Which the OS will automatically free up as necessary by killing off suspended processes. Why waste your own time doing it when it offers no real benefit and the OS will free up the memory as soon as it needs it anyhow?
Problem is some apps are persistent. It's like removing Skype from your tasktray if you're going into an airplane - no need for that app to constantly poll.
Plus Waze essentially tracks you all the time (not just when you're asking it to navigate) - best to keep that shit off unless you're using it.
How dare the dead hand of state interference meddle with an industry that has gone to all the trouble of developing a ceremonial 'self regulation' procedure?
Because the invisible hand is very good at stealing from us?
This could get interesting. It always bugged me a bit that you’re paying a company (you’re their client) to give you a stamp of approval, and the only thing you need to avoid a bunch of liability is that stamp of approval. Doesn’t seem like there’s any disincentive to them to just pass you if you give them enough money. Maybe they fail you, you pay a bunch of hush^Wconsulting money for them to help you get compliant, then they pass you.
There’s definitely a lot of good things in PCI-DSS, but there’s a difference between getting a bunch of checkmarks on a list versus actually incorporating the security recommendations into your development cycle and systems design.
The financial crisis was made possible by a willful negligence on the part of ratings agencies and big banks who paid to have their financial instruments rated.
The Enron crisis had the same hallmarks.
This shit is still going on in a lot of places. Glad to see the FTC putting it's teeth into some of it.
I thought certs where going to protect us from this mess. It is nice that Apple yanked this cert, but what is to stop another cert from being bought and used to do the same damn thing?
Nothing. However, what's good to know is that I no longer have to worry about this one - and the turnaround was pretty quick. Assuming Apple can keep up with any threats like this (it's not like they don't have enough money to justify it), it's just like doing a regular bit of weeding in your garden.
What exactly did Reagan do that previous administrations back to Truman's hadn't done?
Americans don't care what their politicians do, only what they say. Reagan talked like a conservative, but governed like a liberal, running big deficits, negotiating with Gorbachev, continuing and expanding most social spending, etc. So conservatives loved him and liberals hated him. Bill Clinton did the opposite: he talked like a liberal, but governed as a conservative. He cut welfare, balanced the budget, pushed through free market reforms and free trade agreements, and sent bombers into the Balkans. So liberals loved him, and conservatives hated him.
Both Presidents (and in fact, all Presidents since) have been Corporatist. Left, Right, sure it matters on many issues, - but both were "open for business" - ie, sellling off or leasing public lands [Both], enacting corporate friendly legislation like the DMCA [Clinton] repealing Glass-Steagall [Clinton] tax rate reform (lowering the top marginal tax rate to 28%) [Reagan], Union-busting (PATCO) [Reagan], and expanding the military industrial complex [Reagan].
All of these helped businesses. Sometimes they helped the taxpayers, though most of that is crumbs compared to what the Corporations/Wealthy got.
Clearly their tests didn't work against the industry standard-bearer for biometric login, or their title would be different. So has anyone done work on this since the CCC show an expensive, detailed attack?
Dominion Theology is a theocratic ideology that seeks to implement a nation governed by conservative Christians ruling over the rest of society based on their understanding of biblical law
Dominionism, also called Christian Reconstructionism is, simply put, the belief that Christians must take over the planet, and only then can/will Christ return. It is the duty of the Church to take power, and use that power to establish “biblical law” across the globe over time.
As Gary North (previously mentioned) said "So let us be blunt about it, we must use the doctrine of religious liberty to gain independence for Christian schools until we train up a generation of people who know that there is no religious neutrality, no neutral law, no neutral education, and no neutral civil government. Then they will get busy in constructing a Bible-based social, political and religious order which finally denies the religious liberty of the enemies of God."
Don't think for a minute that you have privacy with iPhone. Apple only wants to be able to legally say no to requests from USA govt. In Peoples Republic of China, Apple must comply, or they cannot do business there. Tech companies must provide PRC with source code (under SLA), just as Microsoft did with Windows.
If that source code means signing keys, yeah. Otherwise, you're wrong.
