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Comment Re:"enhanced health and safety measures"? (Score 3, Informative) 33

Props, makeup, stunts, costumes, repetitive stress injuries, simply being asked to destroy your vocal cords letting out blood-curdling screams for 10 hours straight because the director is picky and it’s crunch time you don’t have to be doing hot work in a refinery to worry about your health and safety.

Comment What do they know (Score 2) 66

What do they know with their well-reasoned conclusions based on years of research⦠people who have formed identities around being memory management wizards that have huge egos and refuse to believe that human fallibility is a real factor in large complex systems rather than a matter of personal accountability deeply feel otherwise.

Comment Every time (Score 2) 39

Every time anyone mentions anything about an Apple vulnerability the entire comment section turns into a huge pool of cringe Dunning-Krueger-fueled, smug but provably wrong, snort-laughing neckbeard idiocy. Go to any Apple forum and look to see what they say about Android or PCs when any of the trillion monthly CVEs make waves: youâ(TM)ll be looking for a good long time because nobody cares. Youâ(TM)re fighting a war with a million people that exist only in your mind based on the .05% of Apple fans that even think for a millisecond about other ecosystems. So WHO is in a tech religion? Get the fuck over it. Jesus.

Comment Re: Quit Buying From Shit Companies, People. (Score 1) 39

Yeah. It couldnâ(TM)t possibly be that people use it because it generally works well and has been readily available for 15 years on products many people already have and enjoy. If you think security vulnerabilities are somehow unique to Apple, you should get a refund for your defective brain.

Comment Re: IoHT (Score 1) 39

AirPlay != Bluetooth. Itâ(TM)s a protocol that runs on IP that lets users push video and/or audio to devices like TVs or speakers. You canâ(TM)t push audio and video to mobile devices, let alone arbitrary peripherals attached to them. It essentially works the way Bluetooth speakers and screen mirroring works, meaning the protocol has no authentication. It is intended for small home networks with standard consumer-level authentication. Connecting an Apple TV or HomePod to an open network, or not using authentication on your home WiFi network yields the expected results. That doesnâ(TM)t mean vulnerabilities should be ignored, but itâ(TM)s not like this kicks open every iPhone to unauthorized streaming audio.

Comment Re: Why are iPhones made in China? (Score 1) 213

Appleâ(TM)s design is done in the US. Iâ(TM)m a designer. I know people have have done design work for them. They design their stuff in the US because US industrial design is just excellentâ" we have a pipeline that makes a lot of high quality people on the border of technical and creative that are actually good at being creative. Itâ(TM)s the same reason so much entertainment is made in the US. Itâ(TM)s not immutable, but itâ(TM)s the case right now., and has been for decades.

Comment Re: Why are iPhones made in China? (Score 3, Interesting) 213

You do realize that these tariffs affect things other than phones right? You donâ(TM)t see how these rules applied broadly could possibly affect anything other than corporate profits? Beyond that, do you REALLY think corporations, rather than the people they patronize corporations, are going to be losing most here?

Comment Re: Why are iPhones made in China? (Score 2) 213

For the same reason theyâ(TM)re designed in the US and most Chinese-designed phones are terrible knockoffs. Workforce specialization isnâ(TM)t a bad thing. US manufacturing being so good is pure survivorship bias. If a company was good enough at doing their thing to keep making money here, then their product must be pretty great and/or require some specialized knowledge os skill American workers have. The assumption thatâ" economics asideâ" weâ(TM)re somehow fundamentally more competent than Chinese industry is pure hubris. Thinking we can somehow use economic incentive to create anything close to what the Chinese manufacture for us rather than the tariffs just siphoning more money from US consumers straight into government pockets is magical thinking. Itâ(TM)s not like nobody ever thought of doing this before â" we just learned through astonishingly painful experience that itâ(TM)s a stupid fucking idea.

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