As he is replying to "why isn't there interest in impeaching Obama?" with "Because Racism", logically he is saying that racism protects Obama.
Few people denounce the racism of minorities versus other minorities or versus the majority because they do not want to be called racist for "picking" on a minority. Thus racism protects Obama in some ways.
Yup, the blame rests as it so often does when/. has a click-bait & provably false title with Timmay. At least this one doesn't have the grammar and spelling errors his submissions so often do.
From comments in TFA, the gift is limited to the mirror itself and not the rest of the systems around it leaving me wondering why Nasa doesn't use the defect free Kodak produced mirror for yet another project instead of leaving it at the Smithsonian. Surely there is another project that could benefit from another 2.4 meter mirror.
All the interesting islands in the Caribbean essentially surround Cuba.
Are you trying to claim that Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, St Johns, Anguilla, St Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, etc are of no interest or are you claiming that all the the windward and leeward islands that all lie far east of Cuba somehow "surround" it ?
Considering that a member of the Python troupe is a close friend of my mother, that I'm half French and that your blathering on about how your phone without a fingerprint sensor somehow gives you relevance on how Apple has engineered TouchID, the more apt reference is Now go away or I shall tant you again.
Ah, yes, Android's fingerprint APIs & implementations are so wonderful that Google pay has been using them from day one, leading an ever growing number of developers to depend on them... Except that that is patently false unless you replace Android with IOS & Google with Apple.
I do not dispute that Android has had various fingerprint implementations, but differing specifications and implementations have meant that none have had the uptake that Apple has imposed with TouchID and even the best have been no more than barely useful gadgets.
As the subject is TouchID which is a secure fingerprint reader and no fairphone includes one, your criticism is baseless and your judgement clearly faulty.
As I clearly labeled which part of my fingers I use and you have displayed insufficient comprehension/intelligence to follow here is an URL you should read: http://www.tpub.com/maa/179.ht...
Do you see both examples of typical fingerprints? (hint: they are labeled A & B). Do you see what part of your finger is not present on either example? That is what is called the fingertip and as I explained earlier (I'm repeating as you seem to have an extremely short attention span) fingerprints rarely give good latent prints but are more than sufficient for TouchID.
I, like most normal people grasp objects use those parts of my fingers that are typically registered when registering fingerprints. Fingertips, palm prints toe prints, nose prints and whatever it is that you use (I'm guessing tentacles) rarely give usable prints which is why most fingerprint registers do not include them.
No android fingerprint sensor is accompanied by a secure enclave and thus fingerprint data and functions are open to abuse by any malware that wants to. It's like trumpeting that your new home has a safe but omitting that the access code is engraved on the safe's door. Only a fool would use such a safe or an android fingerprint sensor for anything important.
No android fingerprint sensor is accompanied by a secure enclave and thus fingerprint data ans functions are open to abuse by any malware that wants to. It's like trumpeting that your new home has a safe but omitting that the access code is engraved on the safe's door. Only a fool would use such a safe or an android fingerprint sensor for anything important.
So, all recent Android phones come with a functional equivalent to TouchID? Ah, no, they don't and even when they start adding them, it's going to be the usual dogs breakfast of incomplete, incompatible and mostly broken implementations. But you'll be so happy knowing that you can replace parts with clones that claim to be the same and never worry about it -- because we all know that couldn't make Android's security any worse.
Says who? You? Ah, forgive me for not seeing directly how your world look should define how I live my life. How dare I not see that you hold the ultimate truths and can define any word to mean whatever you want it to, I didn't recognise you in your spire disguise Dear Leader...
Most of the hand != fingertips, which given how people normally hold things rarely give good prints (confirmed by the fact that they are extremely rarely in any databases or used to solve crimes) but are just fine for TouchID.
It's funny that so many people who are so inventive when finding ways to call TouchID inadequate are so lacking when choosing what part of which finger would be useful to diminish their claimed drawbacks. Oh no, people MUST use the balls of their fingers, or else it MUST be the backs of their hands.
