flip phone, but at this point I think the onus is on the parents to encourage productive habits and make the kid understand WHY the addictiveness is so implicit and dangerous.
if you don't have anything to replace the scrolling with, you will return to scrolling.
best of luck with the kids, imho meditation worked best for me kicking my phone addiction
My cpap has a cell chip in it. Sends my sleep data to the company, my doctor, and insurance. It’s hipaa protected since it’s a medical device so I don’t worry about it. Would not be as ok with a random tech startup collecting the same data.
It also sends your data to anyone that does not care about laws. Almost 0 companies have the in-house expertise to have a chance in hell at providing reasonable data security.
Then your sanctity is legally protected, but endangered by incompetence and techno-resistant end-runs around security controls. Ask sysads: nurses and doctors are the fucking worst.
Legal requirement for a shitty company to safeguard your data is a poor alternative to the company never receiving your data.
This is why we put IoT bumbaaclaat on a first network and block outbound...
