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Comment The Feds demonstrate the risk of all app data, not (Score 2) 56

"the investigators found that each email address was the Apple ID used for an iPhone, linked to an iCloud account where data from the phones was periodically backed up. The agents were later able to obtain search warrants for the two iCloud account" Isn't this the exact equivalent of what the US Govt says it's the risk of TikTok? As a US citizen, I'm worried far more about my data in the hands of the US Govt than in Chinese Govt hands.

Comment Skip DDG and just buy Bing (Score 1) 94

Apply should skip over DDG and just buy Bing from Microsoft, and turn it into a private search for their use case (Safari on iOS, Safari on Mac). DDG offers very little value add that apple couldn't build in a month. What the heck is Microsoft going with Bing anyway? They have hardly driven value out of it or kept up with Google.

Comment Nothing more than rebranding (Score 1) 138

>> Google Pay combines features from both Oh, you mean like what they *originally* had with Google Wallet, before splitting in Wallet and Android Pay? So they are just RE-combining then. Whatever the market dynamics -- and I am not sure why people don't agree on what those are -- nothing Google is doing here will change the situation.

Comment it's not just numbers, it's influence (Score 1) 370

A casual look at LinkedIn shows that Loggly isn't "nearly all male". Of 39 current employees, 30 are male and 9 are female: so 77% -- high, but not "nearly all". Another stat on Loggly: Liz is the sole female among 20 engineering/QA/Support people. And reasonable people in the field will agree with the statement "software engineering is male dominated". Step outside of engineering and you'll see women often dominate HR, PR, Marketing, and Sales. That's not the case at Loggly, but women are certainly better represented here: of 14 the Loggly employees in those roles, 6 of them (43%) are female. So why is tech culture male-biased? Rather than saying "tech companies are male dominated", the more accurate and nuanced answer is that (a) smaller tech companies are engineering dominated, and (b) engineering is male-dominated.
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TSA Plays Joke On Traveller At Screening 45

An anonymous reader writes "As a 22-year-old female student at the University of Michigan went through security at Philadelphia International Airport, a TSA worker was staring at her. He motioned her toward him. Then he pulled a small, clear plastic bag from her carry-on — the sort of baggie that a pair of earrings might come in. Inside the bag was fine, white powder. Answer truthfully, the TSA worker informed her, and everything will be OK. After 20 seconds of crying, the TSA agent waved the baggie. It was his, and it was all a joke. Ann Davis, a TSA spokeswoman, said this afternoon that the worker is no longer employed by the agency as of today. She said privacy laws prevented her from saying if he was fired or left on his own."

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