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  • US government designates drone maker DJI as a national security concern

    viclauyyc said:
    Civilian drone technology is one thing that DJI/China do better than the rest of the world and by large margin. And they are not copying from other, they are leading.

    I don’t see any meaningful drone companies from the rest of the world in this field. The other top 2 also from China, sadly. But again the market is just not that big for big tech to join in. Even other companies joined, the mass production will likely in China anyway.

    The one thing that makes me hesitate to buy a DJI drone is they always send data home. I don’t know why and I don’t see the need. And I don’t trust CCP a single bit. 



    No, DJI Drones do not send data home.. You can chose not to have flight data, which is largely useless anyway sync'ed to a server if you wish to retain data for a long time... Its opt in as well, you have to chose to enable it.  Otherwise the device which logs all your flight data will eventually fill with flight log data unless you manage it yourself.  Which it does require to some degree anyway..

    Plus blaming DJI for something they really have no choice in, to me is silly, I may not care one bit for the CCP or how they do things or treat their citizens, but this isn't going to change anything, 
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  • Goldman Sachs spends $350 for every Apple Card signup

    There is a level of security and ease of use with the Apple Card, your interest rate depends on your credit rating as does your credit limit. It's up to you whether you want to get one or not, assuming you qualify. Course nothing is perfect, there are pros and cons to everything. Are there better cards? Perhaps, but they don't have the ease of use or some of the security features of having an Apple Card as I see it. your mileage may vary..
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  • Apple's T2 chip has an unfixable vulnerability that could allow root access

    Once again the severity of a security issue is overplayed...  To assume that it cannot be resolved in some other way is short sighted..   Also its always assumed that this "researcher" is right, maybe he's wrong....   Plus how many of you are wandering around with a Mac filled with data that if accessed is worth a flip? Without physical access, its useless.
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  • Zuckerberg: Apple's ad-tracking block will impair COVID-19 economic recovery

    If ZuckerDoom really wants "economic recovery", he'd be voting for Trump.
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  • HomePod mini power cable is not removable, teardown reveals

    Wow, this was a shocker, in other news, water is wet...
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  • T-Mobile 5G service launches across US, minus high-speed mmWave

    Did I miss it somewhere? Sure MMWave is faster, if what T-Mobile is offering is faster than LTE, just not as fast as the seemingly virtually useless MMwave based on what I've seen, you have to stand under the darn transmitter to get any speed. So what are the speed differences and why wasn't it detailed in the story?
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  • Epic seeks 'coalition' of Apple critics as fight over App Store policies intensifies

    And in other news,

    A cart vendor rolls into a Mall, sets up shop, never consulted the management of the mall, has no contract.

    After he is removed from the mall, goes down the road to another mall. does the same thing and gets kicked out.  

    Now the cart vendor is suing both malls for "Antitrust",  and suing one of the malls to let him in anyway.. Irregardless of whether he has any legal right to do so.

    I wonder who wins this one... It's probably pretty obvious.  

    An analogy to this was posted elsewhere, I altered it as to not plagiarize it completely..
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  • Senators Elizabeth Warren & Sherrod Brown push for Apple Card probe by CFPB

    These are just democrat politicians trying to make a points with a certain class of people, once again, without any proof or basis in reality. Its just another obvious attempt to widen the gender gap and stoke class division. I think its highly possible that the original tweet on this was planted in the first place just to start this whole ball rolling..
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  • Apple unveils iPhone 14 Pro & iPhone 14 Pro Max with always-on display

    rumpels said:
    Here we go again with the sharp edges, and now a pill. Apple, you can do better than this! You have known for years that we all want round edges and no notch, no pill, NOTHING but screen. And you CAN build it. You did it many years ago with the MacBook Pro front camera. You can do it with the iPhone now. Stop playing with camera sensors and other crap, and making customers buy worthless devices for years before you complete what we all really want.

    Again… ROUND EDGES & TOTAL SCREEN. No holes, no pill, no notches!!!!!! When you build that iPhone, THEN I’ll upgrade my weak SE. Well be waiting. 
    Your going to probably have a long wait, if Apple could technically eliminate that, they probably would have by now...
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  • Epic seeks 'coalition' of Apple critics as fight over App Store policies intensifies

    PDRPRTS said:
    normang said:
    And in other news,

    A cart vendor rolls into a Mall, sets up shop, never consulted the management of the mall, has no contract.

    After he is removed from the mall, goes down the road to another mall. does the same thing and gets kicked out.  

    Unfortunately in the real counterpart of this analogy, the cart vendor is not allowed to set up shop anywhere else. Many do not wish to be in the App Store Mall, as many cant compensate the high sellers fee (which is totally lawful), but they cant go outside and sell either. That is the reason why this whole ordeal is even an issue - even if it is legal now, sideloading is actively deactivated at each system update - one can now legally circumvent this thanks to the jailbreaking court-ruling, but it is not easy for all, and it can be a hassle. At the very least it is difficult to sustain commercially.

    Remember that in many legislations and countries your analogy is real and a cart vendor cannot set up an honest shop for survival anywhere simply because malls, or other government-favoured shops do not want competition (or need cheap labour/slaves). This is all fine until it is us needing to survive and make commerce, and as the world economy is going, i wouldnt think it is just something happening in an other continent.

    This legal battle may be the grounds for how we and our children will be living in as short as a decade, as this will update Anti-Trust laws to global digital times. Capitalism becomes totalitarianism when monopolies go unchecked, so Anti-Trust laws are conisdered pillars of Democracy. Epic is acting so aggressively that they almost seem to want to wreck this all up in an otherwise valid case - but they are closer to 99% of humans than any monopoly will ever be.
    The cart vendor has a choice, if he wants to be in the mall, he has to pay the fee that the mall requires to be there to use "their" space.   Your trying to create fairness where there is none, you can compete or you cannot.. If you decide to setup a cart in a saturated market, you had better be able to market and show that you have a far superior product, or your going to fail..    

    Epic has no valid case..  They are trying to upend the app store, and in the process even if somehow they succeeded, its unlikely that things would really improve for anyone else..   It would merely show that if you legally force your will on someone its no different than totalitarianism I assume you decry.. 
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