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  • Several senators overseeing anti-Apple regulations controversially hold shares

    VictorMortimerVictorMortimer
    As I've been saying for years, congressional pay needs a complete rework.

    What we need to do is pay them about a million a year, adjust it for inflation every year, and they get that for life, along with a free luxury apartment in DC as long as they're in office.  While in office, healthcare will be whatever Medicaid is in their state, and they will get a food stamp card that they must use as the only means of feeding themselves and their immediate family, they can only use their salary to buy food for guests.  If they want better healthcare or more food, they can vote to improve those programs for everybody.  They must sell ALL stocks and all real estate other than one house in their district, the proceeds must be deposited in a single non interest bearing FDIC insured bank or credit union account or stored as cash US currency.  ALL other income of their immediate household (adult offspring are only included so long as they are living with the congresscritter) is taxed at 100%, with NO deductions, for the rest of their lives.  Failure to pay the 100% tax on any outside income would be a mandatory minimum life sentence in the highest security federal prison.  (Don't want to risk being sent to solitary in a supermax?  Vote to shut them down.)
    ForumPostBart Y

  • Despite Apple pushback, Oregon has passed its right-to-repair bill banning parts pairing

    VictorMortimerVictorMortimer
    nubus said:
    Will the lack of parts pairing cause more devices to be stolen? Apple should have the right to block parts from stolen devices to protect us.
    No.  Parts pairing is a scourge on consumers.  The "but stuff might get stolen" nonsense is a red herring, it adds nothing to the conversation about the far greater evil of repairs being made unnecessarily difficult and expensive, leading to FAR more e-waste.
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple wants a Magic Mouse you can tilt for more controls

    VictorMortimerVictorMortimer
    Oh good, another hockey puck.  This time around, it doesn't even look like it's got a cable or removable side panels so you have no hope at all of getting it pointed in the right direction.

    It's always funny when people talk about how Jobs or Ive wouldn't have let bad thing "X" happen, when both of them were involved in the hockey puck debacle.

    I've still got a few new in box clip on mouse covers left over from that shameful episode.
    jeffharrisForumPost

  • Beware of fake CleanMyMac installers that will infect your Mac

    VictorMortimerVictorMortimer
    Funny that malware like CleanMyMac is complaining about malware.

    I remove that garbage any time I see it.
    AllMAniMillStrangeDayseriamjh

  • Apple Silicon vulnerability leaks encryption keys, and can't be patched easily

    VictorMortimerVictorMortimer
    twolf2919 said:
    While definitely a vulnerability, I wish the author had highlighted how difficult it is to exploit.   Just telling me that the attack "must also be used on the same chip cluster as the cryptographic target app in order to function, and both must use the efficiency cores or the performance cores at the same time" doesn't really tell me that.  It sure sounds very esoteric - I'm not running a cluster on my MacBook (cluster of one?) nor do I really know what a 'cryptographic target app' means.

    As most attacks, this requires you - at the very least - to download and run an app of unknown origin.  Don't do that.
    So, stick to open source only?

    Because the reality is that this can be hidden just about anywhere in a closed source app, and your precious app store can't protect you.


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