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> There has to be some incentive somewhere for Apple to do this. They know it's wrong, they know it will be abused.

The most positive spin I can put on it is that it has become clear behind the scenes that NCMEC and partners have put enough pressure on Congress that Apple believes that on-device scanning for CSAM content will be soon be required by federal law, and this is their attempt to define the parameters in as privacy-preserving a way they can before the actual legislative language is drafted and can't be changed.

Even if all of that is true, I don't think this was the best way to do it and it is a huge own-goal to concede ground before there's even been a public debate about it.

Far be it from me to defend Comcast, but it's not equivalent in the slightest. Comcast creates a separate network, with a separate IP, using their cable modem and the DOCSIS bandwidth available on their network. Its third-party usage does not count against your data cap, and any nefarious usage would not be associated with your own account and possibly subject you to civil or criminal sanctions.

Here are screenshots of the “service fees”:

https://twitter.com/TheSofaaa/status/1399070201925312512?s=2...

Immediately after that post, SpaceX began encrypting the streams from both Falcon 9 and Starship.

The SpaceX engineer who implemented the encryption apologized on Twitter:

https://twitter.com/skiboysteve/status/1375507358814674944

Bezos made a bet that if he assembled an unholy conglomeration of defense contractors with dozens of senators on their payroll and named it "The National Team", NASA couldn't dare not give it to him. That limited Blue's flexibility, and they lost.

Berger is very smart, and he literally just published a (good) book about SpaceX. A layperson reading the article without background knowledge would have those questions. So he, as a journalist, posed them, and then answered them (fairly, which turns out to be almost entirely in SpaceX’s favor).

It is entirely due to Prop 22.

As a bit of context, this post is entirely false — Apple has made no changes to the federal alert system — but it does serve to put a nice techie "just asking questions" gloss on a conspiracy theory promoted by L. Lin Wood that has been spreading like wildfire in alt-right circles.

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/apple-emergency-broadcast-...

Spotify announced last month that the "music industry" can start paying to put specific songs into people's recommendations.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2020/nov/03/spotify-a...

You are thinking of ULA’s Vulcan rocket, and there are indications that their engine reuse plan has been entirely abandoned. Aerojet has modified the Shuttle’s RS-25 engine design to make it explicitly non-reusable (in the hopes of reducing costs).

They mean if you get it in the real world, they will be working with your doctors because they will want to run tests to determine why the vaccine didn't prevent the infection. As a side benefit, you might get slightly more attention and better care.

I have to use containers with nvidia-docker because NVIDIA so consistently and relentlessly breaks things without so much as a glance at backward compatibility.

No, he announced that anyone wishing to be released from an NDA could contact the company “and they’ll be given a release”. He very explicitly did not give a blanket release, and we have no way of knowing whether anyone requested but was not actually granted one, because they would remain under an NDA.

(He also deleted the statement as soon as he dropped out of the race, so I have to link to Wayback Machine.)

https://web.archive.org/web/20200307041238/https://www.mikeb...

And this is exactly how this tactic works. The campaign can send dog whistles that neo-Nazis the world over will immediately recognize and appreciate, and useful idiots can come along and argue that all these blatantly obvious things are just coincidences.

LAPD underwent unprecedented reform in the wake of the riots. It’s certainly not a perfect department, but it is exponentially better than it was in 1992. You are making the opposite point you think you are. The riots and DoJ consent decrees are literally the _only_ tactics that have succeeded in the past.

The failure after the riots was that we didn’t treat it as a national problem and undertake systemic reform of our policing systems from root to stem.

For anyone who doesn't want to read the above article, GrubHub took 64% of the gross, which wasn't enough to break even on just food costs.

Anyone claiming that GrubHub is only taking a 30% delivery fee and ignoring all of the other charges they tack on to reduce restaurants' income is simply lying.

There is a federal law called the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires executive agencies to follow a process while engaging in rulemaking. Part of the process is a public comment period, and agencies are required to substantively address the concerns in public comments. If, for example, the public comment process is 99% against a proposal and the agency proceeds without having a VERY good argument, it can get struck down by judicial review.

