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  • Senator demands Tim Cook be personally accountable for any contact tracing privacy failure...

    gilly33gilly33
    Typical coming out of Washington. I have no confidence in these damn politicians no matter what party they represent. This crisis has further exposed how f**ked up the system is and both parties have been playing with the public’s interest long before this. This is still the greatest country in the world in my opinion but what a joke we are right now. But it’s easier to pretend they care about our privacy. Both parties need to be held accountable for this debacle and whole thing needs an overall. How and when that will ever happen is another story. Just my two cents. 
    watto_cobra

  • France asks Apple to disable iOS security feature for national contact tracing app

    gilly33gilly33
    And so it begins. Say no Apple. 
    toysandmeiOSDevSWEwatto_cobra

  • iPadOS 13.4 is coming March 24, with trackpad support for all iPad Pros

    gilly33gilly33
    Well that’s good to know. Picked up 12.9 iPad Pro last year and I’m not upgrading till next year so truly good news. 
    watto_cobra

  • VirnetX versus Apple saga over, with $454M paid for patent infringement

    gilly33gilly33
    LeoMC said:
    If this had been settled ten years ago instead it would’ve been so much smarter.
    The biggest shareholders of Apple are the same biggest shareholders of VirnetX, which means this trial just got them at least .5 B $ tax exemption :).
    LeoMC said:
    If this had been settled ten years ago instead it would’ve been so much smarter.
    The biggest shareholders of Apple are the same biggest shareholders of VirnetX, which means this trial just got them at least .5 B $ tax exemption :).
    And you know this how?
    MacQc

  • Apple closes all retail stores outside of China until March 27

    gilly33gilly33
    JWSC said:
    echosonic said:
    This is the most overblown BS I have seen in my lifetime.  Pure hype.  The entirety of the American media should be dissolved for creating this panic.

    Corona killed what, less than 100 Americans?  Swine Flu killed 23,000 Americans, nothing.  Measles?  Nothing.  H1N1?  Nothing.  EBOLA?  Not a damned thing.  

    One basketball player gets a cold and the whole country loses its f#$(%(&  mind.  

    Glad I have cash on hand because the market is having the sale of the century, and all its going to cost is the economy, and thousands of jobs.

    Shame on all of you lemmings who are playing along.
    Measles rarely kills on its own, but it completely resets the immune system’s memory of all past responses, and so many who contract it end up dead from cancer or other maladies.  And so it’s nothing to play around with.  It would have been eradicated if not for the ignorant anti-vaxxers.  Please don’t tell us you’re one of those.

    Covid-19 has killed less than 100 Americans because it’s still in very early stages in America.  A tepid initial response has allowed internal transmission and that marks the true beginning of an outbreak in any country.  See South Korea, Iran and especially Italy.  There were 11k new cases worldwide today, illustrating this virus’ capacity to spread quite easily.  Italy’s death toll stands at 14%.  A fast spreading contagion with the potential to kill 14% in a population that skews older (Italy’s median population is 45.1 years; one of the oldest) is nothing to ignore.  

    US median age is 37.7 years, so it’s a country in a better position relative to Italy.  Maybe.  Here in the Philippines where I’m currently living a semi-retired life as an American expat, the median age is around 24 years.  That can be good and bad.  It’s good that most will experience only mild symptoms, but bad because they may therefore not report and spread the disease to others, eventually to the elderly in their families and communities and to the expat population, which skews older.  A similar phenomenon may occur among the younger generation in every country, allowing the disease to hide while spreading.  

    We are not lemmings to take this seriously, we are prudent.  You should do your research and apply some critical thinking.  


    Italy’s death toll has to do with the fact that the peak infection rate exceeded their health care system’s capacity. Many of those who died did so only because of lack of treatment.  Michael Shellenberger has some good articles on this.

    This panic is overblown and because of the public panic a lot of people are making very poor decisions because they don’t have the mental tools to understand relative risks and probabilities.  Much of the media and election year politics is clouding any such discussion.  This is a public policy disaster in the making.

    I agree John Q. Public is making poor decisions due to panic you see this at the supermarkets etc, but are you seem to be saying that the government response is overblown? Also seeing that you apparently have the ‘mental tools’ please help us understand the relative risks and probabilities. We are all ears. Help us out.
    tmay