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Elon Musk buys 9.2% of Twitter, sends share price to the Moon

DerekCurrie
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Blame the likes of me for calling out hypocrites

"We think we know what we're doin'

That don't mean a thing

It's all in the past now

Money changes everything

They shake your hand and they smile

And they buy you a drink

They say, we'll be your friends

We'll stick with you till the end

Ah, but everybody's only looking out for themselves

And you say, well, who can you trust

I'll tell you, it's just nobody else's money

Money changes everything"

- Tom Gray

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Money_Changes_Everything

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Apple has missed the video revolution

DerekCurrie
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Point Of Disagreement:

"The tools gamers use to share their mad skills never get refined on MacOS because there's so little demand."

- - In part only. The fact is that many or most of these tools are proprietary to Microsoft. Consider DirectX as a prime example. The loss of Intel x86 virtualization on M1 Macs is a problem in this respect.

I'm also not sure how useful it is to compare gaming to video broadcast. But certainly there is a lot of overlap.

In any case, Apple began neglecting video as of 2006 when it went to fully 64-bit hardware. I have no idea why. It showed in the decline of QuickTime. Apple has fumbled and bumbled around with 3D since that time, not taking up support for all the available standards. We used to have good tools for video streaming. But they were never professional quality and often qualified as clunky.

As usual, as a professional it is required to use the tools that best fit their intended use. Also, as usual, Windows has annoying deficits of its own, far more than enough to keep me thanking my Macs. But if the tool fits, use it! And tell Apple. Yell at Apple. Annoy Apple. I'm sick of the ever proliferating Apple blunders over the last nearly six years now, most specifically regarding the Mac platform. Making Apple hurt is typically the best way to make them pay attention. I do my best to participate in that endeavor and suggest all others annoyed by their failings do so as well.

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Web devs rally to challenge Apple App Store browser rules

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Ignoring the insincere nonsense that is the Epic Game's antitrust lawsuit...

Apple has indeed wrecked the ship when it comes to WebKit and Safari. Sadly, this is more of the same Apple bungling since 2016.

No Way do I want the walled garden of iOS to be breached! Anyone who bothers to watch knows what a catastrophe Android is regarding security, with infamous malware breaches affecting thousands or millions hitting the security news every-single-week without exception. It's that bad. iOS has a stunning security record in comparison. You're wrong if you disagree, So don't ruin it, good intentions or not!

However! Giving Apple several swift and hard kicks to the groin area regarding WebKit is REQUIRED at this time. Add a steal toe to your boots! This Apple stupidity has got to stop ASAP before the wall around the garden comes down, if only out of frustration with the crap Apple is pulling.

Let's get to it!

*Security is the goal.*

Do Not Let it Out Of Your Sight Or MInd!

Got that?

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Techniques to fool AI with hidden triggers are outpacing defenses – study

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Skynet...

...will be hackable.

The state of both coding and 'Artificial Intelligence' is so poor that we can count on AI being hackable. So much for it being scary.

What's scary is what we humans DO with AI, such as furthering our ambitions to kill one another with CRMMs, Coward Remote Murder Machines. :-(

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World's top chipmaking equipment maker claims Chinese rival may infringe IP

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Re: This Is How It Works, In Brief...

... So it's hopeless. The world is going to end up in stagnation with China having criminally wrecked the show.

I suggest you get busy proving yourself wrong. I stand by my post, especially my suggested solution. Come up with a better one yourself.

And a big "Hi!" to all the Chinese trolls who voted me down. (^_^)/ We know each other well. Stop hurting yourselves! Self-destruction is not a way of life. It's a way of death, obviously.

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This Is How It Works, In Brief...

1) 'Communism' kills the creative incentive. If everything mine is your's, why bother.

2) Therefore, 'communism' immediately collapses into criminality, the crime incentive, the criminal nation.

