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I know we shouldn't feed the trolls ...

1. As opposed to the thousands of **new** bugs introduced??

You don't know what the fuck you are talking about. You doesn't have a clue how programming _actually_ works. _Why_ you think there is staging for deployment??

* In Development
* In Production

Because sometimes (critical) bugs get introduced and need to be sufficiently tested to see if they break anything BEFORE being deployed.

You're assuming that the patches are bug free. Oh gee, look, Microsoft pulls patch -- only a complete moron would blindly trusts Microshit.

2. Your opinion isn't doesn't mean jack shit. You have absolutely no right to tell other people what software they use (or don't use) on their computers. Get off your high horse already.

Here's a nickel, kid. Go buy yourself a clue because you're intellectually bankrupt.

From their patent:

An ARES facility with a 3,600-foot elevation difference between upper and lower storage yards and an average inter-yard grade of 7.5% will be able to charge or discharge at 1,000 MW while providing 8000 MWh of net energy storage.

So an actual site would be 1000m rather than 100m, and would have many, many trains. Keep in mind that it's actually large blocks of mass that get stored, not the rolling stock. So there may be a train of four carriages that pick up heavy weights (say, 250t each), move them up to the top of the mountain for storage, and then come back down to for another load. Plus, many sets of carriages could share the same track and there would be many tracks in parallel.

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Only if you count all the out of date crap. I dont count ANY phone not running Android 6 as ...

It doesn't much matter how you count. For example, here's a graph of new phone shipments. Android phones are more than 80% at the end there, and climbing. Here's one for actual sales. The best you can say for Apple here is that they are bouncing around under 25% (with Android over 75%). This has been going on for 5 years now, so installed base graphs should (and do) show almost the same picture.

On the plus side, since this has been going on for 5 years now, there's no good reason to believe Apple's 20-25% of the market is suddenly going to go away. There's also, of course, no good reason to believe it will enlarge.

Official investigations are quietly under way.

But who will watch (or protect) the watchers? Crane started blowing the whistle in 2002, so if there was an effective process for investigating his reports, you'd think it'd have concluded 14 years later...

If the assistant inspector general supervising the whistleblower unit can't figure out how to safely be a whistleblower without getting hammered, then who can? Ironically, the image of a whistleblower is that the whistle immediately alerts everyone to an issue. How's that worked out for folks?

unless you want to share printers and files in network

Your Linux box can share files through FTP, NFS, CIFS (via Samba), BitTorrent, or any of several other free services. If you're willing to run proprietary apps on a free OS, you can also use Dropbox. As for printers, a Mac or Linux box running CUPS can share them with any other Mac or Linux box running CUPS.

unless you want to open a docx file someone sent you

LibreOffice Writer has opened every .docx I've thrown at it, but I admit that my work flows have not included mailing a file back and forth several round trips for revisions.

unless you want to fill PDF forms

In this comment, another user reported success using recent versions of the free Evince or Okular to fill in PDF forms in a manner that Adobe Reader can read.

unless you want to use samsung / brother / canon / not HP printers

Any PostScript printer should work fine.

unless you want to scan images

As you pointed out, HP printers work wonderfully. And so do HP scanners. This is why I've made a point of recommending HP to friends and family members: if someone's printer is an HP network printer, I can print from Xubuntu on my laptop.

unless you want to extract images from smart phones
unless you want to transfer files to smart phones

Say what? I've connected my aunt's iPhone to my Xubuntu laptop and was able to see the files. As for Android, modern versions of gvfs can mount MTP over USB, but I usually use the FTP server in Cheetah Mobile's file manager to move files on and off my tablet's internal storage.

i sure can.

https://www.google.com/search?...

The Local cabelas have several AK-47's that are modified to be semi-auto on the shelf, and they even have an AR-50 sniper rifle as well as Gen 3 night vision scopes.

I even recently bought a Siaga 12, a semi auto modified version of a full auto 12GA shotgun. Perfect for home defense or even sandblasting when loaded with bird shot and a 30 round drum.

