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systemd is just an inferior version of launchd.

.c and .h files in top-of-trunk systemd as of a "git pull" done a minute or so ago:

$ find . -name '*.[ch]' -print | xargs wc -l | tail -1
252223 total

.c and .h files in launchd-842.90.1, which opensource.apple.com claims is what's in OS X 10.9.2 (did they just release 10.9.2?):

$ find . -name '*.[ch]' -print | xargs wc -l | tail -1
26790 total

Yes, that's almost a factor of 10.

They don't supply shit to law enforcement - their policy says that the device has to be shipped to Cupertino in good working order, where they will do the data extraction only with a proper search warrant or court order. The data is then provided on optical media:

Specifically, the user generated active files on an iOS device that are contained in Apple’s native apps and for which the data is not encrypted using the passcode (“user generated active files”), can be extracted and provided to law enforcement on external media. Apple can perform this data extraction process on iOS devices running iOS 4 or more recent versions of iOS. Please note the only categories of user generated active files that can be provided to law enforcement, pursuant to a valid search warrant, are: SMS, photos, videos, contacts, audio recording, and call history. Apple cannot provide: email, calendar entries, or any third-party App data.

See section I of the linked document, entitled "Extracting Data from Passcode Locked iOS Devices".

Uh... look at what they can extract and the devices. They can do nothing more than Apple can.
See for yourself.

And it's been mentioned in the comments before, but it's worth repeating. Apple's iOS security briefing is excellent reading.

systemd is just an inferior version of launchd.

https://support.apple.com/kb/h...

If passcode-protected whole phone encryption is enabled, no one should be able to access that without the key. I guess they know how it works more than I do. They've even redefined encryption. It's "encrypted" just like everything else these days. I guess it's still technically encrypted even if everyone has a key.

Not everything is encrypted. According to the guidelines:

Specifically, the user generated active files on an iOS device that are contained in Apple’s native apps and for which the data is not encrypted using the passcode (“user generated active files”), can be extracted and provided to law enforcement on external media.

So, data can only be extracted if it is not encrypted. Sounds reasonable. Of course it would be better if everything was encrypted.

Hey, let's link to the actual document in question! What a novel concept!

http://www.apple.com/legal/mor...

Good news:

- Apple cannot track a phone via GPS, nor forcibly enable Find My Friends/Find my iPhone

- Apple cannot monitor FaceTime or iMessage conversations since they are end-to-end encrypted

- Apple cannot provide third-party app data that is encrypted since the files are encrypted with the user's passcode.

- It appears if the user does a remote wipe before law enforcement can get a warrant and ship the phone to Apple (or fly it there), then there is nothing that can be done. I wonder if they power up the device in an anechoic chamber so it can't receive the remote wipe signal? I would guess no because most people aren't smart enough to do an immediate wipe.

- We already knew the only trick they have as far as encrypted files goes is a custom firmware that bypasses the max attempt auto-erase and rate limit feature, so it can attempt to brute-force passcodes quickly. However it requires the attempt be made on-device, since the keys are stored in the secure storage with no facility to get them off-device. So even a moderately complex passcode is effectively unbreakable, let alone a good strong password.

Questionable:

- user generated active files (this is what SMS/call logs/photos/etc are listed under). Normally if a device is powered off and rebooted, I was under the impression that these things were not available because the files are encrypted. It seems that iMessage is at least encrypted here, but I would be curious to find out what the situation is. Everything except photos, videos, and recordings is a moot point because you can get stuff like SMS history and call logs from the carrier anyway so those are the only ones I'd be concerned about.

There are some definite good points here - Apple has chosen not to build themselves backdoors or workarounds, presumably because they can't be ordered to disclose information they don't have access to... same reason they built iMessage the way they did. A court would have to order them to refactor their software before it could order them to intercept messages, and at least in the US there is no precedent or law that can compel them to do so.

However I would expect the âoeuser generated active filesâ to be encrypted after a device reboot until the passcode is entered. If that is not the case, Apple should fix it pronto.

I would also expect Apple to refactor the storage of those things to be segmented, given the NSA revelations and increasingly authoritarian behavior of law enforcement; for example, photos pending background upload could be kept unencrypted, but once uploaded they should be rewritten as encrypted so they require the passcode to access. They already have the ephemeral key tech and per-file key support so you can generate a key for the unencrypted file while the device is unlocked, then toss the passcode key when the device locks and only hold onto the file key until the upload is finished, then toss it. Thus no risk to the main key but you can still encrypt the file in the background.

