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You want to vote for this guy, or someone creating a Space Force?

Besides, Trump already issued a National Cyber Strategy, and there is already a joint military Cyber Force.

Yes, and in his great wisdom he appointed Rudy Giuliani as his cybersecurity advisor. Yes, the same Giuliani that doesn't know how links work and thought someone hacked his Twitter account when his typo was linked is the guy that advises the President on computer security matters. Yes, the same Trump that bragged he would "surround myself only with the best and most serious people" and said "we want top-of-the-line professionals" decided to go with the guy who can't even master Twitter as the main policy adviser for security. I know I'll sleep better at night knowing that Rudy is on the case.

Oracle sues in 3...2.....1

They already did. They sued the government in December in the United States Court of Federal Claims.

The judge granted a stay of the lawsuit requested by the DoD while they investigated possible conflicts of interest.

The DoD completed their investigation and decided there were no conflicts of interest, but there may have been other ethics violations. Presumably the DoD's report is controlling in the lawsuit, though nobody has said yet what the disposition of the lawsuit will be.

If they are not a monopoly, they are certainly pounding on the door of Monopoly Mansion. 2018 top-5 ecommerce rankings:

Amazon: 48%
Ebay: 7.2%
Walmart: 4.0%
Apple: 3.9%
Home Depot: 1.6%

Source: https://techcrunch.com/2018/11...

There were plenty of smartphones in existence when Apple produced the iPhone. And plenty when it produced the unrelated iPod too. Nokia, Ericsson, Palm, Blackberry and others had smartphones out during the late 1990s.

Apple didn't even produce the first iPhone-like iPhone, that would be the LG Prada. There's ample evidence the iPhone was a direct rip off with Apple changing mid stream to clone the Prada when they saw it in action (early versions of iOS had a completely different UI philosophy.)

Cool story bro, check this out, Uber in fatal crash detected pedestrian but had emergency braking disabled

Do you doubt it or not? You don't need to doubt, you can actually look at the articles and see how it's being used. Here's an example from tech crunch, that has diagnosed a computer as a psychopath. Whether the author believed it or not, that is how the term AI was used: https://techcrunch.com/2018/06...

Before you switch to non-Mac, see if you can wait until Apple releases their redesigned Mac Pro, and check it out. A TechCrunch article says that to redesign the Mac Pro, Apple hired "award-winning artists and technicians that are brought in to shoot real projects", and has them run through their regular workflows. Apple watches the pro users work, to see bottlenecks in the workflows, and then fixes the hw or sw problems that cause the bottlenecks.

If they're listening to their users like that, and fixing bottlenecks, then hopefully they're also improving overall speed.

Maybe people listen to the founder: https://techcrunch.com/2016/01...

An example of why America needs more regulation. This doesn't happen in other western nations.

Sweden - https://www.bbc.com/news/techn...
Germany - https://www.theguardian.com/wo...
France - https://techcrunch.com/2018/12...
Spain - https://www.theinquirer.net/in...

That's how users use LinkedIn.

Microsoft, the owner of LinkedIn, uses the data for entirely different and separate reasons:LinkedIn violated data protection by using 18M email addresses of non-members to buy targeted ads on Facebook.

He deletes 3/4 of the comments on his channel to keep only the ones from his own sock puppet accounts.

With the new community strike system going into effect on February 25th, everyone will need to keep a tighter leash on their comment section.

https://techcrunch.com/2015/02...

Apple is part of the UAE's "secret hacking team of American mercenaries" which seek to "help the United Arab Emirates engage in surveillance of other governments, militants and human rights activists critical of the monarchy".

What Apple tells people via its ads: "What happens on your iPhone, stays on your iPhone"

Some of what Apple won't comment on: "The operatives utilized an arsenal of cyber tools, including a cutting-edge espionage platform known as Karma, in which Raven operatives say they hacked into the iPhones of hundreds of activists, political leaders and suspected terrorists." (source: the aforementioned Reuters article)

Additional commentary from the only comedy news program worth watching, Redacted Tonight.

> Ford should stop trying cause toyota is superior..

Actually Ford will stop making most sedans/coupes for North America https://techcrunch.com/2018/04... and give up that marketshare to Toyota.

Slashdot articles are pulled from pulled from TechCrunch and TheVerge.

