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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
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  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. Source and video: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/robert-de-niro-money-net-worth-wife-payment-grace-hightower-a9611791.html 😢 Maybe we can start a gofundme?
    1 point
  35. It's secured by the T2 security chip which has a FULL 100% jailbreak published on the internet to gain unrestricted access to it, so no, it provides absolutely nil security. "It's secured by the T2 security chip which has a FULL 100% jailbreak published on the internet to gain unrestricted access to it" Nope. This is 100% safe.
    1 point
  36. Big brain and big PPBUS! ftfy.
    1 point
  37. Apple warns against the use of physical camera cover on MacBooks

    The diode on a macbook pro is part of the power line for the webcam, it dies - then webcam fails to function. Then what happens depends on whether you get it repaired or not. This is just not accurate, see my post above with just a couple of layman examples of ways around light indication from the same power source. (And I didn't even dip into tricks of using other devices to do things like reverse polarity to powered the camera with a failed bulb/circuit.) It would be nice if it was this simple, and I'm sure it gives people comfort at some level. If someone really wants, there are 'magician level' tricks to make hardware do things that seem impossible.
    1 point
  38. Are we talking about Surface devices or Android phones?
    1 point
  39. EU wants the U.S. to come back to the table on digital taxes

    I liked it better when you only had to pay sales tax on online purchases if the vendor had a physical presence in your State.
    1 point
  40. 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. with how often the EU tries to use American tech companies as their rainy day fund some how I think they would have already done it by now if they could.
    1 point
  41. 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. That might change in the near future. Everyone has asked questions like how Apple would implement touch screen without dealing with the same woes as Microsoft has with Windows just not being inherently built for touch. Now you go look at the notification bar on Big Sur, and tell me that might not signify the eventual marriage of a touch screen to a Mac... kinda like how trackpads are now functioning on iPad Pros. I realize this is all speculation, but it makes perfect sense to me at least, and I'm sure many would agree and it could also mean the death of the touch bar as well.
    1 point
  42. Your Phone rolling out multiple device support for Insiders

    I'm spoiled. I was part of the Windows Phone generation that got the messaging app in Windows 10 that seamlessly allowed SMS from my computer or my phone. This allowed me to keep working at my desk and never have to take my phone out to reply to something and made it so stinking easy to copy+paste web links. Then we got the god awful transition to using Skype to do the same thing. It was hit and miss if an update would completely wipe our your ability to use what was so effortless before. Then they added Cortana support. This allowed you to bypass some of the Skype nonsense and get back to having a handy way of communicating with someone that prefers SMS. Then all of that started going away, not from bugs, but from conscious decisions to disable the platform(like, changing the Cortana phrase to use to send an SMS three times). I finally made the jump to a Mi9 last year and have been going through the hell of YourPhone. I don't know if they moved some of the Skype team in or what, but it's the same "I just got a new version, what did they break?" scenario all over again. Once it decides to stop disconnecting, I've literally spent hours uninstalling/clearing/reinstalling/restarting trying to get my phone and computer to relink since there's zero diagnostic information letting you know what's going on. I eventually realized that my vain attempts to have Your Phone on both my work and home computers created some sort of issue with their poor internal design. When I focused on only getting one PC connected to my phone, it cut down the times I had to reinstall by probably 80%. Over the last several months, it's been relatively stable. When it decides to stop syncing, I just have to restart my phone and computer and tend to be able to get reconnected without having to reinstall/relink everything. Now my only incredibly frustration is the insane ongoing bug where someone sends me an SMS. The notification shows part of the message properly, the contact list shows the preview of the message properly, but in the actual message window it shows something I wrote sometime within the last several days. When it first happened, I had to exit out and start it back up to get it to properly refresh. Then last weeks update got it to the point where I could just scroll up a few pages and come back down and it'd show the proper message. Then they updated again and I have to click on a different contact and go back to see the proper message. It's not some sort of visual glitch either. If what it decided to replicate was a url, I can actually click on it and it'll launch Edge. https://aka.ms/AA8s1cv https://answers.microsoft.com/...0193-4a40-b67e-7d55e238d7d0
    1 point
  43. "despite coronavirus" ?? Coronavirus is the reason it was increased. More people were stuck at home and they either needed entertainment or something more capable than crappy phone with tiny screen and no way of multitasking while doing a conference call... You know, all the things you can with a PC that has multiple screens and proper tools to control it...
    1 point
  44. Musk is just another lying POS. There is absolutely no way any Tesla can ever be a "Level 5", it simply doesn't possess the hardware necessary for it. And with the ######-poor quality of Teslas, I wouldn't trust what they put out anyway.
    1 point
  45. I want the stock to go for $20000 to. I got in at $250.
    1 point
  46. And just think for about $5,000 on top of the price of your Tesla, you can also be a BETA tester. Ugh.
    1 point
  47. But Sony is using a dedicated I/O decompression and storage chip to handle all of the SSD streaming, decompression of Kraken, etc. This was very well documented in Mark Cerny's presentation, where he emphasized that Sony did this with dedicated hardware, and that it would basically not use any CPU resources what-so-ever. Go watch Mark Cerny's PS5 tech presentation where he thorougly go through it in detail. I think he knows a thing or two about console design.
    1 point
  48. Well ... can't really hate their decision because of this: "you can either get a refund for your purchase or a free upgrade to the Harmony Elite" Good on Logitech ...
    1 point
  49. Not only is the game not for sale on the Switch - it's included at no additional cost if you have a Switch Online subscription - you're not forced to buy something you already have. Just play the version you have.
    1 point
  50. 8 iOS 14 features Google should bring to Android

    Toy OS for toy devices.
    1 point