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  • Florida sheriff vows to arrest Tim Cook if Apple won't comply with court orders

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    Stuff like this is why the aliens fly right past our planet without stopping.  
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  • Twitter loses half its ad revenue, still weighed down by debt

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    So Twitter was the preeminent microblogging platform, doing well enough to have shareholders getting earnings.
    Musk buys it and starts pulling every lever he can find, many of which were clearly marked DO NOT TOUCH THIS LEVER.
    Now the company is bleeding value, invisible to the public, and got its lunch eaten by Meta in less than a week of competition. 
    Oh, and a new half-billion liability based on Lever #2.
    Remind me how this reflects on the legendary genius of Musk?

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  • Apple facing another lawsuit claiming media purchase buttons are misleading

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    You are buying a license.  We often forgot that because we were handed a vinyl record, or a tape, or a CD or an electronic file for our electronic player.  Those who never used physical media skipped that part.  None of this is new, and is older than we think:  I have an Edison "Standard" blue amberol cylinder, and it still amazes me that this is on the back from 1916:  


    THIS RECORD IS SOLD UPON THE CONDITION THAT IT SHALL NOT BE RE-SOLD TO OR AY ANY UNAUTHORIZED DEALER OR USED FOR DUPLICATION, AND THAT IT SHALL NOT BE SOLD, OR OFFERED FOR SALE, BY THE ORIGINAL, OR ANY SUBSEQUENT PURCHASER (EXCEPT BY AN AUTHORIZED JOBBER OR FACTOR TO AN AUTHORIZED RETAIL DEALER) FOR LESS THAN 35 CENTS IN THE UNITED STATES, NOR IN OTHER COUNTRIES FOR LESS THAN THE PRICE GIVEN IN THE CURRENT EDISON CATALOGUES OF THE COUNTRY IN WHICH IT IS SOLD: UPON ANY BREACH OF SAID CONDITION THE LICENSE TO USE AND VEND THIS 
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  • Larry Tesler, who showed Steve Jobs around Xerox PARC, dies aged 74

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    He will be missed, and he has quite an under-the-radar legacy.  I ran an external research site for ATG while Larry was there.  Very, very creative bunch, willing to find out what works and what doesn't rather than cram features into an app.  His team also developed Cocoa ("java for kids" that needed a name change after the Cocoa API) that would become StageCast, a programming environment that presaged the coding model for Scratch, Blockly, Tynker, Mindstorms, etc.  
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  • Apple's macOS 15 to get rare cognitive boost via Project GreyParrot

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    At the very least release it for iPadOS.  Design consistency in macOS would be nice, but Apple - it's a basic app - stop me from installing pCalc on all 3 platforms.  
    pCalc is great, but it can't have the same design on all 3 platforms either.  Close, but annoyingly not the same.  
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  • Apple Pay Express Transit users hit with unintended charges at New York City turnstiles

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    I asked at Lowes the other night why they don't do Apple pay - they said they tried, then there were duplicate charges in their system and they stopped.

    Given that it works in many places, it sounds like their implementation rather than an Apple issue.  


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  • Health records firm Epic, some 60 client hospitals urge against data sharing rules support...

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    larryjw said:
    Looks like commenters failed to read the article. Epic says they need 12 months to plan, 36 months to implement. 

    Given we're talking about health care records, it would probably be best to plan for security and implement correctly.

    How many would like their health care records handled like the Iowa caucus fiasco? 
    Look at the the actual letter content.  What EPIC is saying is "just do it the way we do it", and lists the existing solutions they feel are adequate.  Not a stretch to bet there is an existing revenue arrangement that would be disturbed by Apple's entry into the field.  

    My EPIC experience?  Victim of a breach and subsequent PHI theft, affecting 326K people.  Hospital had to set up a direct hotline to EPIC to handle patients who had their data compromised.  2 months from breach to customer contact.  Free ID / credit protection, etc.  Just like Staples, Target, Home Depot did in their sloppy work.  Oh, and it's a research hospital.  I've served on their IRB, and in this regard the data has a lot more ramifications than ID and credit card number.  

    At this point, Apple has a far better track record with my data than EPIC has.  EPIC has to get their own house in order, and really has no leg to stand on with regard to Apple integration per se being a data threat.  
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  • A lament for the Touch Bar

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    If it was that beneficial, they would have made a keyboard with it so that iMac and Studio and Pro users could benefit.  

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  • The 'For All Mankind' universe is about to get a whole lot bigger

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    "Hi, Bob."
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  • The long nightmare may be over -- iPad could finally get a Calculator app

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    Halle-freakin-lujah!
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