Removing spying background services on an open system like Android is easy: either don't install the Google stuff (or remove it), or disable it selectively:

1. Root the phone (it is YOUR phone, you're the boss).
2. Install a service manager like https://play.google.com/store/...
3. Open it, go to system, open Google Play Services.
4. Disable AdvertisingIdNotificationService, AdvertisingIdService, AnalyticsIntendService, AnalyticsService and AnalyticsUploadIntendService.

Now open Google Settings and see that your device does not have an advertising ID anymore. The above method kills most, however some apps collect their own data and don't let it go via Google so watch out what you install.

This article misses the critical point that the Project Ara phones will no longer be upgradeable.

From the Project Ara website: "The Ara frame contains the CPU, GPU, antennas, sensors, battery and display..."

The whole concept behind Phonebloks, which grew into Project Ara, was that everything was to be upgradeable. When a new CPU came out, you could just upgrade the module. If you wanted better gaming performance, you could drop in a better GPU module. If you needed a larger battery, or if the current battery performance was poor, you could swap it out. If you wanted a better display, you could just upgrade the module. The idea was to create an ecosystem when you didn't have to replace the whole phone if a new upgrade came out.

Yes, the new Project Ara is modular, but only to the point of secondary functions. Key functionality (ie. Display, CPU/GPU, battery and cellular) is not modular, and therefore not upgradeable. This goes completely against the original concept of Phonebloks and Project Ara.

False, no level playing field, no competition.

As I said, the market for this kind of transportation still is reasonably free in the US. Official taxis (and the rent-seeking townhalls, that sell "medallions") fight Uber and Lyft and others equally. The playing field is quite level and the competition certainly exists.

Some other markets — such as insurance, Internet-service provision, or education to name a few — aren't as free, but the solution there is not to add more regulation, but to lower barriers to entry to encourage new players appearing.

The same utility poles, that carry Verizon's and Comcast's cables to houses on my block, can easily support cables of 5 more providers, for example. But governments make it too hard for would-be newcomers. Just look at Google Fiber's map — they've rolled out primarily in the "flyover country", because those "rednecks" still prefer their government smaller than the "urban sophisticates" of the coastal metropolises.

Care to post a link?
Because what I read and experienced (having both a son and a daughter) contradicts what you state.

1. Sure, here you go. I said a lot of reading, remember?
2. You do realize that anecdote is different than data, right? I stuck qualifiers in there like 'average' and 'basically' for very specific reasons.

1) obsessed with the cars and planes (we bought our daughter all kinds of them, because, fuck 'girl/boy' toys model)
2) tends to speak less and has inferior language ability in general
3) shows next to no interest in listening to stories, unless there is a car or a plane involved, his sister would eagerly listen and then repeat the story ("read" the book)
4) is much much less cautious than sister

Your #1 is right in line with expected behavior for a male child. Also, your noting that you bought your daughter 'all kinds' is ALSO right in line with expected, because as I noted, the observed behavior with children was that males tended to go for 'male' toys almost exclusively, while females went for both.
2. I didn't address this, now did I? Also, easily explained by individual variances between children.
3. Again, individual variance, and actually in agreement with my posted theory. Narrower interests for men, remember?
4. Different caution - I didn't address this either.
Where's the contradiction?

DNA is what really makes us different, why should we behave the same?

... Didn't I just get done saying that we don't behave the same? I mean, I was outlining detected differences in toy preference! Still, some WTF in your posts.

1a. Define "unique chromosomal pattern", because the only real difference is XX vs XY. Women don't have any genes that men don't, though hormones make them express differently.
1b. Outliving men is a known issue, not sure of it's relevance here.
1c. Citation on the 140 males conceived? I know about the 105 to 100 thing for male babies, and I also know it's even by 16 or so, because males die more often in childhood as well. Was getting ready to rant before I saw that you were talking before birth.
2, 3, 4, 5. Don't see how this is relevant...
6,7. No duh?
8. Not a blood expert, women having less physical endurance than men is known.
9. No duh?
10. Relevance?
11. Repeat from #5
12. Citation? Heat tolerance is more a function of hydration.
13. Relevance?
14. Again, I was mentioning the differences between toy selection. Not that men and women are identical.

