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Comment Re:Outside US control (Score 5, Informative) 18

Which is why all these companies are outside US control in the first place.

We live in a global economy.

Except we don't.

They've now got no access to:
iPhones, App stores, Google phones, Amazon AWS, Azure, GCP, CPUs from Intel, AMD. No Microsoft Office/SQL. Seagate. etc. No payment processors (e.g. Visa, Mastercard) nor access to any banks that have a US entity.

Good luck to them, but they're going to find it hard to actually do business.

Comment Re:"Win for Google and Facebook"? (Score 1) 16

There was an entire paragraph.

'WifiForward, an advocacy group, said in an emailed statement the FCC decision “will make it easier for people to stay productive and informed.” The group represents companies including Alphabet Inc.’s Google, Microsoft Corp. and cable operators Comcast Inc. and Charter Communications Inc. It said the move will make connections faster and “supercharge” innovation.'

Comment Re:Author never worked for a large company (Score 1) 136

Currently work for a $60bn one, and before that worked for a $14bn one. One is a pure software company, the other was 'tin wrapped software'.

Never heard of such a presentation. Never had any training like this. Can't imagine how, in the real world, it would work since employees rarely discuss whether their employment status with others, especially outside of the immediate team they work in.

Comment In the UK... (Score 4, Informative) 73

> But other countries that are major markets for electronic vehicles -- the United States, Japan, across Europe -- do not collect this kind of real-time data.

Sure they do.

ANPR. https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2F...
Cell site locality/triangulation from the built-in-car phone.

And before anyone says 'real-time', with my aluminium foil hat correctly fitted, Snowdon showed that things are collected...

Comment Re:APFS is modern? (Score 1) 191

CPU (especially for operations like XOR for checksumming) is basically free.

'Premium storage media'. I've worked for vendors in the enterprise storage space for the past 17 years or so. Even the most expensive drives still fail in spectacular ways, from the oops (you asked to write to block 64 but it actually wrote to block 2048, but only 1/billion operations, and that's silent corruption) to the catastrophic (flying height issues, bearing issues, oil issues).

SSDs, while much better, also have software (firmware) bugs and also media issues. Trusting the media is a bad idea.

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