No, it is not about investigating a mass murder. We already know who the culprits were. Instead it's moved into an anti-terrorism search for possible clues. In the fifties this would have been about J. Edgar Hoover moving the investigation into finding links to a global communist conspiracy.
I'm in Silicon Valley, and almost no one here thinkgs Apple should cave in. But then there are lots more engineers here who think about devices and security.
Which is why you should always get the PRO version of Windows 10 so you don't get screwed. And the pro version is not just for business users; it's more expensive if bought on it's own and not as an upgrade which is why when getting Windows 8 I opted for the pro version for $15.
Glad you're not a lawyer. You don't get 100% asset seizure for something like contempt of court. Apple is defending the rights of the people, doing the job that the government refuses to do. There is no aid to terrorism, since it is highly unlikely there is anything of use on that phone (the shooters had other phones that weren't work phones).
I was actually surprised that Apple could update a phone without unlocking it. Seems like a big security hole there. Would anyone trust Microsoft to update their computer without asking first (well ok, I suppose if you use the "recommended settings" but you'd have to be pretty naive to do so).
Hundreds of iPhones that are not known to have evidence, but they just want to search them anyway just in case. Akin to fishing expeditions. And not even in the interests of national security but to bolster the re-election chances of DAs.
The fact that Pollard was released is evidence that the US is not the rigid military dictatorship that you seem to feel it is. We still have a constitution and the government still attempts on occasion to abide by it. Manning did not go to gitmo, he may not be treated well but he was never tried in a secret kangaroo court and then disappeared, and his security breach did much more harm to the US than Snowden's actions.
He is actually defining "fair" as being allowed to present a "public interest defense". However I don't believe (since IANAL) that the US has such a defense. It is unlikely that the US would add such a provision retroactively. And yes, he would get all the things you describe above.
Yup, his version of "fair" is that the government must accept his defense theory. I like Snowden, but part of the fallout of doing the right thing sometimes means that bad things happen to you. I would be highly unlikely to elect a government that would be favorable to Snowden and willing to ignore the law. The law itself is not unjust here, but it does not have any provision to look the other way as long as the spying was done for a good cause. The most to hope for is a pardon.
You need wireless experts in any IoT group, entities doing Wi-Sun, 802.15.4, things like that. I don't see any of the named companies doing any of that.
I have Windows 8.1 PRO, and I'm debating off and on if I should upgrade now just so that I can get the pro version for free which let's me opt out of forced updates, as opposed to having to pay full pro price for it when Windows 8 support is dropped.
They're either extremely evil or the most inept company on the planet. It's hard to tell which sometimes.
It is however very deliberate that they keep pushing those recommended updates about Windows 10 to older versions. Block a particular update and a month later it'll be back with a different number.
Enforcing the enforcement against that clause is nearly impractical. The boss basically has to be stupid enough to put it in writing or speak of it while being recorded, otherwise there's always an excuse that the person was fired for other reasons.
I don't know why people want to live there. There are so many cities nearby with more jobs, better pay, and lower cost of living. It's like they're brainwashed to think there's an invisible brick wall around the city. It *does* get freezing there, bit you don't have to go more then 10 or 20 miles to get to someplace warmer.
And that information, if it exists, is most likely not on that phone. They had burner phones so why would they turn around and put valuable information like that on their work phones?
These shooters did not have the backing of a foreign military. The shooters may have been interested in joining those foreign fighters but it does not seem that it went any further than that, just a couple of dopes saying "we're helping!" The crime happened in the US by legal residents of the US. Which is why the FBI is investigating. The criminal justice system however *is* set up to be able to handle spying by foreign agents (in other words, foreign invaders backed by actual armies).
Yup, but because they were mid-eastern in origin it starts up the whole "maybe they're terrists!" thinking. Being interested in ISIS, following a bunch of terrorist related web sites, and so forth does not mean one is a terrorist. Support for jihadis does not make one a terrorist. Crazy people do crazy things.
In the wayback machine America used to be hysterically in fear of communists, seeing a global communist conspiracy everywhere they looked, worrying about whether the local librarian was in a sleeper cell, and so forth. Politicians back then actively removed civil rights out of communist fear. Today the communists have been replaced with terrorists, but there's still the fear of the global conspiracy, we're still discarding chunks of the constitution out of fear ("they hate our freedoms, so let's get rid of some!"). They think that the person going crazy was getting secret orders from the global terrorist planning network.
Technically, the intent to cause lasting fear as the result of a violent act is probably terrorism. But that would make a large number of crimes be terrorism when most people don't think of them that way. As in the Columbine shooting.
UTF-16 may help with some Asian languages, but it really hurts for other languages that can usually fit in much less on average. Most common Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters can be handled with 3 bytes in UTF-8, the less common ones in 4 bytes. Although UTF-8 as originally designed can go up to 6 bytes (for code points needing up to 32 bits), this was reduced to 4 bytes maximum. So with UTF-16 you're using 4 bytes for most CJK characters versus 3 bytes in UTF-8; as well as 2 bytes with ASCII/Latin1 versus 1 byte.
Microsoft used this 16-bit wide character set for file names, which are not normally very long. It caused problems in that you couldn't even use standard open calls because it didn't bother converting UTF-8 to UTF-16 to make it easy for the developers but instead provided a new API.
There are a lot of people who don't know what that is about. There are people who don't know about Stalin starving the Ukraine, or the Armenian genocide, or the trail of tears, or Pol Pot, or the cultural revolution, and so on. However almost everyone knows of the Nazis. So that's why it's used as the goto symbol of evil.
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It's a good thing we put all the smart turnips in congress!
No, it is not about investigating a mass murder. We already know who the culprits were. Instead it's moved into an anti-terrorism search for possible clues. In the fifties this would have been about J. Edgar Hoover moving the investigation into finding links to a global communist conspiracy.