So my questions are:
1. Did you intend to reply to me?
2. Did you actually read my post?
3. Do you do more than paste some sort of standard reply in?

I mean, I already know most of what you posted, it's just that I don't bring it up if I don't think it's relevant. For example, bring up a thread about how badly women have it over men and I'll bring up how more men commit suicide, are homeless, suffer from mental illness, are in prison, die earlier, etc... How there's virtually no shelters for abused men, how while male rape is rarer than female rape, the reporting rates are drastically worse(and female reporting sucks to begin with), and there's virtually no support for them - one raped male was referred to a rape prevention hotline intended to 'help' men thinking about raping women! And that's just a sample list, not comprehensive, about how men have it crappier than women.

Would've figured it was higher due to being closer to the equator. The high for a U.S. city (i.e. not Death Valley) is 128 F (53 C). Several cities matched or exceeded 121 F during that heat wave. Yeah, India tends to have more humidity than Arizona, but a quick check of the weather in Phalodi says today's humidity is 11%, indicating it's also a desert-like environment.

In response to the fact that this audio fingerprinting -- at least the researcher's implementation of it -- relies on ajax.googleapis.com, I'm thinking that hosting all that shit locally and redirecting googleapis.com to 127.0.0.1. I have no idea if it would work, but it seems necessary. : (

Also, I don't trust "smart" blockers like Privacy Badger (or Ghostery, or Disconnect). Instead I use RequestPolicy Continued to block all cross-site requests by default and whitelist things manually.

Unfortunately it is become more and more complicated to keep one's information off the internet. Multiple solutions are required:

1. Use a hosts file that blocks ads / tracking cookies / spam, etc.. mvps.hosts.txt
2. If you use Chrome always browse in Incognito
3. If on Windows periodically run Spybot Search and Destroy
4. Avoid Fazebook, LinkedIn, and other data-harvesting sites
5. Use Privacy Badger
6. Always deny contacts
7. Stay off the internet as much as possible.

I'm sure others will post more tips.

Unfortunately it is become more and more complicated to keep one's information off the internet. Multiple solutions are required:

1. Use a hosts file that blocks ads / tracking cookies / spam, etc.. mvps.hosts.txt
2. If you use Chrome always browse in Incognito
3. If on Windows periodically run Spybot Search and Destroy
4. Avoid Fazebook, LinkedIn, and other data-harvesting sites
5. Use Privacy Badger
6. Always deny contacts
7. Stay off the internet as much as possible.

I'm sure others will post more tips.

Relevant bug

Backstop, nuff said: https://chrome.google.com/webs...

Dunno. I'll help us out, here:

https://www.google.com/#q=Bing

https://www.google.com/work/se...

Okay, but you still haven't said what you think YouTube should do.

If the owner of the video is signed up for revenue sharing, the comments here seem to indicate that flagged video revenue is kept by Youtube or sent to the copyright owner, even after the DMCA claim is resolved in favor of the video owner.

It's not at all surprising to me if YouTube doesn't retroactively figure out what payments were made to who and when due to that video and attempt to take back funds that were paid to the wrong party and pay them to the right party. Just thinking about what would be involved in that makes me shudder. What a pit of snakes. Especially since if YouTube did that they'd need to do it in all cases, even when the money involved is trivial.

If the money isn't trivial, then it seems to me that the uploader would have a slam dunk civil suit to recover the loss. If the court determined that the copyright owner's actions were willful, I think treble damages would apply. The uploader would have to subpoena YouTube to get the records of payments to the copyright owner, but I doubt that would be a problem.

That still leaves open the possibility that a big copyright owner regularly makes claims against videos it doesn't own in order to extract the little bits of revenue while the process is followed. But YouTube keeps track of "strikes" and will eventually shut down channels who upload too much content they don't have rights to, or content owners who make too many claims to content they don't own, or shouldn't control.