Sure... Unless laws are passed that outlaw the sale or import of any devices that the manufacturer or service provider cannot unlock upon request with a warrant.
Yes, I'm sure that'll be popular and defensible - especially in an election year.
ALL code tells a computer what to do. This argument fails right out of the gate. There is no such thing as computer code that doesn't tell a computer what to do.
/* comments are the 'junk DNA' of a program's genome */
I'd agree, it's even more evident for//commented out code
It is in no way hard to bypass. It is just hard to bypass it without destoying the original phone and explaining a whole bunch of icky questions in the court like exactly where, how, who and with what equipment.
This entire thing was a dog and pony show about getting easy, quick and most importantly QUIET access.
What you desribe as bypass sounds a whole lot more like forensics. Sure, that's still possible. But I want the party doing it to PAY for it, and TOIL for their efforts. Because my private information shouldn't be free.
Oh come on. Get an echo and sit around plotting the overthrow of the government while all the spooks listen to you. Great entertainment!
I love you spying-belittlers... so charming with your strawman arguments. Btw, it's not just about "the government" these days - it could be anyone powerful or someone who cares enough to make your life miserable. It could be your insurance company that needs a reason to raise your rates.
Hell, it could be the average script-kiddie or extortionist who just wants another target to SWAT.
What I hate is that Amazon was looking pretty good there for a while. So if you want FDE on your device, you have to have the latest Android or one of the bulk of iOS devices which support FDE.
Guess that's clear - not buying an Echo or any of it's satellites anytime soon.
The PDF format v1.7 supports all sorts of crazy stuff (including javascript). Apple was sane, and IIRC, doesn't support PDF 1.7, probably only 1.5 (and not all of it - some features like pdf_packages and nested PDFs didn't work right in previous versions of OSX).
I thought that MS Word proved you shouldn't have script code in your (mainly recognized as printed text) file formats. Of course, leave it to Microsoft to re-learn their own history.
Unless you think they simply don't care about this shit.
Simple..easy to do. And hey, you might even make closer, better friends in meatspace, by you know..actually talking to them in person, and doing things with them...
Have you ever heard of Facebook shadow profiles [1]? Maybe it's not as easy as not signing up or quitting. Because they will still profile you. Forever. Just think of Facebook as the metastasized version of the government files on you.
To fix this we need to fix the US election system.
One solution is to use non-partisan open primaries, and then make the general election a run-off between the top two. This also eliminates the Spoiler Effect. Unfortunately, open primaries are unconstitutional.
Open primaries are not a panacea. You need to have more than 2 real choices, or those two who are chosen will just end up being the targets for the real bribes (arhhrm - lobbying - sorry, forgot my US lingo).
You need single transferrable vote, or some other voting system change that eliminates the basic FPTP approval voting (Condorcet method is what's used by smart groups, though Instant Runoff is good as well).
Trump isn't running against Bernie though. The right is in open rebellion about being ignored on immigration and other issues where people who think themselves our betters just want us to believe what we're told. Trump is gaming that, and gaming it very well. Cruz is addressing that with at least partial sincerity (really, the best you could reasonably hope for in any politician). Rubio is a Democrat running in the wrong primary.
Calling Trump "racist" tells me you're probably a Democrat - great for you, but it's not your primary. Sadly I predict the general will be Trump losing to Hillary, and 4 more years of the same problems we've been having, but the primaries aren't over quite yet, and maybe we'll have a surprise Bernie or Cruz.
Trump or Hillary is a pitiful choice, to be honest, but you're probably correct on the polls we have today. Even if Trump wins, I would expect (other than his love of brownshirts) that not much will change - the system assimilates outsiders and not much in the way of change happens (see Candidate Obama vs. President Obama). Of course with the TPP being ratified in a year or so, that'll mean a whole lot of bad stuff coming our way and neither Hillary nor Trump will do much about that other than let it happen.
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Which the OS will automatically free up as necessary by killing off suspended processes. Why waste your own time doing it when it offers no real benefit and the OS will free up the memory as soon as it needs it anyhow?