I'm in Silicon Valley, and almost no one here thinkgs Apple should cave in. But then there are lots more engineers here who think about devices and security.
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Which is why you should always get the PRO version of Windows 10 so you don't get screwed. And the pro version is not just for business users; it's more expensive if bought on it's own and not as an upgrade which is why when getting Windows 8 I opted for the pro version for $15.
Glad you're not a lawyer. You don't get 100% asset seizure for something like contempt of court. Apple is defending the rights of the people, doing the job that the government refuses to do. There is no aid to terrorism, since it is highly unlikely there is anything of use on that phone (the shooters had other phones that weren't work phones).
I was actually surprised that Apple could update a phone without unlocking it. Seems like a big security hole there. Would anyone trust Microsoft to update their computer without asking first (well ok, I suppose if you use the "recommended settings" but you'd have to be pretty naive to do so).
Hundreds of iPhones that are not known to have evidence, but they just want to search them anyway just in case. Akin to fishing expeditions. And not even in the interests of national security but to bolster the re-election chances of DAs.
The fact that Pollard was released is evidence that the US is not the rigid military dictatorship that you seem to feel it is. We still have a constitution and the government still attempts on occasion to abide by it. Manning did not go to gitmo, he may not be treated well but he was never tried in a secret kangaroo court and then disappeared, and his security breach did much more harm to the US than Snowden's actions.
He is actually defining "fair" as being allowed to present a "public interest defense". However I don't believe (since IANAL) that the US has such a defense. It is unlikely that the US would add such a provision retroactively. And yes, he would get all the things you describe above.
Yup, his version of "fair" is that the government must accept his defense theory. I like Snowden, but part of the fallout of doing the right thing sometimes means that bad things happen to you. I would be highly unlikely to elect a government that would be favorable to Snowden and willing to ignore the law. The law itself is not unjust here, but it does not have any provision to look the other way as long as the spying was done for a good cause. The most to hope for is a pardon.
You need wireless experts in any IoT group, entities doing Wi-Sun, 802.15.4, things like that. I don't see any of the named companies doing any of that.
None of those are really IoT companies, except maybe Cisco. But if they set the standards then they can catch up and lock out the little guys.
I have Windows 8.1 PRO, and I'm debating off and on if I should upgrade now just so that I can get the pro version for free which let's me opt out of forced updates, as opposed to having to pay full pro price for it when Windows 8 support is dropped.
They're either extremely evil or the most inept company on the planet. It's hard to tell which sometimes.
It is however very deliberate that they keep pushing those recommended updates about Windows 10 to older versions. Block a particular update and a month later it'll be back with a different number.
And it seems they could care less!
Enforcing the enforcement against that clause is nearly impractical. The boss basically has to be stupid enough to put it in writing or speak of it while being recorded, otherwise there's always an excuse that the person was fired for other reasons.
I don't know why people want to live there. There are so many cities nearby with more jobs, better pay, and lower cost of living. It's like they're brainwashed to think there's an invisible brick wall around the city. It *does* get freezing there, bit you don't have to go more then 10 or 20 miles to get to someplace warmer.
And that information, if it exists, is most likely not on that phone. They had burner phones so why would they turn around and put valuable information like that on their work phones?
Charles Manson was an asshat nutcase, but he had an actual goal he was trying to accomplish (start up the oncoming race war).
But you make a good point. The US government is the best recruitment agent that ISIS has.
These shooters did not have the backing of a foreign military. The shooters may have been interested in joining those foreign fighters but it does not seem that it went any further than that, just a couple of dopes saying "we're helping!" The crime happened in the US by legal residents of the US. Which is why the FBI is investigating. The criminal justice system however *is* set up to be able to handle spying by foreign agents (in other words, foreign invaders backed by actual armies).
Yup, but because they were mid-eastern in origin it starts up the whole "maybe they're terrists!" thinking. Being interested in ISIS, following a bunch of terrorist related web sites, and so forth does not mean one is a terrorist. Support for jihadis does not make one a terrorist. Crazy people do crazy things.
In the wayback machine America used to be hysterically in fear of communists, seeing a global communist conspiracy everywhere they looked, worrying about whether the local librarian was in a sleeper cell, and so forth. Politicians back then actively removed civil rights out of communist fear. Today the communists have been replaced with terrorists, but there's still the fear of the global conspiracy, we're still discarding chunks of the constitution out of fear ("they hate our freedoms, so let's get rid of some!"). They think that the person going crazy was getting secret orders from the global terrorist planning network.
Technically, the intent to cause lasting fear as the result of a violent act is probably terrorism. But that would make a large number of crimes be terrorism when most people don't think of them that way. As in the Columbine shooting.
UTF-16 may help with some Asian languages, but it really hurts for other languages that can usually fit in much less on average. Most common Chinese, Japanese, and Korean characters can be handled with 3 bytes in UTF-8, the less common ones in 4 bytes. Although UTF-8 as originally designed can go up to 6 bytes (for code points needing up to 32 bits), this was reduced to 4 bytes maximum. So with UTF-16 you're using 4 bytes for most CJK characters versus 3 bytes in UTF-8; as well as 2 bytes with ASCII/Latin1 versus 1 byte.
Microsoft used this 16-bit wide character set for file names, which are not normally very long. It caused problems in that you couldn't even use standard open calls because it didn't bother converting UTF-8 to UTF-16 to make it easy for the developers but instead provided a new API.
There are a lot of people who don't know what that is about. There are people who don't know about Stalin starving the Ukraine, or the Armenian genocide, or the trail of tears, or Pol Pot, or the cultural revolution, and so on. However almost everyone knows of the Nazis. So that's why it's used as the goto symbol of evil.