3) The communist state therefore uses espionage, these days commonly using hacking (cracking) to obtain creative IP (intellectual property). China: Criminal Nation has been documented to have been doing this since 1998, after the US Clinton administration provided them with Most Favored Nation status. This resulted in The Red Hacker Alliance group, which in later years was integrated directly into the Chinese government. In 2007, the USA at last admitted this was going on after it had been determined that every government Windows PC exposed to the Internet had been found to contain Chinese bot infections. Businesses around the world found themselves to have been hacked as well and their IP exposed to the Internet stolen.

4) The communist state then trains citizens with higher education in order for them to be able to understand and put to use stolen IP.

5) The communist state creates and/or controls business within its country in order to integrate stolen IP and put it to work benefitting the state. With a few notable exceptions, this is the foundation of Chinese founded manufacturing. It uses relatively inexpensive labor and production to promote its derivative products over those invented elsewhere.

6) With time, sufficient IP having been stolen from them and copycat technology being cheaper from the communist state, the creative incentive around the world diminishes. We're at this point right now, thus the incentive to ban communist stolen IP producers and attempts to sue businesses using and selling copycat IP.

7) Worldwide creativity collapses and becomes stagnant. This is the inevitable outcome of communist espionage if it is allowed to continue. This stagnation is of course good for no one.

8) Meanwhile, the communist state builds up its military and financial structure, evangelically spreading its influence around the world, creating contention and war. Welcome to the future.

Immediate solution: STOP GIVING CHINA and other communist states MONEY.

[And no, the above is not a defense of parasitic, abusive and exploitative forms of capitalism. So skip that diversionary tactic please.]

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Machine learning the hard way: IBM Watson's fatal misdiagnosis

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Expert System Failure

Watson never qualified as actual Artificial Intelligence (AI). It qualified as an Expert System with speech-to-text and text-to-speech, IBM style, grafted on. Research into Expert Systems has been going on since the 1950s. They never were properly considered to be AI. Only marketing considered it to be otherwise. Watson over-promised and under-delivered. Within its niche, its was a brilliant accomplishment. But to hand it over to MDs as a diagnosis and treatment partner was unrealistic, imaginary, the victim of hype. Most "AI" of our current day is hype.

Before real AI makes a real mark and provides a real benefit to we humans, we have to dump the spin and begin to be realistic about what actual "AI" can do. It can't actually think beyond taking orders, interpreting orders, scanning a database, interpreting the data, then handing over the best result it could find within its interpretive limitations. Those limitations are vast and are going to remain so for the foreseeable future.

Consider the fact that we humans are ourselves vastly limited. We take in perceptions that are consistently faulty and incomplete. We conjure our own interpretations of the faulty data and push them through filters that vary according to our personality, experience and other Inner World influences. As I put it, we never know everything about anything. Take a look at the huge cost of malpractice insurance and you'll get an idea.

We can create machines that can compensate for human perceptual failings and calculations. But considering the limits on our own 'intelligence', it's nonsense to expect any AI to do any better than we can at coming up with correct answers to problems. What AI is good for is the providing of another perspective that can be immensely useful in addition to our own interpretations, output and outcomes.

AI is only a tool, as all computing is only a tool. If the tool doesn't fit the job requirements, drop it and find a better one. AI won't prove better than communicating with a fellow human who has different, if not better knowledge and advice than you do. Thinking is the best way to travel. Pretending a machine tool can do more than it's realistically designed to do is not thinking.

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China reveals draft laws that heavily restrict deepfakes

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The CCP Gets Something Right, For A Change

I have little more than contempt for the behavior of China's Communist Party (CCP). But, setting aside their grasping hegemony propaganda: Hobbling and denouncing deepfakes is an excellent idea, good for one and all across the human world. Marketing doesn't need further tools to abuse and confuse bad biznizz victims.

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Hands up who ISN'T piling in to help Epic Games appeal Apple App Store ruling

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ME!

If Epic was sincere, as opposed to simply being a whiny, bad attitude, conniving and contriving company, I'd have sympathy. But considering that the entire lawsuit was based on nothing-at-all, no sympathy shall be forthcoming.

