Its a constitutional issue because the government is asking for Apple to CREATE something for them. The government does not have the power to compel people or corps to do actual work for them. The crux of this whole issue is, "can you legally make an unbreakable lock"
I got news for you, even the government has limits. WE have reached it. There are some things that are beyond government reach, accept it, dont condone abuse of the citizenry in your pursuit of perfect justice.
Read more history. I dont think the Jews in Germany ever imagined things would ever end up where they did either. Thats not hyperbole or Godwin. History EXPLICITLY AND WITHOUT QUESTION teaches us that these powers can and WILL be abused to hurt and literally enslave people. IF they can do it to 'criminals' they can do it to anyone. Part of you earning and investing is BEING A GODDAMN CITIZEN. You dont get to completely ignore your civic duty. Where did you get that idea that your only function is to be a selfish prick and give nothing back? Paying taxes=!being a citizen or fulfilling your civic duties. Get involved and you will see precisely why people scram about this shit. Did you parents teach you nothing of the sacrifices people made to get us here? Freedom isnt free, it requires an involved and educated citizenry. Be part of that or shut the fuck up. Dont let your apathy strip others of their creator granted rights.,
I didnt say it was hard, i said it was a half-assed compromise that no one wanted. Why dont you just post 'RTFM' and go back to stroking your beard. I have been running a HTPC since before the term came to be. I have remote DVRs in two different locations (antenna for signal), with fault tolerance, automatic compression, upload and failover. i can handle the tech side. CableCard could have been a lot better, but no one cared enough to get along and do it right so we get Tuning adapters and ever-shifting channel lineups.
P.S. I use HDHomeRun Gear too, for almost a decade now..I melted a Q6600 quad core processor trying to record and compress the entirety of the 2008 Olympics. But please, lecture me more......
It doesnt work 'fine' it works ok. Tuning adapters piss me off. The one they gave me was THREE TIMES the size of the PC i was going to use (Intel NUC) to record TV on. CableCards suck because the cable companies did everything in their power to fuck it up. Its the shittiest of compromises, not a great solution for providers and consumers.
I have Cox in California, and CableCards were $2 from the day the FCC mandate requiring them to offer CableCard service went into effect. I deployed 4 HTPCs at 4 different locations that week.
You dont get it. This is the FBI's 'Rosa Parks' moment. They are using an incendiary case to force the issue that unbreakable encryption should not be allowed in casual use. They are trying to force the idea that it should be illegal to make an unbreakable lock and they are using this case to ram it home. They dont really give a shit about the data in this case, they want to cow the tech sector into not making their jobs harder.
Why dont you make him pee in a cup and wear a bodycam while you are at it... P.S im a dad that had all the tools to track my teenager, but didnt because thats not the kind of human i want to raise. Liberty includes the room to fuck up. Think about this before becoming his personal Stasi.
The right to encryption and by extension privacy is more important than any one crime. The State has to accept its limitations, not wail and moan about how its 'not fair' they cant have absolute control over humans. Some things are beyond government's reach, accept it.
Usability includes the sum total of the life of the device, including 3rd party repairs. Security is always a compromise between usability and integrity. Apple fell too far on the security side and hampered usability. For the record, i read your comment on my ipad, the only axe i have to grind is making sure we maintain a 'right to repair', which includes 3rd party parts.
And as we see, it may be useful for security, but it ruins usability (via making repairs harder than they have to be). Apple has no excuse here. They HAVE to allow 3rd party parts, just like the automakers had to eventually be forced to.,
Normal humans can and do solder/desolder these kinds of parts all the time. I order parts from China all the time.... Not sure why you got marked insightful for this...
I forget that people will happily endanger your life for a dollar. If i rented out a room, it would be a place i would feel comfortable having my mother sleep in. Apparently not everyone thinks like this.....
O look another idiot who thinks every job should require an anal probe and submission of fluids....I am really tired of people trying ot build a rubber lined world.
Humans ARE fundamentally good. The good outweighs the bad by a huge margin or there wouldnt be 7 billion of us. That doesnt mean that the good can 100% suppress the bad. We are still part beast, and are often driven by base animalistic desires. Until we admit that, there will be little progress in this area.
The context is different. Our idiots are less random, and are more easily dismissed due to our focus on a particular subset of life. If you say stupid shit here, it gets culled or refuted and then buried pretty quickly.The true obvious trolls on Slashdot are easy to ignore. (APK, GNAA posters etc)
Its RARE for an IT person to selectively delete a user's personal files like you suggest. Its something we just dont generally do. Its not our job to judge this crap. Quite frankly, in IT you learn the dark heart of humanity very quickly.
Just because someone offers more money, doesnt automatically make it the right choice to sell to them. Not all humans view transactions as amorally as you do. Lots of people see this as a destructive, psychopathic maxim.
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First of all, women cant be drafted, so there goes your argument. Stop talking, you are in way over your head.
Its a constitutional issue because the government is asking for Apple to CREATE something for them. The government does not have the power to compel people or corps to do actual work for them. The crux of this whole issue is, "can you legally make an unbreakable lock"
I got news for you, even the government has limits. WE have reached it. There are some things that are beyond government reach, accept it, dont condone abuse of the citizenry in your pursuit of perfect justice.
