I thought the newer iPhones were supposed to have hardware-based encryption and security.
Not all hardware security circuits are immune to attack though. Especially lid-off attacks where the chip is disassembled, probed and reverse engineered. There are defenses against those attacks but it take a lot of work to perfect those defenses.
At least there are plenty of us who are working on unbreakable hardware primitives in silicon that will keep these bastards at bay. It's about as nontrivial as it gets and we and many other have been at it for several years. The endpoint is pretty clear though. We will prevail.
Radio Amateurs don't have the same legal protection. Yet. But given that television antennas are protected, discriminating by the sort of content carried is a legally problematical stance.
That's because the law discriminates on size, not content. You can read it here https://www.law.cornell.edu/cf... , the limit is 1 meter.
(1) Any restriction, including but not limited to any state or local law or regulation, including zoning, land-use, or building regulations, or any private covenant, contract provision, lease provision, homeowners' association rule or similar restriction, on property within the exclusive use or control of the antenna user where the user has a direct or indirect ownership or leasehold interest in the property that impairs the installation, maintenance, or use of:
(i) An antenna that is:
(A) Used to receive direct broadcast satellite service, including direct-to-home satellite service, or to receive or transmit fixed wireless signals via satellite, and
(B) One meter or less in diameter or is located in Alaska;
Fear the intelligent evil people. The stupid ones do this kind of stuff.
Even Ross Ulbricht (Sik Road pioneer and jail bird) got caught in part because he asked about a techy problem on on a techy forum using his own name, while developing the code.
When I consider how to get away with crimes, the primary thing is working out how to break any link between yourself and your actions and between yourself and the victims. The secondary thing is to leave no trace in your personal effects. My legit job seems like a far better deal though.
Same rules for L1-B, but in my case they posted an ad - "expertise in xyz product" where xyz is the product I had just designed so there was no one else. It wasn't unreasonable, since that was exactly what was required. That corp (Tality) saw fit to lay everyone off a couple of years later and then tried to get me back when their customers asked about the contracts we were delivering against. Happy days.
I certainly use it for streaming music while I work. But I also watch a bunch of sciency, mathy and engineery channels that interest me. Since YT accounts for 90+% of the video and audio I watch and stream it was worth it to me to pay. The price is a heck of a lot less than other streaming services, works on a desktop and laptop which is what I have in front of me most of the time and there is indeed much foreign niche musiccontent that in the US is only available to me on YouTube even though it's widely popular and available abroad.
The failing is mostly on alternative music sources that fail at being less crap than YouTube and succeed at being more expensive.
Also I can download the YouTube music as MP3s with a little command line magic. This works well when I'm traveling.
Today (Feb 15th 2018) is the day Microsoft has been telling me they are going to remove the PDF reader and I should use 'edge' instead. The singularity of stupid has arrived.
Hopping in a cab in London, for *decades* has been one of the last bastions of relaxation in a busy itinerary, knowing you were in the hands of a professional. Truly.
I wish we could clone about 1000 of them, along with the former version of the black London Cab and drop them by chute all over San Francisco. Oh, the humanity.
I have found black cab drivers in London to be dishonest and/or rude about 50% of the time and always expensive. They also stick to the busy and high paying points in London leaving other areas devoid of taxis when you need one. Opening up the app before you leave and getting a non rude, follow-the-gps driver is much, much more pleasant.
Here is a pretty big hint, though: The only thing the population of Uber drivers is representative of is Uber drivers. Maybe also we could infer to Lyft drivers.
In the US, I've yet to see an Uber driver that isn't also a Lyft driver and visa versa.
Jesus H Christ, the grasp of English here is not getting better.
>The 40-member cold-case team comprised of several former FBI agents
No. Several former FBI agents comprised the team. The team was *composed* of several former FBI agents. Comprise, compose. It's not difficult. They teach it in school, to schoolchildren.
Various professional football (soccer) bodies are looking at banning heading the ball for this reason. A lot of trainers don't allow younger players to do it already.
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I thought the newer iPhones were supposed to have hardware-based encryption and security.
Not all hardware security circuits are immune to attack though. Especially lid-off attacks where the chip is disassembled, probed and reverse engineered. There are defenses against those attacks but it take a lot of work to perfect those defenses.
At least there are plenty of us who are working on unbreakable hardware primitives in silicon that will keep these bastards at bay. It's about as nontrivial as it gets and we and many other have been at it for several years. The endpoint is pretty clear though. We will prevail.
"One meter or less in diameter or is located in Alaska"
You failed to read that thoroughly - that applies to SATELLITE ANTENNAS.
and P2P and a few other things. I've read it in great depth in order to get stupid antenna rules removed from past HOAs I've been in.
Radio Amateurs don't have the same legal protection. Yet. But given that television antennas are protected, discriminating by the sort of content carried is a legally problematical stance.