I won't bother discussing Android phones - they are almost all trivial to break and access all the user's data, when people like Samsung aren't coding back doors directly into the firmware.

If you read Apple's document, they make it pretty clear in Section I that they're talking about extracting data from an iOS 4 or later iOS device that is passcode locked and in good working order. Besides which, not all of that data goes through iCloud (e.g. call history, audio recordings (unless you're backing them up), etc.).

Moreover, they've detailed the security of their iCloud offerings before, and what I noticed immediately is that while SMS texts can be extracted according to this document, iMessages are not listed, suggesting this isn't just an iCloud backdoor. Likewise, if they were able to access your iCloud stuff, they'd have access to a whole lot more, such as calendar events, e-mails, and any third-party data you had backed up using iCloud Backup.

https://support.apple.com/kb/h...

If passcode-protected whole phone encryption is enabled, no one should be able to access that without the key. I guess they know how it works more than I do. They've even redefined encryption. It's "encrypted" just like everything else these days. I guess it's still technically encrypted even if everyone has a key.

RealMadrid App - TV In-App Purchase - 4.99

How much was your cable again? Did it cost more than $4.99?

But surely you would do the same, no? Or would you really drop nearly $250 on an operating system?

...err, not really. I mean, seriously - my missus looked at the same situation and decided that she really didn't need Windows for anything.

For my own new laptop, I found my own slightly costlier solution, but it works well for me. It has been working like a champ for almost year now, in spite of the abuse I regularly give it (which is, so far, longer than most laptops hold up under my not-so-tender mercies.) I keep Windows 7 around on a VMWare Fusion partition, but that's about it.

For better privacy there is a search engine app, Search GUI. http://www.searchgui.com/ The mobile app links are: iPhone/iPad: https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap... Android: https://play.google.com/store/... Amazon Fire: http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ... Search engines like Search GUI can get a fair chance to compete with Google. Search GUI does not track any user information at all. The mobile apps don't even have ads. Has an interface built specifically for touch and mobiles/tablets.

There are altenate search engines built specifically for mobile. One example is: Search GUI: http://www.searchgui.com/ The mobile apps for Search GUI: https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap... https://play.google.com/store/... http://www.amazon.com/gp/produ... Search GUI also have better privacy in that they don't track any user information unlike Google/Microsoft.

Apple battery replacement service

Regarding your first question, Apples rules are openly published in the Apple forum.

If they are, then please help me improve my Google query. I tried Google site:discussions.apple.com review guidelines, but the result still said suck it up and pay $99 to read them.

You replace the battery.

For people who want to pay the apple tax:
https://www.apple.com/batterie...

And the rest of us will just find cheaper ones online.

1) Set phone to "silent".
2) Put it on the passenger seat, face down.
3) There is no step 3! (Except for "have an ounce of willpower to not pick it up and check Twitter at every light.")

If you MUST see SOME info -- eg., calls from important people, just skip to step 3.

Optional: on an iPhone with iOS 7, swipe up and press the moon icon for "Do not disturb." Exceptions can be configured in Settings. I'm guessing Android has, or will soon have, something similar.

But if you want the phone to read your mind -- "don't alert me unless it's *really* important" -- then Step 1 is "Invent A.I."

Does Roku get software updates? If so, update it, duh, problem solved. Else buy a Roku 4 or yet another content-specific dongle. Let me guess, that "Amazon Fire" I'm learning about from your postdoesn't do iTunes/Apple TV stuff, and the Apple TV doesn't do Amazon stuff?

I don't know the answer to that question, but regarding Yahoo.. I've also just found a Yahoo app is advertised on the Apple TV, under the name of Yahoo Screen (maybe it's not an "app", it's a "channel"? or whatever the hell they call that thing)
http://www.apple.com/appletv/w...

well, for adding video/pictures to your device, this works just fine for me: http://store.apple.com/ca/prod... Not as nice as having it all on the inside, but it does let my ipad 1 have access to more movies...

