Why my broken butterfly keyboard went to keyboard heaven where it was upgraded into a legendary IBM Model F bucking spring keyboard by the great cable monster in the sky who then sold it to you.
Apple is still "keen to show it's a good corporate citizen," reports the Australian Financial Review:
Apple's a good example of corporatism, because they literally invented a tax dodging system whose name sounds like one of those made-up degrading sex acts. ("Double Irish With A Dutch Sandwich" sounds like you take two shots of whiskey, then slap two prostitutes with your penis at the same time.) But they're not a good example of being a good citizen, for the same reason.
The EU forced Ireland to shut the 'Double Irish' down in 2015 and they are now kicking the Irish in the nuts over the newer variants of it. Some of those have been shut down as well. The 'Dutch Sandwich' scheme was invented by Joop Wijn, dutch State Secretary of Economic Affairs, with the diligent help from a battalion of US corporate tax lawyers in 2003 (meaning that he was basically just the enabler aka. useful idiot). The EU is currently nut kicking the Dutch in order to get this loophole closed as well. It's also worth keeping in mind that Apple is not the only user of these schemes by a long shot. Practically every US multinational that does business in the EU dodges taxes through Holland, Ireland, Luxembourg and the UK among others with is why the UK Brexiting along with it's various tax haven territories would actually not be such an unwelcome thing to many other EU countries.
Having to replace a bunch of parts and drop $700 because a MacBook Pro's butterfly keyboard broke isn't green, Apple. These things have embodied energy, implicit in their manufacture. They're not disposable.
Huh? I got one of the first MacBooks with a butterfly keyboard, when it broke they happily fixed mine under warranty. I'm now on my third butterfly keyboard equipped MacBook and have not had any problems since.
You wont be calling them advantages when your tuna and salmon tastes like plastic.
He was speaking relatively from the packaging user's point of view, of course what are advantages to the packaging user and consumer also makes plastic bags a disaster from an environmental point of view. If you want to make a dent in this problem getting angry won't help. You have to be willing to understand why people use plastics and come up with a material that does the same job at the same cost but that can be more easily recycled or down-cycled, ideally by composting the material. Renewable energy did not become a viable solution to CO2 emissions until it became more cost effective than fossil fuels and that should be a lesson to the entire environmental movement. People won't work to stop the wilful sabotage of their life support system on the spaceship they live on unless it profits them in some way in the short term, they genuinely don't care that if they do nothing they'll choke on their own CO2 emissions farther down the road. Humans are very short sighted and selfish beings.
What's the problem? You're simply burning the plastics anyway. Find better things to do with it, make pellets out the stuff and melt it back together in useful forms. Pack it up and sell it, better yet, give it away as a cheap form of insulation.
It's what China does anyway, they pack up our garbage and sells it back to us as "green recycled" furniture. If you have purchased cellulose insulation you'll find plenty of plastic worked into it.
The problem is that before you can down-cycle much of this kind of plastic you have to clean it first. That means using large quantities of water and other resources which are getting scarce in many parts of the world such as the western USA because of irresponsible resource use. Once you do clean the plastic garbage up you still get the problem of massive micro an nano plastic particle contamination. Burning the stuff is easier but causes a massive CO2 emissions problem. The glaringly obvious solution is to put an end to the gluttonous frenzy of plastic packaging consumption that we have been on since the end of WWII. It would solve a lot of problems if we could come up with biodegradable plastic substitutes for packaging that could be taken to special facilities and converted into soil or fertiliser through composting. Whoever comes up with a scalable and cost effective way to do that should in my opinion get an automatic Nobel prize in chemistry/biology.
You want me to use clean water...which is scarce enough that it has its own problems...to wash my garbage so someone can make money off of it by selling it to China? If you want to sell my garbage, you find a way to clean it yourself.
... or replace the plastic material with biodegradable or more easily recyclable alternatives? Just a thought.
Maybe you should have thought of that... before you painted your houses to be visually unusual.