Read more history. I dont think the Jews in Germany ever imagined things would ever end up where they did either. Thats not hyperbole or Godwin. History EXPLICITLY AND WITHOUT QUESTION teaches us that these powers can and WILL be abused to hurt and literally enslave people. IF they can do it to 'criminals' they can do it to anyone. Part of you earning and investing is BEING A GODDAMN CITIZEN. You dont get to completely ignore your civic duty. Where did you get that idea that your only function is to be a selfish prick and give nothing back? Paying taxes=!being a citizen or fulfilling your civic duties. Get involved and you will see precisely why people scram about this shit. Did you parents teach you nothing of the sacrifices people made to get us here? Freedom isnt free, it requires an involved and educated citizenry. Be part of that or shut the fuck up. Dont let your apathy strip others of their creator granted rights.,
I didnt say it was hard, i said it was a half-assed compromise that no one wanted. Why dont you just post 'RTFM' and go back to stroking your beard. I have been running a HTPC since before the term came to be. I have remote DVRs in two different locations (antenna for signal), with fault tolerance, automatic compression, upload and failover. i can handle the tech side. CableCard could have been a lot better, but no one cared enough to get along and do it right so we get Tuning adapters and ever-shifting channel lineups. P.S. I use HDHomeRun Gear too, for almost a decade now..I melted a Q6600 quad core processor trying to record and compress the entirety of the 2008 Olympics. But please, lecture me more......
It doesnt work 'fine' it works ok. Tuning adapters piss me off. The one they gave me was THREE TIMES the size of the PC i was going to use (Intel NUC) to record TV on. CableCards suck because the cable companies did everything in their power to fuck it up. Its the shittiest of compromises, not a great solution for providers and consumers.
I have Cox in California, and CableCards were $2 from the day the FCC mandate requiring them to offer CableCard service went into effect. I deployed 4 HTPCs at 4 different locations that week.
You dont get it. This is the FBI's 'Rosa Parks' moment. They are using an incendiary case to force the issue that unbreakable encryption should not be allowed in casual use. They are trying to force the idea that it should be illegal to make an unbreakable lock and they are using this case to ram it home. They dont really give a shit about the data in this case, they want to cow the tech sector into not making their jobs harder.
Why dont you make him pee in a cup and wear a bodycam while you are at it... P.S im a dad that had all the tools to track my teenager, but didnt because thats not the kind of human i want to raise. Liberty includes the room to fuck up. Think about this before becoming his personal Stasi.
The right to encryption and by extension privacy is more important than any one crime. The State has to accept its limitations, not wail and moan about how its 'not fair' they cant have absolute control over humans. Some things are beyond government's reach, accept it.
Usability includes the sum total of the life of the device, including 3rd party repairs. Security is always a compromise between usability and integrity. Apple fell too far on the security side and hampered usability. For the record, i read your comment on my ipad, the only axe i have to grind is making sure we maintain a 'right to repair', which includes 3rd party parts.
And as we see, it may be useful for security, but it ruins usability (via making repairs harder than they have to be). Apple has no excuse here. They HAVE to allow 3rd party parts, just like the automakers had to eventually be forced to.,
Normal humans can and do solder/desolder these kinds of parts all the time. I order parts from China all the time.... Not sure why you got marked insightful for this...
I forget that people will happily endanger your life for a dollar. If i rented out a room, it would be a place i would feel comfortable having my mother sleep in. Apparently not everyone thinks like this.....
You're an ass.
Most people i know choose to live constructive lives, not destructive. Ignorant and docile is probably better than knowledgeable but impotent.
I shouldnt need permission from the government to rent out a room.......Thats fucking insane.
O look another idiot who thinks every job should require an anal probe and submission of fluids....I am really tired of people trying ot build a rubber lined world.
Is that the world you want ot live in? Where we check a data base on every person before we interact with them?
Humans ARE fundamentally good. The good outweighs the bad by a huge margin or there wouldnt be 7 billion of us. That doesnt mean that the good can 100% suppress the bad. We are still part beast, and are often driven by base animalistic desires. Until we admit that, there will be little progress in this area.
Yes hes a Prima Donna, he still says incredibly insightful things from time to time. He has pretty severe mental issues, so maybe cut him some slack?
The context is different. Our idiots are less random, and are more easily dismissed due to our focus on a particular subset of life. If you say stupid shit here, it gets culled or refuted and then buried pretty quickly.The true obvious trolls on Slashdot are easy to ignore. (APK, GNAA posters etc)
Its RARE for an IT person to selectively delete a user's personal files like you suggest. Its something we just dont generally do. Its not our job to judge this crap. Quite frankly, in IT you learn the dark heart of humanity very quickly.
And NO COMMUNITY. Thats what drives the RPi more than anything else, it has the biggest, most well-documented community,
Just because someone offers more money, doesnt automatically make it the right choice to sell to them. Not all humans view transactions as amorally as you do. Lots of people see this as a destructive, psychopathic maxim.