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Comment No reason against mRNA (Score 5, Informative) 149

I cannot see any reason why anyone with the slightest understanding how vaccines work would consider the mRNA part of mRNA vaccines to be dangerous.

An mRNA vaccine is injected in your body, and tells your body to produce something as close as possible to the real virus, but not causing damage. After one day, the mRNA vaccine itself dies. It disappean from your body with no trace at all. Claims that they would cause changes to your DNA are pure nonsense. Claims that they would cause autism are pure nonsense. The mRNA vaccine does nothing but convince your body to produce something similar to the virus for one day.

The advantage of mRNA vaccines is that when a new vaccine is needed, 90% of the work is already done, and has been tested in real life by hundreds of millions of people. All that needs doing is to "program" it to produce a possibly modified virus, which is about six weeks of work. It can also be programmed to produce multiple different viruses, so one mRNA vaccine can protect against multiple flu variants, or multiple flu variants and the latest Covid variant. Six weeks is much faster than what we have now, where we wait for the flu season in Australia and hope we get the same flu six months later in the northern hemisphere.

Comment Re:Bad Apple Ad (Score 1) 130

The iPhone _is_ secure by default. If any exploits are found, they are fixed. But the attack surface is reduced. If you support two image formats in lock down mode versus 50 in "normal" mode, that means in lockdown mode you are immune against exploits in 48 image formats. It also means you cannot display any of those 48 image formats.

Comment Lockdown mode is quite inconvenient (Score 1) 130

You donâ(TM)t turn on lockdown mode just for fun. For example if you store encrypted data on iCloud then only you have a key; if you lose the key your data is gone. Without lockdown mode, Apple has a second key and can restore your access. Of course that is less secure. Apple, or a rogue apple employee, or a very clever hacker, or law enforcement, might be able to access your data. You decide how bad that risk is compared to the risk of losing your data.

There is also loss of functionality. Like you cant display images in fifty formats but only one or two, because that makes it much less likely that someone finds a bug so an image in some rare format takes over your phone. Or restrictions processing mail attachments and so on.

Comment Re: RAM suppliers' profits up 52% (Score 1) 47

RAM manufacturers got into the lucky situation where demand is higher than supply. And nobody can increase capacity quickly. So the price will go up until buyers canâ(TM)t afford it.

For Apple, customers will say âoeIâ(TM)ll make do either 16GBâ instead of âoe32GB isnt that much more, so I get more RAMâ. And eventually the AI companies run out of investment money.

Comment Some thoughts (Score 1) 47

First, this doesnâ(TM)t just affect Apple, but any phone maker who doesnâ(TM)t also make RAM or chips.

If it gets bad, Apple can put a lot more effort into iOS to make it more processor and RAM efficient. Which would be useful forever. And create faster SSD drives so virtual memory becomes more efficient and phones can work with less RAM. And make it possible to turn off RAM hungry things like AI.

Comment Re:Ah, the beauty of distributed repos (Score 3, Insightful) 49

Unfortunately for the developer, the way git is is designed, every developer holds a copy of the entire source in their local master branch, and the pipelines are codified. All RockChip have to do is take the latest available copy at hand, push to a new repo provider, do some extra devops on top of it to adjust the secrets and permissions in the pipeline and it's business as ususal within 24 hours

Fortunately for the developer, anyone shipping hardware with the infringing software is legally "hosting" it and can be forced to stop shipping it unless they want to pay major fines for every copt.

Comment GPL vs DMCA (Score 2) 49

Really, if someone commits copyright infringement by shipping your GPL licensed code without the GPL license, then the simplest way to stop them in the USA is a DMCA notice. The only surprising thing is that they waited two years.

That means anyone hosting the infringing material can be sued (including for example GitHub) and will therefore remove the material instantly, and you can still demand up to $150,000 for every infringing copy shipped to third parties.

Comment Thereâ(TM)s a scam - somebody has to be the v (Score 1, Troll) 14

It seems he tried to redeem a $500 gift card that was already redeemed. So obviously _some_ fraud and some scammerinvolved. Apple decided that since they were not the ones at fault, they were not making themselves the fraud victims and pay $500 to the scammer.

Comment Re: How many people board flights at Heathrow year (Score 1) 86

So what? What damage do you think can he cause with a non-existing flight ticket except some financial damage to the airline who will be forced to fly him back to Heathrow if he managed to get to LAX, for example? He cannot even use it to give me a paper cut because he doesnâ(TM)t have a bloody ticket.

Comment Re: Security Theater (Score 1) 86

In Germany he would easily get through security, because security checks security, not whether you have a valid passport, ticket etc. You can kill someone with a knife so security confiscates your knife. You canâ(TM)t kill someone with a fake passport, and definitely not with no ticket, so thatâ(TM)s not their business. Making sure you have a ticket is someone elseâ(TM)s job.

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