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  • France, UK to test contact tracing apps without Apple and Google technology

    hodarhodar
    "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."- Benjamin Franklin

    ~60% of the population will be asymptomatic.  An overwhelming majority of those who do get sick will experience a mild cold with a dry cough.  Those who do get sick, and need hospitalization, we now have a protocol and treatment regiment that is shown to be effective.  An overwhelming number of those who have died, died from contributing factors that COVID was essentially blamed for.  Shot in the head, but had COVID, you are listed as a COVID death.  The bullet was just a contributing factor, as is Cancer, Heart attacks, compromised Pulminary System, high blood pressure, diabetes, etc.

    Its NEVER going away - it's a virus, just like Chickenpox.  Hiding from it will not make it disappear.  Don't blame me, I didn't make it in a lab, I didn't deny it's existence, I didn't kill those who talked about it, I didn't ship my citizens out to every developed country on the planet.

    Hiding from it, does NOT build herd immunity.  You will be exposed to it, if you haven't already, you will.  If you haven't had it already, you likely will.  It's highly contagious - but not nearly as deadly as it's been promoted to be.  Many of those who died, and are counted as COVID deaths, would have died this year anyway - isn't it remarkable that pneumonia, heart attack and seasonal flu deaths are down ALMOST as much as COVID has gone up?  If this were Ebola, Bubonic Plague or something along those lines - even if it was a resurgence of MERS, that would be worse than this.

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  • France shames Apple for not sacrificing user privacy for COVID-19 app

    hodarhodar
    Perhaps France should focus on THEIR problems, and stop blaming others for not fixing their problems?  Apple provides, perhaps the best and most secure ecosystem on the planet, they do this to benefit their GLOBAL customers - not for France.

    France has a lot of issues, they have migrants that have completely changed the lives of every man, woman and child in the country.  They have violence,riots and protests, their country is experiencing turmoil internally, and the virus is just the latest problem.  Apple is not the cause, nor the cure.

    So, do like every other country on the planet, fix the problem yourself - and perhaps try to step up to the problem, instead of running away and blaming someone else.  It's not becoming, in fact, it's kind of annoying.
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  • Walmart sells Vudu to Fandango as it exits streaming market

    hodarhodar
    One feature that Vudu used to have, that I enjoyed a lot - was the option to take YOUR DVD (they used your GPS address, and matched it against your address on your profile), and allowed you to scan the UPC code off the DVD/Blu-ray (or later on, just put it into your computer DVD/Blu-ray drive), then buy a SD for $2, or the Blu-Ray digital copy for $5.  I expanded my digital library by close to 100 titles using this feature.

    It's now disabled.

    I would love to see someone else pick this up and run with it.  I would love to have digital copies of many DVD's I own, and for $5 I can justify upgrading the DVD to Blu-Ray on many titles I already own.
    watto_cobra

  • ARM-based MacBook, Apple game controller coming soon says leaker

    hodarhodar
    I would like to see the Mac become more "reasonably" priced.  When the Mac Mini came out, it was priced aggressively to serve as a user upgradeable, entry level desktop to get people introduced into the Mac ecosystem.  My 2012 i5 was bought at the price of ~$700, I later upgraded the RAM, replaced the Logitech mouse/keyboard with Apple products, both the mouse and trackpad, and the extended keyboard.  I later upgraded and added two SSDs.  It's been a solid performer.

    To replace this $700 component today, with the same base components costs $1,000+ with 500GB storage I cannot upgrade.  I went from a 500GB HDD to a 1 and a 2 TB SDD in my old Mac Mini - I can't do that anymore.  Why did they do this?

    Would love to get the 2TB SDD i7 version of the Mac Mini, but at $2,000 before you add a nice monitor, and the Apple keyboard, mouse and trackpad.  Just seems like humble Mac Mini is stuck with a tremendous Mac Tax.
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  • Tim Cook, Eddy Cue exposed to coronavirus at birthday party

    hodarhodar

    Maybe I'm just anti-social

    But, I have this non-PC practice.  When I feel sick (ie. hung-over, nauseous, diarrhea, runny nose, headaches, fever or just am not feeling up to my normal level of performance); I DO NOT go to work.  I DO NOT go to parties.  I DO NOT associate with other people, and this means I DO NOT even go to Church.

    No, I stay home, rest and isolate myself (except for my poor wife, who is very supportive), and do my best to recover.

    I do this quite intentionally - so as to NOT expose other people to whatever I have.  When I am sick, I do not feel social.  Judging from the way people are behaving, I must be a selfish person; because we see idiots who are confirmed with this virus, who intentionally fly on commercial airlines, who go to conventions, and even go to work.

    What is wrong with these people?

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