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  1. EU wants the U.S. to come back to the table on digital taxes

    If a US company sells me something here in Czech Republic, they should pay those taxes on that product/license here, just like a physical store would. I don't like taxes as much as the next guy, but they are a necessary evil needed to keep a country running. And if they are going to enforce them, enforce them equally.
    6 points
  2. The move to India is piggybacking on cheap labor available.
    5 points
  3. 4 points
  4. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    Well, there's your daily dose of jibberish!
    4 points
  5. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    And this article doesn't suggest they do.
    4 points
  6. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    Iiiiiiissssss absolutely not what was said here. But keep trolling
    4 points
  7. Amazon temporarily banned TikTok from employee mobile devices

    Providing a phone to employees is soooo 2005! In 2020 even touching a phone that doesn’t belong to you is ridiculous. Or letting someone use their personal Android phone which hasn't had a security update in 2 years connect to your corporate network.
    4 points
  8. EU wants the U.S. to come back to the table on digital taxes

    The way I see it, if you are buying a digital product from a company in the US, if their server is in the US, they are only responsible for charging you US taxes. You are the one importing the product into your country, so you are responsible for paying your own local taxes on the product, just as if you flew to the US, bought something in a store here, and imported it back to your country. The same should apply the other way around of course, if an American buys something from an EU company. The "store" is wherever the server is, not where the customer happens to be. No. Server location is nonsense. Businesses would just move their servers to a location which offers no taxation and then no taxes are collected and society collapses.
    4 points
  9. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    That meme is so, so tired. Seriously. 2010. 10 years ago.
    3 points
  10. android without scroogle is a plus
    3 points
  11. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    Two things here. Firstly Why are people surprised about damage when there is very little clearance when it is closed. Also, isn’t the physical camera hardware designed in such a way that it’s physically impossible for the camera to be active without the status light on? So you’d know if the camera was activated or not anyway.
    3 points
  12. I cant see this ever being an issue, as all Apple users automatically have both big brain, and big pp
    3 points
  13. Every country has the right to sales tax. Consumer buying product pays taxes. They are going to the vendor pays taxes also. Witch they should if they have a physical presence in the country. They're just trying to milk more money if they can. I think it does target big US companies. but also Alibaba and JD.com also.
    3 points
  14. It is Apple with joke of market share on desktop, so it is easy to do for them. Linux is gaining big traction, in fact it will surpass Apple in Desktop and as far as iPhone goes, it is not all that bright against Android. In others who f. cares. I am not paying attention to Apple nonsense at all. > Linux is gaining big traction You mean like it has for the past 20 years?
    3 points
  15. Sounds good to me. If I send an extra few hundred, would you consider including some wheels?
    2 points
  16. Contrary to what seems logical, it comes down to the software security. PERIOD. Even if the Camera turns on a light when the camera gets power, there are ways around this. Some hardware can be manipulated to invoke the camera while keeping the light and internal status of the camera to an off state. There are also other tricks: Strobing the light at a specific rate, which kills the bulb. Pulsing the device so that the light doesn't turn on, pulsing the device or adjusting the power, so that the camera responds while keeping the light dim enough that it cannot be seen in daylight or at all, etc. (There are literally dozens of ways beyond what I mention here, each getting more technical and almost unbelievable.) If software fails, there are always ways to access hardware and do things that would surprise people. As I have mentioned before, especially with a