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roake said:

A few properly place Hellfire missiles from an affected country would bring this type of activity to a stop pretty fast.

No, it wouldn’t. And it would be the equivalent of a declaration of war against another country while the perpetrators of the crime are not acting in the country’s name but for themselves.

The perpetrators can easily move from one area to another. The missile attack would simply end up killing civilians that have nothing to do with the crime. 

So you are, say, from Pakistan. You worked at Facebook in California before the pandemic. You were paid a huge Californian salaries.

Now you work from home, in Pakistan. You do the exact same work, but you are not in California anymore. According to Facebook, you shouldn’t be paid for your work as you were in the US. Instead, your salary should be based on the average salary of the area you live in.

Hyundai makes great cars. I never bought a car from the same manufacturer twice, because of quality issues, or design shortcomings. I made an exception with Hyundai. My last two cars, hybrids, have been from Hyundai and I have been very pleased with them. In fact, I’m looking forward to buying my next (hopefully fully electric) car from them. All this to say that Hyundai seems to be a great choice to materialise the elusive Apple car.

JFC_PA said:

CheeseFreeze said:

If Covid-19 is a long term thing, I hope Apple will actually bring back Touch ID as a secondary way to unlock the device, as paying and unlocking with Face ID is tricky wearing a mask. I also don’t want the latter security to be turned down so it’s a weaker security level to accommodate the lack of mouth/nose data as part of the recognition phase.

Perhaps, yet I don’t find it tricky at all. The moment my iPhone detects my covered face it requests my passcode to authorize ApplePay, or unlock.  A matter of seconds and it’s completed. That was implemented a few updates back and works very reliably. 

If you consider 6 (or even 4) digits passcode "secure", you are right. But if you activate long passcodes (alphanumeric), then this isn't really as fast as you say. 4 digits passcodes can be hacked in seconds. 6 digits passcodes can be hacked in minutes.

Intel deciding not to support Apple Silicon would basically mean that Intel decided to kill Thunderbolt : the reason Thunderbolt still exist is because of Apple. Without Apple, Thunderbolt would have been dead long ago.