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  • President Obama urges prudence from both sides of encryption debate, warns against 'absolutist' pos

    ewtheckmanewtheckman
    Avoiding "absolutist" positions is even possible in this debate?

    It's a binary option. Either there is a backdoor/weakness or there isn't. There is no middle ground.

    So much for Obama having "a good grasp of the issue's technical details." He's not doing any better than any other politician (from both sides of the aisle) saying exactly the same thing in different words.
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  • Apple-issued developer certificate expires, causing crashes in 1Password and other apps

    ewtheckmanewtheckman
    Apple implements a system that causes an application to stop working even when nothing has changed, requiring an update from the developer and reinstallation, and which does not take into account real-world cases such as users needing to use an older version of software or applications which are no longer being updated, and some of you have the nerve to blame the developer?!?!? Don't you think you're taking the Fan Boyz thing a bit far?
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  • Apple-issued developer certificate expires, causing crashes in 1Password and other apps

    ewtheckmanewtheckman
    Apple implements a system that causes an application to stop working even when nothing has changed, requiring an update from the developer and reinstallation, and which does not take into account real-world cases such as users needing to use an older version of software or applications which are no longer being updated, and some of you have the nerve to blame the developer?!?!? Don't you think you're taking the Fan Boyz thing a bit far?

    Fan Boyz? What are you, a 12 year old troll?

    Thousands upon thousands of developers don't seem to have this problem. It's absolutely their fault.
    They don't? That's very presumptive of you. From the article:
    The "crash" turned out to be a feature of macOS in PDFPen's case. According to TidBits, the "taskgated-helper" system app examines a code signing certificate and compares it to the "entitlements" list. Should the the provisioning profile be linked to an expired certificate, macOS blocks the app with the expired certificate from launching.
    However, other apps not updated as frequently, or abandoned by developers, may stop working with no recourse by users to get them to start working again.
    These particular applications where included as examples, not the only apps having problems. In these cases, the developers were very active in creating a solution to a problem caused by Apple.
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  • Apple, other tech companies decry North Carolina anti-LGBT law

    ewtheckmanewtheckman
    Is it possible to make this article any more biased in its language and tone?

    Whatever happened to the ideal of journalism being about reporting the news instead of making it?
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  • Apple's iWork suites for iOS, Mac get minor updates for stability, bug fixes

    ewtheckmanewtheckman
    Any word on when Apple will restore the features they've stripped?

    For example, the removal of support for facing pages from Pages has forced me back to Word.

    There is such a thing as too simple, and Apple keeps going there.  :/
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  • In possible last gasp for iPad mini, Apple increases capacity to 128GB for $399

    ewtheckmanewtheckman
    sog35 said:

    Actually all that would be better with a Plus phone
    Wrong. Period.

    I chose the iPad Mini for much the same reasons. It's the perfect size for reading books. I've noticed that reading web pages is good, but any smaller would be too small. Just because you apparently just want to argue does not mean that our usage has to bow to your demands.

    Count me among the very disappointed that Apple hasn't actually upgraded it. I've been waiting for the next version before upgrading my Mini 2, and now I'll probably just wait longer. Apple is making "falling market share" a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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  • Apple Watch & ResearchKit epilepsy study concludes, gleans insight on seizure triggers

    ewtheckmanewtheckman
    cali said:
    Apple producing world changing technologies.

    Meanwhile "Apple doesn't innovate". 
    This kind of study is an excellent use of technology. Major kudos to Apple for doing it!

    But most of current complaints about Apple are not about their "lack of innovation", it's about abandoning existing users or getting sloppy in areas where they used to be world beating. They can be excellent at advancing in one area, like this one, but that does not do anything to correct letting the Mac Pro rust into obsolescence, or hanging users out to dry with nothing to base their technology decisions on.
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  • Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton says Apple's Tim Cook 'omitted critical facts' in encryption stance

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    macsimcon said:

    If you'll pardon me for saying so, that's a false equivalency. Republican presidents started the first gulf war, and the second, which by the way is the longest war in American history. It was a Republican president who created DHS, and who greatly expanded the power of the NSA. It was a Republican president who invaded a country that had nothing to do with 9/11. It was a Republican president who caused the creation of Al Qaeda, and a different Republican president who caused the creation of ISIS/ISIL/Daesh. Democrats are not just as guilty as Republicans, they simply clean up the messes left behind by Republicans.
    I'm not willing to pardon you for such willful inaccuracy. For example, the first Gulf War was not started by Republicans, it was started by Saddam Hussein invading Kuwait. And ISIS was formed in the power vacuum formed by Obama's removal of Gaddafi.
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  • Apple brings about the end of the physical Function key with MacBook Pro Touch Bar

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    netrox said:
    RAM is not as important as you think it is. The SSD is so fast, it can do a lot of RAM-like performance when RAM is short. The Mac memory management takes everything into consideration. When Intel comes out with its 3DXPoint storage, the RAM demands will dramatically drop as well because it would be just as fast as RAM.
    Actually, it does matter. I have an SSD as my primary drive, and when I only had 24GB, my machine would slow to a crawl when I pushed it hard. Upgrading to 48 GB solved the problem. (I'm not using the whole 48, more like 36 GB of it.)

  • Apple brings about the end of the physical Function key with MacBook Pro Touch Bar

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    hmlongco said:
    I just got back from Apple's website. The new MBP 15" still maxes out at 16GB RAM. Arrrgggghg!!!!

    I refuse to upgrade until they give me 32GB, minimum!
    I'm currently running 48 GB for my work. Where are the machines for the real pros Apple?!?