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  • 'The Problem with Jon Stewart' returning to Apple TV+ on March 3

    GeorgeBMacGeorgeBMac
    Satire and humor is often the single most lethal weapon against propaganda and misinformation.
    And Jon Stewart is modern day master at it.

    You either love him or you hate him -- mostly based on whichever issue he is addressing.  If you think the issue is a problem, you cheer him.  If you think the issue is a strength, you attack him.

    But, what underlies his whole routine is that the nation has aligned itself as "My side against your side" where opinion and fact become interchangeable -- against which Stewart then uses real facts and reason (laced with dry humor)  to expose and discredit the propaganda and misinformation.
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  • Apple announces AirTag, Find My changes to cut down on stalking & misuse

    GeorgeBMacGeorgeBMac
    22july2013 said:
    But, the main step has yet to be taken:   Once the offending AirTag is found, make the AppleID (and the contact info -- including the IMEI number of the person's phone) tied to the AirTag available to police via a warrant -- so the police can stalk the stalker.
    Are you saying that Apple won't provide this information right now if a warrant is issued?

    Are you sure that the current hardware design even allows this functionality? Apple was very careful to design the system so that even "not even Apple knows the location of your AirTag." (https://www.apple.com/ca/airtag/)

    I think you answered your own question.
    watto_cobra

  • Xiaomi CEO aims match Apple for 'product and experience'

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    paxman said:
    They use the Android platform, right? I would have thought they'd need to start right there. In order to compete fully with Apple and match the user experience they probably ought to be entirely in control of their own os's. 

    Exactly!  Without that (their own OS & ecosystem) they simply enter the world of PC manufacturers competing against each other while all are producing essentially the same product:   A Windows PC.

    It is why PCs have become a commodity like washing machines.
    watto_cobrajony0

  • Xiaomi CEO aims match Apple for 'product and experience'

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    chadbag said:
    Good luck to them.    

    They need to make sure they understand this has nothing to do with “specs”, which is how so many people look at it.  They need to understand it is about solving people’s problems.  And anticipating and solving probable future problems.  In a way that is natural to the customer. 

    Exactly!   And it is that for which Apple is known.  Steve embedded that in the company:  satisfying the needs of the customer is what drives technology -- not the other way around:
    "You have to start with the customer experience and work backwards to the technology..."
    "What incredible benefits can we give to the customer..."

    Can any other company match Apple in that regard?  While I hope so, I also doubt it. 
    Regardless, that is the core that drove the great American Industrial age of a century ago:  great organizations doing great things.  US Steel was created when a railroad executive told his assistant (Andrew Carnegie) that he needed a bridge across the Mississippi River because it was blocking his railroad.  It didn't start with steel.  But it ended with cars, bridges and sky scrapers.

    Likewise, as great a technician as Woz was, it was Steve's vision of what that technology could do for the customer that made it work.

    Here, Steve describes his ideas on what drives Apple:



    watto_cobrajony0

  • Secret CIA program may have breached Americans' privacy

    GeorgeBMacGeorgeBMac
    blastdoor said:
    I trust the CIA more than I trust:

    Facebook
    Russia
    China
    Trumpublicans
    North Korea 
    Saudi Arabia 
    ….. actually it’s a long list 

    We (along with Colin Powell, George Bush, congress and most media) trusted them in 2001-2003.  It's estimated that 400,000 people died from trusting them -- along with spawning ISIS -- and let's not mention the trillions we spent fighting and occupying a peoples who never did us any harm.

    It was clear afterwards that the CIA had been seeded with those who favored a particular course of action and they did whatever they had to do to insure that course of action happened.  And those who spoke against them were punished -- the most notable of which was the Valerie Plame affair that resulted from her husband questioning the official line from the CIA.

    Any agency or organization is only as good as the people running it.

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