For all current customers on iOS, here's the fix: 1: Install the new ComiXology app. 2: Leave a one star review in the App Store. 3: Launch the app, go to Purchases and hit Restore in the purchases tab to sync Apple purchases with the web 3: Log into comixology website to use the $5 voucher they gave you. 4: Download Marvel https://itunes.apple.com/en/ap..., Image https://itunes.apple.com/jp/ap... and DC https://itunes.apple.com/en/ap... apps. Check purchases have synced to those. 6: Delete both ComiXology apps and Use Image / Marvel / DC instead.

For all current customers on iOS, here's the fix: 1: Install the new ComiXology app. 2: Leave a one star review in the App Store. 3: Launch the app, go to Purchases and hit Restore in the purchases tab to sync Apple purchases with the web 3: Log into comixology website to use the $5 voucher they gave you. 4: Download Marvel https://itunes.apple.com/en/ap..., Image https://itunes.apple.com/jp/ap... and DC https://itunes.apple.com/en/ap... apps. Check purchases have synced to those. 6: Delete both ComiXology apps and Use Image / Marvel / DC instead.

For all current customers on iOS, here's the fix: 1: Install the new ComiXology app. 2: Leave a one star review in the App Store. 3: Launch the app, go to Purchases and hit Restore in the purchases tab to sync Apple purchases with the web 3: Log into comixology website to use the $5 voucher they gave you. 4: Download Marvel https://itunes.apple.com/en/ap..., Image https://itunes.apple.com/jp/ap... and DC https://itunes.apple.com/en/ap... apps. Check purchases have synced to those. 6: Delete both ComiXology apps and Use Image / Marvel / DC instead.

They've god plenty.

There are much better tablets out there for your money. The iPad doesn't have a (Micro)SD card slot, so they only way to get more storage is to pay $100 at each increment.

Well first, there is a potential for reading MicroSD cards, though I'm not sure how useful it actually is. Either way, I think you may be making the mistake that tech-guys on /. have been making for many years, often when criticizing Apple products-- confusing technical specs with end-user utility.

Taking to an extreme, it's like, "Ha, Ha! Snort! My home-built computer is obviously better than your home-built computer. My computer has a Generation 7 Cube X284 Doodad included, while yours only has a Generation 6 Cube X284 Doodad. As a result, I can get 123 frames per second while running Crysis 3 while you can only get 117 frames per second!" And the guy you're talking to is like, "Dude, I use this thing to write email. It's way overpowered for what I need anyway."

Now it's not as bad as that. I'm sure some people do use their MicroSD card readers. But many people don't care about technical specs and don't need a bunch of ports, because they won't use it. You have a Surface, and you like it, so it sounds like that's the right product for you. Many people would be upset about the lack of available apps, and meanwhile for many people the ability to run a powershell script means nothing, because they don't know how to read, write, or run a powershell script.

So all I would want to point out is that it's not as simple as "there are much better tablets out there for your money." I would sooner say, "There are a handful of good, high quality tablets out there, and depending on how you're going to use your tablet, one of them may be a better purchase *for you* than the iPad. On the other hand, if you have a Mac and iPhone, use iTunes and iCloud and the iTunes store, have a bunch of iPhone apps already purchased, and you essentially just wish your iPhone had a bigger screen, than the iPad is a no-brainer." Believe it or not, there are people like that.

please explain how the hard profit percentage has anything to do with the eating everyone else? apart from that your figure of 45% is nonsense unless its from before 2004 (earliest I could find figures for),

Apple has never released profit for divisions as far as I can tell. Doing so would give too much advantage to competitors. Apple does release overall profit.

I've just gone and looked through apples own figures for divisional profit and they are not even close to your 45% figure

That would be impossible as Apple does not release divisional profit numbers.

apart from iphones and iphones are rapidly losing worldwide market share.

Last time I checked profit and market share are not the same thing. A company can be wildly profitable and have a small market share.

According to Apple's website 2GB is the minimum for Maverics: http://support.apple.com/kb/ht...

They also say a 2009 or later mini, does the small difference in processing powre really make a difference then?

You can buy optical cables for your current Thunderbolt connection. Here is a 33ft one: http://store.apple.com/us/prod...

Are you sure about that? I tried signing into iCloud with the credentials I use for iTunes, and it said "Your Apple ID must be used to set up iCloud on an OS X or iOS device before you can use iCloud.com."