Maybe you should have expected that I'd despatch two shotgun shells worth of rock salt into your buttocks before you became the 19658th instagram drone to photograph my house this year. Now... uh, how do you shout... get off my lawn! in French?
This is not true at all, it's based on false assumptions.
First of all, most self driving cars will end up using LIDAR. Skin color, not an issue.
Secondly. even cars with cameras do a lot of image transformations such that color is usually disposed of. You kin color is irrelevant to a recognizer looking for human forms.
In fact you could argue that during the day, darker skin is an advantage because against a blue sky it's more noticeable than really pale skin which could look like clouds... #GingerLivesMatter.
On the one hand there is SuperKendall with a totally unsupported but very authoritative set of assertions that he pulled out of his posterior. On the other hand there is a bunch of scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology.... hmmmm.... whom to believe ????.... I'm gonna go with Georgia Tech.
"Gorilla Glass" is a really cool technology. Maybe we could have a discussion about using it for something other than people's personal entertainment addiction gadgets? I can't think of a more inane and ultimately useless use for such an amazing technology.
Like making a giant domed gorilla glass safe space for Apple conspiracy theorists?
Norway. A country completely subsidized by the rest of the world, particularly the US, since it's industry mix is oil/gas, shipping, fishing, and various military supplies. They use all this money to fund immense social programs(they flirt with the line of nanny state), keep themselves fairly closed off to immigration, are rampant consumers(their labor is mostly Baltic imported), then put on an incredible air of superiority, even though they are essentially white Saudi Arabia.
They are a funny people.
For one thing, I don't think Norway is in the Pacific North West. For another, there are plenty of countries operating on a mixture of democratic socialist and centre right principles in the world that are doing just fine, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, The Baltic Republics, Germany, France,... the list goes on and none of them are floating on an ocean of oil even if a few of them have some kind of fossil fuel mining industry. Germany and Denmark have swapped significant portions of their energy generation over to wind and solar and they haven't financed it with petro-dollars. But what the hell does any of this have to do with the Pacific North West? Seems to me somebody pulled one hell of a Conway by pivoting off the original topic to practically equating any country with a social Democratic Party with Norway to try and make the case that Social Democracy cannot work without petro-dollars which is quite frankly a stupid and demonstrably false point to try and make.
William Nordhaus won the 2018 Nobel in Economics for his model that includes the effects of externalities for CO2. His paper says that doing much more than a small increase in taxes is actually a net loss and we'd be better of putting the money elsewhere (which is also something Bjorn Lomborg also espouses. Pushing for the 1.5 deg C, or Gore's 90% cut goals nearly double the cost of doing nothing - and that's factoring in all those supposed externalities from fossil fuels.
"supposed externalities from fossil fuels" ??? Nordhaus isn't saying that fossil fuels have no environmental effects and that the byproducts created by burning them disappear into an alternate dimension or something and thus burning fossil fuels has no effect. He's basically saying that a 2 degree increase in global temperatures is more or less guaranteed because idiot politicians hooked on money from the fossil fuel industry have been sitting with their finger up their butt for far too long. Nordhaus acknowledges the potentially catastrophic impacts of this climate change so it is not as if he is in full agreement with the Trumpian/Kochian/Conservative point of view that climate change is a Chines hoax, not even close.
What socialist economy is working well? Certainly not the Nordic countries, given they are a free market, capitalist economic system. The Government just happens to invest in a big social safety net as well. Perhaps Cuba? Venezuela? North Korea? Mao's China? Stalin's Russia?
When it comes to economic models, socialism is, in fact, always a bad thing. You can argue about how big a social net you wish to add around the market, but from an economic standpoint - capitalism, free market enterprise - always wins.