That is so true, after all, we can compare Apple's engineering to the better designed with easily replacable elements that so many Android phones... uh, well actually they don't have anything better... Oh yeah gotta get back to criticising Apple or the Android geeks will down vote me.
Only if you're using the part of your fingerprint that you use to grip things with. Using the ball of your thumb or your index finger isn't the best choice but there are others that make getting latent prints much harder to find but do not make TouchID significantly harder to use.
What a wonderful idea, that way people can mess with the TouchID sensor and discover by tinkering weaknesses that can be used to bypass it. Then people can all criticize Apple on how weak their engineering was when the bypass is used to steal money from Apple Pay. Yeah, great idea, no drawbacks at all!
There is a fallback to a secondary authentification mode but it isn't necessarily a feeble four number PIN as you can setup an authentification passcode/phrase instead. Thus, when rebooting or authenticating after more than 48 hours of disuse you need to enter a real pass phrase. Using a passphrase would be annoying if it was every time but TouchID makes it the rare exception.
Electric air planes with lithium-air batteries would weigh the same at landing as they do at takeoff whereas a 747 loses around a quarter of it's weight en-route.
No troll boy, I've told you that I found information from a reference posted by timmay that you were too lazy to even read.
I don't care much anymore about./ because I've seen it fall far from what it once was. You don't like the implications of/. changing hands yet again but instead of having an intelligent reaction, looking up your own sources and bringing them to the discussion your reaction is to blame the messenger.
It's assholes like you that are the reason/. no longer matters.
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You may have missed Rockoon's point.
As he is replying to "why isn't there interest in impeaching Obama?" with "Because Racism", logically he is saying that racism protects Obama.
Few people denounce the racism of minorities versus other minorities or versus the majority because they do not want to be called racist for "picking" on a minority. Thus racism protects Obama in some ways.
Yup, the blame rests as it so often does when /. has a click-bait & provably false title with Timmay. At least this one doesn't have the grammar and spelling errors his submissions so often do.
From comments in TFA, the gift is limited to the mirror itself and not the rest of the systems around it leaving me wondering why Nasa doesn't use the defect free Kodak produced mirror for yet another project instead of leaving it at the Smithsonian. Surely there is another project that could benefit from another 2.4 meter mirror.
All the interesting islands in the Caribbean essentially surround Cuba.
Are you trying to claim that Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, St Johns, Anguilla, St Kitts, Nevis, Montserrat, Guadeloupe, Dominica, Martinique, etc are of no interest or are you claiming that all the the windward and leeward islands that all lie far east of Cuba somehow "surround" it ?
Considering that a member of the Python troupe is a close friend of my mother, that I'm half French and that your blathering on about how your phone without a fingerprint sensor somehow gives you relevance on how Apple has engineered TouchID, the more apt reference is Now go away or I shall tant you again.
Ah, yes, Android's fingerprint APIs & implementations are so wonderful that Google pay has been using them from day one, leading an ever growing number of developers to depend on them... Except that that is patently false unless you replace Android with IOS & Google with Apple.
I do not dispute that Android has had various fingerprint implementations, but differing specifications and implementations have meant that none have had the uptake that Apple has imposed with TouchID and even the best have been no more than barely useful gadgets.
As the subject is TouchID which is a secure fingerprint reader and no fairphone includes one, your criticism is baseless and your judgement clearly faulty.
As I clearly labeled which part of my fingers I use and you have displayed insufficient comprehension/intelligence to follow here is an URL you should read:
http://www.tpub.com/maa/179.ht...
Do you see both examples of typical fingerprints? (hint: they are labeled A & B). Do you see what part of your finger is not present on either example? That is what is called the fingertip and as I explained earlier (I'm repeating as you seem to have an extremely short attention span) fingerprints rarely give good latent prints but are more than sufficient for TouchID.
I, like most normal people grasp objects use those parts of my fingers that are typically registered when registering fingerprints. Fingertips, palm prints toe prints, nose prints and whatever it is that you use (I'm guessing tentacles) rarely give usable prints which is why most fingerprint registers do not include them.