simple/generic interface (like is normally used in the *nix model) to hardware devices can be used to manipulate hardware in amazing ways. One specific example... Read voltage from printer heads created by vibrations in the room to record sound, which can even be used in combination with any sound making mechanism to also create a visual 3D map of the room from the sound reflection recorded. (What made this hard or impossible 10-30 years ago, was the lack of computing power to handle and interpret the information from the I/O stream. We now have tiny bits of ML code that can do this on tiny/old processors.) This is also assuming hardware always works as designed. Everyone thinks computer hardware is precise and specific, but most would be surprised to see code that has to pump values in registers on some CPUs to get the value to stick, and these are some of the most important and specific components of computing, and this is one tiny example of tricks software has to do, to function on 'properly working' aspects of hardware. If malicious software has access to hardware, especially a generic I/O interface, it is no longer secure. (This one reason a lot of hardware device drivers and interfaces in Windows were moved inside WinRT/UWP, as it has 4 or 5 layers of security and isolation over traditional drivers.) Show me one single case of this on a Mac anywhere, that is not subject to the iSight flaw found in 2013 that does not exist on modern machines. I will wait here.
    2 points
  17. too bad it still has Intel's space heater inside
    2 points
  18. One wonders if they will use any of their billions to increase the pay of the factory workers making their billions in profit possible.
    2 points
  19. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    Why didn't the design "wizards" at Apple design a lens cover that would not damage the PC when you close the cover?? Forcing people to use black tape is so lame, more so when Apple charges such a high premium for design.
    2 points
  20. I was thinking about this, and if a piece of tape can damage the device then it's not made too well.
    2 points
  21. My Lenovo P1 Gen2 has a sliding cover on the webcam that I can control externally. Also I can easily go into Device Manager in Windows and disable the Camera device driver completely. On a MacBook Pro none of this is possible. It’s not possible to easily disable the webcam device driver in macOS. I wish it was. LED diodes can also die. What happens then Apple? How would I then know if the camera was on?
    2 points
  22. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    "you're covering it wrong"
    2 points
  23. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    Stupid reasoning, when you start a god damn app with video capability and it immediately starts your video feed without you having a chance to stop it quick enough. So everyone can see your dick before you could stop the video/cover your cam with your hand etc. Obviously the cretins of apple never used video conferencing software. Shouldnt have spared that fkin +50cent cover plastic piece built into the camera housing. Greedy mfs in apple hq.
    2 points
  24. But is it though? Which chip controls the camera and/or the camera light? How secure is its code? It’s to do with how the hardware is powered. The light is not controlled by any chip/firmware. It’s that if the camera device is powered, so is the light. Not saying all are like that but other vendors have done the same thing. I recall Microsoft saying that was the reason they didn’t include a cover on theirs.
    2 points
  25. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    I have a solution for the camera cover issue, for only $50 I'll post you a partially used roll of electrical tape.
    2 points
  26. What's up! Slapper!
    2 points
  27. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    Apparently overprized expensive hardware that can break if you touch it with a feather.
    2 points
  28. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    They'll just start selling a official Apple cover for some silly price later. Or build a cover into the next model, either way this isn't too much to worry about, you could always tape it if you're worried about the screen but still want to cover the camera.
    2 points
  29. there are a few that needs to and most of them are nothing to do with china.
    2 points
  30. Amazon temporarily banned TikTok from employee mobile devices