Did you just get pulled out of a cryogenics chamber where you were put to sleep in 1951 during some weird ass cold ware experiment? Stalin's Russia does not exist anymore, nor does Mao's China. As for Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea they are not that much more fucked up than some of the places where the US propped up homicidal dictators for the better part of the last century such as Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador to name but a few. In fact I'm pretty sure that Iraq for example has been every bit as fucked up as N-Korea, first during the Hussein dictatorship (that staunch US friend and ally) and then during the last 20 years after the US got upset over their old friends Kuwait adventure, had him hanged, and then started exporting democracy to Iraq.
It's not even a question anymore that Huawei is trying to do whatever it can to become the top cellphone maker in the world (the above is just an example of its practices in China).
If you think western companies are bad at tricking people into giving up their data, it is nothing compared to what Huawei does.
Firstly that site is paywalled and linking to it is downright rude. Secondly what little the paywall didn't hide is:
To build its AI capability—so that its phones can, say, make restaurant suggestions based on a user’s text messages—Huawei Technologies Co. is collecting user-activity information on its advanced Honor Magic smartphone. Among the information captured: text messages sent using the popular WeChat social-media app.
That is a pretty accurate description of what Google, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and a whole legion of US sites are doing as well. We all know this and have known for a long time, it is standard practice in the US so why should it not be standard practice in China. However, this still does not constitute proof that Huawei is spying on its customers on behalf of the Chinese Government. In fact a number of European countries just sent their intelligence services off to investigate whether Huawei is spying for the Chinese government and they came up with **ZIP**, but do try again if you think you can out do them. Again, I am perfectly open to the eventuality that Huawei is spying on behalf of the Chinese Govt. and thereby risking complete ruin and bankruptcy that fact gets out but please provide us with more proof of this than just an opinion you pulled out of your ass.
Freishutz: Hello, Chinese Government/Communist Party?
CG/CP: Yes.
Freishutz: We here on Slashdot would like hard proof that Huawei either is or is not providing you with information. Please post it here.
CG/CP: Sure thing, Boss, we gonna get right on that...errrmm...just as soon as we have another Party Congress and can establish its place in a new 5 year plan. The new 5 year plan should be available in around 15 years. Can you wait?
Freishutz: Yup, sure, we trust you.
Oh, my, you accused me of being a communist... *thud*... *thud*... *thud*... your words, given weight by your awesome wit and oratory skill, pierce my should like arrows.
It may not be unreasonable to you, but I really don't care about what you find reasonable or not. Really, I don't give a whit. I am not at trial, I am expressing an opinion and therefore am under no obligation to prove or disprove anything, all of which is still legal in the US at this time. I provide no link to any "right-wing blog" yet you make a point of accusing me of such; sounds like you're the one with a prejudice/censorship problem. So perhaps you can absorb that the opinions expressed by the posters are theirs and do not indicate anything other than their opinions; perhaps not. One thing I know for sure, I don't have to "prove" anything to you.
So, where is your proof? Having trouble finding any? Because your entire post contained only this: https://youtu.be/hsPtqjwcMx
I really don't care what accusations you pull out of your rectum and hurl around like an angry chimp until you can prove them... so pony yup or shut up.
Every Chinese corporation (Huawei being a big one) with an internationally-facing department - most especially those that handle information transfer - are part of the government's data-collection system. It's the law there. To think they're not collecting and reporting is the height of naivete.
Maybe they are but the onus is on you to prove it, so where is the proof that Huawei is responsible for this or that is guilty of your accusation that they are fuelling international customer data to the Chinese government?... and please try to do better than a link to some right-wing blog where some blowhard is expressing an opinion. People keep telling me things like:
"To think they're not collecting and reporting is the height of naivete.
... but when one asks for the proof all one gets is this: https://youtu.be/hsPtqjwcMxc. It seems that if you are going to accuse somebody of something it is not unreasonable for you to provide hard proof.
And Huawei wants the world to believe they'd NEVER collect data for the government. Yeah, sure.
