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I'm an Apple user (iMac, iPad, iPhone) at home and have been for about the last 7 years. Prior to that is was 20+ years of various PC's using Microsoft OSes. At work it's been PC's with Microsoft OSes for 30+ years. I've used PC's from at least a dozen different vendors - many of these vendors are out of business or were bought up by competitors.
BillWoodruff wrote: Concern for the customer/consumer ? That is something I would never associate with Apple.
I call BS!
The attention to detail of my Apple products (both hardware and [most] software) far exceeds ANYTHING I've seen from these various PC makers or Microsoft. On the 3 times that I've needed support from Apple Customer Care it has been great - compared to the dozens of average (at best) or terrible support cases I received from Gateway, Compaq, Dell, Acer, Televideo, IBM, etc...
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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While I entirely agree that Apple should standardize on USB C for its iPhone / iPad port I do question where you got the information the the "rest of the world" is already there. Samsung is the only other rational choice for smart phone / tablet and they're still doing micro-USB AFAIK.
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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I didn't say "the rest of the world is already there". I was breaking up the Lightning/USB-C usage into two camps: Apple and the Rest Of The World.
The Rest Of The World isn't there yet.
Frankly I wish the ROW would use Lightning, not USB-C. The slim, bendy inside contact on micro USB and USB-C are my bane. Lightning is a very elegant, sturdy solution.
cheers
Chris Maunder
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Chris Maunder wrote: The Rest Of The World isn't there yet.
Nor are we sure they are even heading there. People assume but who really knows?
Chris Maunder wrote: Frankly I wish the ROW would use Lightning, not USB-C.
Agreed but it will never happen. 1) Apple likely charges a licensing fee for "Lightning" and 2) even if they didn't the ROW probably wouldn't go there purely out of spite.
Chris Maunder wrote: The slim, bendy inside contact on micro USB and USB-C are my bane.
Amen!
In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem. ~ Ronald Reagan
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He wants to fix the bluetooth and NOT the headphone jack 
Press F1 for help or google it.
Greetings from Germany
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AFR: "Steve Wozniak says Apple must fix iPhone 7 Bluetooth or revive its headphone jack" [^]
«There is a spectrum, from "clearly desirable behaviour," to "possibly dodgy behavior that still makes some sense," to "clearly undesirable behavior." We try to make the latter into warnings or, better, errors. But stuff that is in the middle category you don’t want to restrict unless there is a clear way to work around it.» Eric Lippert, May 14, 2008
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Indivara wrote: To paraphrase, future thieves might capture your fingerprint and photo without touching your iPhone.
Hilarious!!! Way to think outside the box.
When I read the title I thought it was a great idea and funny to capture the thieves like that.
Then I read your comment and you are exactly right. The owner's fingerprints and picture will be on there ready to be purloined by hackers.
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For years roboticists have been looking into using softer materials for parts rather than the usual metal and plastic — sometimes even building entirely soft robots. But this Octobot from Harvard is the first that not only contains no hard parts but is also entirely autonomous. All hail our future gooey overlords
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Well - the first one we can discuss in this part of the site anyway...
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If you listen to the voices out there in our industry, organizations must release software at a breakneck pace if they want to survive in this consumerized, instant-gratification world of applications. "One foot on the brake and one on the gas"
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A group of academic researchers have figured out how to use off-the-shelf computer equipment and a standard Wi-Fi connection to sniff out keystrokes coming from someone typing on a keyboard nearby. Here's 97.5% of my repl
Yes, the math doesn't work on that one.
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I don't get it. Is that supposed to be a wireless or wired keyboard?
It still don't make sense, unless they are trying to mesaure the distortion of a wifi signial by the sound waves from the keyboard.
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I think other researchers have shown wireless keyboards (at least the cheap ones) leak the key data.
However, this one is measuring finger movements (like Kinect, but actually being used for something):
Quote: WiKey takes WiHear lip reading to an entirely new level by detecting finger, hand, and keyboard key movements.
TTFN - Kent
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Not quite, they're capturing the distortion of the signal by the movement of objects (your finger tips) within the RF field.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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That's kinda cool and scary at the same time.
What do you get when you cross a joke with a rhetorical question?
The metaphorical solid rear-end expulsions have impacted the metaphorical motorized bladed rotating air movement mechanism.
Do questions with multiple question marks annoy you???
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So now I guess you have to carry something that will distort the siginals that you are Not using in order to counter this.
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Rather than go through all the expense and effort to capturing my keystrokes, they can just ask me what I'm doing.
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You don't normally get to give presentations at DefCon or BlackHat for that sort of approach.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Wouldn't that be hard to do with different keyboard layouts (like the ergonomic keyboards)? I can see that working for a single type of keyboard, but with different types it would become much harder.
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Apple has patched three high-severity iOS vulnerabilities that are being actively exploited to infect iPhones so attackers can steal confidential messages from a large number of apps, including Gmail, Facebook, and WhatsApp, security researchers said Thursday. Fortunately, no one uses those phones, right?
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Yep don't click on those links in text messages.
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People need roughly 23 minutes to go back to their tasks after a major interruption, but the plot deepens if you’re a programmer. Sorry to interrupt you with this news
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Whaddyasay?
#SupportHeForShe
Government can give you nothing but what it takes from somebody else. A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you've got, including your freedom.-Ezra Taft Benson
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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I usually need however long the next episode of The Walking Dead is.
Marc
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