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Apple's Chief Of Security ARRESTED After Trying To Bribe Police With iPads, for Concealed Weapons Permits....
Apple's chief security officer has been charged with bribery for allegedly offering to donate many iPads to the Santa Clara County Sheriff's Office in exchange for concealed carry weapons permits for Apple employees.
Thomas Moyer, Apple's head of worldwide security, was indicted last week as a part of a two-year investigation into the sheriff's office, the Santa Clara County District Attorney's Office said Monday. Moyer allegedly agreed to donate 200 iPads worth $70,000 to the Sheriff's Office in exchange for four permits that had been withheld from Apple employees, the District Attorney's Office said during a statement.
The deal was scuttled in August 2019 when Sheriff's Department officials involved within the scheme learned of the District Attorney's investigation into the department's concealed carry licenses, the DA's office said.
Also indicted within the scheme were Santa Clara Undersheriff Rick Sung and Capt. James Jensen, who allegedly requested the bribes, the DA's office said.
Apple is headquartered in Santa Clara County, the guts of the Silicon Valley .
Earlier this year, Apple was granted a short lived restraining order against a San Francisco man who allegedly showed up at Tim Cook's house with a bottle of champagne and flowers, on another occasion entered the Apple CEO's property without permission and made threatening statements.
Neither Apple nor Moyer skilled requests for comment.
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Martin Tello
Silicon Valley News Team
Elon Musk Takes Over Earth's Orbit - Inside The Plan To Launch 10,000 Satellites Providing Internet Access To The World...
Starlink is SpaceX's attempt to provide internet access to the world by deploying more than 10,000 satellites. We explain what to expect from Starlink's early internet services, and what the massive increase in number of satellites might mean for the future of stargazing and space traffic.
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Thanks To Silicon Valley, Trump May Be Getting An Unexpected BOOST - Putting A Re-Election WIN Within Reach...
But first, given today's political climate and bias seemingly everywhere, you should where I approach these topics from.
This Isn't Another Report From An Outsider, Looking At Silicon Valley Like It's Some Kind Of Alien World or Magical Land...
I was born and raised here, worked in tech since I was 15 and photoshopped a drivers license to say I was 18 (remote work at what was the biggest ISP at the time) - I'm in my 30's now so I can publicly confess this.
The goal isn't to make you think less of Silicon Valley - my mood is a lot closer to someone confronting a friend who needs to break an addiction, this is an intervention.
Politically, Sorry To Say - I'm Not On Your Team...
I don't get how it works out this way, but somehow conservative friends say I'm too liberal, and liberal friends say I'm too conservative.
A better way of looking it may be to say I'm also not against your team, somehow maintaining friendships with people on both ends of the political spectrum hasn't been a challenge even as the country becomes more divided.
Before they deleted a single tweet, suspended a single account, blocked the sharing of the first URL killed a single YouTube channel, for political reasons.
Alright, that introduction was to properly frame what comes next - for the reasons above I'm uniquely qualified to dive in head first - favoring no one, and sugarcoating nothing.
Let's take a closer look at what is happening now, in a 'cause and effect' format.
Note - the tech companies agree with that statement, it isn't just my opinion. In fact, they always end up on the same page as me, following a 'review' of their actions that lasts for a couple days and ends with them reversing their decision.
The more this happened the more impulsive and emotional they began to appear. While eventually reversing their poor decisions, after the review takes a couple days the damage is already done, and you see how sloppy some of these companies are from the first step to the clean-up that follows.
This is where everything went to hell - when it is now commonplace for these companies to say 'oops, looks like our staff made some irrational choices after losing control of their emotions - we are reversing the actions taken' - I hope the companies involved discuss this in more honest terms privately than they do publicly, because they seem to pull the same trick every time, pretending some new bit of information they didn't have before just came to light, and now they see where they went wrong. This is never really the case.
The best example happens to be the most recent as well - the story about Hunter Biden's laptop data published by the NY Post, twitter deleted all tweets about it, suspended the publication's account, and added the URL to the story to their official blacklist. typically reserved for virus infected links.
But here's where it gets REAL CREEPY - Twitter staff began creating their own stories about the data, apparently so emotionally attached to the Joe Biden family that they invented a story about the data being obtained illegally, via hacking.
Problem is - not even the Bidens' were saying this!
Even worse - the NY Post article included that their source was a legally obtained laptop (left behind for months with bills unpaid at a computer repair shop.)
Let that sink in - Twitter ignored the real story of how the data was obtained, which was already right in front of them, and instead went with an excuse they created themselves - believing their version would help the Biden campaign the most.
While Twitter boldly scolded anyone attempting to share the story, giving them an error that they are not allowed to post it, Facebook also helped in the cover-up, but with a more covert 'throttling' method - where people can post it, but virtually no one sees it.
Another recent incident involves Twitter suspending Mitch McConnel's campaign account for "posting threats"... except the video he posted highlighted threats made against him.
If An Employee Anywhere Else Made A Mistake That Brought A Company This Much Bad PR, They Would Be Terminated...
Has anyone been terminated? None we know of, and honestly I picture these situations ending with a final pat on the back between allies working towards the same political goals.
The Hunter Biden/NY Post decision was reversed with what should be an embarrassing explanation that from now on the 'hacked content guidelines' will only apply to hacked content.
They gave an equally cringeworthy response when reversing Mitch McConnel's ban, basically saying "Upon review we determined he was not posting threats from himself, to himself, which would be against the rules - but rather discussing the topic of threats, which is allowed." - I'm paraphrasing, but it truly is that ridiculous.
