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  • Apple presses ahead with aim to replace paper passports and ID with iPhone

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    This will have as much chance of being passed into law in the USA as there is for the move to allow voting by phone. Meanwhile... There are places that are (or already have) moved to allow Voting by phone (Estonia) and will be looking at replacing paper passports with electronic ones very soon.
    boxcatcherwatto_cobra

  • US official calls Cook's idea to vote on iPhone 'preposterous'

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    Estonia is already enabling this. Mind you... they have made their whole government work online over the last decade. I don't see all this posturing, scaremongering and all the rest of the objections there. Mind you, they are a very young country. I'm sure that there is a way to make voting by phone secure but the current environment of total distrust in government that seems to prevail in the USA of today means that it is impossible to even move past a proposal that gets shouted down in a flash. Other countries manage their elections without all these schenagins. The manipulation of voter rolls is a huge problem. We simply don't have that issue here. But there again, we accept that the party that wins the election you know wins the election. But we don't get to vote on Tax Collectors, dog catchers and who washes the windows of city hall. For that, I am thankful.
    maximara

  • Supreme Court rules in favor of Google in Oracle Java fight

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    Andy.Hardwake said:
    A very, very bad precedent opening the door to stealing code from anyone by anyone. Just my humble opinion.
    I wonder if SCO (or whatever they are called now) will think again about their lawsuit against Linux that has just come back from the dead (again)?
    Personally, I wish that the SCO lawyers get disbarred and have to serve jail time. Won't happen but you can wish can't you?
    watto_cobra

  • Retired leaker claims iMac with bigger screen is on the way

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    napoleon_phoneapart said:
    cpenzone said:
    I guess he's not retired.u
    "Just when I thought I was out...they pull me back in!"
    Much like 'Hotel California' then...
    watto_cobra

  • Epic ratchets up UK antitrust pressure on Apple with new App Store complaint

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    I wonder if a future version of IOS that upon installation, the user gets asked... "Do you want to use other App Stores knowing all the risks that it entails?" If you answer 'Yes' then you get a totally open IOS that is very much like Android. Apple will not accept any support calls for that device. The IOS app store is no longer available. If you answer 'No' then you get IOS as we know it now. Epic can setup their own app store and charge what they like. It would be interesting to see what would happen to Epic's finances then. If very few people took up their offer then that would hit them hard financially.
    watto_cobra