Yes, TechCrunch does currently have this story:

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01...

What about the severe child porn problem that is apparently plaguing WhatsApp (https://techcrunch.com/2018/12/20/whatsapp-pornography/)? All this move to make communications end-to-end encrypted across all three platforms will do is extend the amount of people that can be reached, and can reach, those resources nearly anonymously -- making it more difficult to investigate the situation.

Two billion Android devices and 3.5 billion searches a day. You're right - no one uses Google services. No one. Sad.

You're right, it's an obscure phrase that people only used briefly on obscure websites years ago.

https://www.theverge.com/2013/...
https://techcrunch.com/2018/07...
https://mashable.com/article/f...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/t...
https://www.howtogeek.com/fyi/...
https://arstechnica.com/inform...
https://www.abc.net.au/news/sc...
https://gizmodo.com/dark-patte...
https://phys.org/news/2018-04-...
https://www.extremetech.com/in...
https://venturebeat.com/2018/0...
https://sdtimes.com/addiction/...
https://9to5mac.com/2018/10/15...

Thats a small part of the reason. Instead of cheerleading for apple please read and educate yourself. https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/28/the-downfall-of-the-walled-garden-heres-why-iad-failed/

After the first couple of of paragraphs reaptedly confirmed what I wrote I quit reading - why don't you quote the "real" reason?

Thats a small part of the reason. Instead of cheerleading for apple please read and educate yourself.
https://techcrunch.com/2016/03/28/the-downfall-of-the-walled-garden-heres-why-iad-failed/

Indeed, there is a risk that someone could read [the code a company has released], modify it slightly, and fork the distribution. But in developed economies – where much of the rents exist anyway, it’s unlikely that enterprise companies will elect the copycat as a supplier.

The privacy issue is not about unwarranted recording. It's about how most people (including most people on Slashdot apparently) don't understand that the recordings they do have are valuable enough. From your voice data all kinds of new data can be derived.
- Your mood
- How your relationship is going (google it)
- Certain illnesses

Then the questions themselves can reveal a lot.
- Intelligence level (do you use complex words? Do you ask a lot of 'dumb' question?
- Life phase / unwanted pregnancy / money problems.

That second part is also quite valuable, as the questions you ask in the home might be more flippant and thus more revealing.

Thirdly, we know Amazon and other companies fingerprint your voice (in order to discern you from other householder members, for example). This means that if your voice is recorded in another location you will be recognized as having been there.

That last thing is important too as Amazon et al are slowly moving to always-listening devices. Again, this has been on Slashdot, and would be a logical progression we can all see coming.

All this is used to profile you. The profiles databrokers make are routinely used against your interests, such as when banks, insurers and employers access those profiles via hip software packages. Welcome to the age of the continuous background check.

And then I see this NES Classic discontinued because ‘we don’t have unlimited resources,’ Nintendo says (Apr 28 2017)

Immediately followed by this Nintendo’s NES Classic will return to U.S. retail stores on June 29 (May 14 2017)

They went a full two months and then capitulated. I guess Q2 next year we will see the systems start to sell again... Meanwhile I paid full price for one and a 5% markup for the other. Worth it? Probably.

-dk

Ohio a definite confirmed on state tax payments?

You are writing apps that people like me would approve of (not sending data back to a server), whereby you're not mining people's data - thank you. Hearing your argument of this situation actually gives me hope.

But that's not the case for every developer, and certainly not the case for most corporate entities:
iPhone
Android
Huawei

If our privacy laws here in the US were comparable to those of the EU, I'd be more relaxed about AI everywhere. In the meantime, we'll have to depend on developers and corporate entities to have the same morals as you appear to have. It's just that they don't have a good track record of having any morals whatsoever.

There's already a robot burger maker, so this may not be science fiction for long.

I'm not sure if I'd say Google bribed Apple or Apple blackmailed Google.

At one point the default search engine in iOS was Bing. Now I doubt Microsoft's privacy stance is any better than Google's but it shows that Apple is willing to use a sub-par service if they want. The decision to move back to Google happened last year. (Note that this is sort of getting into the weeds here as the default search engine for Safari has been Google for longer than that. When I say "default search engine for iOS" I'm talking about anything that triggers a web search outside of Safari, which includes Siri and searching via Spotlight.)