Where did Huawei ever come into this discussion? Huawei was never mentioned here or in TFA until you brought it up. This looks like some kind of social media rig-up that streams data to local police for manual inspection. Whatever Huawei is doing, it had no part in this that I can see. Basically this operation is a similar but somewhat less advanced version of what the USA's very own NAS is doing in the US, and everywhere else they can get away with it, i.e. the wholesale warehousing of online data in order to spy on the citizenry in a way that even George Orwell was unable to conceive of.
At these speed, USB4 stands to be way faster than most ethernet out there. 10gbit ethernet has been taking forever due to SPF power issues and manufacturing costs. USB4 with dedicated chip/channels would be twice the speed of full duplex ethernet 10gbit.
However it is not quite being designed for true network and storage connectivity. The need is there but the buffers/latency might hurt it a bit.
I wonder if we'll see dedicated PCIE cards with dedicated USB4 chips so we can have nonblocking shorter-distance network connectivity better than gigabit ethernet
Or even USB-over-fiber next. Now that's a thought.
At these speed, USB4 stands to be way faster than most ethernet out there. 10gbit ethernet has been taking forever due to SPF power issues and manufacturing costs. USB4 with dedicated chip/channels would be twice the speed of full duplex ethernet 10gbit.
However it is not quite being designed for true network and storage connectivity. The need is there but the buffers/latency might hurt it a bit.
I wonder if we'll see dedicated PCIE cards with dedicated USB4 chips so we can have nonblocking shorter-distance network connectivity better than gigabit ethernet
Or even USB-over-fiber next. Now that's a thought.
<sarcasm>
Yeah, thanks to Tnunderbolt, one of those crap-ass ideas Apple came up with and never amounted to anything because they never became 'mainstream PC tech'.
</sarcasm>
Presumably all those Apple haters out there will maintain full self-consistency by boycotting any hardware incorporating USB4 since it now integrates EEEEEVIL Apple tech!
You are going to their house and doing what you do, and they're just making note of what you did in their living room.
No, all of those social media buttons and ad banners and "free" analytics tools and fonts, etc., those are mechanisms to spy on you. That's how they follow you around, well outside of their living rooms.
It's more like each major tech company controls a fleet of cameras. These cameras are absolutely everywhere, on the roads, in the shops, in the fitting booths, in your living room, in your bedroom in your car, at the restaurant where you eat, at the cash register where you pay for your groceries, in the sex shop where you buy your dirty magazines... everywhere. If you sit down on any toilet to take a dump you'll find cameras belonging to Google, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and a whole legion of tech, advertising and market research companies recording every strained look on your face as you struggle to squeeze out that turd and taping every loud wet fart. Every leaf of used toilet paper is copied in triplicate and carefully archived. Then they sell their records of your activities to anybody willing to pay. You can try to make it harder for them to keep tabs on you by wearing a VPN mask wherever you go and wearing a camera blinding laser AdBlocker laser on your head but that has only limited effect at best.
... North Korea's dynastic dictator-baby who literally has dissidents executed with flamethrowers and grenade launchers in public...
I'm no fan of North Korea but reports like that should be taken with a grain of salt. The story about Kim's Uncle being executed by a pack of man eating dogs turned out to be a hoax (well, actually, it originated as a satirical post on a Chinese social media network) and a number of other similar stories have turned out to be exaggerated. Like for example the story of general Hyon Yong-chol who was supposedly executed with a quad barrelled 23 mm anti-aircraft gun for “dozing off” at official events. This was later progressively downgraded until Hyon had supposedly been “purged”, but that he might still be alive. The North Korean regime is loathsome but believing every story about them you read in tabloids like the Daily Mail on a slow news day is not necessarily a good idea.
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Where do you think the used broken parts went?
Why my broken butterfly keyboard went to keyboard heaven where it was upgraded into a legendary IBM Model F bucking spring keyboard by the great cable monster in the sky who then sold it to you.
Apple's a good example of corporatism, because they literally invented a tax dodging system whose name sounds like one of those made-up degrading sex acts. ("Double Irish With A Dutch Sandwich" sounds like you take two shots of whiskey, then slap two prostitutes with your penis at the same time.) But they're not a good example of being a good citizen, for the same reason.
