If it works as well as their cars, it’ll keep walking into fire trucks

Some negotiation will happen, but as long as Apple is a US-based corporation they are subject to US law and can't just ignore the US government sanctions...

since US businesses are banned from doing business with them!

> Essentially it adds discovery of available IPP servers using Apple's proprietary discovery protocol, but there are a bunch of AirPrint extensions to the IPP part as well.

Um, DNS-SD and mDNS and ZeroConf (Apple marketing name Bonjour) are IETF standards - nothing proprietary there. IPP Everywhere uses the same protocol. Similarly, none of the IPP stuff is proprietary (I know, I wrote the PWG specs...) Just the marketing is proprietary... :/

Um, the Printer Working Group has been around since 1991, and was the organization behind the creation of the Internet Printing Protocol workgroup in the IETF.

> Is CUPS used in/by iOS or does iOS works with something else?

libcups is in iOS, but the spooler is a completely different implementation on top of it.

OK, so the people involved in this study cannot verify whether all 264 cases involved an Apple watch, nor did they correlate the 41 they think involve the ECG or pulse monitoring of an Apple watch with the resulting diagnosis (or verification, for those already diagnosed), so how can they come up with 10%? If all of the cases of an Apple watch triggering a visit were for patients that already had a diagnosis of atrial fibrillation (58), then the number is 100% (all valid and potentially life saving).

If we assume that all 264 cases involved the watch, and 30 *new* diagnosis were issued, then (30 + 61)/264 or ~34.5% potentially involved atrial fibrillation or (30+132)/264 or ~61.4% involved some cardiac issue (including afib).

Regardless, the point of these monitoring features isn't to only detect new conditions, it is also to monitor ongoing symptoms and provide on-the-spot data that isn't always easy to collect in a doctor's office or while walking around with a monitor for several days to a month. Same as a car's onboard computers recording performance data that allows a mechanic to read it and more easily determine what is going wrong with the engine, etc.

I wouldn't want to try swallowing a 30x43mm "micro" robot!

Thankfully, 98+% of the network printers and a good number of the USB printers now support printing using IPP and common raster formats (many also PDF!) so the problem is much simpler than it was when CUPS was first released.

CUPS is open source, and the current license (Apache 2.0) pretty much would allow Google to do anything with CUPS that they wanted, including a fork like they did with WebKit.

Reflection or lensing would explain this - rather than independent structures moving at the same time, we might be seeing the same thing from different angles.

Publicly-traded companies must be fiscally-responsible, represent themselves truthfully (i.e. what they do and how they run things), and obey the law. Nowhere is there a requirement for the company to "maximize shareholder value" - there are plenty of publicly-traded companies whose primary goal is conservative (i.e. dependable) growth (just as there are plenty of "get rich quick" companies you can invest in...)

The notion of "maximizing shareholder value" is often attributed to the CEO of GE in the 1980's (Jack Welch)...

I can only imagine what billions of these things will so to the environment. We already have to worry about frigging sparkles killing wildlife and now we’ll have animals dying from investing these things...

Back when I had a business taking credit cards, it was a percentage (up to 3.5% at the time, it has gone up since) of the total *plus* a flat per-transaction fee ($0.30 IIRC since I wasn't a high-volume vendor). So if somebody pays for a $1 pack of gum with their card you've potentially just lost 1/3 of the purchase price to transaction fees...

The cells in your body can’t use fructose directly, it must first be metabolized by the liver (a process very similar to how alcohol is metabolized) which has all sorts of secondary effects. There’s actually a really good presentation you can watch from UCSD that shows how it all works and why large amounts of sugar and HFCS are the cause of so many health issues today.