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While forced local scanning on a Mac by government order is a frightful 1984-style nightmare for all citizens (law abiding or not), the upside is that Little Snitch would likely work to block any outgoing transfers.

The concern here is the same as CSAM scanning on the iPhone. It's more than a matter of personal privacy. It's a concern centered on the possibility that an error could result in a law abiding person being reported to law enforcement, which cares more about filling quotas and busting so-called bad guys than anything else.  Having an accused person's time wasted, or worse, being arrested for something they didn't do only because a computer secretly misread a file on their computer is something no citizen of any nation should stand for.  

So how do law enforcers deal with law breakers?  How they always have — which doesn't include privacy invasions like file scanning without a search warrant.  It may not be the ideal approach in light of the tech we have today, but it's the only approach to protect citizen from unlawful search and seizure.

Makes zero sense to me because:

1. Apple has already implemented "mini" LED on various MacBook displays.
2. Apple is moving away from OLED on the Apple Watch in order to implement "micro" LED.

Therefore, it seems only logical to implement "micro" LED at some point on a MBP display, not OLED!

neoncat said:
...when the snide Apple White Knights rush to defense of a two trillion one trillion dollar company and declare developers "chintzy" for not toeing the line, it's hard not to roll my eyes.

I myself am not an Apple White Knight (AWK), and I have actually been brutalized by them here in this forum.  Back when the butterfly keyboard was the only keyboard on certainly MBPs, I mentioned how much I disliked it and why, and the AWKs came running to bash me and say I need to wake up and embrace the new status quo because Apple is never going back.  They said the same about the missing SD card, loving the fact it was missing, while I hated its absence.  In the end, I won and the mockers lost -- Apple went back to a better keyboard design and restored the SD card slot, where it belongs.  Ha!

But even though I am not an AWK and never shall be a perpetual defender of the Status Quo, I am an Apple fan, as evidenced by the fact I am here writing these words.  I have also been an AAPL shareholder since 1999, never having sold a single share.  I believe many people in this forum are AAPL shareholders as well.  (It's rather foolish not to be.)  Because of that, I am well aware that we often defend Apple for the sake of AAPL, in addition to liking their products.  So when someone (not necessarily just an AWK) seems to defend that 2.06 Trillion company (current market cap as of today -- not 1.0 Trillion), someone is in effect defending their investment in AAPL.  Even if someone only owns Apple devices and lacks any AAPL stock, that someone still has an investment in Apple.  Any person who likes what they bought will naturally seek to defend the creator of that item they purchased.  It's both logical and reasonable, and not something we can so casually deem "totally selfish."

As a result, I tend to roll my eyes at those who roll their eyes at their fellow Apple fans.  We all defend Apple in some way, and for varied reasons.  And those reasons are rooted in common sense more than selfishness.  For example, if I want AAPL to succeed, people other than me benefit from that.  That is not purely a selfish act.

neoncat said:
I disagree that it's worth the cost and/or that developers receive value on their end as well. But again, we can agree to disagree.

Those 2 sentences are the bottom line and the heart of the matter.  We agree to disagree on this point.  And one doesn't have to fall into that AWK category to disagree either.

waveparticle said:

lkrupp said:

waveparticle said:

This is frivolous to the lowest level. TikTok is an entertaining tool. Government building is for working. Of course it is inappropriate to use TikTok. But making it a national security issue is a plot by China haters to silence democracy. 

Maybe the NSA, CIA, and the U.S. Military know something you don’t. But then you’re just a Chinese government operative spreading disinformation and propaganda. And who are you to be talking about democracy when your leader is a vicious despot.

You are a liar! I have said here many times that I have nothing to do with Chinese government. And you China hater keeps making lies about me. And would you bet that every word I posted here have been recorded by CIA? US government has the world's largest network of spying. It is much larger than China or any other country. Can you deny it? NSA, CIA, and the U.S. Military know how to spy on every one. This is why they worry TikTok will spy on US. US has far more superior military power than China. I believe this is the simple reason CCP feel it is useless to spy everything on US. Of course they want to know what the US Congress is planning on Taiwan. And this is the reason US Congress don't want CCP to know. And this is democracy? I thought democracy is for peace like Jesus do.

I personally believe you DO NOT have direct ties to the CCP.  However, based on your written defenses of anything pertaining to China, I would say that your wording is quite similar to other posts outside this forum authored by what are known as Chinese Nationalists.  Nationalists are average Chinese citizens who are extremely patriotic and defensive of China in general.  And while these nationalists are not affiliated with the CCP, they basically do precisely what the CCP wants insofar as the nationalists spread the same pro-China propaganda, and leave the door closed to anything negative about China.

Overall, I would say your posts defending China here in this forum tend to be more defensive of China than just about any other person in the forum.  That shouldn't make you a target of hate, but it will attract the attention of people who strongly disagree with your largely pro-China stance.

Personally, I wish we could all get along without strife.  But the only way to achieve that is to stop watching the news, stop being nationalistic/patriotic, and just view life in mostly optimistic terms.  Not everyone can do that.

And so, because we are all different, the best we can do is just debate and fight for a time, then shake hands and agree to disagree in the end.  I think that's really the best way to settle matters of strong disagreement.  There's nothing wrong with even heated debate as long as it doesn't result in us hating each other.

JP234 said:

So, a lawyer sues a company.
Why?
Money. It's about the money. It's always about the money.
Maybe she'll start a class-action tort and really cash in!

Here's a quote from her written statement...

"In 2010, I became the Head of Patent Litigation and was compensated commensurate with the job's stress level. I soon found myself making over $1 million a year."

She goes on to say she couldn't handle all the travel required, so she deliberately changed positions, and I must assume that reduced her salary.

She admits to having an unusual relationship with her Apple co-worker and explains it got very bad by saying "by this point we had become adversaries" yet then says she agreed to make their relationship public: "So I finally agreed, and we posted a picture on social media."

The whole tale is so strange, one would be hard-pressed to imagine even Hollywood creating it.  Read her statement in full.