Problem is some apps are persistent. It's like removing Skype from your tasktray if you're going into an airplane - no need for that app to constantly poll.
Plus Waze essentially tracks you all the time (not just when you're asking it to navigate) - best to keep that shit off unless you're using it.
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The FBI just added itself to your fiends & family share plan.
What is this "training" of which you speak? I have never seen any.
A grueling weeks-to-months-long process where you're being interviewed by your cheaper, offshore replacement about how to do your job.
How dare the dead hand of state interference meddle with an industry that has gone to all the trouble of developing a ceremonial 'self regulation' procedure?
Because the invisible hand is very good at stealing from us?
This could get interesting. It always bugged me a bit that you’re paying a company (you’re their client) to give you a stamp of approval, and the only thing you need to avoid a bunch of liability is that stamp of approval. Doesn’t seem like there’s any disincentive to them to just pass you if you give them enough money. Maybe they fail you, you pay a bunch of hush^Wconsulting money for them to help you get compliant, then they pass you.
There’s definitely a lot of good things in PCI-DSS, but there’s a difference between getting a bunch of checkmarks on a list versus actually incorporating the security recommendations into your development cycle and systems design.
The financial crisis was made possible by a willful negligence on the part of ratings agencies and big banks who paid to have their financial instruments rated.
The Enron crisis had the same hallmarks.
This shit is still going on in a lot of places. Glad to see the FTC putting it's teeth into some of it.
Cubic inches?! So this isn't a project intended to be looking beyond the borders of one country?
-Matt
It's a secret ploy to force all those millions of non-imperial-units-aware challengers to use Google:
https://www.google.com/search?...
Someone call the antitrust department!
I thought certs where going to protect us from this mess. It is nice that Apple yanked this cert, but what is to stop another cert from being bought and used to do the same damn thing?
Nothing. However, what's good to know is that I no longer have to worry about this one - and the turnaround was pretty quick. Assuming Apple can keep up with any threats like this (it's not like they don't have enough money to justify it), it's just like doing a regular bit of weeding in your garden.
What exactly did Reagan do that previous administrations back to Truman's hadn't done?
Americans don't care what their politicians do, only what they say. Reagan talked like a conservative, but governed like a liberal, running big deficits, negotiating with Gorbachev, continuing and expanding most social spending, etc. So conservatives loved him and liberals hated him. Bill Clinton did the opposite: he talked like a liberal, but governed as a conservative. He cut welfare, balanced the budget, pushed through free market reforms and free trade agreements, and sent bombers into the Balkans. So liberals loved him, and conservatives hated him.
Both Presidents (and in fact, all Presidents since) have been Corporatist. Left, Right, sure it matters on many issues, - but both were "open for business" - ie, sellling off or leasing public lands [Both], enacting corporate friendly legislation like the DMCA [Clinton] repealing Glass-Steagall [Clinton] tax rate reform (lowering the top marginal tax rate to 28%) [Reagan], Union-busting (PATCO) [Reagan], and expanding the military industrial complex [Reagan].
All of these helped businesses. Sometimes they helped the taxpayers, though most of that is crumbs compared to what the Corporations/Wealthy got.
Clearly their tests didn't work against the industry standard-bearer for biometric login, or their title would be different. So has anyone done work on this since the CCC show an expensive, detailed attack?
Here are some primers:
Courtesy of Wikipedia:
Courtesy or DailyKos:
Don't think for a minute that you have privacy with iPhone. Apple only wants to be able to legally say no to requests from USA govt. In Peoples Republic of China, Apple must comply, or they cannot do business there. Tech companies must provide PRC with source code (under SLA), just as Microsoft did with Windows.
If that source code means signing keys, yeah. Otherwise, you're wrong.
Should rename himself Jolly-Roger.
Sure... Unless laws are passed that outlaw the sale or import of any devices that the manufacturer or service provider cannot unlock upon request with a warrant.
Yes, I'm sure that'll be popular and defensible - especially in an election year.