A correction of that is one step in the right direction.

That step seems likely to land YouTube in a lot of litigation.

Also, I don't think individual content owners (aka "the little guy") can sign up for content ID.

According to the web site, the requirements are that you must own "exclusive rights to a substantial body of original material that is frequently uploaded by the YouTube user community". Based on the categories offered on the sign-up form, I'd guess "substantial" means you have to have a couple of dozen works. And, of course, they have to be "frequently" uploaded by the YouTube user community, which I take to mean "often enough that policing them manually is difficult". My guess is that this last point is the key one, since the sign-up form also asks if you've sent takedown notices in the past.

https://www.google.com/search?...

Nope, because he knows that freedom is that he does what he wants to and you do what you want to. He says this explicitly several times and obviously values self determination.

Hate to break it to you, but you don't want freedom. You want do to what you want to do with no consequences. In order to fund this you have no problem forcing other people to do things they don't want to do. You want slavery for them and freedom from reality for yourself.

It appears there are many Chrome extensions that implement these types of features:

Tab Position Options
Tabs Plus
Tab Position Customizer

It appears there are many Chrome extensions that implement these types of features:

Tab Position Options
Tabs Plus
Tab Position Customizer

It appears there are many Chrome extensions that implement these types of features:

Tab Position Options
Tabs Plus
Tab Position Customizer

Such a small fragment of truth you should have at least tried to verity. From a quick Google search the number is more than 140 lawsuits filed by one company (Monsanto) against farmers. This does not include any of the other companies performing genetic modification or licensed by Monsanto to use their seeds and their lawsuits.

The fragment of truth is that one lawsuit made it to the Supreme Court who upheld Monsanto's rights to sue.

The second tiny fragment of truth is that one patent expired. There are hundreds of thousands of seeds on patent.

All that said, when Monsanto goes after a specific farmer even if the patent is expired the claim generally puts farmers out of business.

The problem is not GMO as much as shit business practices who ensure that consumers get fucked because competition does not exist. A pox on all the people modding down anything that can possibly be perceived as anti-GMO.

Have you looked at the suits? The only guys Monsanto has brought cases against are those that were using Monsanto seeds without buying them from Monsanto. The very simple problem farmers face is choosing to buy seeds from Monsanto and using Monsanto seeds, or to not use Monsanto seeds. In both those cases, Monsanto is never gonna darken their door with any legal action. The only time Monsanto comes after farmers is when they attempt to use Monstanto seed without buying it from Monsanto.

You're free to disagree with Monstanto's right to do that if you wish, but don't misrepresent the situation by projecting your own biases, Farmers are making their own choices and if they aren't make the choice you think is the right one it's really none of your business.

Which Royal Dutch Shell are you talking about? I'm looking at quote.yahoo.com, RDS-B, and it says the yield is 3.76.

RDS.A and RDS.B are the same company. The difference is one stock is denominated in Euros and the other in Pounds Sterling. Otherwise they are the same. Current dividend yield is close to identical for either. Currently hovering at around 7.4% and has been bouncing between 7-8% for a while now.

Furthermore, the stock has gone between $36-$64 in 52 weeks (rounded), as opposed to Apple $90-$133.. So RDS had a much bigger percentage swing in a year..

That's a function of the swings in the price of oil recently. There currently is a surplus of oil on the market so unit price of oil is down and thus so are energy stocks. The price of oil will head back up eventually and so will the stocks along with it. Frankly now is a pretty good time to buy oil stocks like RDS and XOM. Those companies aren't going out of business, the stock price is low but the company fundamentals are solid and unchanged, the companies are still hugely profitable and the dividend yields are outstanding.

Yes, it is a troll. "Why does this matter?"

>Interesting the timings of those - does no harm - reports coming out - Glyphosate is due for renewal in the EU in July (or so).

This is completely missing the point. In March 2015 the IARC (Internation Agency for Research on Cancer) reclassified Glyphosate as "probably causes cancer in humans". Ever since then there has been a constant bombardment of pro-GMO and anti-anti-GMO articles popping up.

