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Does it though? All of spotlight's extra functionality seems to work even with wifi turned off. Even things like currency conversion rates seem to be stored locally.

EDIT: I just noticed I have spotlight settings turned off. Unless I forgot turning it off, I was either asked whether I wanted to turn it on, or it's off by default now.


It's not like there is much we can do about it :(


A lot more in Canada than the US. Write to your MP, and encourage others to do the same. Relate this to C-51 or whatever that horrible security bill is that everyone's protesting.


Despite my MP being a member of the party in power, they take direction from the Prime Minister's Office, not the constituents.


Hey, that sounds like my MP (and anyone else with a conservative MP)


Tell your friends that it is happening. Knowing that there is a battle is half the battle.


Write your MPs?

How do referenda work in Canada?


I may, but the Canadian political landscape right now is one where the ruling party has a majority so they can push through pretty much any bill they want. Also the party has pretty much discouraged MPs from expressing any opinions counter to the party line.


I did that at the proposed copyright extension in the UK a few years ago. The reply from my local MP was along the lines of "our party believes this" (that the copyright extension was justified), and you are in our constituency.

I replied explaining that I believed representative democracy was supposed to work the opposite way and they were supposed to represent me. I doubt very much if that made a difference.


I wish it was possible to know how much of that 5–6% were actual users, and how much were people running tests.


It's too bad that the WoS isn't able to display things like partial-support (https://twisted.readthedocs.org/en/latest/core/howto/python3...).


And I'm not sure about the fine-grained accuracy here. For example, NetworkX is listed green, but its graphic subsystem, according to their documentation, does not support Python 3.

Also, Oath2 seems like a big one, and would exclude many other packages that might use it.


It is all self-reporting based on the classifiers given to PyPI (NetworkX lists itself as supporting Python 3, Python3.2–Python3.4). It seems like both it and twisted would benefit from a Python3–partial classifier



Unity has been using an old version of .Net for licensing reasons.

Also, about a year or so ago, they started porting to an LLVM-based solution and Unity 5+ is expected to be discontinue the Mono runtime.


Even with key match, this is a fundamentally different product.

With the original Lockitron, a renter could just install it wherever they were currently staying. With the Bolt, the renter has to get permission to install a new deadbolt and has to get a new key pattern each time.


yes, it's a fundamentally different product. and that should be a reminder why backing something on kickstarter is not the same as purchasing a product. You made a bet that they would send you the product you wanted. You lost that bet.


I'm in this boat and Kickstarter was never involved. I placed a bog-standard pre-order through their web site.


Agreed. Half the reason I've kept my pre-order was as a reminder.


Nope, not under Kickstarter rules. If a company offers items as rewards, it has a contractual obligation to provide those items.


Lockitron wasn't funded on Kickstarter. They built their own self-hosted solution, called selfstarter: http://www.selfstarter.us/


do you have a link to that rule? i don't see it on their site, only this: https://www.kickstarter.com/rules

this:https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter+basics#faq_...

and this: https://www.kickstarter.com/help/faq/kickstarter+basics#faq_...

all of which seem to pretty clearly say you might not get what you think you paid for.


https://www.kickstarter.com/terms-of-use#section4

There's a bunch of soft language, but it ends with If they’re unable to satisfy the terms of this agreement, they may be subject to legal action by backers.

But as davefp already pointed out, Kickstarter isn't relevant here.


I'm not going to lie, that does sound similar to my experience with iTunes on OS X (though I do remember it somehow being even worse on Windows).


You might enjoy reading up on the French Republican Calendar (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Republican_Calendar) then, and see what could have been.


Seconded. I recently moved a work project from py2exe to pyInstaller and was very happy with the results.


It probably doesn't help that people spend more time inside in close quarters during cold weather.


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