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UK 'racing' to improve contact tracing privacy without Apple and Google
If you believe anything you just wrote - I have a magic potato that grants wishes I’ll sell to you for $1000.gatorguy said:
? ?verne arase said:Why doesn't the Google/Apple framework allow contact tracers to download the data off the phone?
That way it can be stored decentralized until it's needed.
There is no data outside of a list of anonymous rotating codes representing phones you were in close and extended contact with. The phones aren't identified, nor are the people who own them registered or stored in any manner, or the location itself where the contact occurred logged. What's on your phone exists nowhere else but on your phone, and it is 100% unidentifiable*. You already possess it and no one else. Those anonymous codes, which change every 15 minutes, would be of zero assistance without the phone owner voluntarily supplying information above and beyond what the Apple/Google API provides.
*Unless of course some agency would go to great effort, time, and expense to piece together and augment from various sources outside of Apple/Google. Nothing is 100% untrackable given a sufficiently motivated group with unlimited time and resources. Lone terrorist perhaps, not a population at large. It's not a rational danger in this case. Identifiable tracking of individuals via the Apple/Google contact notification alone is not possible as far as I can tell.
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Initial failures of Apple's butterfly keyboard doomed it from the start
$800 in Canada.Mike Wuerthele said:
We didn't miss the main point, and your analogy applies to the 2012 through 2015 as well. An upper case replacement on the 2012 through 2015 was $649.rain22 said:I think you missed the main point - $800 to fix a fleck of dust under a key.It was a total 100% complete failure of industrial design. Nothing should ever be designed that way.
It’s like designing a car that requires $23,000 to fix a flat tire because they connected it to the engine - and the tires go flat if they get a pebble in the tread.
To be honest, I wasn’t aware it was that way for the 12-15’s - we never had a problem (and still don’t).Either way, it’s a poor way to design something that gets constant wear and tear. Not to mention wasteful.Here’s hoping the next lead designer balances form and function - although one wonders how much Ives was handicapped by Apple’s ‘glue it down’ business philosophy.
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Initial failures of Apple's butterfly keyboard doomed it from the start
I think you missed the main point - $800 to fix a fleck of dust under a key.It was a total 100% complete failure of industrial design. Nothing should ever be designed that way.
It’s like designing a car that requires $23,000 to fix a flat tire because they connected it to the engine - and the tires go flat if they get a pebble in the tread.
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Everything known about the 'iPhone 12'
If they keep with recent pricing models, it will cost $4199 and the charger will be an extra $399. Will require a special proprietary pointy object to open sim tray that costs $99. Special proprietary cloth to clean the screen will be $199. Earbuds sold separately.
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Best Thunderbolt 3 eGPU enclosures for macOS
The days of creative professionals using Mac’s has been crashing for years. Our agency bought new iMacs last year and will most likely end a 27 year run with them. The value just isn’t there anymore and you need to be smoking crack to believe Apple cares about the industry - and will support it in the future.Bring back value - discard the glued-down / special hex nut - wallet sucking proprietary obsolescence and maybe designers will come back.When $700 coasters roll out before an industry screaming for an X Mac - you know it’s game over.