“The Court finds that with respect to Epic Games’ motion as to its games, including Fortnite, Epic Games has not yet demonstrated irreparable harm. The current predicament appears of its own making,” Rogers wrote, arguing that Epic “strategically chose to breach its agreements with Apple” and thus disturb the status quo.

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/25/21400240/epic-apple-ruling-unreal-engine-fortnite-temporary-restraining-order

Dummies like Epic are willfully self-destructive while acting as parasites. They have zero interest in actual customer rights, just personal profit at the expense of their customers. Justice from their ludicrous lawsuit is the loss of access to their market.

Apple: Please maintain your walled garden and continue to allow user app security to prosper.

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US-China chip cold war? It's only helping the Middle Kingdom, silicon makers warn

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√ Incorrect

Please know what you're talking about. Chinese surveillance implants into their hardware has been proven. It obviously works via the Internet. Please don't be DUH. China: Criminal Nation. Expect the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) influence in everything Chinese. It's not paranoia. It's proven fact. So be wise and don't give China: Criminal Nation your business, your money. it's that simple and important.

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Don't Give China:Criminal Nation Money!

Feeding China: Criminal Nation is a form of national suicide. Stop it already. They've been documented to have been hacking the world since 1998. That includes spying, surveillance, stealing identities, stealing intellectual property, influencing governments and companies.... It's the entire litany of national crimes against the world.

So stop giving China money. Obviously. Stop the usual Short-Term Thinking, Long-Term Disaster. That disaster is here and now! Notice it! Stop it!

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The climate is turning against owning our own compute hardware. Cloud is good for you and your customers

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Two concerns: Function and Security

If your company bothers to use and keep up with current security methods, then keep your data to yourself! Don't trust it to anyone else. That of course means, among other strategies, that you adequately encrypt all your data and keep an ongoing up-to-date copy offline, away from your facility and the possibility of ransomware attacks. Good luck finding companies that even know what I'm talking about.

If real security at your company is either wishful thinking or utterly hopeless, you might as well let someone else take responsibility, thus rent-a-terminal and data stored off somewhere else. Theoretically, this keeps away the ransomware because the terminals are limited to only their function. No personal stuff allowed, no infection of the distant servers allowed.

IOW: YES and NO. It's all a matter of circumstance. Do the usual: (1) ID your problems (2) Brainstorm the best solutions (3) implement (4) Verify quality of success (a step the lazy ignore) (5) Repeat the process on a continual basis. (And again, the lazy forget about continual evaluation, to their detriment).

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Please, no Moore: 'Law' that defined how chips have been made for decades has run itself into a cul-de-sac

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"Light"

Technically, the term "light" refers only to the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Therefore, it is erroneous to refer to ultraviolet or infrared radiation as "light".

"Electromagnetic radiation that is visible, perceivable by the normal human eye as colors between red and violet, having frequencies between 400 terahertz and 790 terahertz and wavelengths between 750 nanometers and 380 nanometers. Also called visible light."

https://www.thefreedictionary.com/light

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Bad apples: US customs seize OnePlus earbuds thinking they're knock-off AirPods

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Re: Perhaps CBP

Considering the constant theft of IP (intellectual property) from around the world by China: Criminal Nation over the past 20+ years, the default expectation/assumption is that if it looks like a ripoff, it must be a ripoff. But in this case, despite some similarity in the devices to those of Apple, there's obviously enough difference to trigger a default conference with Apple before proclaiming them as ripoffs. Occasionally Chinese companies will, inexplicably, invent and innovate. Considering the incentive killing idiocy of the CCP (Chinese Communist Party), I have no idea why this is the case. But it does happen! And when it does, I take interest and occasionally buy the result!

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China slams 'dirty' America's 'clean network' plan, reminds world of PRISM snoop-fest exposed by Ed Snowden

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Re: Pot, kettle

As I have pointed out in the past to members of China's Red Hacker Alliance:

The USA does NOT hack the world for its intellectual property. That is China's purview. China's CCP must hack for IP seeing as 'communism' destroys the creative/innovative/inventive incentive of its repressed and depressed citizens. The alternative incentive is CRIME, as demonstrated by the activities of China: Criminal Nation.