The EU forced Ireland to shut the 'Double Irish' down in 2015 and they are now kicking the Irish in the nuts over the newer variants of it. Some of those have been shut down as well. The 'Dutch Sandwich' scheme was invented by Joop Wijn, dutch State Secretary of Economic Affairs, with the diligent help from a battalion of US corporate tax lawyers in 2003 (meaning that he was basically just the enabler aka. useful idiot). The EU is currently nut kicking the Dutch in order to get this loophole closed as well. It's also worth keeping in mind that Apple is not the only user of these schemes by a long shot. Practically every US multinational that does business in the EU dodges taxes through Holland, Ireland, Luxembourg and the UK among others with is why the UK Brexiting along with it's various tax haven territories would actually not be such an unwelcome thing to many other EU countries.
Having to replace a bunch of parts and drop $700 because a MacBook Pro's butterfly keyboard broke isn't green, Apple. These things have embodied energy, implicit in their manufacture. They're not disposable.
Huh? I got one of the first MacBooks with a butterfly keyboard, when it broke they happily fixed mine under warranty. I'm now on my third butterfly keyboard equipped MacBook and have not had any problems since.
You wont be calling them advantages when your tuna and salmon tastes like plastic.
He was speaking relatively from the packaging user's point of view, of course what are advantages to the packaging user and consumer also makes plastic bags a disaster from an environmental point of view. If you want to make a dent in this problem getting angry won't help. You have to be willing to understand why people use plastics and come up with a material that does the same job at the same cost but that can be more easily recycled or down-cycled, ideally by composting the material. Renewable energy did not become a viable solution to CO2 emissions until it became more cost effective than fossil fuels and that should be a lesson to the entire environmental movement. People won't work to stop the wilful sabotage of their life support system on the spaceship they live on unless it profits them in some way in the short term, they genuinely don't care that if they do nothing they'll choke on their own CO2 emissions farther down the road. Humans are very short sighted and selfish beings.
What's the problem? You're simply burning the plastics anyway. Find better things to do with it, make pellets out the stuff and melt it back together in useful forms. Pack it up and sell it, better yet, give it away as a cheap form of insulation.
It's what China does anyway, they pack up our garbage and sells it back to us as "green recycled" furniture. If you have purchased cellulose insulation you'll find plenty of plastic worked into it.
The problem is that before you can down-cycle much of this kind of plastic you have to clean it first. That means using large quantities of water and other resources which are getting scarce in many parts of the world such as the western USA because of irresponsible resource use. Once you do clean the plastic garbage up you still get the problem of massive micro an nano plastic particle contamination. Burning the stuff is easier but causes a massive CO2 emissions problem. The glaringly obvious solution is to put an end to the gluttonous frenzy of plastic packaging consumption that we have been on since the end of WWII. It would solve a lot of problems if we could come up with biodegradable plastic substitutes for packaging that could be taken to special facilities and converted into soil or fertiliser through composting. Whoever comes up with a scalable and cost effective way to do that should in my opinion get an automatic Nobel prize in chemistry/biology.
You want me to use clean water...which is scarce enough that it has its own problems...to wash my garbage so someone can make money off of it by selling it to China? If you want to sell my garbage, you find a way to clean it yourself.
... or replace the plastic material with biodegradable or more easily recyclable alternatives? Just a thought.
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Nobody really cares.
Not quite, apparently you cared passionately enough to post your opinion.
Maybe you should have thought of that ... before you painted your houses to be visually unusual.
Maybe you should have expected that I'd despatch two shotgun shells worth of rock salt into your buttocks before you became the 19658th instagram drone to photograph my house this year. Now ... uh, how do you shout ... get off my lawn! in French?
Appeal to authority denied. Also, you are a n!gger for making such a logically fallacious argument.