The point is that Apple is more than willing to move away from Google. They've proven it by switching the search engine they use some of the time. Google responded by increasing the amount of money they pay Apple.

So I don't know if I'd call it a bribe (Google paying Apple to get them to use their search) or blackmail (Apple demanding money from Google to not switch). In either case, it's pretty clear that Apple is being a pretty scummy company.

The larger Amazon becomes and the more businesses it buys or gets into, the harder it will be to see when it starts to fail at its core business.

It's quite easy to see when cloud computing hosting is failing because you have to-the-minute metrics on use. AWS is now Amazon's core business, it brings in more net profit than retail.

According to the FCC a phone receviing a Galileo signal is a ground station in contact with foreign satellites, which is only allowed with after a lengthy FCC approval process

https://techcrunch.com/2018/11...

Apparently in October 2013, the EU applied to the FCC to allow reception of Galileo signals in the US. Apparently, the FCC has now partially granted (bands E1 and E5), partially denied (band E6) this request (http://insidegnss.com/fcc-poised-to-approve-broad-use-of-galileo-in-u-s/).

Yes, the FCC is aware that people in the US are already receiving signals from foreign satellites without asking the FCC first:
"it becomes clear that many devices in the United States are already operating with foreign signals. But nowhere in our record is there a good picture of how many devices in this country are interacting with these foreign satellite systems, what it means for compliance with our rules, and what it means for the security of our systems." (Commissioner Jessica Rosenworcel)

Since most of those "interesting" terms are essentially undefined, I'm going to consider them as reliable as salesmen's verbal assurances.

OTOH, since I'm not making the purchasing decision this year, I have time to wait for this to shake out. But if it's as the article suggests, and as the somewhat reliable reports suggest, Apple is off my list of acceptable vendors.

There are no "reliable reports" yet when it comes to the 2019 Mac Pro. All we have is the one "interview". But in that same interview, they also foreshadowed a more "Pro Focused" Mac mini, and we have seen exactly that. No other mini has had so many CPU options, such high RAM and SSD limits, or that much multifunction I/O bandwidth. Nor a 10gigE Ethernet option. That's about as "Pro" as a Mac mini has ever been.

So I offer that as at least some evidence that Apple should be taken at their word when it comes to the redesign of the Mac Pro. That, and Apple started out by admitting that they had "designed themselves into a bit of a thermal corner" with the 2012 Mac Pro.Here's that interview, BTW:

https://techcrunch.com/2017/04...

I didn't see the vehicles in real yet, but according to this the Audi has a larger range and battery than the Tesla for the same price. You have to pay $16000 more to get that from Tesla.
https://techcrunch.com/2018/09...

I'll believe it when I see them actually enforcing this. Besides, the Chinese government doesn't consider it theft when they take it because they have laws that compel you to comply. Got a factory in China? Yeah, it's at least 51% owned by the Chinese so that (surprise!) they can insist that all IP be handed over.

Nothing is changing here, it's just words. The idea here is to fool Xi's US counterpart.

Exactly. Remember that on paper, China is the world's largest democracy. However, India is usually referred to as the world's largest democracy because democracy in China doesn't exist in reality.

Just as in the US, the court system is the key. Take a look at the East Texas courts for patent law. If judges always rule one way, the strongest laws don't matter. In fact, this could be a good way for China to legitimize IP theft, by leaving the imprimatur of Chinese law on IP that gets stolen and deposited in China. Before, the Chinese government could just leverage foreign greed for the mirage of Chinese markets. Now, they realize that it's better to adjudicate in their own courts and say that they are simply following established legal principles and mechanisms, i.e., IP laundering.

One of the articles in the summary said, "[China] is also increasingly being selected as a key venue for patent litigation by non-Chinese companies, as litigants feel they are treated fairly as foreign plaintiffs won the majority of their patent cases in 2015." However, that article references the Wall Street Journal which actually says, "Western lawyers say that as a result of China’s moves, the country is fairer to outsiders than a few years ago, but still far from a level playing field. Patent infringement remains rampant, and violators aren’t deterred by the small damage awards there, lawyers say. The U.S. State Department said last year that U.S. firms saw “serious obstacles” to protecting their intellectual property in China, including patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade secrets and drug-test results. The good news is China is interested in IP, and the bad news is China is interested in IP,” said Mark Cohen, who leads the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office’s China team."