As to the worth of the USA's hacking activities in the world, that's debatable and of course is de rigueur as part of any modern country's defence, sad to say. Where the USA government face-plants itself is when it breaks the mandates of the US Constitution and international law. Such US crimes do not meet with my approval. Thank you to Edward Snowden.

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Arrogant CCP Wants The World's IP For Free

WTF are they jabbering about now? - -> "Everyone can see that the US goal is to keep its monopoly in science and technology."

OIC. They think the world, especially the USA, should fork over all its IP to China for free. That's nothing new. Silly 'communists', aka parasites.

The solution to the China problem?

Stop giving them our $$$$$, obviously!

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Apple said to be removing charger, headphones from upcoming iPhone 12 series

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Charger: Don't need it. Headphones: Damned well Include them, cheapskates!

Kuo has been wrong, of course. But he nailed the Apple precipice dive into ARM Macs. Considering that ill-considered move by Apple, I could believe they'd pull the boner move of yanking their wired headphones. *grumble*

This isn't Steve Jobs' Apple any more, of course. But Apple has been perfecting its methods of how to tick off customers over the course of the last four years. *sigh*

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As Uncle Sam flies spy drones over protest-packed cities, Homeland Security asks the public if that's a good idea

DerekCurrie
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A Sickness

This Is Not America

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Whatsapp blamed own users for failure to keep phone number repo off Google searches

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Another App That Can Stop FAILing

There are a few apps that can't stop tripping over their own security failures, over and over and over again. Whatsapp is one of them. I cringe when people ask me to chat using WhatsApp. I only keep the thing on my computer to make them happy. Otherwise it would join my list of verboten apps. The best current alternative is still Signal.

Another popular problem app:

Zoom. User be wary.

On Mac, FaceTime is the superior alternative.

On Windows, the battle for best alternative limps onward.

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Amazon declined to sell a book so Elon Musk called for it to be broken up

DerekCurrie
Angel

I Have A Directory Named "Elon Musk said what?!" . . .

... where I store all his raving gems.

Apparently, this is a cost of genius.

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It could be 'five to ten years' before the world finally drags itself away from IPv4

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If Only...

...IPv6 had been designed to be backwards compatible with IPv4!

Didn't that occur to the Internet Engineering Task Force? Why not?

Considering how popular IPv6 has not become, maybe it's time for IPv7 that IS backwards compatible with both IPv6 and IPv4?!

Internet Engineering Task Force

*Awaken*

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Surprise! That £339 world's first 'anti-5G' protection device is just a £5 USB drive with a nice sticker on it

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5G Facts Summary So Far = Not Much

So far, there is NO evidence that 5G can fry your baby's head. HOWEVER! The reason there is no evidence is because ALL the testing so far has been preliminary, mainly on rodents, not humans, not human baby's heads. IOW: No adequate research so far.

This leaves the possibility of 5G damage to human tissues wide open. I've ridiculously had to explain this to tech journalists I once thought were 'professionals', with references to existing, verified studies that prove cancer can and does happen in mice under specific test situations. That's a fact. Don't let ignorant people tell you otherwise. If you want the pile of reference links, it will be my pleasure. Just ask in a reply, nicely.

But any effects of 5G radiation are going to vary according to the usual FOUR FACTORS:

1) The type of radiation being emitted, specifically its wavelength or frequency. This is variable with 5G as there is no single standard wavelength used.

2) The amplitude of the radiation, akin to the volume or amount of radiation that reaches the subject of concern.

3) The length of time of exposure.

4) The sensitifity of the subject tissue to a specific type of radiation.

It may turn out that 5G radiation is as innocuous as the radio waves we've had traveling around and through us for over a century! OR, under certain circumstances, 5G may actually fry your baby's head. We still don't know.

The single best thing anyone can do is INSIST to their government that TESTING be done NOW. (Sound familiar?) Otherwise, the politicos will ignore the subject while the technical ignorami ignore science and chatter on about mere rumors.

