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Comment hardly difficult to get a better tracker anyway. (Score 1) 108

googling "amazon tracker device" turns up plenty of better options than airtags - things that are small, cheap, have longer lasting batteries, and importantly _won't alert the person I"m tracking_.

Obviously Apple can't argue that stalking was "unforeseen" since they added the anti-stalking features in there, but there comes a point where I don't think there is much that can be done and the technology isn't unreasonable to have as a regular consumer - at some point there is only so much to be done and it's the person doing the bad thing that is the one you have to go after. (I'm pro-gun control, but I'm anti-"sue gun manufacturers", or "sue the makers of cars that are efficient at mowing down people", etc.)

Comment Re:Who is at fault? (Score 1) 94

I dealt with this on my MB Air and Pro running El Capitan, you just need to download and import the certificate into Keychain and you'll be right.

Chrome uses the system's certificate store, whereas Firefox uses its own - I didn't realise that at first and was really confused about why one worked and not the other. But the fix for you is actually really really simple, download the cert, add it to keychain, and set it to trusted. You download it from letsencrypt: letsencrypt dot org slash certs slash isrgrootx1.pem

Comment freed from payments? how/why? (Score 1) 102

"freeing the customers from any installment agreement payments" - but they still have the phone, the lock is just an awful stick forcing people to stay with the network - but unlocking the phone doesn't free them from their obligations under whatever contract they made with AT&T.

Comment you win some you lose some (Score 1) 469

while there is an issue with govts making these rules over private companies, the private companies also draw benefit from laws that allow them to escape liability for anything they publish on twitter/facebook/etc. If you draw protections from the laws then you also accept it comes with obligations. If they're claiming to moderate away opinions, then they're more active than being a mere neutral conduit of data - if they choose not to allow some covidiot's post about 5G nanobots, why are they choosing to allow JaxxensMommy15's defamatory posts?

Fortunately for most of us it played out that the tech giants with big platforms are skewing left, but if they were right wing and arguing that they can ban left wing idea with impunity - would everyone be saying it is all fair and good? I remember years ago the constant posts about why net neutrality was required, and ISP's should be treated like common carriers.
 

Comment 'predefined' (Score 1) 622

I admit to only a quick scan through of the patent doc - but if they're 'predefined' paths, whether or not this is dismissed as prior art, does it count as a predefined path if you nominate your end points to swipe, or just have a swipe in some general direction e.g. left right, or up/down anywhere on the screen... then there was the Android style of sensing a swipe pattern. Would these fall foul? or only an iOS style "here is the predefined one way to unlock" built in to the OS?

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