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macxpress said:

9secondkox2 said:

A lot of idiotic mob mentality going on. Securing our borders and getting a strong handle on who can and does enter the USA can only be a good thing. 

No no doubt some will have major difficulty through this. Especially those who have chosen to forsake the law of the land in their coming and remaining here. 

there is a legal path. It's about time people start taking it. 

As as far as the refugee situation, I don't see how the president has any other choice. It will be temporary. But it should give pause to any filth that have designs on exploiting America when they arrive. Sadly in this case, some severely rotten apples have ruined it for their countryman. 

Cook needs to focus on computers and get in line with the law of the land  

When you piss off other countries and target specific races all it does is piss off everyone else, even those who aren't directly effected by this. As a US citizen, I kinda feel less secure now. We will be at war before the end of 2yrs at this point and it won't be pretty. 

I do not want to make assumptions, however, have you been to countries where the people there want to kill you because you are an American. I have I been to three, Mexico being one of them and had to go there for work and need arm security since there are people there who want to kill or Kidnap you. Oh the US does not negotiate with kidnappers. I also been to a country which would fall into the category of a certain group of people who want to kill us because we do not believe what they believe. It is easy to say we should be nice to everyone when you are sitting in the US and most people here tend to respect everyone and accept most people difference. Try visiting a country where they do not see it that way.

Unlike pass conflicts the US got involved in where we were fighting a government and its military, we now have small groups who declared war on the US and it people, not just our government and military. They live in various parts of the world and government where these individuals live and operation are doing nothing to stop them. The US has tried the method of being nice not calling them names and saying we not against their belief systems, and where has the last 10 yrs or so of doing that got the US and those countries who have been dealing with these groups. Its has gotten the US and the EU no where, just more dead people who most likely did not hate these people but became targets of people who hate anyone who is not like them.

As 9secondkox said, the US does not make it hard to come to the US, it has rules and if you follow them you get in legally. I know plenty of people who has done this, from all over the world so the US does not discriminate. It is time for the US to enforce the laws we have and make those who should not be here to go back home. We also have to find a way to keep those who intend to harm us from getting in and the first step is to block those country which are doing nothing to crack down on those who hate everyone.

Apple and other US companies need to stay out of this. I work in the tech industry and have hired people so I see what is going on, this is not about the US not have the skills and talent is about people from out side the US who are willing to work for less money just to get into the US. I glad to see the US crack down on the H1B, too many people are using this to get their foot into the US and driving down wages. You wonder why wages are not going up, it is because 86K people getting H1B each year who are willing to work for a lower wage.

One last point, the last I check and some one can fact check me on this, the US is still at war with terrorist, not a specific country but any group who the US deems terrorist as such the President has War Power Act which allow him to block entry of any one person, group or country from entering the US. These people are the enemy and you do not let the enemy into your country. Apple and these companies are trending on thin ice when it comes to stuff like this.

randominternetperson said:

How odd.  I'm sure other IT folks in the federal bureaucracy are thrilled when the US Digital Service comes sticking their noses into whatever IT project they are working on.  This is a unit "of the White House" but surely they work somewhere else.  I've poked around their website and I can't find any answers about who runs the show, but it looks bigger than I expected (at least from the group photo). https://www.usds.gov

tzeshan said:

bloggerblog said:

I have two co-workers who switched from their iPhones to the Pixel, and they like it.

One of them misses the cohesiveness of iOS but still likes his Pixel. Google seems to be bending backwards to give their customers a good support.

Fyi, the Pixel is manufactured by LG.

Fake news?  If true, Google has been lying since the beginning.  The Pixel is actually specified by Google, designed by HTC, manufactured by LG. 

I can not tell you how many people still believe that Google did everything on this phone except the manufacturing. Google does not have the necessary design engineers to make a phone in house. They put a spec together then work with HTC to do all the design and engineer required to make the phone. HTC is not a contact manufacturer like a Foxconn, HTC was always a design house they take a product spec and create a product from the spec then manufacture it.

This is why all Google hardware has failed which they tried to design in house. Designing hardware is not easy and all the testing and such that has to be done requires things which Google has not invested in. They think the whole garage idea is good enough and they can fix hardware in software. They do not understand you only get one chance to make the hardware work correctly, if you do not do that right you have the Samsung experience, but Samsung did try fixing the burning batteries with software and failed.

mr.scott said:

Dropped $85 bucks to replace a battery even though the tech said "It showed a short amount of charging cycles" and what he noted should be right as I don't charge it each hour and "The battery should not be showing short battery life this soon". Ask them to do a firmware update before replacing and same issue. Battery would drain 10% to 15% while in the store while he was reviewing the issue. I think there is more to it than Apple is willing to admit. I understand there are a million more of these devices on the planet than in the past and issues on a few will be found, but when there are a group of folks that are chatting about such an issue repeatedly, perhaps there is an issue. Not sure QA can be managed like it was 10 or 15 years ago as again more products are on the streets but still you make more devices, you'd best have more QA folks looking into the issue. Lot of money paid for ones iPhone to have a battery crap out so soon. Frustrated nonetheless... 

More testers will not find the issue faster, these is one thing you can not do when it comes to testing compress time, and these battery issue take time to show up. The problem occurs over time as the battery ages and cycles. You can try speeding up the charge and discharge cycles, but a failure may be more about how fast it was discharged and charged and under normal condition would have never happen. If the average uses charges and discharges one or two times as days it may take a year to so to see a issue which shows up after 600 cycles, yeah you could try and charge and discharge 6 times a day and see it in 100 days but does that say it would be the same issue.

QA people are only good at finding problems which exist day one, meaning the failure is already there and they just need to trip over it or devise a test to find the sequence to make it happen.

Well I wish the rumor was true, but I just replaced my daughter battery in her Iphone 6.

It was exhibiting the same issue as being reported on the 6S of randomly powering off especially when it is cool out. The issue and probably the reason Apple said they are not extending the program to the 6 is the fact the issue is showing up at the end of being 2 yrs old verse people who ran into the problem within the first year on the 6S. I heard of others with the 6 having the battery issue and most all of them were older phones.

There is something going on with these batteries, the sudden power off and then restarting the phone finding it still has 30% to 80% of power then rapidly discharging at random times is not normal behavior. I personally was thinking it had to be a issue in software or hardware since batteries do not behave this way. When my daughter first started seeing the problem is was random and did not happen all the time. As of last week it was happening every day so it went from randomly happening to and an everyday thing in 6 months. She had to put the phone in power saving mode, otherwise, it was dying in less than an hour. It seem to be consistent when the phone was doing lots of background tasks and you were playing on the phone. Try off the background task and the phone behaved more predictably.

I put in a replacement battery, it was not that hard to do other than to release the tape the use to hold the battery in place. With the new batter the phone holds a charge and does not randomly shut down when it still have charged in the battery. I guess these Lithium Polymer batteries exhibit a very different failure modes than other battery technologies. I never seen a battery behavior like this when they are beginning to die.