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You know this Land of the Free thing, yeah? Well then, why allow the FBI to trawl through America's browsing history without a warrant?

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Fourth AND Fifth Amendments

#MyStupidGovernment, which is to say #MyConstitutionallyIlliterateGovernment is assaulting TWO US Constitutional Amendments at the same time. For those concerned:

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

♪♪ You can't have one without the other! ♫

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Everything OK with Microsoft? Windows giant admits it was 'on the wrong side of history' with regard to open source

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Shocking

The departure of all the Microsoft founders has inexplicably made the company wake up to their perpetual blunder-fest.

Now if only Microsoft would do something about their ongoing current blunders.

We can dream.

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Multi-part Android spyware lurked on Google Play Store for 4 years, posing as a bunch of legit-looking apps

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Ignorance...

Apparently iPhones aren't any more secure, they're just more expensive.

This is an ignorant statement in may ways. But irrational Apple Hate goes on forever. And yes, Apple deserves real anger and hate for many Apple Bungles over the years. It's just that Apple has never even remotely come up to the level of Bungles and outright carelessness of Microsoft and now Google.

Q1: Are iPhones found to have malware discovered on a weekly basis, like Android malware?

A1: Of course not.

Q2: Does the iPhone suffer from OS version fragmentation like Android phones, resulting in unclosed and frequently exploited security holes?

A2: Of course not.

Q3: Considering the usable life as well as functionality of iPhones, are they more expensive than Android phones.

A3: Of course not.

Q4: Which mobile phones are most often on the cutting edge of innovation? iPhones or Android phones?

Q4: iPhones of course.

. . . And so on. I could point out battery explosions, bendable/breakable screens, IP ripoffs, user surveillance tech vs privacy, warranty service, attitude toward customers . . .

And again yes, Apple has committed plenty of blunders. Apple is never perfect. Apple is simply the best. √ Fact.

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Google...

Android Security HELL is entirely on your head, including all the Google Play Store malware.

Fix this yesterday.

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Now there's nothing stopping the PATRIOT Act allowing the FBI to slurp web-browsing histories without a warrant

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VPNs can be rock solid useful, but...

But there are fake VPNs, government corrupted VPNs, and liar VPNs amidst the crowd.

PureVPN is an example of a liar VPN. They said thet didn't keep logs of user data. Except they do and they turned that data over to the FBI upon request.

Any VPN within the Five Eyes nations is obliged to turn over user data, if they keep any, upon request. Five Eyes consists of the USA, UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Recently Five Eyes has been expanding. The last I heard, there are 14 Eyes nations. Be wary.

There are nations that have no data sharing treaties with other nations. Research the current situation and use VPNs from nations not cooperating with world surveillance of the Internet.

Then there's China. Any and every VPN in China must legally fork over all user data, which by law must be kept, upon government request. As such, don't use Chinese VPNs, including those in Hong Kong and Taiwan, sad to say.

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Re: Welcome to the world

The FBI have been known to have their own man-in-the-middle surveillance hubs on the Internet within the USA for at least a decade. They don't have to rely on the NSA's data, seeing as they are known to have their own.

And yes, collection of such data without a warrant is unconstitutional.

Another source of data is every ISP (Internet Service Provider) in the USA. The Congress Republicans shoved through what is called S.J.R. 34 in 2017 that allows all ISPs to collect customer Internet use data to be saved and even SOLD by the ISP. Of course the anti-constitutional surveillance skunks love it.

S.J.Res. 34 – Disapproving the Federal Communications Commission’s Rule on Privacy of Customers of Broadband Services

Surveil me. I'm an actual patriot.

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The Fourth and Fifth Amendments makes such data illegal in court

I'm sick of posting the Fourth and Fifth Amendments. So please look them up yourselves. What they provide is PRIVACY that cannot be taken away from any citizen without a legal court order, and if that doesn't provide the data, then any citizen can refuse to offer up any further data on the grounds that it may incriminate them.

