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  • Amazon launches native Prime Video app for Mac

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    At the moment, on the Mac App Store, the button just says "Purchased", but it is greyed out.  I have never downloaded this app and it is not in my Applications folder.
    williamlondon

  • DOJ charges Huawei with stealing trade secrets, financial fraud, violating sanctions, more...

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    jbdragon said:
    normm said:
    The US shouldn't be imposing sanctions on Iran--it's our most counterproductive foreign policy move in decades. And we should be fixing problems we have with China, not starting a war (trade or otherwise).
    China has been screwing over the U.S. for years in unfair trade are tariffs. The U.S. Government did nothing. It's time for that to end.The Tariffs go away as soon as China's Tariffs go away and they allow a more equal trade between the two countries. It's about time something like this was done. All the money flowing into China in one direction is just helping them built up their military complex. Then start doing things like creating bogus Island, while killing off marine habitat all in the name of control. Zooming their jets right next to American Jets in International waters is a really unsafe manner. GO cry me a river.
    Right.  China is the aggressor.  Mmm hmmm. 
    muthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple confirms iOS 12's 'USB Restricted Mode' will thwart police, criminal access [u]

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    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.
    tallest skilmuthuk_vanalingamwatto_cobra

  • Apple must fight $15.3B EU tax bill without US government help, court says

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    steven n. said:
    The EU needs to exhort and make up laws and apply them expo-facto style to pay for their nearly backrupt social programs. With the exception of Germany, almost every country in the Union is on the brink of failure.
    Does that fill you with glee?  The prospect of the gutting of social programs?   I know they offend some people ideologically.  What is it about capitalism that makes some people revel in the misery of the “losers”?
    singularityelijahgspice-boy

  • Apple Pay likely to get boost from Visa & Mastercard mandating contactless payment termina...

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    mknelson said:
    Slower speeds of chip card transactions? Do you guys process them "weird" in the US?

    Insert card, hit OK, enter PIN, done. Doesn't really take any more time than signing.
    In the USA, you don't enter a PIN (I know, it's stupid).  You insert the card and wait 15 to 20 seconds (which feel like an eternity standing in line with people waiting behind you) until the terminal sounds a loud, sometimes startling series of beeps to indicate you should remove your card.  
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