on third thought, it seems like this package is baked right into the phone's firmware.
the standard removal instructions are to block the package, but that's not good enough. you can delete it for the current user with the sdk, but it's still on the phone. to take it off, you'd have to root it, but then you're only taking the package off of the current installation - it's still there in the recovery.
the only way to get this off the device is to completely reprogram it.
again: i intended to completely wipe this device down before i used it. this is not a surprise to me. if anything, i should thank them for reminding me.
i have no immediate use for the device. so, i'm going to drain the battery and shelve it until i can put aside some time to build a clean image.
i need to get out of the house to do some errands in the afternoon. i'll be back to work tonight.
Thursday, April 11, 2019
so, i finally got a response from the privacy commissioner, and it's something else.
the request i made was for the content of my non-conviction record to be released to me - i asked for a printout of my cpic file, essentially. this was denied under the grounds that the information was "provided in confidence by a provincial organization", which is a clause in the law that i feel is being abused. that is not meant to apply to personal data of this sort, but rather to state secrets or terrorism investigations or something. i just want my own fucking record, here.
i had an email conversation that i'll withhold for right now where i got the same line i had been getting previously - this insistence that i run a record check, with little understanding of what i was actually asking for, or why running a record check wasn't what i wanted.
there is actually a law in ontario preventing disclosure of non-conviction information in a record check, and for good reason - something stupid like this shouldn't come up on a background check if you're applying for a job, or whatever else. so, i already know that a record check will come back negative, and it's not what i want, anyways.
i asked to speak to his manager, which was pretty acerbic. he said she'll call me back next week, which was probably equally so.
i've given him until the end of the month to give me some kind of meaningful response or otherwise close the file; this is going to judicial review, with an intent to stamp down the clause in the law, if he wants to be stupid about it.
in the mean time, that's fine - i'll file with the solicitor general under the provincial fippa, instead, and see what they say. i mean, if the feds tell me it's provincial, i'll ask the province, then. and, when the province tells me it's federal, we can take that to the judge and ask her to fix the fucking law already.
the request i made was for the content of my non-conviction record to be released to me - i asked for a printout of my cpic file, essentially. this was denied under the grounds that the information was "provided in confidence by a provincial organization", which is a clause in the law that i feel is being abused. that is not meant to apply to personal data of this sort, but rather to state secrets or terrorism investigations or something. i just want my own fucking record, here.
i had an email conversation that i'll withhold for right now where i got the same line i had been getting previously - this insistence that i run a record check, with little understanding of what i was actually asking for, or why running a record check wasn't what i wanted.
there is actually a law in ontario preventing disclosure of non-conviction information in a record check, and for good reason - something stupid like this shouldn't come up on a background check if you're applying for a job, or whatever else. so, i already know that a record check will come back negative, and it's not what i want, anyways.
i asked to speak to his manager, which was pretty acerbic. he said she'll call me back next week, which was probably equally so.
i've given him until the end of the month to give me some kind of meaningful response or otherwise close the file; this is going to judicial review, with an intent to stamp down the clause in the law, if he wants to be stupid about it.
in the mean time, that's fine - i'll file with the solicitor general under the provincial fippa, instead, and see what they say. i mean, if the feds tell me it's provincial, i'll ask the province, then. and, when the province tells me it's federal, we can take that to the judge and ask her to fix the fucking law already.
i think we're a long ways away from it being a slippery slope in quebec.
but, it's the depth of the reaction that ought to be seen as more concerning.
we don't need an iranian revolution in montreal, and while i don't think we're going to get one, i wonder what some of these people are really thinking.
if there were even a few more muslims than there actually are, this could be playing with fire. but, it is that itself that is the concerning proposition - that there's a potential fire hazard, in the first place.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-s-religious-symbols-ban-welcomed-by-some-who-left-muslim-countries-behind-1.5091277
but, it's the depth of the reaction that ought to be seen as more concerning.
we don't need an iranian revolution in montreal, and while i don't think we're going to get one, i wonder what some of these people are really thinking.
if there were even a few more muslims than there actually are, this could be playing with fire. but, it is that itself that is the concerning proposition - that there's a potential fire hazard, in the first place.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-s-religious-symbols-ban-welcomed-by-some-who-left-muslim-countries-behind-1.5091277
to be clear: i'm confident i can do this.
and, i do have the tools to do it...