I'd agree, it's even more evident for //commented out code
It is in no way hard to bypass. It is just hard to bypass it without destoying the original phone and explaining a whole bunch of icky questions in the court like exactly where, how, who and with what equipment.
This entire thing was a dog and pony show about getting easy, quick and most importantly QUIET access.
What you desribe as bypass sounds a whole lot more like forensics. Sure, that's still possible.
But I want the party doing it to PAY for it, and TOIL for their efforts. Because my private information shouldn't be free.
Oh come on. Get an echo and sit around plotting the overthrow of the government while all the spooks listen to you. Great entertainment!
I love you spying-belittlers... so charming with your strawman arguments. Btw, it's not just about "the government" these days - it could be anyone powerful or someone who cares enough to make your life miserable. It could be your insurance company that needs a reason to raise your rates.
Hell, it could be the average script-kiddie or extortionist who just wants another target to SWAT.
to easily circumvented encryption.
Seems more honest that way.
So who has that strawman you're arguing against? Apple's encryption is hard to bypass (as the FBI is showing us).
What I hate is that Amazon was looking pretty good there for a while.
So if you want FDE on your device, you have to have the latest Android or one of the bulk of iOS devices which support FDE.
Guess that's clear - not buying an Echo or any of it's satellites anytime soon.
The PDF format v1.7 supports all sorts of crazy stuff (including javascript). Apple was sane, and IIRC, doesn't support PDF 1.7, probably only 1.5 (and not all of it - some features like pdf_packages and nested PDFs didn't work right in previous versions of OSX).
I thought that MS Word proved you shouldn't have script code in your (mainly recognized as printed text) file formats. Of course, leave it to Microsoft to re-learn their own history.
Unless you think they simply don't care about this shit.
Just don't join or use FaceBook?
Simple..easy to do. And hey, you might even make closer, better friends in meatspace, by you know..actually talking to them in person, and doing things with them...
Have you ever heard of Facebook shadow profiles [1]? Maybe it's not as easy as not signing up or quitting. Because they will still profile you. Forever. Just think of Facebook as the metastasized version of the government files on you.
[1] http://www.digitaltrends.com/s...
To fix this we need to fix the US election system.
One solution is to use non-partisan open primaries, and then make the general election a run-off between the top two. This also eliminates the Spoiler Effect. Unfortunately, open primaries are unconstitutional.
Open primaries are not a panacea. You need to have more than 2 real choices, or those two who are chosen will just end up being the targets for the real bribes (arhhrm - lobbying - sorry, forgot my US lingo).
You need single transferrable vote, or some other voting system change that eliminates the basic FPTP approval voting (Condorcet method is what's used by smart groups, though Instant Runoff is good as well).
Trump isn't running against Bernie though. The right is in open rebellion about being ignored on immigration and other issues where people who think themselves our betters just want us to believe what we're told. Trump is gaming that, and gaming it very well. Cruz is addressing that with at least partial sincerity (really, the best you could reasonably hope for in any politician). Rubio is a Democrat running in the wrong primary.
Calling Trump "racist" tells me you're probably a Democrat - great for you, but it's not your primary. Sadly I predict the general will be Trump losing to Hillary, and 4 more years of the same problems we've been having, but the primaries aren't over quite yet, and maybe we'll have a surprise Bernie or Cruz.
Trump or Hillary is a pitiful choice, to be honest, but you're probably correct on the polls we have today. Even if Trump wins, I would expect (other than his love of brownshirts) that not much will change - the system assimilates outsiders and not much in the way of change happens (see Candidate Obama vs. President Obama). Of course with the TPP being ratified in a year or so, that'll mean a whole lot of bad stuff coming our way and neither Hillary nor Trump will do much about that other than let it happen.
This is seasonal pricing, and as long as it's advertised in advance is very common in various industries.
Surge pricing (a la Uber) is random periods of higher price - it could be normal pricing one minute, then surge the next.
Completely different. This article is Uber-cliqbait.
It's almost as if the Germans have just found a source of cheap human labour.
Achievement unlocked?
Similar to Microsoft's Kinect. Are you bitching about that too?
Not since they decided to make it optional for the XB One.