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rob53 said:

What about all the BS short sellers put online? Let's try and be consistent. Why are short sellers even a thing? 

Short-sellers are a thing because the stock market is literally legalized gambling, and if you have enough money, the house will let you gamble with it in whatever way you want.

iOS_Guy80 said:

KTR said:

I’m waiting for carbon monoxide detector 

That would definitely be cool, what about a smoke detector?

By the time smoke reaches levels detectable on a watch-scale sensor, the wearer is maybe 30 seconds from death.

pulseimages said:

Is the ability to detect a fall automatically enabled in the Apple Watch Series 4, or later, if the owner isn’t over 65? 

No. That's why they said it's enabled by default if the owner is over 65. That wouldn't be worth noting if it was enabled by default for everybody, or if the threshold age were different. 

You can enable it manually, and I think most people should. Younger people can still slip or trip and get knocked unconscious. If you fall, the watch beeps loudly and presents an alert that it is about to call 911. If you don't cancel the call within a few seconds (ten, I think?), the watch places the call. Over the phone, it announces to emergency services that it is an Apple Watch calling on behalf of its owner, who has suffered a fall and is not responsive. It provides the location via E911 data, and reads out heart rate (and maybe new ones read out pulse ox) while waiting for emergency services. Very neat stuff.

Interesting. There are brand new, multi-thousand-dollar Windows computers you can buy today which don't meet those requirements (the Toughbook's display is only 1024x768; it's like the anti-retina). Except for that requirement, I think all my machines currently running Windows 10 could be updated to 11. I'm not 100% sure all of them have WDDM 2 drivers.

Maybe this will be the kick Panasonic needs to finally improve the display's density!

Had to renew my driver license during the pandemic, which was surprisingly difficult, even knowing my state is making the process gratuitously hard as a form of voter suppression. The Real ID compliant license is easier to counterfeit in every way than my last license was. Lenticular arrays instead of holograms, no microprinting, only a little UV reactivity. I am unimpressed. Would only be marginally harder to fake one of these than a birth certificate (which, in most states, is trivial to fake).

As for digital ID cards, I look forward to more information about how they work. Hopefully it's something like the emergency medical ID. Showing it should disable the Lightning port and lock the phone such that the passcode is required to unlock it. The screen showing what will be presented suggests it might actually be sent electronically for viewing on a device which is not your phone. Would cops, bouncers, grocery store clerks, and so on have to carry around a separate device capable of receiving and verifying information? That would seem to be quite a high requirement for a lot of places.

bobolicious said:

...so Apple now wants to store the world's passcodes on Patriot Act governed servers...?
Biometric data, when we sleep, where we move (now even when our iOS is off), what we say, read, watch and listen to - is anything left...?
Even with (if) the best of intentions does this concentration of data (digital colonialism?) put the world at increasing dependency & risk ?
Is it an ironic evolution for the internet which I understand was originally conceived to fragment communication access for security reasons,
yet potentially now becoming a source of infinite attack vectors to concentrations of digital data 'wealth'...?

This involves storing the private keys in iCloud Keychain, which you should read about. Apple doesn't have the ability to read passwords or private keys stored in iCloud Keychain.

CheeseFreeze said:

Happy_Noodle_Boy said:

CheeseFreeze said:

This is a fine idea but:

1. I want to transfer this data out of iCloud, which should allowed by Apple. I don’t want a lock in to their ecosystem just because I can’t access my keys outside iDevices.

2. What happens when I need to login to accounts via routers, TV’s and other appliances? OAuth delegation? Apple’s solution shouldn’t hinder me.

Super easy, when a tool doesn't work for you use case you don't use it. 

No, not in this case, considering how this works. Imagine having hundreds of keys and not being able to use them on Android. 

 

I haven't reviewed the WebAuthn specification in great detail, but every server-side implementation I've seen so far supports many keys associated with the user account. Setup or additional keys is likely to be cumbersome, though that depends on the service. In the WWDC session, they mention they're still working on making the keys interoperable with other device brands. I expect that will take the form of a public format for exporting the keys, and it will be up to others to support importing them from that format.