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  • Long, optical Thunderbolt 3 cables are coming soon

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    onehunglow said:
    Optical fibres for data transmission are very cheap. Their pricing for 200 feet is a joke. If the user could supply their own fibre - that’d be very interesting.
    Not necessarily.  I deal with fiber optic cables often.  "Cheap" fiber cable usually has the core made of plastic and the quality of the fiber varies greatly, particularly when dealing with fiber made in China.  High-quality cable has the core made from glass which provides a very high quality signal with minimal to no loss over crazy distances.  For these thunderbolt cables to work at those distances must mean they're using a very high quality glass fiber core, in addition to some serious optical transceivers to maintain that kind of bandwidth and reliability.

    It's pricey stuff.  Even for Thundrbolt2, I would seriously consider these cables if it means I could move my noisy TB2 RAID somewhere else in my house, maybe even the basement.
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  • Phone numbers of nearly 420M Facebook users exposed online

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    spice-boy said:
    sflocal said:
    Like most people's phone numbers aren't already out there on the Internet for every phone scammer to use anyways?

    This is a non-issue.

    Still waiting for the management of Equifax to be jailed.  That's REAL damaging information that was leaked.
    Guess you enjoy spam calls and tele-marketers? 
    mknelson said:
    spice-boy said:
    sflocal said:
    Like most people's phone numbers aren't already out there on the Internet for every phone scammer to use anyways?

    This is a non-issue.

    Still waiting for the management of Equifax to be jailed.  That's REAL damaging information that was leaked.
    Guess you enjoy spam calls and tele-marketers? 
    And potentially having your AppleID or other accounts stolen if your SIM gets ported out from under you. I believe that's how many of the images stolen in 2014 (the fappening) happened.
    What?  Did spam and telemarketers not exist prior to the Intenet?  They've been a scourge since the rotary phone days.  

    My mobile phone number is out there for a myriad of reason.  I don't like to but it's necessary.   If you're using a mobile phone, and you want it private good luck.  You may not put it out there, but guarantee that your mobile provider probably sells/shares your phone number to some 3rd party folks, and who knows where that info goes from there.  Your phone number is in your bank info, credit info, etc... those get hacked, abused, leaked, etc... 

    I know scammers can attempt to social-engineer my AT&T customer service rep to transfer control of my phone number to them, then hijack my AppleID... yes.. I know that's possible, and it's also possible for pretty much anyone else too.  

    Leaking any kind of customer info is unacceptable.  I just don't think it's the big deal as people are making it out to be.

    Just yesterday I had a scam call that my SSN "Expired" and I was wanted by law enforcement.  As a kick, I answered the call and spoke to (obviously) an individual of Indian/Pakistan descent.  When he asked for my name, I gave him a fake name, then he proceeded to say "You're not <real name>?"  So of course, he was cross-checking my phone number with some database.

    It's a done deal.  On the flip-side, AT&T has made great progress to prevent scam/spam calls from reaching me.  So it's getting better.


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  • LG will roll out out AirPlay 2 and HomeKit to 2019 smart TVs on Thursday

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    Metriacanthosaurus said:
    In case anyone is confused: No one with an Apple TV should care.

    - I can AirPlay to my Apple TV, but who really does this anymore? Frankly it is a bit old fashioned at this point. 99% of what I would AirPlay can be natively played back on Apple TV, and easier than even before with new Siri commands.
    - My TV turns on and off with the Apple TV via CEC.
    - My volume control is all universal via CEC/HDMI-ARC and controlled from the iOS Remote App/Remote Widget/Apple Watch, or the Siri Remote itself (bluetooth not IR).
    - Switching inputs also happens automatically via CEC, but I rarely switch inputs anyway because the Apple TV is the main driver.

    AirPlay and HomeKit coming to the TV's themselves is a good thing, but only for certain use cases. It does not apply to anyone already using an Apple TV. I feel like this has to be mentioned because I see a lot of confused people trying to find a way that this applies to them.
    Some providers don't have channels on AppleTV.  We constantly have to play certain videos from our iPhones to our AppleTV.  
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  • Tesla requests iCloud data for engineer who allegedly stole Autopilot secrets

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    So it's another typical, IP-stealing day for China and it's government-assisted spy-cells?

    Law-abiding Chinese citizens should be embarrassed at how their country is run.
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  • Lamenting the loss of the adorable 12-inch MacBook

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    McJobs said:
    Maybe, just maybe this is one of the reasons why Jony Ive has decided to leave the company. The 12-inch MacBook was his baby and vision of a perfect consumer laptop of the future.
    Then again, maybe not.
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