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  • John McAfee dies in Spanish prison following extradition order to US

    ArchStantonArchStanton
    Rich eccentric man recently says If I am found dead in a jail cell they'll say it was suicide but I will have been murdered. Same rich eccentric man ends up dead by suicide in a prison cell.
    If that isn't worthy of a raised eyebrow or conspiracy theory conjecture then nothing is. 
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Google pushes back third-party cookie block until 2023

    ArchStantonArchStanton
    Google is delaying implementation of “stronger” privacy because it is money to them not to. From CNBC “Google's main business is online advertising. More than 80% of Alphabet's revenue comes from Google ads, which generated $147 billion in revenue last year.”
    The less data Google collects, the less they can sell guaranteed sales to advertisers, the less advertisers pay for ads. 
    When you collect that much massive data on each user (many tens of thousands of pages or more if ever printed) you can profile that user’s general behavior and tendencies, shopping behavior, buying patterns, locations, keywords used, spoken words used (Alexa) with UUID grouping connecting so much if it. It’s insanely granular and a money making machine unlike any advertising ever. 

    Third party cookies is something Firefox, Safari, others rid a while ago. Third party cookies had been deemed anti privacy a while ago. But it’s way bigger than third party cookies and third party app tracking(Android), it is the talk of privacy that gets Google concerned and slow walking, as well as Facebook frightened. Google is feeling a smidgeon of heat on it but it a slowly growing heat. Google does not want to contemplate where the slippery slope this talk and heat is going. Google’s web search engine, Android and their apps (like maps) are assault and battery on your privacy. Every time someone talks privacy Google gets a nervous tic that they’ll be pressured to start defaulting to off some of their golden goose information flow. This third party cookie item is just the taste of things that may come. 

    You want to see Google and Facebook blow a gasket? Another bill from dopes in DC requiring all private data have the ability to be turned off, and it is off by default. They’d be mass heart attacks in Mountain View and menlo park simultaneously.
    watto_cobra

  • VoIP-Pal again accuses Apple of patent infringement in new lawsuit

    ArchStantonArchStanton
    When you’re a big company you get sued a lot. When you’re a big company you get sued a lot over code. These kind of lawsuits are SOP. 
    When you’re a company with a lot of patents, you potentially could be revenue positive just by ongoing litigation work. 

    Nothing to see here..
    watto_cobra

  • Intel Macs can't run Windows 11 without this workaround

    ArchStantonArchStanton
    Some distinct overreaction going on in this thread. Any requirement for Windows 11 is a looooong ways away. I have a few customers still using Windows Server 2012. Software that only recently started dropping off update support for that 2012. I had customers just 2 years ago still using Windows XP and they were holding on to it for dear life.  Most everything still worked or only in the past year or so dropped off These examples are both business customers. 
    For those with Macs that must run Windows, the period of time until you’re SOL is a loooong time. That’s is if you ever become SOL.  A lot can happen between now and then. If there’s a market need then the market usually finds a way to accommodate that need. So for the time being just relax. 

    One thing that is on your side for those needing windows 11 on a Mac? There’s a vocal contingent on forums saying Apple must accommodate those who need non App Store apps(and devices) in an iOS device. That Apple must change iOS to accommodate. Well given their underlying logic you can be sure they’ll be fighting this next fight to make Microsoft change 11 to accommodate the needs of all users /s
    Fidonet127GeorgeBMac

  • Apple's head of privacy doubles down on anti-sideloading stance

    ArchStantonArchStanton
    A concrete example: Google just released their new $99 Pixel earbuds. They use Google's assistant rather than Siri. Let's say you prefer to use Google's assistant and want to use the Pixel Buds on your iPhone. Right now you can't do that because Apple won't let you use the Google assistant automatically with the Pixel Buds. If Apple allowed side loading, you could load Google's assistant app and it would connect your Pixel Buds to Google's assistant. Now explain how side loading an official Google app reduces your security or choices as a consumer?
    The only absolute for security is not to connect to a public IP network. Beyond that you or anyone else saying that certainly nothing can happen is 100% supposing. Apple has decided to take the tightened walled approach to limit as much as possible the potential for a security issue. 
    But There is no explanation needed for your hypothetical. It isn’t the choice I’ve made that needs to explain/change anything to accommodate you. Apple’s way is not a secret. Apple’s way is well known. A large minority percent of the market chooses that well known way.  A majority percent choose differently opting for the Android way. That is choice. Trying to force one choice to be like the other choice isn’t. 

    Imho this is an astonishing discussion. The crux of the argument appears to be XX Well if I may want an iPhone I also will want something from outside Apple’s ecosystem that Android allows. Then Apple must be forced to do it. XX
    Maybe astonishing isn’t the right description. A peculiar sense of entitlement seems to me a more appropriate description. 

    watto_cobra