Did I go to the wrong place? Or can I set up an account even if I don't own a machine?

Oh Interesting. http://www.apple.com/icloud/se... . Seems that iCloud no longer supports account creation directly without at least one OSX or iOS device. That's a change.

Sure, how?

Looks like it only has a "lightning" interface: http://support.apple.com/kb/sp...

  Plug the cable into the android charger. You know, the same way you plug the micro-usb cable into the Apple charger to charge the Android phone.

i know, you use your USB 2 Lighening dongle?

Sure, how?

Looks like it only has a "lightning" interface: http://support.apple.com/kb/sp...

i know, you use your USB 2 Lighening dongle?

I'm sad to say I have to agree with Curunir... Apple has this nasty habit of breaking adapters for reasons I can't understand and then failing to provide a way to intermingle the old and new ones without buying a new computer. The new magsafe adaptors come to mind.

You mean the new magsafe connectors that have a $10 adaptor that Apple sells to convert between the two?

Oh, sorry, you were making an uninformed Apple bash for karma, sorry to interrupt with something as trivial as fact.

http://store.apple.com/us/prod...

So by that token the car manufactures can say they are following a standard (the one they made) just like apple did with their dock connector?

Granted (and you probably already assumed this) i dont have an iphone but several coworkers do. I often hear then trying to borrow other peoples chargers/cables . Care to enlighten me as to why they cant just use the standard "micro-usb" cords on their desks that they use to charge our work-issued phones? I can charge my non-apple phone on the same cord i use for my BB without issues.

My guess is they forgot their $21 "adapter"
http://store.apple.com/ca/prod...

You using an Apple adapter or a knockoff?

The lightning adapter is Apple - not sure if any knockoffs exist at this point. But, apparently, it depends on the Alpine deck you have, and the cable used to connect to that. I guess it's complicated.

What are you talking about? Apple has released the source of every version of the core OS X stack from 10.0 to 10.9.0 (including 10.4.9):
http://opensource.apple.com/

You can even recompile your kernel and swap in your replacement. Occasionally they take a little time to post it (I don't see 10.9's point releases up yet), but it gets there.

Why anyone holds these people up as innovators of industry is beyond me, they did not invent ...

Invent != Innovate. I'm glad that you can admit that you don't understand the industry, though. Admitting ignorance is the first step in learning.

Energy conservation doesn't need to equal depraving ourselves of something. The usual tips about not leaving the lights on in empty rooms are fine, but you can apply the same reasoning for more modern things.

A small example would be Netflix. You can use a small box like an Apple TV, which has a 6W power supply, or something like an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3 and use from 10 to 20 times more power for absolutely no reason.

Try to reduce your daily energy usage whenever possible. The first one to benefit is yourself, via a lower power bill at the end of the month.

Here you go, the source for it, found in five seconds on Google:

http://www.opensource.apple.co...

You could have checked yourself if what you were going to say was actually true, but I guess that just wasn't a priority.

Really, did you miss the whole goto fail thing, where everyone was looking at the source? Of course, the number of ACs back then crowing "stupid Apple should have stuck with OpenSSL, which is thoroughly vetted by thousands of eyes!" gives me the feeling that ACs will have a very selective memory about the whole thing now.

What replacement?

CommonCrypto.

It was my understanding that when they depreciated OpenSSL they just asked software vendors and users to bundle/get the latest version themselves. Which means that a lot of OSX servers _are_ vulnerable while Apple can claim OSX is not.

Nope, they said to use CommonCrypto.

I seem to be doing okay with just one remote. It's not even a so-called "universal" remote. Just a cheapo programmable one that came with my AVR.

As I have things configured now, my TV is the only device out in the open in my media room. The rest (aside from whatever game controller I'm using) is tucked away in a closet. Rather than deal with tedious wiring or ugly devices next to my TV, I use one of these, which I cannot recommend highly enough, to get IR signals into the closet where I keep my devices.

