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Apple agrees to bend to Russian law and store user data on local servers
1. Johnny faces punishment for hitting his sister with a stick. His defence is that Billy also hits his sister with a stick. Should Johnny get away with it? Of course not. Bad behaviour by one party is not an excuse for another to behave the same way. We should all have enough mental capacity to engage both domestic and foreign issues.hexclock said:Let’s not forget, the NSA collects just about everything from us. Maybe we should worry first about your own government before we get all sanctimonious about other countries.
2. Apple actively acts to protect your privacy in the United States. It has taken a firm position, even when unpopular, on the risks associated with surrendering privacy to improve conditions for law enforcement. Based only on what we know from this article, one might be inclined to perceive Apple as being hypocritical by chanting the mantra of personal privacy at home while surrendering the security of users abroad.
It could be argued that conditions won't improve for citizens of regimes suspected to be corrupt just because Apple decides not to do business in those markets. I say it puts pressure on governments when the largest corporation in the world says "We won't play in your sandbox until you quit hitting your sister with a stick."
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Apple agrees to bend to Russian law and store user data on local servers
Yup. The potential for bad or misguided people to harm people they perceive as a threat is cause for concern.sflocal said:Sure, I wouldn't trust China or Russia in what they would do with the data of their citizens. I also don't trust what the U.S. would do with my data as well, especially with several attempts to legislate back-doors into our encrypted data.
Um, what?sflocal said:Stop making a fuss about it. Every country has dirty laundry. There's nothing to read here.
As the risk to personal safety increases, so does the need to "make a fuss." You may choose to stick your fingers in your ears and just ignore the issue, but I don't see how encouraging others to do the same leads to positive outcomes. An ignorant and apathetic population makes it easier for those in power to engage in corrupt activities.
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Google is violating Apple's iPhone app privacy rules the same way Facebook did [u: disable...
How could Google have stolen user information? They'd need to know the passwords for all those networks, wouldn't they?GeorgeBMac said:jbdragon said:
How are you stealing Wifi Data? They were scanning for Wifi sure, but not using your Data. Your Wifi is normally Broadcast that it's out there and allows you to more easily connect to it with your password. Google didn't have anyone's password to log in. I don't see what the issue is.GeorgeBMac said:Deja Vu from back when Google was caught stealing WiFi data using their mapping cars. At the time, and even afterwards, they blamed it on a "rogue programmer" (LOL...) but, strangely never deleted the millions of terabytes of data from their servers.
And, the same here: they stopped using the scam -- but have not deleted any of the data collected by that scam.
What this Data IS used for is helping with better/faster location tracking. GPS doesn't work everywhere. Maybe you don't have a iPad with GPS which is any iPad without built-in Cell service support. Using a Wifi Database, you can get an idea of where a person is at. You with your cell phone on you are doing the SAME THING Google is doing. You walk around or drive around and you iPhone is picking up the Wifi signals around you. Most have Locks so you need a password to get on that Wifi. But they are broadcasting that they are there. This is what Google was scanning and collecting. I don't see what the big deal over that is? If you want you can actually turn that broadcasting feature of your Wifi router OFF. Now your Network is not broadcasting that it's out there for everyone. That is a security thing you could do. Most people just leave it on, so you can see your own network and log-in easier.Stealing somebody's data is no different than stealing their money.They weren't collecting GPS information. They were collecting and storing user's private data that included IDs, passwords, etc.... The fact that they denied knowing that they had done it and blamed it on a "rogue programmer" (even though the data was still on their servers) proves that they knew it was wrong too -- but just didn't care.
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Apple lays off more than 200 employees from 'Project Titan' autonomous vehicle team
It's not the self-driving part that's causing headaches, it's the power side of things. Think about how much trouble Apple is having getting the wireless charging mat for the iPhone ready for market. Now imagine making one the size of a parking space. Aside from being an onerous manufacturing hurdle, some sources are reporting cases of early prototypes radiating excessive static charges that mess up people's hair. The affect on neighbourhood cats has been described as "disturbing."
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Anker to debut USB-C to Lightning cables in March, audio adapter in April
I was just shopping for a couple portable hard drives and was disappointed to find that USB-C has made so little progress there. Both Seagate and Western Digital introduced new drive chassis this year, but instead of taking the opportunity to update them with USB-C ports they still use that incredibly irritating Micro-B-3.0 "blade."cgWerks said:
Oh yeah, I'm with you there. I think given Apple's push for USB-C on their laptops (especially), and desktops, it's kind of silly they don't have USB-C on the phones.lorin schultz said:
Given the advantages of an exponentially faster port that can handle just about anything i connect to it, the hassle of adapters seems almost trivial by comparison. The gains are substantial, the downside is minor. Plus, if we're talking about USB-C specifically, I can then carry ONE charging cable instead of USB-C for my computer and Lightning for my iPhone and Micro-USB for my Beats.
But, in context of this article and the question I was responding to... if one buys a new expensive device with Lightning port on it, and then Apple switches to USB-C, would it be fully supported? (Weren't there some 3.5mm based hardware devices that didn't work with the adapter after Apple dropped the jack? Like maybe those Square CC readers?) I can't remember if Lightning is just USB anyway, but I wonder if it is 100% comparability. Otherwise, you'd want to know before buying some Lightning based expensive add-on.
Except for the range part, it sounds a bit like a Tesla.lorin schultz said:
As an analogy, imagine your next car runs on a new fuel that gives you ten times the acceleration and ten times the range you get with gasoline. You can still run it on gas, but to do that you have to open the trunk and insert a three-foot long tube into the tank. That makes running the new car on gasoline more hassle than the car you have now, but in exchange you have the option to use the new super fuel with the speed and range advantages. Fair trade?
And, going kind of with that, what if you could only get this new fuel at a station in Sacramento and another in Buffalo? Then, if you didn't live in those two places, you'd have that pain every time you fueled up, which would suck. Unfortunately, that's kind of how I currently see USB-C, as there is little upside for most of us... it's all downside until some supposed future time. (I still don't have a single USB-C device... so it's all adapters to make things work with no real advantage.) And... as for power, I'd have to have such adapters along or I couldn't charge, as no-one has USB-C chargers yet (kind of like the car analogy above).
I understand why they might not want to use a cable with a C connector on the computer end yet, but there's no reason for it not to be C at the drive end. Even those who don't have USB-C equipped computers would still enjoy the benefit of a reversible connector on the drive. I just don't get why a manufacturer would deliberately choose not to include such an obvious improvement.
Tangent time: Writing the word "blade" reminded me that there's good value to be had on the portable SSD front at the moment. Amazon.ca has 1TB Crucial M.2 NVMe blades for CAD$179. A USB-C Gen2 enclosure for it was $49. That's $80 less than a Samsung T1 and four times as fast.
