jackconnor

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by jackconnor 8y ago
Well yes, haha, but if they knew or should've known that what they were reported was false and it causes monetary damages, then they can be taken to civil court. So, if they are sued they will be fighting to prove that they believed th
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Oh, he was one of the named sources. Good catch, though that doesn't change the point.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
"Well it sounds like it could be real, so it's probably true" - I'm not sure why anyone thinks this is an acceptable counter-argument.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
One of the interviewees did speak (though he's not apple or amazon), and said that Bloomberg completely misrepresented what he said to support this theory, which he totally disagrees with: https://9to5mac.com/2018/
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by jackconnor 8y ago
I totally agree, I think they cobbled together bits and pieces and kind of put it together based on what they could find. The one guy they interviewed who is willing to talk said explicitly that this is what happened to him: https:/&#
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by jackconnor 8y ago
There should be hundreds of thousands or millions of these hacked motherboards, and nobody has found a single one despite hardware geeks worldwide searching like it was Willy Wonka's final golden ticket. This story was bogus, it most l
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by jackconnor 8y ago
They quadruple-checked all their audits to make sure they were actually accurate in saying "nothing here".
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by jackconnor 8y ago
If that's the only question then the answer for every major company is "guilty". I don't think doing business in china means that Bloomberg gets to make up a bunch of BS from mysterious anonymous sources without a single
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by jackconnor 8y ago
There's zero evidence at all, none, not one example of any of these hacked devices, it's all "someone I know seems to think this story could be real" which is propelling this whole BS forward based on stupid rumors and h
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by jackconnor 8y ago
The moral seems to be "Don't do anything, because there are always too many risks, many of which aren't obvious." If we followed this, nothing would ever get invented or done, and we'd still be hunter gatherers, so
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by jackconnor 8y ago
This is very unscientific, but fade-outs are the most boring way to end a song. I don't see why we need them.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
There is supposedly a huge correlation between reading speed and standardized test scores, like the SAT/GRE/GRE, which while not the point of this article is still a powerful argument for reading books as a kid. And, this could be
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Well, big argument about this was as it's technically "about" hacking, it just seems that they made most of it up. It is definitely China fear-mongering, though, so I'd say you're both right.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Yea I've noticed that too, especially the number of bogus Bloomberg articles. They get upvoted because people don't know the guidelines and just vote on stuff they find interesting, so perhaps it's a moderator who should be t
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Facebook is way too comfortable at saying things that are 100% not true, and then walking them back after the fact.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
I'm saying the premise as a whole backfired. I assume the end goal was to benefit end consumers. Now, end consumers will have to pay more for something that was previously free, since my gut says that most device companies will choose
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by jackconnor 8y ago
The point is, the many phone manufacturers who choose to do so will probably charge more now, no matter what people might be "better off with"
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by jackconnor 8y ago
I'm pretty sure this will make things more expensive for consumers, in which case I doubt they will be all that happy about it. I could be wrong, but if the phone manufacturers need to pay more for these licenses, I'm pretty sure
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Well, that seems to have completely backfired on the EU. I guess there are at least a few companies that will be happy to use Android without Google, but my guess is for the rest this is just more bottom line money out of their pocket going
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by jackconnor 8y ago
This fine is way too low to make any kind of an impact, unless some pretty serious threats were made along with it.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Interesting experience and thank you for the first-hand perspective! I do have to disagree about the competency of Bloomberg, though, they publish a lot of speculative, low-tech AI/ML scare articles that can be described at best as &qu
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Sounds like Bloomberg painted the theory they wanted to paint, and were not particularly subtle about covering there tracks. Assuming what this dude says is true, this is going to be very bad and very, very expensive for them.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Then they’re screwed, because it was them who messed up and didn’t QA hard enough. We’ll see...
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by jackconnor 8y ago
If Super Micro goes under and we discover this story was massively incorrect, can they sue for the lost market value? If so, this may cost bloomberg billions.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
They don’t say what the hack was and definitely do not say it was one of their pins. Probably some truth here, but as hard as they try, does not seem supportive of their “chinese pin” theory. Very suspicious that this is related, I’m guessi
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by jackconnor 8y ago
They wouldn’t intentionally, but they employ a lot of shady, targeted journalism to get their technoscare stories. As far as I know, they don’t have and have never seen an actual physical one of these chinese pins. Why they still ran the st
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by jackconnor 8y ago
"Moistened bint", haha. This quote reminds me just how funny their wordplay and use of language was.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Wow that's amazing
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by jackconnor 8y ago
Anyone else surprised he could get so much for it?

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