What's going on is the generation of piles of lawsuits over the constitutionality of this infernal nonsense.

"...the more controversial aspects of spying laws introduced after the September 11, 2001 attacks..." <-- And we now clearly know that 9/11 was a federally enabled event on many levels. That the PATRIOT act was created in response to that act of treason is sick and demented.

Known facts of 9/11 so far: Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth

Surveil me. I'm an actual patriot.

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Apple owes us big time for bungled display-killing cable design in MacBook Pro kit, lawsuit claims

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A Choice Apple Bungle

This fits right in with the overall era of Apple Bungles that started 4 years ago. This is so incredibly stupid and easy to have fixed. Apple knows how to do this right, no question about it. That they let this slide is profoundly lazy, incompetent, irresponsible and asinine on their part.

It's long overdue for a management overhaul at Apple regarding ALL things Macintosh.

Shameful.

And yes, I'm a very long time Apple fanatic. When Apple screws up, we shout about it loud, long and clear. Dammit.

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We dunno what's more wild: This vid of Japan's probe bouncing off an asteroid to collect a sample – or that the rock was sun-burnt

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It Survived The Encounter, Bringing Home the Baked-On

That's what's wild. Well done!

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In case you need more proof the world's gone mad: Behold, Apple's $699 Mac Pro wheels

DerekCurrie
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:-P

19-1/2 In X 14-1/2 In 200 Lb. Capacity Polypropylene Dolly @Harbor Freight: $13.00

"PRODUCT OVERVIEW

This mover's dolly has a solid platform for supporting furniture legs or moving narrow items. The furniture dolly is constructed from lightweight polypropylene with a ridged slip-resistant surface. Swivel casters let you move this platform dolly in all directions.

Lightweight high-impact polypropylene platform supports narrow loads

Ridged non-skid surface

Built-in hand grip for easy positioning

Two 3 in. swivel casters, two 3 in. fixed casters"

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ICANN's founding CEO and chair accuse biz of abandoning principles in push for billion-dollar .org sale

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Headmaster

*Damning* letter sent to California attorney general asks for six-month delay

"Daming" is not a word. If it was, it would be applied to The Queen dubbing women as 'Dames' of the Empire.

And yes, ICANN is now a victim of Corporatocracy, aka the ruination of any sense of We The People in the world. It's now We The Corporations, IOW Idiocracy. The ICANN leadership system is a blatant failure that must be reinvented into something sane, fair and technologically literate.

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US Congress quietly slips cloud-spying powers into page 2,201 of spending mega-bill

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Fourth and Fifth Amendments to the US Constitution

Let's make certain these US rights aren't violated.

Meanwhile: ENCRYPT your data before it goes to the cloud. It's your right to privacy.

Amendment IV

The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.

Amendment V

No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public danger; nor shall any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb; nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself, nor be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor shall private property be taken for public use, without just compensation.

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Why is ransomware still a thing? One-in-three polled netizens say they would cave to extortion demands

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The #1 Rule Of Computing

--> Make a backup!

Backup 1: Local, for quick access.

Backup 2: Away from your locale, for safety.

If you backup properly and regularly, you LAUGH at ransomware, among other profound benefits.

Apparently, it's a waste of time pointing this out to 1/3 of computer users. (o_0)

If you don't backup, you get what you deserve. --> You should not be using a computer. You're not qualified. Seriously.

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If at first you don't succeed, pry, pry again: Feds once again demand Apple unlock encrypted iPhones in yet another terrorism case

DerekCurrie
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Just another FBI ploy to wreck the 4th and 5th Amendments

#MyStupidGovernment @work.

Check this out and realize...

The FBI Got Data From A Locked iPhone 11 Pro Max—So Why Is It Demanding Apple Unlock Older Phones?

IASSOTS

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Apple calls BS on FBI, AG: We're totally not dragging our feet in murder probe iPhone decryption. PS: No backdoors

DerekCurrie
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Just another FBI ploy to wreck the 4th and 5th Amendments

#MyStupidGovernment @work.

Check this out and realize...