Oh my, I appear to have hit a nerve,
This is not true at all, it's based on false assumptions.
First of all, most self driving cars will end up using LIDAR. Skin color, not an issue.
Secondly. even cars with cameras do a lot of image transformations such that color is usually disposed of. You kin color is irrelevant to a recognizer looking for human forms.
In fact you could argue that during the day, darker skin is an advantage because against a blue sky it's more noticeable than really pale skin which could look like clouds... #GingerLivesMatter.
On the one hand there is SuperKendall with a totally unsupported but very authoritative set of assertions that he pulled out of his posterior. On the other hand there is a bunch of scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology.... hmmmm .... whom to believe ???? .... I'm gonna go with Georgia Tech.
"Gorilla Glass" is a really cool technology. Maybe we could have a discussion about using it for something other than people's personal entertainment addiction gadgets? I can't think of a more inane and ultimately useless use for such an amazing technology.
Like making a giant domed gorilla glass safe space for Apple conspiracy theorists?
Norway. A country completely subsidized by the rest of the world, particularly the US, since it's industry mix is oil/gas, shipping, fishing, and various military supplies. They use all this money to fund immense social programs(they flirt with the line of nanny state), keep themselves fairly closed off to immigration, are rampant consumers(their labor is mostly Baltic imported), then put on an incredible air of superiority, even though they are essentially white Saudi Arabia.
They are a funny people.
For one thing, I don't think Norway is in the Pacific North West. For another, there are plenty of countries operating on a mixture of democratic socialist and centre right principles in the world that are doing just fine, Canada, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, The Baltic Republics, Germany, France, ... the list goes on and none of them are floating on an ocean of oil even if a few of them have some kind of fossil fuel mining industry. Germany and Denmark have swapped significant portions of their energy generation over to wind and solar and they haven't financed it with petro-dollars. But what the hell does any of this have to do with the Pacific North West? Seems to me somebody pulled one hell of a Conway by pivoting off the original topic to practically equating any country with a social Democratic Party with Norway to try and make the case that Social Democracy cannot work without petro-dollars which is quite frankly a stupid and demonstrably false point to try and make.
William Nordhaus won the 2018 Nobel in Economics for his model that includes the effects of externalities for CO2. His paper says that doing much more than a small increase in taxes is actually a net loss and we'd be better of putting the money elsewhere (which is also something Bjorn Lomborg also espouses. Pushing for the 1.5 deg C, or Gore's 90% cut goals nearly double the cost of doing nothing - and that's factoring in all those supposed externalities from fossil fuels.
"supposed externalities from fossil fuels" ??? Nordhaus isn't saying that fossil fuels have no environmental effects and that the byproducts created by burning them disappear into an alternate dimension or something and thus burning fossil fuels has no effect. He's basically saying that a 2 degree increase in global temperatures is more or less guaranteed because idiot politicians hooked on money from the fossil fuel industry have been sitting with their finger up their butt for far too long. Nordhaus acknowledges the potentially catastrophic impacts of this climate change so it is not as if he is in full agreement with the Trumpian/Kochian/Conservative point of view that climate change is a Chines hoax, not even close.
What socialist economy is working well? Certainly not the Nordic countries, given they are a free market, capitalist economic system. The Government just happens to invest in a big social safety net as well. Perhaps Cuba? Venezuela? North Korea? Mao's China? Stalin's Russia?
When it comes to economic models, socialism is, in fact, always a bad thing. You can argue about how big a social net you wish to add around the market, but from an economic standpoint - capitalism, free market enterprise - always wins.
Did you just get pulled out of a cryogenics chamber where you were put to sleep in 1951 during some weird ass cold ware experiment? Stalin's Russia does not exist anymore, nor does Mao's China. As for Cuba, Venezuela and North Korea they are not that much more fucked up than some of the places where the US propped up homicidal dictators for the better part of the last century such as Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador to name but a few. In fact I'm pretty sure that Iraq for example has been every bit as fucked up as N-Korea, first during the Hussein dictatorship (that staunch US friend and ally) and then during the last 20 years after the US got upset over their old friends Kuwait adventure, had him hanged, and then started exporting democracy to Iraq.
