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5G expansion will cause 'catastrophic' economic crisis, airlines claim
It's not a fair comparison. First of all, the issue is not so much the emissions from the smartphones, but the emissions from the cellular towers.longpath said:Military experience with millimeter wave radar says otherwise and such radars pump out a lot more energy than a smartphone. If what they are alleging was true, civilian planes would be crashing every time a military helicopter illuminated it with its radar. Strangely, I can’t find a single instance of this ever occurring. Could it be that like many bureaucrats, they are fear mongering to maintain and grow their power? No, it couldn’t be that…Secondly, no one is suggesting that the 5G signals will cause planes to "fall out of the sky". The fear is that the 5G will interfere with the highly precise altimeters used for landing. These altimeters are a critical part of the process when landing in many IFR (Instrument Flight Rules) situations. If a plane is cruising along at 30,000 feet, interference with this altimeter isn't critical.Now, I am not commenting on whether or not the 5G cellular service is actually a problem for the planes. I am merely pointing out that experience with military helicopter radar is not applicable to this situation.
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Trova Go review: A stylish travel lockbox that needs work
My concern is that it looks like an external battery pack. That's something likely to be stolen. It's useful to the thief, easy to resell, and inexpensive enough that no one will make a federal case out of it when they find it missing.They would have been much better off making it look like a book. In today's world, no one steals physical books.
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Microsoft says Windows on ARM will not support Apple M1 Macs
I remember the days when Macs were not Intel based, but we could run Intel software using an emulator (SoftWindows).
I see no reason why that concept couldn't be resurrected. The Mac Silicon chips are quite fast. While an emulated Intel processor may not be great for gaming, it should be very good for running a lot of existing Windows based business software.
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Apple's Federighi says child protection message was 'jumbled,' 'misunderstood'
Apple's program does not apply to images published online. It applies to private image libraries that are backed up via Apple's services.StrangeDays said:
You can imagine whatever you like, but the system uses the same NCMEC child porn database utilized by Microsoft, Google, Dropbox, Twitter, etc.. Your little fantasy about the POTUS adding images to it would affect every one of those major cloud storage providers, not just Apple.mfryd said:
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There is nothing new here. You’re not forced to use any of these commercial cloud services to host your images online.
And reporting child porn libraries to the authorities is not some choice Apple makes — they’re required to by law. As are the other cloud storage services. You can’t store child porn, it’s against the law.
Although Apple claims that they will not be using any single database. They insist that they will get multiple databases from different organizations. They will make sure that these organizations are not under the authority of the same government. They will only flag images that appear on multiple lists. Thus they can easily miss images from the NCMEC database.
If this was something that was required by law, then Apple should simply say that. Instead they are trying to claim that it is something they are doing because the goal of protecting children outweighs their customer's right to privacy. If that's really how they believe, then their next step should be to start reviewing email and text messages. After all, no child pornographer deserves privacy, and those that are not child pornographers have nothing to worry about. After all, why do law abiding citizens need to worry about governmental searches? Why do law abiding citizens need any privacy from the government?
Of course, the answer to that is that the US Constitution requires it. The US is based on the idea that government should not have unlimited power, and the people have a right to privacy. These sorts of searches should not be happening without demonstrating to a judge that reasonable cause exists and getting permission from that judge.
Now you might claim that this is not a governmental search, but a search by a private company. However that is not consistent with the list of prohibited images coming from a governmental agency, or the private company being required by law to search.
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Apple's Federighi says child protection message was 'jumbled,' 'misunderstood'
Governments can demand all they want. If Apple does not have the capability to comply, then they cannot comply. If they have the ability than they do.radarthekat said:
I fail to see how a foreign government has had to wait for this hash comparison technique to be implemented by Apple before they could demand that Apple start scanning for pictures of their leader or any other subject. The very nature of a dictator or totalitarian implies they could demand any kind of functionality they wish in return for access to their markets. They didn’t need to wait for Apple to create a tool that could be applied to their dastardly schemes; they could simply demand that Apple do what they want done regarding spying on their citizenry and hold access to their market hostage until they get it. So your argument holds exactly zero water.mfryd said:
...NYC362 said:...This is why Apple has refused to implement a backdoor in iPhone encryption. As long as they are unable to comply with an order to unlock an iPhone, then they can't comply. Apple has made it very clear that they understand that once a capability exists, that governments will force them to use it for governmental purposes.