    This app needs to be erased from existence.
    2 points
  31. EU wants the U.S. to come back to the table on digital taxes

    Trump has no reason to do this except to punish the tech industry. Blaming Trump because nobody but Trump is guilty of everything. Regardless of Trump, France already had plans to tax US companies, so I don't know what they expected, a bribe?
    2 points
  32. EU wants the U.S. to come back to the table on digital taxes

    Trump has no reason to do this except to punish the tech industry. Pretty sure the EU "Inviting" him is the polite way of saying. This is happening weather you want it or not, you can sit and pout but being part of the negotiations is in your own interest.
    2 points
  33. Worldwide PC shipments grew in Q2, 2020 despite coronavirus

    More like shipments grew because of corona virus as everyone realized they now needed a computer to take home.
    2 points
  34. Or comprehension, as the purpose of his lawyers comments was not to gain your or my sympathy.
    1 point
  35. Wonder if anyone will boycott apple 🍎 and their modern-day slavery?
    1 point
  36. No Google Services. Still Google considering they create the OS. Title should say..."....without Google services...."
    1 point
  37. Contrary to what seems logical, it comes down to the software security. PERIOD. Even if the Camera turns on a light when the camera gets power, there are ways around this. Some hardware can be manipulated to invoke the camera while keeping the light and internal status of the camera to an off state. There are also other tricks: Strobing the light at a specific rate, which kills the bulb. Pulsing the device so that the light doesn't turn on, pulsing the device or adjusting the power, so that the camera responds while keeping the light dim enough that it cannot be seen in daylight or at all, etc. (There are literally dozens of ways beyond what I mention here, each getting more technical and almost unbelievable.) If software fails, there are always ways to access hardware and do things that would surprise people. As I have mentioned before, especially with a simple/generic interface (like is normally used in the *nix model) to hardware devices can be used to manipulate hardware in amazing ways. One specific example... Read voltage from printer heads created by vibrations in the room to record sound, which can even be used in combination with any sound making mechanism to also create a visual 3D map of the room from the sound reflection recorded. (What made this hard or impossible 10-30 years ago, was the lack of computing power to handle and interpret the information from the I/O stream. We now have tiny bits of ML code that can do this on tiny/old processors.) This is also assuming hardware always works as designed. Everyone thinks computer hardware is precise and specific, but most would be surprised to see code that has to pump values in registers on some CPUs to get the value to stick, and these are some of the most important and specific components of computing, and this is one tiny example of tricks software has to do, to function on 'properly working' aspects of hardware. If malicious software has access to hardware, especially a generic I/O interface, it is no longer secure. (This one reason a lot of hardware device drivers and interfaces in Windows were moved inside WinRT/UWP, as it has 4 or 5 layers of security and isolation over traditional drivers.) That sounds like a conspiracy theory... ALL theory and no evidence. Any actualy chip/hardware/circuits of that to happen?
    1 point
  38. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    And this article doesn't suggest they do. True, but reality does suggest so, as there are endless examples. Mentioning it once again in this article for the willfully ignorant would be excessively redundant. :)
    1 point
  39. I think it is because of distractions & dumb people.
    1 point
  40. But at least it allows local companies (that must pay taxes) to fight fair and square.
    1 point
  41. Neowin.net Minecraft Server (Old Server)

    Server restarted.
    1 point
  42. I presume the phones are not personal phones and are given to the employees by Amazon, which in that case, Amazon can ban what they like. The company I work for has a few apps they want us to put on our own phones, there are some stock apps and Yammer. I said if you want me to do that then supply the phone. Anyway i keep my phone in my locker. The only thing I have got on my phone is a scheduling app, so I know what my hours are, I could use the computer and print them out each week. They used to print them out and hang them on a wall, but since the Virus started, that have stopped.
    1 point
  43. Your Phone rolling out multiple device support for Insiders

    Yes but remoting in and simply accessing the info is very different, this allows you to view the SMS's on the phone and reply on your PC via your phone. I use this every day to respond to messages when I'm on the computer and also quick way to take a photo and download it to the PC
    1 point
  44. I was, they have been working on this for years and they were always going to release it when it was ready. It's an exciting time to be a Mac/Apple user because the new machines will be very interesting. Fast, thin, fanless and should be faster than ANYTHING else in that class of device. Not to mention all the millions of iOS Apps run on these new machines. I am sorry, where do you get that these machines should be "faster than ANYTHING else in that class of device"? Millions of touch apps running on non touch devices. Great. His butt.
    1 point
  45. Good grief! it's their own hardware? And they have it blocked on their own devices?
    1 point
  46. I was going to say that as well. The headline is weird... it's not despite, it's because of COVID19. Aside from needing a PC for at-home work or school, the stimulus check also meant people had some money to spend. I upgraded two of my families PCs with some of that. While I like to build my own, it's likely some people used that money to get one ones.
    1 point
  47. Alexa can even replace Cortana on Windows Let me guess, it's also available everywhere whereas MS claims that "Cortana is not available in your region" (Yet it's available in the neighbouring country that speaks the same language...)
    1 point
  48. UK telecom firms warn of blackouts if Huawei banned

    Because it is a company "backed" by the government of China, and they are not a regular company managed by corrupts and cretins. They are the cretins that kill people and they are good at it. Also, the spread of Coronavirus is thanks to the government of China.
    1 point
  49. Linux Mint 20 beta arrives without Chromium browser

    Too much to undertake most likely. That was the whole reason Canonical went to making Chromium into a span as it took up too much resources for them to support (non-LTS current verison, lastest LTS, and previous LTS releases that are still supported).
    1 point