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  • White House's National Economic Council head hints China may have stolen Apple tech

    “If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density in any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property.”
      
    -Thomas Jefferson
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  • Apple News committed to different political views while avoiding 'filter bubble' & fake ne...

    I liked it better when I was treated like a grownup and no one thought to make sure my reading habits were ideologically diverse enough.  Something tells me that isn’t the actual goal anyway.
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  • Initial 2018 MacBook Air benchmarks show modest improvement over 2017 MacBook

    ascii said:
    The new Macbook Air is not very compelling honestly. As the Zone of Tech guy pointed out, it's only a little bit more for the 13" Macbook Pro which is better on nearly every metric.
    Well I have a 2016 MacBook Pro and I’m trading it in for lightness, usb c ports that aren’t loose, vastly better battery life, Touch ID without the annoying Touch Bar and the cool gold color.   The weight and the 4-5 hours of actual battery life make my Pro less portable.  If the Air is fast enough not to be encumbered, who gives a damn about specs?
    Solibaconstang
  • Apple chip manufacturer TSMC factories taken down by computer virus

    avon b7 said:
    Fatman said:
    Chinese govt. — they have a vested interest in Apple failing since they ‘own’ many of the competing phone companies and would love to see their own be the next trillion $ company. They make trademarks, patents, litigation, regulation so restrictive. Plus they have access to all communication in and out of country. Timing is critical since upcoming models are in full production.
    Remember the Kirin 980 is also in mass fabrication at the same company. 

    Nobody cares.
    Moderator?

    They block comments that are political because of the hostility that results but they don’t block comments that add nothing to the conversation and are deliberately rude to people?
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  • Apple confirms iOS 12's 'USB Restricted Mode' will thwart police, criminal access [u]

    We’ll never know the truth about backdoors because they usually come with gag orders.
    Nah that’s just conspiracy theory. Apple has said clearly that they don’t have any govt backdoors and won’t put any in. John Gruber has talked to team leads who told him they’d quit first. Word would get out and Apple would be crucified. They won’t do it. 

    Saying "it's just a conspiracy theory" is not an argument.  It implies that everything is as it seems and as it is presented, and to suspect otherwise is irrational or even pathological, which is a manipulative, bullying tactic.  It is irrational or just plain naive to not examine assertions critically.  We're talking about a government that has erected the most extensive and complete spying apparatus in history, all while employing political rhetoric about human rights and harshly criticizing other governments for similar behavior over an entire historical epoch.
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