mknelson

jbdragon said:

So Apple is PAYING for the news already, but that is not good enough?  The government wants its own cut?  So this law will supposedly bring in $233 million and yet the broadcasters only get $170 million of that?  Yet Apple is already paying!!!

If I was Apple, I would block Apple News+ service in Canada.  Stop paying for any news from Canada and in fact have zero Canadian news at all.   Now the Government gets NOTHING!!!  The people there are out of luck, thanks to their government.  This is completely ridiculous.  

I think your reaction and this article are hyperbolic.

They're asking for the law to be expanded to other services including Apple - closing any loopholes. I don't think they're specifically asking for Apple to pay more.

Your last sentence is nonsense - most of the revenue goes to the media outlets (not "the government") including Postmedia and is intended to make up for online providers like Google and Facebook, etc. from continuing to take all their advertising revenue.

Also, people are not "out of luck" - they can still get their news by going directly to the broadcaster/publisher sites.

"The majority of any revenues generated from the legislation are expected to go to broadcasters, including companies like Bell and Rogers, but also the CBC. A Senate committee heard that the Parliamentary Budget Officer estimates the bill will generate $320 million in funding, with about $240 million of that going to broadcasters. Government officials said in later estimates they expect in total that Google could contribute $172 million a year and Facebook $62 million, if they were to be subject to the legislation."

bob-tahoma said:

Oh my god. No wonder this hack no longer works at the beeb. What a load of horse shit this article is. 

This guy is flipping pathetic. APPLE NEWS please. I hate the current government as much as the next man but keep your sodding political opinions to yourself and just report relevant news. 

Yeah, it's a pretty weak article.

"There are children starving in the UK, school and theater buildings are literally crumbling, and the government has abandoned a high speed rail effort after spending 14 years and $121 billion on it."

3 different ministries, none of which have to do with the subject of the article. HS2 hasn't been abandoned completely, just the northern extension from the Midlands to Manchester. Pretty significant, but the section which is under construction is going to be completed. The problems with Autoclaved Aerated Concrete are well documented, but are largely the responsibility of local governments, not Parliament.

9secondkox2 said:

The government does illegal things to spy on its own people…

is this news? 

You have to wonder how many “vulnerabilities” are just purpose built back doors until they’re “discovered” and patched only for the revolving door to slip another one in at the same time. 

No, I don't. I'm not a member of the tin-foil hat crowd.

Companies like Apple have no vested interest in allowing back doors.

There is enough open source software incorporated in modern devices that agencies can find and take advantage vulnerabilities. Sneaking one in would require the open source community to be complicit or blind.

Also, this report has nothing to do with back doors in the devices being tracked. It was commercially sourced from cell companies.

jdgaz said:

Now I completely understand why England left the EU. 

The con by Nigel Farage and his buddies? In the UK today Brexit is widely considered to be a failure. Even Nigel has said that.

mretondo said:

OMG the Belkin and Plugable cables are not Thunderbolt cables they're USB4 cables. The USB4 logo are printed on the cables.

https://www.usb.org/usb4

"The USB4 Specification complements and builds upon the existing USB 3.2 and 2.0 architectures. Based on the Thunderbolt™ protocol specification contributed by the Intel Corporation, USB4 doubles the maximum aggregate bandwidth of USB and enables multiple simultaneous data and display protocols.

The USB4 architecture defines a method to dynamically share a single high-speed link with multiple end device types to best serve the transfer of data by type and application. As the USB Type-C connector has evolved into the role as the external display port of many host products, the USB4 specification provides the host the ability to optimally scale allocations for display data flow. Compatibility with existing USB 3.2, USB 2.0, and Thunderbolt 3 hosts and devices is supported, and the resulting connection scales to the best mutual capability of the devices being connected.  "