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Kids as young as 7 are finding ingenious ways around Apple's screen time controls:
[...] Parents can use the feature to impose restrictions on their children's device usage — or so they thought. One Reddit shared the story of how their seven-year-old had gamed the feature, sparking a chat that has nearly 500 comments.
"When iOS 12 came out I limited my 7-year old son's screen time through the family share. For a few days I felt like he was playing a bit more than he should, but I couldn't figure out why," u/PropellerGuy said.
"Finally today, my son revealed his hack: When he runs out of screen time and his games get locked, he heads to App Store, downloads a previously installed (but later removed) game through the cloud icon, and it works without limitations!"
"What can I say," they added. "I'm not even mad. That's impressive."
(Score: 2, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @04:35AM (4 children)
daily reminder that singular they has long-standing, continuous usage dating back centuries and isn't ungrammatical even if you know the target's gender
it's not even terribly informal to use either
(Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @04:57AM (3 children)
If your statement applies to some nebulous, unknown person chosen from among a group of plausible individuals, then it is not surprising that your mind may wander towards plural forms. For instance: "If a Soylentil reads my reply, they'll likely downmod it."
THAT DOES NOT APPLY IN THIS CASE.
Secondly, if your mind thinks in that way, then you're probably a sloppy thinker who is not used to constructing precise statements. This is the revelation that struck logicians in the 1800s; that's why they threw out Aristotelian statements on plurality ("All men are mortal") in favor of sentences formed around singular individuals ("For each x, if x is a man, then x is mortal"). "If a Soylentil reads my reply, then he'll likely dowmnod it."
It's not coincidental that clearer thinking preceded the modern era after over 1000 years of Aristotelian naivete.
GODDAMNIT!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @02:05PM
It is generally more accepted to write that as "GOD DAMMIT!", as "damnit" is a non-standard contraction.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @05:57PM (1 child)
*pats Ms. Vim [soylentnews.org] on the head*
There, there. Everything will be ok. We'll eradicate all men and implement anarcho-capitalism once there are only women, who are angelic in nature, left. Nobody will use a singular they after men are extinct. It'll be ok.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday September 27 2018, @10:14PM
Once men are extinct, who will pay the bills?