That's because the law discriminates on size, not content. You can read it here https://www.law.cornell.edu/cf... , the limit is 1 meter.
(1) Any restriction, including but not limited to any state or local law or regulation, including zoning, land-use, or building regulations, or any private covenant, contract provision, lease provision, homeowners' association rule or similar restriction, on property within the exclusive use or control of the antenna user where the user has a direct or indirect ownership or leasehold interest in the property that impairs the installation, maintenance, or use of:
(i) An antenna that is:
(A) Used to receive direct broadcast satellite service, including direct-to-home satellite service, or to receive or transmit fixed wireless signals via satellite, and
(B) One meter or less in diameter or is located in Alaska;
Fear the intelligent evil people. The stupid ones do this kind of stuff.
Even Ross Ulbricht (Sik Road pioneer and jail bird) got caught in part because he asked about a techy problem on on a techy forum using his own name, while developing the code.
When I consider how to get away with crimes, the primary thing is working out how to break any link between yourself and your actions and between yourself and the victims. The secondary thing is to leave no trace in your personal effects. My legit job seems like a far better deal though.
Crisis? You must enjoy drama.
Same rules for L1-B, but in my case they posted an ad - "expertise in xyz product" where xyz is the product I had just designed so there was no one else. It wasn't unreasonable, since that was exactly what was required. That corp (Tality) saw fit to lay everyone off a couple of years later and then tried to get me back when their customers asked about the contracts we were delivering against. Happy days.
I certainly use it for streaming music while I work. But I also watch a bunch of sciency, mathy and engineery channels that interest me. Since YT accounts for 90+% of the video and audio I watch and stream it was worth it to me to pay. The price is a heck of a lot less than other streaming services, works on a desktop and laptop which is what I have in front of me most of the time and there is indeed much foreign niche music content that in the US is only available to me on YouTube even though it's widely popular and available abroad.
The failing is mostly on alternative music sources that fail at being less crap than YouTube and succeed at being more expensive.
Also I can download the YouTube music as MP3s with a little command line magic. This works well when I'm traveling.
YouTube Red is an ad removal service. You can watch YouTube, or you can pay and watch YouTube without the ads.
>Microsoft did all the things you're complaining about a long long time ago
I'm complaining about one very specific thing (removing the windows 10 reader application) and they did it yesterday.
Of all the things that happened a long long time ago, dropping the reader application is not one of them.
I downloaded evince and made it the default PDF reader. It seems to work fine and it's not a browser.
2018, not 2008. The whoosh is strong with this one.
Today (Feb 15th 2018) is the day Microsoft has been telling me they are going to remove the PDF reader and I should use 'edge' instead. The singularity of stupid has arrived.
That's where I plan to dominate the world, by being the last one to still be using a desktop computer.
All that screen space and rapid keyboard entry. What could possibly go wrong?
Why is Musk being celebrated for launching purpose-built space junk? I remember when space junk was considered a problem.
Why not? Space is rather large and there's plenty of it to accommodate both junk and non junk without them coming within light years of each other.
>Is the patent relevant to modern computing?
As network capacities increase, the efficiency of the coding should matter less. So presumably MPEG-2 is becoming more relevant over time.
Hopping in a cab in London, for *decades* has been one of the last bastions of relaxation in a busy itinerary, knowing you were in the hands of a professional. Truly.
I wish we could clone about 1000 of them, along with the former version of the black London Cab and drop them by chute all over San Francisco. Oh, the humanity.
I have found black cab drivers in London to be dishonest and/or rude about 50% of the time and always expensive. They also stick to the busy and high paying points in London leaving other areas devoid of taxis when you need one. Opening up the app before you leave and getting a non rude, follow-the-gps driver is much, much more pleasant.
Parent doesn't do data science, I hope.
Here is a pretty big hint, though: The only thing the population of Uber drivers is representative of is Uber drivers. Maybe also we could infer to Lyft drivers.
In the US, I've yet to see an Uber driver that isn't also a Lyft driver and visa versa.
So now Wikipedia is my backup DNS. (IP addresses at the bottom of the info box).
Be careful! You'll attract the HOSTS file guy.
The what?
>I cannot just run any Linux software on a tablet
I got up a bash shell on an android tablet. I could ls and cd and pwd and cat and echo. That's enough userspace to be going on with.
Jesus H Christ, the grasp of English here is not getting better.
>The 40-member cold-case team comprised of several former FBI agents
No. Several former FBI agents comprised the team. The team was *composed* of several former FBI agents.
Comprise, compose. It's not difficult. They teach it in school, to schoolchildren.
>Chrome OS Is Almost Ready To Replace Android On Tablets
Linux is Almost Ready to Replace Linux On Tablets.
There, fixed that for you.
>I treat Flash itself as potential malware
Why? He was the savior of the universe.
Various professional football (soccer) bodies are looking at banning heading the ball for this reason. A lot of trainers don't allow younger players to do it already.
Football is for feet!