Unless you're sitting on a big fat pile of start up capital, tough luck.

Facebook was able to rise — and to take over established players — without any such:

Facebook was initially incorporated as a Florida LLC. For the first few months after its launch in February 2004, the costs for the website operations for thefacebook.com were paid for by Mark Zuckerberg and Eduardo Saverin, who had taken equity stakes in the company. The website also ran a few advertisements to meet its operating costs

In the summer of 2004, venture capitalist Peter Thiel made a $500,000 angel investment in the social network Facebook for 10.2% of the company and joined Facebook's board. This was the first outside investment in Facebook.

Having gotten that measly $500K in 2004, FB were able to take over MySpace in 2008, despite the latter belonging to a multi-billion dollar corporation...

This is commonly referred to as "late capitalism".

Never heard this term before — cannot be as "common" as you think it is. I had to look it up and, guess what? The Commie term has nothing to do with newcomers competing with the incumbents.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-p...

https://www.theverge.com/2018/...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/10...

http://fortune.com/2018/10/28/...

There are four stories from four separate outlets about that Nazi shithole being "banned" from the Internet.

now crack down on battery slow downs and error 53 BS!

God you're stupid! Do you work for the Italian Courts?

Error 53 was a mistake, and was quickly corrected by Apple:

https://techcrunch.com/2016/02...

Apple has explained the rationale behind the "battery slowdowns", and has done several things to mitigate the "ill will" generated by their usual non-talkative nature. See my above post:

https://apple.slashdot.org/com...

Any questions, Hater?

You, having never read the constitution (and just astroturfing with your canned talking points), miss that the 10th amendment delegates constitutional authorities, not regulatory authorities to the states. In short, you're an ignorant, lying shill.

You could represent your opinion better and lend an even greater air of credence by not being so abusive and dismissive.

Pai and the FCC had no authority under 47 CFR to declare that data is voice.

The Supreme Court ruled that the FCC does have the authority to decide if the internet is an information service or a telecommunications service. https://techcrunch.com/2017/05... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

IMHO a demonstration of House and Senate abrogating their responsibilities for crafting law, forcing Supreme Court do the work of Congress. On the other hand the current congress would be glad to declare broadband as a private service not requiring government regulation nor should any be permitted.

Pai and the FCC had no authority under 47 CFR to declare that data is voice.

The Supreme Court ruled that the FCC does have the authority to decide if the internet is an information service or a telecommunications service.

https://techcrunch.com/2017/05...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

So what data do you have that says otherwise? I know in my neighborhood, the kids on each side (all between the ages of 7 and 17) have cellphones. And the retired couple (in their 80s) two houses down have cellphones too...

Well, the average age for the start of phone ownership is 10 years. Now, let's look at a population graph. Oops, we're at 6.1% already just with people under the age of five. That "95%" figure is already bullshit. Even if everyone over the age of 10 owned a cell phone we're only at 87.6% of the population, and we haven't removed the the top end (which is very sparse, I admit) or the scattered people in the middle (poverty, fear of radio waves, etc).

It does looks like Bloomberg's story isn't complete and relies on anonymous sources.

"Today’s bombshell Bloomberg story has the internet split: either the story is right, and reporters have uncovered one of the largest and jarring breaches of the U.S. tech industry by a foreign adversary or it’s not, and a lot of people screwed up." https://techcrunch.com/2018/10...

Links from the Techcrunch article:

"The October 8, 2018 issue of Bloomberg Businessweek incorrectly reports that Apple found “malicious chips” in servers on its network in 2015. As Apple has repeatedly explained to Bloomberg reporters and editors over the past 12 months, there is no truth to these claims." https://www.apple.com/newsroom...

"Steve Schmidt, Chief Information Security Officer at Amazon Web Services stated, "As we shared with Bloomberg BusinessWeek multiple times over the last couple months, at no time, past or present, have we ever found any issues relating to modified hardware or malicious chips in Supermicro motherboards in any Elemental or Amazon systems." https://www.prnewswire.com/new...

Copy of a post I replied with to another user. It's about market share (everyone but Amazon and Walmart are part of the long tail of all sales):

In the US, Amazon has almost 50% of ALL online sales. And abut 5% of all retail.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07...