The FBI Got Data From A Locked iPhone 11 Pro Max—So Why Is It Demanding Apple Unlock Older Phones?

IASSOTS

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The Curse of macOS Catalina strikes again as AccountEdge stays 32-bit

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Re: The Macintosh train keeps rolling...

"Apple has made it clear that they can and will change the underlying architecture at any time, and they're only going to provide backwards compatibility for a short time."

13 years of supporting 32-bit software on 64-bit hardware is hardly a 'short time.' Note the introduction of Core Duo Macs in late 2006.

List of Macintosh models grouped by CPU type

"...Everyone knows by now that the next move is to ARM"

No. There is in fact no indication whatsoever that Apple has even considered the possibility of moving Macs to ARM RISC processors. There are only ragged old fabricated rumors. That rumor has been stomped to death here at The Register as well as across the rest of the Internet. The first such rumor was posted in 2013, and here we are in 2020. What Apple has done instead is hybridize the Mac with both Intel and ARM chips, each used for separate duties. Meanwhile, any graduate of Computing 101 knows the tremendous time, difficulty, inconvenience, expense and licensing that would be required for Apple to ditch CISC based Intel chips for RISC ARM chips. (Please don't ask me to go over the raft of details again. You'll find them prolifically posted on the net since 2013).

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Déjà Vu: Adobe Is A Perpetual Foot Dragger

We still have another year of infamous Adobe Flash to endure. When Apple began in 2007 to move from using old PowerPC RISC based Carbon code to Cocoa code for programming in Mac OS X, Adobe dragged their feet upgrading until 2010. Have no tears for Adobe going 64-bit. All new Mac hardware went 64-bit at the end of 2006. Adobe has dragged its feet catching up with 64-bit for 13 (thirteen) years.

Carbon (API)

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Internet world despairs as non-profit .org sold for $$$$ to private equity firm, price caps axed

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Corporatocracy + Idiocracy = Insanitocracy

Lunatics with money to burn in pursuit of further lunacy. <-The future hates you.

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Not LibreOffice too? Beloved open-source suite latest to fall victim to the curse of Catalina

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Re: After largely benefiting from Open Source

Of course you posted anonymously. I have no idea what you're talking about. I bet you don't either. Below is are links to Apple's Open Source pages where anyone can find what open source projects Apple sponsors as well as which are integrated into Apple's software.

https://opensource.apple.com

https://developer.apple.com/opensource/

Swift programming language, created at Apple as a successor to all things C, made Open Source in 2015:

https://opensource.apple.com

Webkit is Apple's Open Source branch off Linux's Konquerer web rendering engine. It's the foundation of Google's subsequent branch, Blink, used in all flavors of Chromium, including Microsoft Edge:

https://developer.apple.com/library/archive/documentation/Cocoa/Conceptual/DisplayWebContent/DisplayWebContent.html

CUPS is the Open Source printing system developed and maintained by Apple for all flavors of UNIX-like operating systems, which includes Linux.

https://www.cups.org

ResearchKit...

CareKit...

Bonjour...

MacPorts...

Darwin...

Apple Lossless Audio Codec...

MacRUBY...

XQuartz...

That's enough to negate your nonsense. But please continue through the lists Apple provides at the links above. macOS itself currently integrates about 200 Open Source projects.

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DerekCurrie
Unhappy

Catalina, macOS 10.15, Suffers From Version 1.0 Syndrome

IOW: Skip it for now. Apple's having similar problems with iOS 10.13 as well, which still has significant bugs, despite Apple's rapid updating.

All in all, this has been the worst Autumn of new Apple OS updates in several years. They are clearly overwhelmed with problems. If only they took beta-testing seriously, which I contend from personal experience they have not. The result is forced beta-testing by their users, a horrific abuse of user's patience. Stay out of the fray until Apple's latest OS update cycle is actually Ready for Prime Time.

Please wake up and keep up Apple.