You are not up-to-date on this, that's not just "an article" of "many" going for and against :

https://translate.google.com/t...

The 18-member working group called Joint Meeting on Pesticide Residues, short JMPR had met from 9 to 13 on May WHO headquarters in Geneva. The experts took this no own experiments, but evaluated from available data.

The results are in a six-page summary to find the meeting. They confirm the core an earlier assessment of the European Food Safety Authority food safety (EFSA). Here one came last November also concluded: A carcinogenic effect is unlikely if the agent is applied as intended. The decisive factor was an assessment of the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, because Germany is the rapporteur responsible for Community inspection and evaluation of the plant protection product.

States: No risk for consumers based not on their own research but by evaluating existing data. And that's pretty close to the cut-off date on end of June this year.

Nightingale, ick hear you trapsen ...

http://www.marketwatch.com/inv...

Such a small fragment of truth you should have at least tried to verity. From a quick Google search the number is more than 140 lawsuits filed by one company (Monsanto) against farmers. This does not include any of the other companies performing genetic modification or licensed by Monsanto to use their seeds and their lawsuits.

The fragment of truth is that one lawsuit made it to the Supreme Court who upheld Monsanto's rights to sue.

The second tiny fragment of truth is that one patent expired. There are hundreds of thousands of seeds on patent.

All that said, when Monsanto goes after a specific farmer even if the patent is expired the claim generally puts farmers out of business.

The problem is not GMO as much as shit business practices who ensure that consumers get fucked because competition does not exist. A pox on all the people modding down anything that can possibly be perceived as anti-GMO.

Like how you can look at a specific item, then back out into a 360-degree view?

Like how you can look at a specific item, then back out into a 360-degree view?

If you paid for the software then you have every right to complain. But then again, complaining with your wallet is the most effective method.

I only have Windows 10 on my laptop because I run a vinyl plotter and that's my only option.

Not exactly true...

https://productforums.google.c...

Just read the comments.

Youtube is literally stealing other people's earned ad money with no justifiable cause, and either keeping it for themselves or giving monetization rights to the entity filing the false claim.

And they know it, and they do nothing about it.

Google/Alphabet needs to be shut down. This blatant theft is too egregious to be allowed to stand.

https://www.google.com/search?...
"Including results for icahn china"

A quick google points to Carl Icahn, some kind of notable investor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
http://qz.com/673035/carl-icah...
http://www.businessinsider.com...

The crux is that they only allow it's use to musicians who have agreed to license their content to them...

I don't know how you got the idea that there was some form of licensing going on. YouTube is not reproducing the works covered by ContentID, so they don't require a license for the works.

...as they don't publish any rules.

You mean these rules?

Google scans every video uploaded to YouTube against its ContentID system. That's a few hundred hours of video per minute. This is also not the only way to enforce ownership rights on YouTube. Google is under no legal obligation to provide their ContentID service. It is the copyright owner's job to enforce their rights. Google cannot do that for them without an explicit agreement, and they have no obligation to make any such agreement with anyone. It is not part of the "Safe Harbor" exclusions, and it would not remotely make sense if that were so, since the point of those exclusions was to prevent service providers from having to police their networks.

that "Safe Harbor" law requires technical measures to be made available to everybody.

No, it requires that the service provider "accommodates and does not interfere with standard technical measures". They are not obligated to provide any such methods.

No matter how much content owners would like for the onus for copyright policing to be on service providers, it is not the case and will never be the case.

The crux is that they only allow it's use to musicians who have agreed to license their content to them...

I don't know how you got the idea that there was some form of licensing going on. YouTube is not reproducing the works covered by ContentID, so they don't require a license for the works.

...as they don't publish any rules.

You mean these rules?

Google scans every video uploaded to YouTube against its ContentID system. That's a few hundred hours of video per minute. This is also not the only way to enforce ownership rights on YouTube. Google is under no legal obligation to provide their ContentID service. It is the copyright owner's job to enforce their rights. Google cannot do that for them without an explicit agreement, and they have no obligation to make any such agreement with anyone. It is not part of the "Safe Harbor" exclusions, and it would not remotely make sense if that were so, since the point of those exclusions was to prevent service providers from having to police their networks.

that "Safe Harbor" law requires technical measures to be made available to everybody.