This is where things get scary, because you realize that none of the companies mentioned here have someone who offers raw, emotionless, rational opinions at the highest levels of leadership. Because the fact is, this clearly isn't worth doing, and somehow they still haven't caught on.
We Are Adults Capable Of Reading Anything Posted By Anyone, and Coming To Our Own Conclusions...
These tech giants have the power to do things that mankind has never done before. The tools they have at their fingertips would have been the ultimate fantasy of the world's past dictators and authorities.
Imagine you're watching Netflix, then the picture freezes - a voice begins speaking, saying that the staff at Netflix decided this would be a good moment to encourage you to read, you've watched enough reality tv trash.
The actions of these tech companies are equally disturbing!
Feeling entitled to this level of control over other adult's access to information feels like someone playing the role of a self-appointed god... but nobody prayed for this.
Is the power so intoxicating they're truly unable to see how ridiculous they look?
The Consequences: There is Now A New Block Of Voters Created By The Blacklash Silicon Valley Brought Upon Themselves. The New Issue Of Tech Companies Ruining The Internet And Violating Free Speech is Their #1 Issue.
"I'm as Liberal as it comes but it's clear the tech overloads have lost their minds. What liberals were saying they can't handle seeing some stupid republicans opinion online? I get excited when I see it and follow many of them just so I can reply to their posts it and tell them they're idiots" a user on Reddit says, summing things up perfectly.
This is how it's supposed to work no matter which side you are on.
So what could be going on in the minds of people working so hard to do something nobody wants?
“I've decided it's better that you don’t see any of it - for your own good" I can't think of a better example of the mentality of superiority that infects Silicon Valley at it's core.
They really believe their mind can handle seeing everything, but the risk of you not being smart enough to come to the right conclusion is just too high, with this they are revoking the option for you entirely.
Silicon Valley leaders have become so dangerously oblivious to how they appear from outside of their bubble, they don’t get that they now are the creepy person saying that to other adults.
Casual voters who would vote Trump if they made it to the polls, but also had a 50% chance of just not going through the trouble of voting - they're now fully committed to voting today. The idea of telling 'big tech' that they 'do not control freedom of speech in America' is the reason why.
Because the tech companies always favored 1 side in literally every case, they created a situation where voting for Trump is viewed as the only way for the average American to respond to Silicon Valley's latest actions.
Last week every news outlet was sharing data that concluded with something like 'Trump has 1 in 10 chance of winning'. Biden even announced his campaign was over and there would be no more Biden campaign events.
Then as the most recent censorship issue with the NY Post happened, everything started changing. Switching between channels today it seems like every newscast was talking about a 'Trump path to victory' and the statements about 'impossible odds' of a Trump win have seemingly disappeared.
The Biden campaign reacted by completely reversing their decision that the campaign was complete - they now have Biden back out on day 3 of a non-stop blitz of battleground states they considered won - but are now in play again.
In what may be the biggest political plot twist of my lifetime, Trump may win re-election, and Silicon Valley may be the sole factor that brought him across the finish line.
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Author: Ross Davis
Silicon Valley Newsroom / Twitter @RossFM
Ross@TechNews.City
Ross Davis is the Editor In Chief at the Crypto Press Association, and a journalist syndicated via both Apple News and Google News. For stories unrelated to Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency he will also now be found on TechNewsCITY!
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New Tech Allows For Containers That Contained Hazardous Materials To Be Recycled!
High-density polyethylene is one of the most frequently used plastics in the manufacture of containers for the storage of hazardous substances. After their use, these containers are classed as hazardous waste. In order to recycle them, any remaining hazardous residues must first be eliminated.
In Europe, traditional cleaning systems involve a three-step cleaning and rinsing process that is applied to the ground plastic waste, known as triple washing and rinsing procedure. The process uses large quantities of water, a large amount of energy, chemical cleaning products. This procedure thereby generates a large volume of wastewater that requires subsequent treatment. At the end of this process, the ground plastic material is free of hazardous substances and ready for use, yet the aggressive nature of this cleaning procedure usually undermines the quality of the plastic itself. This is why this treated plastic is often used in applications of low added value.
LIFE EXTRUCLEAN: Project was launched in order to mitigate the drawbacks of this conventional recycling process, improve the final quality of the plastic and enable the material to be used in its original application.
LIFE EXTRUCLEAN: is a European project involving five Spanish companies, which have joined forces to develop a more efficient decontamination and recycling process for polyethylene plastic packages that have contained hazardous substances.
This technology is based on the use of supercritical carbon dioxide; supercritical fluids have been successfully used by the food, wood and leather industries in extraction processes. Supercritical carbon dioxide is inert, inexpensive, highly-available and is not harmful to the environment. It has also been shown to be highly efficient in the removal of hazardous substances, arising from organic solvents and pesticides. This makes this technology perfect for the removal of contaminating substances.
In the LIFE EXTRUCLEAN process, two of the three washing and drying stages, used on the traditional decontamination methods have been eliminated, employing supercritical carbon dioxide at the extrusion stage during the polyethylene recycling process.
This new process reduces water consumption, the use of cleaning agents and energy use. It results in less wastewater and its associated sludge. After being used, the CO2 is purified and reused in the cleaning process, preventing further emissions into the atmosphere. Because carbon dioxide is an inert gas, most of the mechanical properties of the decontaminated plastic are conserved. This means that it can be reused in applications calling for better quality plastic, such as in manufacture of new containers for hazardous materials.
These helps to close the life cycle of these plastic materials. At the pilot plant scale, this new technology was found to be nearly 70 % more effective than other traditional decontamination procedures.
These results will be corroborated at the last phase of the project, where the process will be applied at the industrial scale.
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