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Surprise! Copying crummy code from Stack Overflow leads to vulnerable GitHub jobs

DerekCurrie
Angel

If this is a 'Surprise!' to any coders, they're still living in the 20th Century

This core FAILure of Object-Oriented coding has been blatant and well known for decades. O-O turned into Uh Oh!

If you pull code you didn't write from anywhere and stuff it in with your own, expect problems. That's the lesson of Object-Oriented coding. And of course, there is the usual litany of why this is the case:

1) Inadequate Coding Tools and languages.

2) Code-By-Committee, which is the default these days for mammoth projects, with consequential incoherence.

3) Code complexity beyond the comprehension of any single human.

4) Poor or no code documentation. This is commonly for the sake of the usual short term thinking of profit over code quality.

5) Lack of adequate code QA.

6) Lack of vetting of incoming foreign or internal code objects. IOW blind faith.

7) . . . Add your own . . .

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Remember the millions of fake net neutrality comments? They weren't as kosher as the FCC made out

DerekCurrie
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Paris Hilton

Re: Are you sure about that?

• Political thinking lives on a 1-Dimensional line. No wonder it promotes the most ignorant of human thought.

• Real life for all of us is 3-Dimensional, including how we think.

Crazies to the Left of me. Crazies to the Right of me. I thought for myself and walked away...

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DerekCurrie
Devil

Corporatocracy again, thanks to proven LIAR Ajit Pai...

...Who knew the astroturfed 'positive' kill-net-neutrality feedback was FRAUD, I'm easily willing to bet. So much for "We The People" being in charge of our own government. FRAUD abuses the citizenry and benefits crooks.

If you can't win... CHEAT! <-- The con-job politician's motto. In this case, the con-job was perpetrated by irrational-right Republican corporate puppets.

Cut Their Strings!

Restore Real Net Neutrality NOW!

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Amazon, maker of racist and sexist facial recog, to suggest regulations for facial recog systems

DerekCurrie
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FAIL

Re: Racist? Sexist?

"...isn't that it 'doesn't work'. It does. Rather well, in fact."

Sorry but: No, it doesn't. Having it work rather well with your iPhone isn't translating into it working well out on the street amidst thousands of faces. I have yet to read of public facial recognition systems actually working at a level anyone would call 'competent'. Examples:

Facial recognition flunks ID test at New York City's RFK Bridge, report says

Facial Recognition Technology Test Has Massive Failure, Matches 20% Of California Legislature With Wanted Criminals

98% Failure Rates: Why Police Facial Recognition is so Terrible

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DerekCurrie
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Devil

Re: "it makes a lot of sense to regulate that"

Law-By-Lobbyists.

The rule of We The Corporations.

AKA Corporatocracy.

:-P

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Got a pre-A12 iPhone? Love jailbreaks? Happy Friday! 'Unpatchable tethered Boot ROM exploit' released

DerekCurrie
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Happy

Answer: Security

Android devices: Vastly less secure. Why?

1) Devices are rarely capable of installing Android OS updates. Google's Project Treble is supposed to solve that and... Where is it?

2) Massive malware is constantly being discovered in the Google Play Store, despite Google's claims to be vetting all apps. Millions of infected devices are reported typically on a weekly basis.

3) Anyone can jailbreak any Android device. So long US constitutional rights to privacy and freedom from self-incrimination.

Thus the blessed, but never perfect, Apple iOS Walled Garden. I'll keep mine, for my purposes. You keep your public weed plot for your's.

And: Knowing rodents are capable of getting loose in Apple's walled-garden does not please me in the least. Thankfully, I've been using massive, ungainly, random passwords for years. IOW: There are still no rats in my garden. *grin*

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OK, let's try that again: Vulture rakes a talon on Samsung's fresh attempt at the Galaxy Fold 5G

DerekCurrie
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Facepalm

Re: They can't find a demo model without bend artifacts?

But for $2000?

This device takes hype and 'Gee Whiz!' bleeding edge purchasing to a whole new level of bizarre and disappointment, IMHO of course. That it's a 5G mobile device adds industrial waste icing to the cake, 5G being another big disappointment of 2019.

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