Pai knows this, and the fact that the public comments on net neutrality rulemaking were so obviously manipulated has made people think there is at least a possibility that he, or the FCC, was complicit, in order to flout the APA. The fact that the agency has gone out of its way to cover the situation up does not inspire much confidence, either.

TL;DR: A bunch of comments on a website could result in the FCC's actions being struck down in court.

This lines up with my experience. About a year and some change ago, it was undeniable to me that Apple Maps had become markedly superior at directions than Google Maps or Waze. GM/W would routinely just be very off and give me the alert to make a turn as I was passing it at speed. Apple has made one howler in the past year or so, directing me to a closed road — recovering from that took about 45 minutes because it was in rush hour at a bad spot — but I looked afterward and I’m pretty sure Google Maps would have given me the same route. Apple Maps’ directions for which lane to be in for an upcoming stoplight or exit are also far more accurate and helpful for me.

This is incorrect. Manning’s commutation is just as immutable as a full pardon. Her current incarceration is over supposed contempt of court by refusing to testify in an ongoing grand jury investigation. A pardon for her past conviction would have had zero effect on that. Blame the judge and prosecutors if you think it is contrary to justice.

Up to three now: https://twitter.com/taylordotbiz/status/1172260257613123608?...

I am trying to assume good faith, but I confess to being incredibly confused by this post. I just skimmed the last two months of Troy’s tweets (which constitutes quite a few — he is prolific) and couldn’t find a _single_ one that matches up with any of your summations. Would you mind showing your work?

I think you might be conflating macOS and iOS. When you enable FileVault (macOS full-disk encryption), you are given the option to upload a recovery key to Apple tied to your iCloud account. To my knowledge this is not offered with iOS.

> Trump and his campaign tried to claim he was kidding. He was not. At that same press conference, minutes later, I asked if it gave him "pause" to ask a foreign government to hack into the emails of any American citizen. He said no and then accused me of trying to "save" Clinton.

https://twitter.com/KatyTurNBC/status/1017814447782580224

The contract in question was, in fact, with a totally separate company ("ECS Federal") with confidentiality agreements. The Google execs, in contemporaneous emails, knew from the beginning that it would be opposed and did their utmost to conceal it while acknowledging it would probably leak and suggesting they try to spin it in advance.

https://theintercept.com/2018/05/31/google-leaked-emails-dro...

As an independent agency, the FCC is required to have two members from a minority party, and when a spot opens up, a new member is traditionally given to the President by the minority party. (Pai was Mitch McConnell's choice.)

> Today he got fired from everything that he's involved with. The apology was career suicide.

I'm obviously not familiar with the exact situation, but I'd be willing to bet money that he had received word that it was going to become public and the apology was an attempt to appear proactively remorseful and to circumvent the consequences resulting from the forthcoming publication. (In other words, the "apology" was not the precipitating action.)

No. The iPhone 8 Plus screen size is roughly comparable to the iPhone X, but since the bezels are gone, the iPhone X is significantly smaller in physical size.

You can see size comparisons here: https://www.imore.com/iphone-8-vs-iphone-x-which-should-you-...

They do. The partial second floor overlooking mission control is the SpaceX cafeteria.

Clearing up some serious misconceptions here:

1) Austin did not ban Uber or Lyft. The city council passed an ordinance that required a gradually increasing percentage of rideshare drivers pass an FBI-approved fingerprint background check. (These rules are in place in other locales in which Uber operates, such as NYC and Houston.) Uber and Lyft formed a PAC that got a proposition on the next local election ballot that would have overturned the ordinance, then spent $9 million on a massive advertising campaign supporting the proposition. The proposition failed overwhelmingly.

2) Uber and Lyft stopped providing services of their own volition within 48 hours. Considering they abide by the same regulations in other cities, it seems pretty obvious to me that it was done in retaliation in order to show other cities considering doing the same that they will actually pull out.

3) Several upstart ridesharing companies immediately jumped into the market and were fully operational in less than a month and are complying fully with the regulations. (Examples are Fasten, Fare, RideAustin, and GetMe.)

4) RideAustin is registered as a non-profit organization, formed by several local tech entrepreneurs affiliated with Capital Factory, an Austin accelerator/VC firm. It is not owned or operated by the city in any fashion.