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  • China claims to have cracked AirDrop security to find senders' details

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    > "... and prevents the spread of inappropriate remarks as well as potential bad influences."

    They're just trying to prevent the spread of dangerous misinformation like all freedom-supporting regimes do.
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  • DoJ's Apple App Store probe is 'firing on all cylinders'

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    teejay2012 said:
    Apple has grown too big and does not provide enough payola to Washington.
    'That's a nice tech company you have there Tim.. would be a shame if somethin' was to happen to it... '

    Tim just needs to bring Hunter on as a board member to make this all go away.
    williamlondonwatto_cobra

  • Apple TV+ has one key component to make excellent sci-fi -- money

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    13485 said:
    While Apple may have the money to fund epic sci-fi programming, I've found that all too often the scripts and acting are uneven. They really need to be a bit more selective in determining which studios they're going to trust with their money. While I'm a huge fan of 'For All Mankind', and 'Monarch', there are definitely moments when the writing, acting, or both have fallen down and (unfortunately) undermined a moment in an episode. And I won't even get started on 'Foundation'...  :neutral: 


    It won't stop me from watching because, on balance, I think the productions are super enjoyable, but it does mar the overall quality of the shows.
    I think I agree with everything. I watch Monsters because I find the CGI excellent, even if the acting/scripts are laughable. For All Mankind ran out of ideas long ago and is now more soapy than ever. And Joel Kinnaman is hereby being nominated for the Worst Beard & Aging Makeup on Major TV. I find Foundation has very creative, almost beautiful, visuals, but I think condensing a few thousand pages of Asimov is proving too hard--others warned of this a couple of years ago, but I thought it might work. Wrong. The long time between seasons hasn't helped. 

    I'll watch it because I like sci-fi, but there are problems.
    Invasion has some of the worst acting I've ever seen, and while the plot is often weak, it's still much stronger than See. So... I'll still watch those over Amazon when that starts running ads in January. :wink: 
    williamlondon

  • D.C. police suggest using AirTags to thwart thefts of $1000 jackets

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    :D The DC police can barely solve a murder, the odds of an AirTag helping recover a pampered kid's $2000 jacket is zero.
    williamlondonbyronlwatto_cobrabaconstang

  • Apple launches Apple Music Classical app

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    clemynx said:
    This is great news, I am certain to use it. 

    However spatial audio isn’t a sell at all for me. Not only does it make most songs worse, but it’s even worse for classical music. Lately I have found myself disabling it entirely because of the way classical or even electronic music sound with it. It’s a completely overrated feature that should only be enabled for songs that were recorded in 3D audio. 
    I'm not sold on Atmos for spatial music in general. 5.1 SACD / DVD-Audio / Blu-Ray are much better for classical and full surround mixes for remastered rock albums are better sounding as well from ones I've compared.

    That said, I'll certainly be using the Classical app! :)
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