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No, I’m through. As mentioned elsewhere, the way you built your site makes it impossible to have a discussion if you disagree with the mob. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=387…

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As you say, it’s a method to get a coarse location and then refined using GPS which by the way does not really take time to acquire once you have downloaded the almanac and have th…

If you follow that logic the rest of the complaining, which is just your complaining, is just irrelevant whining. And if Apple is responsible for noting who owns the devices next u…

That doesn’t mean seeing an SSID means you are at exactly that location. If you are in a city you see 50 SSIDs at any given moment. Are you at those 50 locations at the same time? …

Back in the real world SSIDs are a very coarse and not very reliable way of locating devices. You are exaggerating.

One should realize that what they call ‘track user locations’ is actually ‘get a list of visible SSIDs’. Should be behind a permissions check, but not the end of the world.

If you think copying an authorization library is ‘obfuscated code which serves no other purpose’ you’re just wrong and this discussion is pointless. Ultimately either Apple will su…

No, you’re fantasizing about your philosophical position again. It’s all announced and advertised in advance, if you don’t like the way the products are advertised to work, don’t b…

That’s a totally different kind of case where the barrier to interoperability is the ability to reproduce copyrighted content, like in the case of the DSMOS chip which contains a p…

No, you’re missing the mark. If there is to be any kind of theft protection it is going to be a protection of the device from a user, either the proper owner or a thief. There is n…

They include a library from MacOS that makes it register: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38534247

While obviously the true Hacker News opinion is ‘hurr durr Apple bad’. Beeper is requesting money for illegally distributing Apples copyrighted code which they then use in a questi…

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The person is praising Activation Lock and criticizing the fact you can skip setting it up. Yet you want to turn it into a claim Activation Lock is a bad thing. Nothing more than t…

Too bad for Firefox. I don’t care; if you want to use Firefox on a phone, get an Android phone. It’s not like you don’t know what you get in advance.

The idea is you have an invention and then try to have the standard require your invention. The parties that create the standard are supposed to declare the patents they have that …

Because there are also advantages. iOS gets away with forbidding JIT execution in third party programs, so they get away with exposing no APIs that allow memory segments to be exec…

Then again, iOS is a better OS because it can get away with supporting no third party browser engines.

You better not look up what was one of the historical names of the Katholieke Universiteit in Tilburg. Apparently they actually printed letter paper.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right There is protection in a few notable jurisdictions so a violation would make the product illegal in those jurisdictions, which is a pro…

Does that make it just that the estate is honored with a credit every time the character is used?

And now that the real creators are dead, all that’s left to fight about is money. The people in the estate didn’t do the work, yes they have monetary rights, but it’s not like they…

I think the Log4j debacle makes it painfully clear that we simple can’t afford to trust application developers to keep bundled libraries up-to-date. Good idea, doesn’t work.

It’s like company A collects everyone’s phone number and then publishes it as a phone book. And then company B copies the phone book and publishes it as their own. It’s not a strai…