I mean, to my understanding, if you're (eg) using AES-256 properly implemented, there is simply no known way using current tech to brute force in a reasonable timeframe. Quantum doesn't have enough qubits (yet) to be useful for this. Surely the tech advisors to Europol have told them this. So assuming this is true and all things being equal, what they're ACTUALLY asking big tech to do is build in backdoors in their encryption implementations. For all the noise the EU makes about privacy, this seems irrational.

Just wondering, considering this and other severe proposed curtailments of your liberties and rights, where DO the people of Canada stand with Trudeau? I mean, is he (and his party) widely supported, likely to be voted out or not?

As an outsider looking in, it really seems like you guys have an unhinged political leadership at the moment.

...but I would not use it. You can get a similar effect with semi-transparent windows on most GUIs, but I find it distracting. This takes it to a whole new level.

Pretty cool though, so I'm sure there will be a market for it.

"Because scientists know the speed of light, they can precisely measure the time it took for that signal to travel back to their interrogator, pinpointing the distance to the disturbance to within 10 meters, or about 30 feet"

It never ceases to amaze me what is possible with today's technology and the scientists and engineers who develop these are capable of developing.

Within 10m, that's astonishing.

I have to agree. Besides a few thousand well-heeled fans, who's going to buy this overpriced kit? And do what with it? Watch a bit of VR, play games? Over 3k USD for something which has no demand or market, it's insane.

No.

$1000 USD may be "cheap" as you arrogantly put it in the US (for a comparitively slow and entry level machine btw, where many people need the higher up models, and the prices skyrocket - do yourself a favour and go look at the apple.com configurator and see how the consumer is ripped off, or go look at https://www.youtube.com/watch?...) - but that is very very expensive anywhere else in the world. I'm not a hater, I love Apple (mac, iwatch, ipad, iphone), but I hate that folks like you bitch about people who would love to be able to afford Apple products cannot do so, because they are, undeniably, by any metric, very expensive. So please.

I'm fortunate, I can (barely) afford the higher-end models I need for my work, but I do not appreciate being egregiously ripped off by Apple for repairs, upgrades, more RAM, more storage, etc. It's a joke, and they get away with it because they do not have competition in this quality bracket.

Love my Mac, the quality and performance is second to none in a comparative form factor.

However, it's:

- staggeringly and hopelessly expensive
- impossible to repair
- impossible to upgrade
- parts are eye-wateringly expensive
- (intel based versions at least) overheat constantly with screaming fans, I'm hopeful that when I can afford an M* upgrade, this is addressed
- (intel based versions at least) apps are slow to open, ditto
- the finder is a piece of crap compared to windows file explorer (I can't even easily copy the current path for heavens sake, this in 2024)
- the touch bar is stupid and gets in the way, thankfully they've reverted to real keys, realising their blunder and hubris
- the butterfly keyboard fiasco was a comically bad design, also reverted, realising their blunder and hubris
- unrelated, but also comical: the magic mouse is overpriced junk: charging port is hilariously underneath, the click action is a joke and feels like a plastic mouse out of Shein or Wish, compared to any reasonably priced quality mouse.

I won't get into what I love, since any mac fan will know, but it's a significantly longer list.

I believe NASA is metric, so that should be 255 grams. Not ounces, or handfuls, or qubic inches or whatnot.

Is the USA not embarrassed to be in the same imperial club as Liberia and Myanmar?

Anyway, fantastic achievement by the engineers and scientists.

Oh please, spare me. What a load of hogwash. I'm sorry, anyone who watches that fake nonsense has a serious screw loose.

That's nice. However, they really need to address the dysfunctional mod system...

Google is basically saying that they have visibility of what you're browsing, even in incognito mode. Read the wording. So no, in my estimation it's pure evil.

True, but what irks me is that they've been forced to admit they record what sites you visit while in Incognito mode...

Definition of evil.

What bugs me majorly is the fact that Google is recording what sites you visit in Icognito mode. Screw them. I'm done.

All true, however, they've been forced to admit they are recording what sites you're visiting when in Incognito mode. It boggles the mind. I've ignored so many bad Google behaviours in the past, now I'm done.

Quick install/test: brave *says* it imports passwords, but it does not. Deal breaker.

Edge does in fact import everything. It does seem a bit flashy and busy (and some shit is linked to your microsoft Azure account - eg, credit card details, which is a PITA), but I'm going to give it a try and wean myself off the corrupt dribbling Chrome tit.