No - a mixture of socialism and capitalism works best.
When north sea oil/gas production subsidizes your socialism.
WTF are you talking about?
You are ... not really playing with a full deck of cards, are you?
https://www.wsj.com/articles/two-china-tech-titans-wrestle-over-user-data-1501757738
It's not even a question anymore that Huawei is trying to do whatever it can to become the top cellphone maker in the world (the above is just an example of its practices in China).
If you think western companies are bad at tricking people into giving up their data, it is nothing compared to what Huawei does.
Firstly that site is paywalled and linking to it is downright rude. Secondly what little the paywall didn't hide is:
To build its AI capability—so that its phones can, say, make restaurant suggestions based on a user’s text messages—Huawei Technologies Co. is collecting user-activity information on its advanced Honor Magic smartphone. Among the information captured: text messages sent using the popular WeChat social-media app.
That is a pretty accurate description of what Google, Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest, and a whole legion of US sites are doing as well. We all know this and have known for a long time, it is standard practice in the US so why should it not be standard practice in China. However, this still does not constitute proof that Huawei is spying on its customers on behalf of the Chinese Government. In fact a number of European countries just sent their intelligence services off to investigate whether Huawei is spying for the Chinese government and they came up with **ZIP**, but do try again if you think you can out do them. Again, I am perfectly open to the eventuality that Huawei is spying on behalf of the Chinese Govt. and thereby risking complete ruin and bankruptcy that fact gets out but please provide us with more proof of this than just an opinion you pulled out of your ass.
Freishutz: Hello, Chinese Government/Communist Party?
CG/CP: Yes.
Freishutz: We here on Slashdot would like hard proof that Huawei either is or is not providing you with information. Please post it here.
CG/CP: Sure thing, Boss, we gonna get right on that...errrmm...just as soon as we have another Party Congress and can establish its place in a new 5 year plan. The new 5 year plan should be available in around 15 years. Can you wait?
Freishutz: Yup, sure, we trust you.
Oh, my, you accused me of being a communist ... *thud* ... *thud* ... *thud* ... your words, given weight by your awesome wit and oratory skill, pierce my should like arrows.
It may not be unreasonable to you, but I really don't care about what you find reasonable or not. Really, I don't give a whit. I am not at trial, I am expressing an opinion and therefore am under no obligation to prove or disprove anything, all of which is still legal in the US at this time. I provide no link to any "right-wing blog" yet you make a point of accusing me of such; sounds like you're the one with a prejudice/censorship problem. So perhaps you can absorb that the opinions expressed by the posters are theirs and do not indicate anything other than their opinions; perhaps not. One thing I know for sure, I don't have to "prove" anything to you.
So, where is your proof? Having trouble finding any? Because your entire post contained only this: https://youtu.be/hsPtqjwcMx
... so pony yup or shut up.
I really don't care what accusations you pull out of your rectum and hurl around like an angry chimp until you can prove them
Every Chinese corporation (Huawei being a big one) with an internationally-facing department - most especially those that handle information transfer - are part of the government's data-collection system. It's the law there. To think they're not collecting and reporting is the height of naivete.
Maybe they are but the onus is on you to prove it, so where is the proof that Huawei is responsible for this or that is guilty of your accusation that they are fuelling international customer data to the Chinese government? ... and please try to do better than a link to some right-wing blog where some blowhard is expressing an opinion. People keep telling me things like:
"To think they're not collecting and reporting is the height of naivete.
And Huawei wants the world to believe they'd NEVER collect data for the government. Yeah, sure.
