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AppleInsider said: Germany was previously looking to create a centralized contact tracing system that relies on a central server, an approach that would allow health officials to be able to directly observe and potentially contact people susp…
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6502 said: GeorgeBMac said:Yeh, 22,000 dead and 17 Million just filed for unemployment. What's not to like? Are we tired of winning yet? It's a pandemic from china. Other countries are suffering far worse than we are. Our death…
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cornchip said: GeorgeBMac said:Yeh, 22,000 dead and 17 Million just filed for unemployment. What's not to like? Are we tired of winning yet? .07% of the population. Very scary. You sound like Trump, six weeks ago: Feb. 28: “I t…
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apple ][ said: I remember Trump shutting down travel from China pretty early on, and some batshit insane dems and the garbage leftist media started attacking him claiming it was racist, while he was taking the appropriate actions. His ban on tr…
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"georgie01 said: seanismorris said: My amateur projections saying the number of infected will quadruple over the next 2 week (in the USA)... I really hope I’m wrong. You may be right and of course that would be very bad, but we as…
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How can you have a comparison and not mention the weight? 1lb vs 1.4lbs.
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SpamSandwich said: Think of it this way: Everyone on the planet will eventually get it. A fraction of those people will be harmed (reportedly in the 1-2% range, according to the latest, most accurate testing). Probably over half, but not …
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Donald Kingsbury wrote an excellent sequel to the Foundation novels, much better than Asimov's later additions in my opinion, called "Psychohistorical Crisis".
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The improved water resistance of the iPhone 11 is to thank for the devices working condition. The iPhone 11 and iPhone 11 Pro have IP68 ratings, but have different standards. The iPhone 11 Pro can withstand 4 meters submerged for 30 minutes, whi…
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zeleration said: VirnetX has expansive IP that Apple refused to license at a reasonable market established royalty of 80 cents per device for providing end to end VPN security and automatically encrypted Facetime (seems very reasonable). They…
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sirozha said: blastdoor said: There seems to be a big disconnect between descriptions of what this virus does and the reaction to it. It sounds like it's more or less equivalent (in terms of health effects) to the flu in the absence …
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GG1 said: sirozha said: blastdoor said: There seems to be a big disconnect between descriptions of what this virus does and the reaction to it. It sounds like it's more or less equivalent (in terms of health effects) to the fl…
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Bongiorno joined Apple in time to become software engineering director for the iPad project, while Chaudhri is credited with the user interface of the iPhone. "Steve had this pet project that he was really excited about," Bongiorno told Input maga…
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dant said: Normm. That's the point. They didnt make their entitled profits off their efforts. Not from Apple. Apple doesnt get a free ride just because the have the cash hord to endlessly try and bury obligations in the court system. Wit…
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dant said: Point taken normm. But some patents are also ground breaking. Not just obvious add-ons to what is there already. They serve as the foundation or launching pad for something new. And they deserve the same protection -- and rewar…
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The main problem with software patents is that they're mostly obvious; it provides no societal benefit for someone to publish an obvious method and get a monopoly on it (a patent). In almost all cases, an "infringer" just wrote the software in the …
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Mice are colorblind, so the extrapolation to humans is not straightforward.
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avon b7 said: This is definitely a step in the right direction. Now they need to give the same thinking to other Macs. It can be done. Not everything that can be done should be done. Engineering is about tradeoffs. For example, putting all…
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DuhSesame said: Symmetry? The escape key is much wider than the Touch ID, not to mention the old virtual escape was constantly blocked by other buttons. I just mapped the escape key onto caps lock on my MacBook Pro. Not sure why this was a…
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seanismorris said: Disney doesn’t need to play Apple anything. They’ll do what Netflix does and have the signup and payment outside of the App. Apple should dramatically reduce the percentage they charge the highest volume media distribu…