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  • OpenID Foundation says 'Sign in with Apple' has critical gaps, urges changes

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    rob53 said:
    I'm sure Apple and developers will find most of the issues before its released. Comparing Apple's implementation to Google and Facebook logons is like comparing a locked door to an open one. OpenID can complain all they want but lets hear their assessment about logging in with Facebook and Google. I highly doubt Apple will be logging any personal data and will not be selling anything while Facebook and Google are guaranteed to be selling everything they get.
    It’s foolish to pin all your hopes on Apple “finding the issues”. Apple should pay attention and start with those issues—unless they are the wiser. 

    And, quite frankly, I couldn’t care less how Facebook and google are conducting their business. I just care that Apple gets it right. 
    tyler82williamlondoncaladanian

  • European Parliament passes controversial 'Article 13' Internet copyright bill

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    I may be the only one, but I see absolutely nothing wrong with this. Someone authors a piece of work, they should be compensated. Period. 

    Next time you you think about criticizing Samsung for copying, think about this. It’s exactly the same thing. 
    tokyojimurandominternetperson

  • Review: Apple's new AirPods are a first-class update to an already superb product

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    I assume the ‘magic’ you are referring to isn’t the music quality. I tested these several times in the store and, sadly, the music quality simply isn’t there. Definitely inferior to my Bose wireless. 
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Steve Jobs wanted ultra-optimized US manufacturing, Apple vets say

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    sirozha said:
    My town is inundated with H1B-visa Indians who have replaced 50% or more of American IT personnel. About 35% of doctors are Indian on H1B visas. They have pushed Americans out of the jobs here, and these are not manufacturing jobs. These are high-tech and medical jobs. As a result, housing prices are  through the roof. These temporary Indians are buying several houses each on interest-only loans, knowing full well that they are going to have to leave within 5-6 years and can simply abandon their houses (if the market turns down) with no consequences. Their monthly mortgage payments are significantly lower than apartment rentals because of the ARM-type loans that they take out.  In the meantime, they are collecting rents on the multiple houses that they purchased with no credit history and no permanent status here. How can a temporary worker buy a house in the US on a mortgage is beyond comprehension. We have not learned anything from the 2009 housing crash. 

    If we don't want to manufacture anything, we don't want to build anything, we don't want to work in agriculture, we don't want to study sciences, we don't want to work as engineers, we don't want to be doctors, what the hell are we good for? Are we going to be pigs for the rest of the world to raise until we get fat enough to be slaughtered? 

    We can have robotic factories built in the US and train our citizens to maintain and program robots. If we don't know how to do this, let's invite Chinese, Japanese, and Germans to help us out, pay them handsomely, and learn how to make our own crap efficiently by leveraging the latest robotic technologies for manufacturing. This could not be done three decades ago, but with the advance of technology, it is now possible. 
    We’re already too fat. Seriously, though. Companies hire the best. Period. We don’t even have an adequate school infrastructure. This is what happens when you have 10x the amount of money pouring into the military. You leave nothing for educating the masses. The irony about Indians is that they modeled their school system after our public system of the 60’s & 70’s. 
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  • Disrupt Berlin 2018 heavy on machine learning, picks sperm freezer Legacy as Startup Battl...

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    riss said:
    What a joke... just like EU commmison and their digital initiatives disconnected from market realities 
    Not everything has to relate to the fucking market. Geez, does anyone do anything good for humanity out of the goodness of their heart? What a shallow time we live in and with some seriously fucked up values. I take solace in the fact that there will be a reckoning for all who have placed the accumulation of money (at any cost) at the top of their value system. 
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