Where did Huawei ever come into this discussion? Huawei was never mentioned here or in TFA until you brought it up. This looks like some kind of social media rig-up that streams data to local police for manual inspection. Whatever Huawei is doing, it had no part in this that I can see. Basically this operation is a similar but somewhat less advanced version of what the USA's very own NAS is doing in the US, and everywhere else they can get away with it, i.e. the wholesale warehousing of online data in order to spy on the citizenry in a way that even George Orwell was unable to conceive of.
At these speed, USB4 stands to be way faster than most ethernet out there. 10gbit ethernet has been taking forever due to SPF power issues and manufacturing costs. USB4 with dedicated chip/channels would be twice the speed of full duplex ethernet 10gbit. However it is not quite being designed for true network and storage connectivity. The need is there but the buffers/latency might hurt it a bit. I wonder if we'll see dedicated PCIE cards with dedicated USB4 chips so we can have nonblocking shorter-distance network connectivity better than gigabit ethernet Or even USB-over-fiber next. Now that's a thought.
At these speed, USB4 stands to be way faster than most ethernet out there. 10gbit ethernet has been taking forever due to SPF power issues and manufacturing costs. USB4 with dedicated chip/channels would be twice the speed of full duplex ethernet 10gbit. However it is not quite being designed for true network and storage connectivity. The need is there but the buffers/latency might hurt it a bit. I wonder if we'll see dedicated PCIE cards with dedicated USB4 chips so we can have nonblocking shorter-distance network connectivity better than gigabit ethernet Or even USB-over-fiber next. Now that's a thought.
<sarcasm> Yeah, thanks to Tnunderbolt, one of those crap-ass ideas Apple came up with and never amounted to anything because they never became 'mainstream PC tech'. </sarcasm>
Presumably all those Apple haters out there will maintain full self-consistency by boycotting any hardware incorporating USB4 since it now integrates EEEEEVIL Apple tech!
You are going to their house and doing what you do, and they're just making note of what you did in their living room.
No, all of those social media buttons and ad banners and "free" analytics tools and fonts, etc., those are mechanisms to spy on you. That's how they follow you around, well outside of their living rooms.
It's more like each major tech company controls a fleet of cameras. These cameras are absolutely everywhere, on the roads, in the shops, in the fitting booths, in your living room, in your bedroom in your car, at the restaurant where you eat, at the cash register where you pay for your groceries, in the sex shop where you buy your dirty magazines ... everywhere. If you sit down on any toilet to take a dump you'll find cameras belonging to Google, Twitter, Facebook, Pinterest, and a whole legion of tech, advertising and market research companies recording every strained look on your face as you struggle to squeeze out that turd and taping every loud wet fart. Every leaf of used toilet paper is copied in triplicate and carefully archived. Then they sell their records of your activities to anybody willing to pay. You can try to make it harder for them to keep tabs on you by wearing a VPN mask wherever you go and wearing a camera blinding laser AdBlocker laser on your head but that has only limited effect at best.
Nothing new here, Russia has always being trying to legislate itself back into 17th century. Let's see how their economy follows it.
*YAWN* ... call me when their economy out grows Italy's in size.
... North Korea's dynastic dictator-baby who literally has dissidents executed with flamethrowers and grenade launchers in public ...
I'm no fan of North Korea but reports like that should be taken with a grain of salt. The story about Kim's Uncle being executed by a pack of man eating dogs turned out to be a hoax (well, actually, it originated as a satirical post on a Chinese social media network) and a number of other similar stories have turned out to be exaggerated. Like for example the story of general Hyon Yong-chol who was supposedly executed with a quad barrelled 23 mm anti-aircraft gun for “dozing off” at official events. This was later progressively downgraded until Hyon had supposedly been “purged”, but that he might still be alive. The North Korean regime is loathsome but believing every story about them you read in tabloids like the Daily Mail on a slow news day is not necessarily a good idea.
...LG and Samsung?
If you ask nicely, Apply may let you in on the secrets of folding screens...
Sorry to rain on your parade but Apple is buying these bendy-screens from either Samsung, LG or both: https://9to5mac.com/2018/09/14...