Why are you assuming that the phone isn't encrypted with a passphrase as apple recommends: https://support.apple.com/en-u...
It's the first link when searching for "touch id fingerprint sensor" so it's not hard to find.
Of course that would be assuming that you actually want to know what you're talking about and not just make snarky comments.
No android fingerprint sensor is accompanied by a secure enclave and thus fingerprint data and functions are open to abuse by any malware that wants to. It's like trumpeting that your new home has a safe but omitting that the access code is engraved on the safe's door. Only a fool would use such a safe or an android fingerprint sensor for anything important.
No android fingerprint sensor is accompanied by a secure enclave and thus fingerprint data ans functions are open to abuse by any malware that wants to. It's like trumpeting that your new home has a safe but omitting that the access code is engraved on the safe's door. Only a fool would use such a safe or an android fingerprint sensor for anything important.
So, all recent Android phones come with a functional equivalent to TouchID? Ah, no, they don't and even when they start adding them, it's going to be the usual dogs breakfast of incomplete, incompatible and mostly broken implementations. But you'll be so happy knowing that you can replace parts with clones that claim to be the same and never worry about it -- because we all know that couldn't make Android's security any worse.
Says who? You? Ah, forgive me for not seeing directly how your world look should define how I live my life. How dare I not see that you hold the ultimate truths and can define any word to mean whatever you want it to, I didn't recognise you in your spire disguise Dear Leader...
I'd suggest tucking in your shirt but that's probably too much to hope for.
Most of the hand != fingertips, which given how people normally hold things rarely give good prints (confirmed by the fact that they are extremely rarely in any databases or used to solve crimes) but are just fine for TouchID.
It's funny that so many people who are so inventive when finding ways to call TouchID inadequate are so lacking when choosing what part of which finger would be useful to diminish their claimed drawbacks. Oh no, people MUST use the balls of their fingers, or else it MUST be the backs of their hands.
That is so true, after all, we can compare Apple's engineering to the better designed with easily replacable elements that so many Android phones... uh, well actually they don't have anything better... Oh yeah gotta get back to criticising Apple or the Android geeks will down vote me.
Only if you're using the part of your fingerprint that you use to grip things with. Using the ball of your thumb or your index finger isn't the best choice but there are others that make getting latent prints much harder to find but do not make TouchID significantly harder to use.
"Ruins usability"?!? Oh yeah, you don't have an axe to grind, not at all...
What a wonderful idea, that way people can mess with the TouchID sensor and discover by tinkering weaknesses that can be used to bypass it. Then people can all criticize Apple on how weak their engineering was when the bypass is used to steal money from Apple Pay. Yeah, great idea, no drawbacks at all!
There is a fallback to a secondary authentification mode but it isn't necessarily a feeble four number PIN as you can setup an authentification passcode/phrase instead. Thus, when rebooting or authenticating after more than 48 hours of disuse you need to enter a real pass phrase. Using a passphrase would be annoying if it was every time but TouchID makes it the rare exception.
So go wail about mid-east in a forum dedicated to it. This is /. where the subject is on topic and you are not.
Electric air planes with lithium-air batteries would weigh the same at landing as they do at takeoff whereas a 747 loses around a quarter of it's weight en-route.
No troll boy, I've told you that I found information from a reference posted by timmay that you were too lazy to even read.
I don't care much anymore about ./ because I've seen it fall far from what it once was. You don't like the implications of /. changing hands yet again but instead of having an intelligent reaction, looking up your own sources and bringing them to the discussion your reaction is to blame the messenger.
It's assholes like you that are the reason /. no longer matters.
If you are incapable of understanding that layoffs very often happen after transfers of ownership then there is nothing anyone can do to help you.
If you seek to dispute what fossforce.com reported, take it up with them.
http://meta.slashdot.org/story... posted on /.'s main page 13 HOURS before your comment has a link in the summary to http://fossforce.com/2016/01/s... from which the text was taken.
Yeah, this is the modern /. where people refuse to read TFAs but really...