I'm not sure what would constitute/define a monopoly with regards to Amazon, but once they are over 50% of all online sales they would have a majority among a group tens of thousands of other online sales companies.

In the US, Amazon has almost 50% of ALL online sales. And abut 5% of all retail.

https://techcrunch.com/2018/07...

I'm not sure what would constitute/define a monopoly with regards to Amazon, but once they are over 50% of all online sales they would have a majority among a group tens of thousands of other online sales companies.

I'm rational enough to use and prefer Amazon for everything except hosting (Digital Ocean ftw). Hasn't stopped me from pointing out that they make over 100% of their profits from AWS: their businesses run below profitability and they shore them up with cloud computing services.

That's predatory pricing.

Boycotts don't work; but those people who talk about a boycott and don't bother doing it themselves? They'll talk. They'll talk about breaking AWS off from Amazon. They'll talk about Federal anti-trust investigations.

That works.

It works even if you don't have enough people to make a dent with a boycott anyway.

They did modify the PCBs , they even have a more advance design that has the chip between the layers of fiberglass. " In one case, the malicious chips were thin enough that they’d been embedded between the layers of fiberglass onto which the other components were attached, according to one person who saw pictures of the chips." https://techcrunch.com/2018/10...

That's pretty neat. Another example of making the same energy do two things at once is using a heat pump to heat something and cool something else at the same time, like this or this.

No, Ford will sell the Focus Active as well, so they're going form 6 car models to 2. Not that big of a retrenchment, especially given the US (and growing International) demand for compact SUVs and crossovers. Telsa's working on scaling production of a car - which is the dying segment of the US auto industry. Trucks, crossovers, SUVs - that's what people overwhelmingly buy today.

Amazon has less than 10% of retail. It's smaller than Walmart.

That's not a false number there everyone. However, that said, Amazon is 49.1% of all e-commerce sales. I'll point here for infographic of online versus offline sales. Now those numbers are a bit dated as they were 2016 to 2017, but it shows that online is $400B and offline is around $3.4T or $3,375B for those wanting to keep a consistent scale. More interestingly online sales show higher growth than offline sales +14% versus +5%. If everything were to stay exactly the same in terms of percentage of sales and rates of growth, Amazon does seem be a big concern should online sales begin to outstrip offline sales. Now do note, that's a big IF there, so use whatever amount of gains of salt you so wish on that.

I don't think IGW is wrong here. This is one of those things that this might be a problem one day and Governments should be proactive, not reactive. It's a question of, should a government act proactively when such actions may or may not be warranted? Or should the government sit on the sidelines and wait until there is a problem, which in turn may not ever come to pass? With how fast online sales are growing, I don't think it unwise for the EU to start having this on their radar. How far they should go though, I couldn't honestly say.

If you're building 100 miles, it's not so much a prototype. They have plans to build one in Chicago to the airport and a smaller one in LA to the Dodger's Stadium.

If you're building 100 miles, it's not so much a prototype. They have plans to build one in Chicago to the airport and a smaller one in LA to the Dodger's Stadium.

all of my Apple devices just keep working.

Yeah, almost unbearably slow, but working. There's nothing quite like Apple's planed obsolescence. Good brand choice indeed.

Hey, COWARD:

I am SURE you didn't watch this year's WWDC Keynote; but one of the first topics (if not THE first) was how they had SPECIFICALLY focused on PERFORMANCE of iOS 12 ON OLDER DEVICES.

In fact, they used an iPhone 6 (which I happen to have), and the performance gains were QUITE impressive.

And I guess that real-world tests with the Beta releases of iOS 12 seem to bear out these claims:

https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/...

https://www.engadget.com/2018/...

https://9to5mac.com/2018/06/05...

https://techcrunch.com/2018/06...

https://www.fastcompany.com/40...

Speaking of which, I just recently Upgraded my iPhone 6 (actually a 6 Plus) from iOS 10.3.3 to iOS 11.4.1. I'm here to tell you that it is NOTICABLY FASTER.

So, kindly Stick It In Your Ass, COWARD!

Many Android phones have better storage and battery than any iPhone so why buy an iPhone at all?

This is why:

https://techcrunch.com/2018/01...

Any questions?