Hoverboards are a bit of a special case. They combine a fairly large-ish LiIon battery pack with shoddy construction by a fair percentage of manufacturers jumping on the bandwagon. The result is dead shorts forming on un-fused battery packs. Then add in their popularity making sure every failure resulting in smoke or fire gets reported and often uploaded to youtube.
IIRC, car battery packs typically have a proper management system including thermal shutdown.
Trump IS the corporations/ Or more to the point, represents the class that tell the corporations what to want so they can buy up politicians and give them their orders.
Yes, it's all too common. In some industries it's much worse.
The really sad part with the GUI thing is that often when there's a network issue, the best you can get is a serial console, so the command line is actually much more important. If you can see the GUI, the command line is still just a click away.
Another common case is where they want X years of Java. They don't care if you have X years of C, X years of Python, and X-1 years of Java, it didn't meet the criterion. It's also funny when they demand C++ and it turns out all of their code is in C.
If we weren't so busy trying to make insurance magically make outrageously expensive healthcare somehow magically affordable, perhaps it wouldn't be so important (just cover all citizens and be done with it), but pre-existing conditions frequently left people un-covered or trapped in a terrible job.
Alas, none of the republicans would be at all interested in joining the civilized world or even pushing back against the highest medical costs in the world.
While in theory the libertarians should try addressing the problem by removing the prescription and other laws so that someone might try to take care of it themselves or roll the dice with someone that doesn't have the expensive certification, in practice I don't hear a peep out of them about that anymore.
Yet a loop is still a loop, if, then, else, while, etc all the same. Variables are still variables. There's still not a do what I meant, not what I typed directive.
If by computer science, they mean how to put up a cheesy web page and use Office, then yes it'll all be worthless soon.
If they mean actual computer science, then it will still be valid in decades to come. The best ways to sort on a mainframe are still the best ways to sort now. Digital computers still work the same way they always have at the fundamental level.
That's two problems in one. Nobody is current. I don't care how much time you dedicate to learning the new thing, there's another new thing out there you haven't learned yet. The difference is a willingness to learn when needed.
Some people in the field lack that willingness. Then, too, far too many HR departments think the flavor of the day is a checklist for employability. The guy who has all of today's checklist but isn't willing to learn is a much worse choice than the guy who's resume reads like yesterday's news but he has a willingness and ability to get up to speed with whatever a new employer might happen to actually be using. Especially if he is willing to consider a new thing for a new project.
That's a problem well beyond being current. His problem is his unwillingness to get current when it wouldn't take a whole hour on the net to learn what he needs to know. It seems he may even have somehow taken it personally that some new tech came along and made him not current.
So you look at someone who appears to be white and male and based only on gender and race you ASSUME that they must also be rich and personally guilty of some *-ism or another?
If you somehow have proven to you that they are wealth impaired you presume them to be ignorant?
I note that you seem to have no problem using the pejorative "redneck".
They could actually block the import unless they have an unlocker in hand.
I'm not saying they should (I don't believe they should have a back door at all), just that they could.
More appropriately, they could enforce a fine for careless handling of customer data by instructing Visa/MC to claw back any funds sent to them and allow no more charges.
Since the FBI has claimed that this is only about that one iPhone, not all, they can legitimately lock up all the others now. They have been explicitly told that the other iPhones and future iPhones are not at all involved.
The authorities are sure that a phone contains information that would thwart an imminent attack?
Will they pinkie swear that the information is really there and the attack really is imminent or will it be another Iraq? WMDs, we're super serial OMG YELLOWCAKE!!!
The authorities have lied so big and so often that there is nothing they can say that would convince me of a genuine need to break the encryption on anything at this point. I absolutely positively do believe that they would claim millions of lives hang in the balance if they don't get the data from some small time pot dealer's phone immediately.
If you attach the risks to the company itself, they would have to move themselves to the 3rd world to duck the enforcement. Off-shoring wouldn't help them at all, it would just put their contractors out of reach if they want help paying the huge fines.
If Apple prevails in this case, how does that affect in any way whether other requests/demands will be made?
That's pretty simple. People tend to do things that others succeeded at and tend not to do things that have failed before. If Apple caves, the next LEO will argue that it has been proven possible (with the proof easily understandable by a judge rather than being technical in nature) and further that it should be easy for Apple since they've already done it. They'll end up bombarded with "requests" that aren't really requests.
OTOH, if Apple prevails, the next LEO will see that and realize it's an expensive route likely to waste a lot of time and come to nothing for him. A judge will be more inclined to cite this case as a precedent and skip the whole can of worms.
If the FBI gets someone else to do it, then meeting all those requests will be somebody else's problem.
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Hoverboards are a bit of a special case. They combine a fairly large-ish LiIon battery pack with shoddy construction by a fair percentage of manufacturers jumping on the bandwagon. The result is dead shorts forming on un-fused battery packs. Then add in their popularity making sure every failure resulting in smoke or fire gets reported and often uploaded to youtube.
IIRC, car battery packs typically have a proper management system including thermal shutdown.
Trump IS the corporations/ Or more to the point, represents the class that tell the corporations what to want so they can buy up politicians and give them their orders.
I misinterpreted, my bad.
Yes, it's all too common. In some industries it's much worse.