No, it requires that the service provider "accommodates and does not interfere with standard technical measures". They are not obligated to provide any such methods.

No matter how much content owners would like for the onus for copyright policing to be on service providers, it is not the case and will never be the case.

Assuming you are saying Toronto to Orlando, that is one hell of a weekend trip...why bother?

https://www.google.com/maps/di...

18 hours each way, did they do that with two drivers?

You mean there is NO other supplier of recording/ fast-forwarding STB in the US? That's astonishing.

Remember that the United States is the home of software patents. Other makers of DVRs that allow simultaneous playback and recording have to license the "time-warping" patent from TiVo, usually after TiVo files suit. The only other widely used DVRs are those leased by cable TV companies and satellite TV companies.

I wonder how much of this is actual consumer demand for listening to ads and the same songs every hour to avoid data overages vs. FM radio's last desperate gasp to remain relevant now that streaming is offering an alternative?

My Kyocera Hydro Vibe (Android) has an FM tuner and I use the free app NextRadio to listen to live radio, usually NPR, at work where streaming isn't available. My provider is Ting so I also don't want to burn data minutes by streaming. The app supports an ad-free basic mode, selecting stations by frequency and uses zilch data or an enhanced mode that displays album art for the current song/album playing on the local radio stations, station selection by tile and (reportedly) uses very little data. Small banner ads are displayed at the bottom of the screen in enhanced mode.

NextRadio
Supported Devices

Also: relevant to this discussion...

Back in the 1970's, this sort of thing started to show up in stores.

But also, look up "White Label" products...

I think that Hillary learned how to be evasive and deny from the best in the CIA. It's pretty amazing how many critical files and witnesses have 'vanished' since the advent of the CIA.

> Permission to scan said documents?

Adobe's Photoshop (starting back in CS2) already does that shit

The problem is, for every 1 legit case, there are 1,000 illegitimate reasons.

Bend over, Lube Up. Because your illusion of software serving your needs is just that with proprietary software.

--
Fuck You Microsoft and your Ads

Except there is no data on that troll hypothesis

Huh? Of course, there is... The average duration of marriage in a country and the number of children born to single mothers is quite well documented in most countries. In fact, it is probably better documented, than the pupils' Math-achievements.

A number of such studies have been done, in fact — but all I'm hitting are "paywalled" results, for some reason. As a matter of fact, TFA does not link to the actual study either... Khm...

That is appalling. Have you contacted MS about this?

No, because I'm pretty certain that they don't give a shit. This was a deliberate move on their part, not an accidental upgrade. You don't accidentally upgrade your whole OS by mistake...this was planned and I'm not the only one this has happened to by far. Search for win 10 upgrade locked me out and you'll find plenty of people experiencing the same thing.

At least he's not legally forcing "women", eg people with penises, testosterone, and a sexual attraction to women", to use the women's toilets. Such a well-thought-through stance you have there.

I was behind a Google car going through this intersection some months back around 6pm. The street view shows 13 people either crossing or waiting to cross; it's that busy most of the day, and even more around dinnertime. I can confirm that it did not hit anyone on the way through, though it was kinda slow and timid.

Yes

Citation needed, if you would. Injecting 10mL of any oil into your bloodstream is probably not a good idea, but the LD50 studies I've read put the level somewhere north of 130 mg/kg of pure THC (citing Rosencrantz 1983). Hash oil is potent, but it's unlikely to be better than 60% THC at best, and the higher the potency, the less suitable it would be for injection, since THC is basically a resin. As far as I have been able to determine, hash oil has a density about the same as water, so all told the average person would probably have to shoot up ~14 mL of very pure oil, and even then most of the effects would be due to physical effects of the oil rather than the neurological effects of the drug.

