When you send an email to support, for example, to register for the Apple Care Protection Plan (which constantly produced a strange error in the online system), and you include the serial numbers, contract number, and order date right away - and then receive a friendly email from Apple signaling their willingness to help. Along with a series of questions. About every single one of the points already provided.
Can't they read at Apple, or don't they want to read? Apart from the fact that I understand something different by a response time of one working day than answering a mail request from Sunday only on the following Thursday ...
I have almost accepted that I have to manually register an APP purchased in the Apple Store for hardware purchased in the same order, no matter how braindead that is.
SQLAlchemy README - another ORM for Python, heavily oriented towards SQL and offering a lot of magical syntax. Fascinating how in this area programmers try to abuse every language feature just to avoid writing SQL ...
EU Parliamentarians cave in:
During a meeting between the leadership of the Christian Democratic European People's Party (EPP), the Social Democrats, and the Liberals with British Interior Minister Charles Clarke, the representatives of the two major political blocs significantly accommodated the wishes of the London negotiator on Tuesday. For example, they agreed to a planned obligation for telecommunications providers to store telephone data for up to two years.
An absolute catastrophe for data protection - the national governments will then retreat to "we have to do it, it's EU law" and data protection and the informational self-determination of citizens will continue to go down the drain. And the providers can stack terabytes of data waste, just because some overzealous data snoops have prevailed in their absurd data collection frenzy.