As for the remote itself, the only thing I had to do to it was install that little product and look up the code for my brand of TV in the remote's manual so that I could use it to turn the TV on. All other controls (changing inputs, adjusting volume, etc.) are handled via the AVR itself, and the AVR turns on automatically as soon as the TV comes on, thanks to the HDMI cables CEC feature, which took quite a bit of configuring in the AVR's and TV's settings to get working as expected. The Apple TV took awhile to get working too, but once I discovered that the Apple TV itself has a Learn Remote feature that can work with any remote at all, everything clicked in place. As a result, I was able to ditch my Apple TV remote and the Wiimote-like remote that came with my LG "smart" TV in favor of the boring AVR remote that has about 10 buttons I actually need to know.

See how easy that was to get three devices working? You just need to understand how to program a remote, program an Apple TV, configure multiple devices to use CEC, and hook everything up correctly. I'm sure any layman at all could do the same in a few minutes.

(in case it's not obvious yet, I agree with your point)

If Jobs was so great then why did NeXT, a company completely controlled by Jobs, do so poorly?

NeXT is doing quite well.

This is different for a few reasons.

When you buy music from iTunes, Amazon, or Google Play you can download the content and store it locally without DRM.

No. If you download iTunes songs they have DRM unless you pay extra for the "iTunes Plus" service which makes each song more expensive. So there is an option to get the non-drmed version but I doubt very many of their customers understand the difference.
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht...

Google does the following: Google Music will take control of playlists and hide any cloud-sync'd mp3s in a special folder with numbers for names (eg. 100.mp3, 101.mp3, 102.mp3, etc)

Amazon will only let you download the files to a single authorized device. There are ways around this, but again, most of their users wouldn't have a clue.

Long story short, if any of these companies drop their music service MOST of their customers would lose their songs. DRM or not.

OSX used to come with X11 as a separate install but they've stopped doing that. It appears they're supporting an open source http://support.apple.com/kb/ht... XQuartz project which does the same thing though.

My recent experience with the Mac App store (if a newer version won't work on your hardware, you're SOL and can't get older versions that do work)

Not true. If there was a previous version on the Mac App store that would have worked, it's still available.

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT...

Apple does have centralized management. http://www.apple.com/ipad/busi...

If it's the same shitty Kodak SmartReview applet that I've had to work around, you can still install Apple's Java 6 from here: http://support.apple.com/kb/DL...

Works fine on everything up to and including 10.9.2. Also works with Juniper's shitty HostChecker and JSAM applets.

This is news to me and this information sheet from Apple. Which device is causing the issue?

It's hard to find a downloadable movie trailer nowdays (and you'd think this is something movie studios WANT me to have, because it is an advert for their product).

That I blame on the rise of YouTube, because the traditional trailers site is still around. (Who knew that Apple still maintains one of the big official trailers site?). Veronica Mars site. It's a touch tricky downloading from it these days (it always "requires Quicktime Pro" but there are ways around it The other way I've found is via iTunes - you can have it download the trailer there and get at the MP4 file that way.

Other than Apple, I have no clue where else to get trailers - it just seems Apple is the de-facto standard in that department, other than YouTube.

It's hard to find a downloadable movie trailer nowdays (and you'd think this is something movie studios WANT me to have, because it is an advert for their product).

That I blame on the rise of YouTube, because the traditional trailers site is still around. (Who knew that Apple still maintains one of the big official trailers site?). Veronica Mars site. It's a touch tricky downloading from it these days (it always "requires Quicktime Pro" but there are ways around it The other way I've found is via iTunes - you can have it download the trailer there and get at the MP4 file that way.

Other than Apple, I have no clue where else to get trailers - it just seems Apple is the de-facto standard in that department, other than YouTube.

https://itunes.apple.com/us/ap...

There is an x server for the ipad...

Check out their whitepaper, it's a very interesting read: http://images.apple.com/ipad/b...

Make note of the security question options such as:

In what city did your parents meet?
What is the first name of your best friend in High School?
What is the last name of your favorite elementary school teacher?
What is your dream job?
What is your favorite children's book?
What was the first album that you purchased?
What was the first film you saw in the theatre?
What was the first name of your first boss?
What was the first thing you learned to cook?
What was the model of your first car?
What was the name of the first beach you visited?
What was the name of your first pet?
What was your childhood nickname?
Where did you go the first time you flew in a plane?
Where were you on January 1, 2000?
Who was your favorite film star or character in school?
Who was your favorite singer or band in high school?
Who was your favorite teacher?
Wnat is the name of your favorite sports team?