I can definitely see someone dying from injecting oil into their veins. However, as long as you're willing to argue fine technical points, is it still a death from cannabis if the cannabis was immaterial to the cause of death?

Sure; imagine, a guy shoots up some weed, then gets the munchies, so he goes to the store, and he doesn't see the truck coming through the intersection, but it doesn't hit him, and when he gets to the store he steps into the path of a bus, but the bus stops and honks at him, so he goes into the store, and somebody with a gun is holding up the store and shoots at him, but he misses, so he goes to another store, and he buys a bunch of candy, and later on he gets diabetes and he dies; another avoidable cannabis related death.

Some of the early WRT54G series of routers were known to be easily flashable with third party firmware. Later version were nerfed to reduce cost, but Linksys relented after a backlash from the community, and released WRT54GL, which is third-party-firmware-friendly again, even if it is at a considerable cost (last time I checked these were still going for CAD$60-70 a pop, despite it having obsolete BG-only hardware). Now, it is more synonymous to allowing third-party firmware to be installed on them, even releasing a number of other products with N and AC wifi under the same "WRT" label (look at this; a WRT1900 router that supports AC and marketed as third-party-firmware-friendly and continues its proud tradition).

If you are not that much into flashing alternative firmwares for your router, of course, you are not going to care about it anyway. However, even Google seems to know what I mean: define:WRT

And are you that thick that you do not understand that Apple had to refuse that openly put demand (or suffer a sharp drop in sales because their customers would not trust them anymore) ? Their refusal tells you absolutily [sic] nothing about their ability to enter their phones or not.

Last I checked, Apple was not "the phone company." They are a manufacturer. Maybe you are ignorant of what a "phone company" is. Let me help you: https://www.google.com/#q=phon... Do you see Apple on that page?

You original assertion was that the phone company could use their sooper dooper hacking ability to defeat encryption. Are you moving the goal posts again? I have no doubt Apple has the ability to defeat their own encryption methods on some phones running some version of ios. I have never said otherwise. When you can point out that the FBI goes to Verizon or AT&T to get plaintext on an iPhone, I will be impressed.

You wrote --> The phone company can, and does have all kinds of (often called "debugging") access to your phone you have little to no clue about, and which, even if you knew, you can't do anything about. [...] Absolutily nothing that is stored on your phone or anything your phone can do that is outside the reach of a phone company, and thus the "law enforcement" agencies.

Well, I call bullshit. I am asking you to give me proof. I asked earlier and you wanted me to do your homework for you. You want me to prove a negative.

Yes, rather voluminous ... What was it, way less than 50 IIRC.

Your memory is either faulty or you are willfully ignorant. On Slashdot, articles have reported between 100 and 400 at the Federal level and many more if you add in local cases awaiting resolution of the New York case resolution before litigating. A New York Manhattan Prosecutor is on record for 175 himself.

Citation: http://abcnews.go.com/Technolo...

Comey himself mentioned the following: He (Director Comey) also said that since October 2015, the FBI has examined "about 4,000 digital devices" and was unable to unlock "approximately 500."

How many of those devices were actually encrypted?

Citation from Ars Technica: http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... and Reuters: http://www.reuters.com/article...

Pardon me ? If the FBI has the Law on their side, why should they start with threats ? What you are saying there is that those feds legally have nothing to go on, but try to bully others into doing their bidding anyway.

You do realize that is what TFA is about, right? The FBI threatening more litigation against tech companies using encryption by default.

And yours speeks [sic] loudly of plain-old gullibility. Don't blindly believe everything you read, especially if the ones claiming something have much to win by you believeng [sic] it.

I do not believe everything I read, including you. I am still waiting for you to cite one single case where a "phone company," which is an entity distinctly different from a phone manufacturer, hacked a cell phone for any law enforcement agency and successfully defeated encryption permitting them to prosecute. I do believe that Apple does have the resources currently to defeat encryption on some of their phones. I also believe that Apple will work to remove that capability to prevent being caught in the position of being "bullied" (as you said) again, provided the Burr-Feinstein bill goes nowhere. And as I