The really sad part with the GUI thing is that often when there's a network issue, the best you can get is a serial console, so the command line is actually much more important. If you can see the GUI, the command line is still just a click away.
Another common case is where they want X years of Java. They don't care if you have X years of C, X years of Python, and X-1 years of Java, it didn't meet the criterion. It's also funny when they demand C++ and it turns out all of their code is in C.
To be more clear, stifling free speech is anathema to any decent collegiate environment. In some cases it may also be illegal.
Gee, it shows a clear trend upwards, what a surprise.
With the threat of deportation removed, the foreign workers will soon begin demanding reasonable American pay for an American job.
If we weren't so busy trying to make insurance magically make outrageously expensive healthcare somehow magically affordable, perhaps it wouldn't be so important (just cover all citizens and be done with it), but pre-existing conditions frequently left people un-covered or trapped in a terrible job.
Alas, none of the republicans would be at all interested in joining the civilized world or even pushing back against the highest medical costs in the world.
While in theory the libertarians should try addressing the problem by removing the prescription and other laws so that someone might try to take care of it themselves or roll the dice with someone that doesn't have the expensive certification, in practice I don't hear a peep out of them about that anymore.
It is fairly common. You're fortunate to have only seen it once.
Yet a loop is still a loop, if, then, else, while, etc all the same. Variables are still variables. There's still not a do what I meant, not what I typed directive.
The fundamental CS is the same.
If by computer science, they mean how to put up a cheesy web page and use Office, then yes it'll all be worthless soon.
If they mean actual computer science, then it will still be valid in decades to come. The best ways to sort on a mainframe are still the best ways to sort now. Digital computers still work the same way they always have at the fundamental level.
Haven't you heard? Everything is inflatable these days. It really cuts down of storage requirements!
All bypassed by a USB stick plugged in at the Nurse's station.
That's two problems in one. Nobody is current. I don't care how much time you dedicate to learning the new thing, there's another new thing out there you haven't learned yet. The difference is a willingness to learn when needed.
Some people in the field lack that willingness. Then, too, far too many HR departments think the flavor of the day is a checklist for employability. The guy who has all of today's checklist but isn't willing to learn is a much worse choice than the guy who's resume reads like yesterday's news but he has a willingness and ability to get up to speed with whatever a new employer might happen to actually be using. Especially if he is willing to consider a new thing for a new project.
The U.S. is defined by the Constitution. If that document is null and void, the government becomes nothing more than the machinations of a warlord.
It could be argued that the FBI and NSA have already BECOME enemies of the state and so helping them is itself giving aid and comfort to the enemy.
It could also be argued that the FBI is committing treason by trying to make it easier for foreign powers to hack Americans' phones.
That's a problem well beyond being current. His problem is his unwillingness to get current when it wouldn't take a whole hour on the net to learn what he needs to know. It seems he may even have somehow taken it personally that some new tech came along and made him not current.
And Minnesota and Wisconsin and Florida and Georgia and Texas and Maine, Illinois, etc, etc.
So you look at someone who appears to be white and male and based only on gender and race you ASSUME that they must also be rich and personally guilty of some *-ism or another?
If you somehow have proven to you that they are wealth impaired you presume them to be ignorant?
I note that you seem to have no problem using the pejorative "redneck".
Part of it is probably the distribution of malware through the ad networks.
If the internal structure of the carbon matters, then apples and oranges would be quite different. It's probably harder to dehydrate an orange.
They could actually block the import unless they have an unlocker in hand.
I'm not saying they should (I don't believe they should have a back door at all), just that they could.
More appropriately, they could enforce a fine for careless handling of customer data by instructing Visa/MC to claw back any funds sent to them and allow no more charges.
Since the FBI has claimed that this is only about that one iPhone, not all, they can legitimately lock up all the others now. They have been explicitly told that the other iPhones and future iPhones are not at all involved.
The authorities are sure that a phone contains information that would thwart an imminent attack?
Will they pinkie swear that the information is really there and the attack really is imminent or will it be another Iraq? WMDs, we're super serial OMG YELLOWCAKE!!!
The authorities have lied so big and so often that there is nothing they can say that would convince me of a genuine need to break the encryption on anything at this point. I absolutely positively do believe that they would claim millions of lives hang in the balance if they don't get the data from some small time pot dealer's phone immediately.
If you attach the risks to the company itself, they would have to move themselves to the 3rd world to duck the enforcement. Off-shoring wouldn't help them at all, it would just put their contractors out of reach if they want help paying the huge fines.
But, but, but...Mongo DB is web scale!
If Apple prevails in this case, how does that affect in any way whether other requests/demands will be made?
That's pretty simple. People tend to do things that others succeeded at and tend not to do things that have failed before. If Apple caves, the next LEO will argue that it has been proven possible (with the proof easily understandable by a judge rather than being technical in nature) and further that it should be easy for Apple since they've already done it. They'll end up bombarded with "requests" that aren't really requests.
OTOH, if Apple prevails, the next LEO will see that and realize it's an expensive route likely to waste a lot of time and come to nothing for him. A judge will be more inclined to cite this case as a precedent and skip the whole can of worms.
If the FBI gets someone else to do it, then meeting all those requests will be somebody else's problem.