... but i'd have to install ubuntu - or debian or whatever else - natively on one of my pcs, and that is the part that can wait until later.
i just don't use this device, and i'm probably not going to after i flash it, either.
and, i do have the tools to do it...
... but i'd have to install ubuntu - or debian or whatever else - natively on one of my pcs, and that is the part that can wait until later.
i just don't use this device, and i'm probably not going to after i flash it, either.
just quickly downloading a custom rom isn't going to work either, because nobody has any roms that support the device. gah. so, i'd have to compile either way, and if i'm going to do that i'd rather do it from scratch.
i've already wasted too much time with this.
shelved. i'll figure it out one day..
note to google: it would be nice if you had vanilla roms to download. this is a ridiculously obtuse process.
i've already wasted too much time with this.
shelved. i'll figure it out one day..
note to google: it would be nice if you had vanilla roms to download. this is a ridiculously obtuse process.
i mentioned when i first came down in here in mid-2013 that i didn't really feel like i'd left toronto until i got out of london. and, we know toronto is big - 5th biggest metro area in north america now, iirc, meaning it's behind, what? new york, los angeles, chicago, houston?
is that it?
is it that big?
but what is that like on a map?
any concept of the gta nowadsays is more than just hamilton and the old boroughs, it's the string of cities around it, too. brantford - famous mostly as the hometown of wayne gretzky - is a suburb of hamilton, now. kitchener-guelph-cambridge-waterloo is becoming it's own amalgamation, and it is itself in the gta, too. i think that the strip up the niagara river, which is amalgamating too, is next, even if it's still distinct, right now. i mean, there are people that seriously want to move the buffalo bills to toronto in order to keep the team - such is the size of toronto as a regional centre, that even buffalo sees itself as a suburb.
it's a huge area, and i'm just looking at it from the west - it's moving north and east, too.
the infrastructure of the city of toronto might end somewhere around the 401/403 split, but what i was trying to get across is that it doesn't feel like it anymore it just feels like you go through a string of suburban towns/cities that includes woodstock, ingersoll and then london. so, the infrastructure breaks, but the city doesn't really end; closing the gap is more about catching up than thinking forwards.
as it is., that's my limit point on the way back out of toronto: i can get to brantford, and no further - then i need to pay for it.
the previous government was taking about an extension to london by 2025. i haven't heard anything from the new one.
is that it?
is it that big?
but what is that like on a map?
any concept of the gta nowadsays is more than just hamilton and the old boroughs, it's the string of cities around it, too. brantford - famous mostly as the hometown of wayne gretzky - is a suburb of hamilton, now. kitchener-guelph-cambridge-waterloo is becoming it's own amalgamation, and it is itself in the gta, too. i think that the strip up the niagara river, which is amalgamating too, is next, even if it's still distinct, right now. i mean, there are people that seriously want to move the buffalo bills to toronto in order to keep the team - such is the size of toronto as a regional centre, that even buffalo sees itself as a suburb.
it's a huge area, and i'm just looking at it from the west - it's moving north and east, too.
the infrastructure of the city of toronto might end somewhere around the 401/403 split, but what i was trying to get across is that it doesn't feel like it anymore it just feels like you go through a string of suburban towns/cities that includes woodstock, ingersoll and then london. so, the infrastructure breaks, but the city doesn't really end; closing the gap is more about catching up than thinking forwards.
as it is., that's my limit point on the way back out of toronto: i can get to brantford, and no further - then i need to pay for it.
the previous government was taking about an extension to london by 2025. i haven't heard anything from the new one.
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