How is that even remotely legal? I could almost understand if they were trying to get fines from confirmed and convicted pirates. I certainly wouldn't support such behavior, but I would understand it.
But this? This is a clear violation of due process.
Anonymous isn't a "real group," the same way that punk rock or heavy metal aren't real groups.
There's no official requirements, formal entry or leadership. But if Hillary or Donald came out tomorrow claiming to be "punk rock," you'd call bullshit.
As for their agenda, they mostly stand for freedom of information and crass humor. At least... they used to. I've no idea what's been going on recently.
I'm honestly surprised that they didn't go after Cruz and Rubio for their recent anti- net neutrality stance. That used to be the thing that got the anons riled up enough to start drawing dicks on websites.
Agreed. Keying errors are one thing: "teh, shuold, beacuse," are simple errors of typing too fast or not caring if an IM is perfectly proof-read. And I've no issue with those.
Homophones are another story entirely, and convey a fundamental lack of understanding. If someone genuinely doesn't know the difference between their and there, affect and effect, reign and rein, it would be impolite to _not_ correct this oversight.
I'm just helping you better grasp the English language. People shouldn't take a minor correction as some indictment of their intellect. English is pretty fucked up, as languages go, accept the help graciously and move on.
"Bold faced lie" : yes
"For no reason" : not necessarily
Claiming to have unlocked the phone saves face, plus it spites Apple. Petty retribution for Apple's stubbornness.
Really, there's no reason for the FBI to tell the truth. The inverse of what you said. Admitting they couldn't hack it, and admitting they knew the court case was bound to fail... what does any of that accomplish?
At this point, I'm assuming it's all lies, until the FBI either publishes the hack, or some info from within the phone that they now can access.
Nothing honest about it. He'll lie to your face if it'll improve his polls. He's a showman, and certainly entertaining. His his relationship with the truth is tenuous as best, if not entirely accidental.
Youtube is a business, first and foremost. Their goal is to make money.
The big corporate partners (Sony, Disney, Warner Bros, etc.) serve that goal much better than little one-man review channels, mommy blogs, or whatever else.
We're causing previously unseen conditions because we are engaged in previously unseen activities.
Never in the 4.5 billion year history of this planet has a species done any of the things we're doing (to the best of our knowledge). Driving cars, farming, surfing a massively interconnected network of computers while pooping. It's all uncharted territory for our dear planet Terra. So I'm not terribly surprised to hear that these events are causing some changes.
The real question is whether or not these changes will make the planet inhospitable to life.
Sounds more like the "one failed attempt" counter passes through RAM before being stored in non-volatile memory.
If you can rig up something to detect that message in RAM and hard-power-down the system before it transitions the data, you could have unlimited attempts.
If we assume they do this on every single attempt, and it takes exactly 1 minute to reboot and try again, you could brute force all 10,000 possible 4-digit numerics in just under a week.
Of course... That's all wild speculation. I could be way off base.
Vegans and vegetarians can only exist in a society of carnivores (well, omnivores). Alone, the veggies would fail.
The primary benefit of eating meat is the nutritional density. A but of beef provides more energy than all the kale you can eat.
How many vegans do you know with physically or mentally demanding jobs? How many builders, roofers, personal trainers? How many professors, neural surgeons, aerospace engineers? Not many, I'd wager. And the few that exist require extreme dedication and nutritional study to keep it up.
If you want to live a veggie/vegan life, go ahead. It's certainly your right to do so. But don't act as though the whole world could live like that.
Or, they'll just use an app within Apple devices to send encrypted messages.
DoJ is so off-base, it's ridiculous. Short of installing a key logger into every device that real-time reports every input from every user, they're not going to crack encryption as a whole. It's simply mathematically impossible.
The DoJ needs to start doing some actual fucking police work and catch these yahoos BEFORE they strike. But that wouldn't serve the narrative that "we're under attack and need fucking tanks to protect and serve suburbia."
You're confusing a pattern of global warning with a gospel of annual record breaks.
There SHOULD be some "weather" happening. At least one year this century should have some cold weather. At least one year in the previous century should have some warm weather.
But there isn't. The numbers are adhering perfectly with the alarmist rhetoric, instead of following a natural pattern of peaks and valleys slowly increasing over time.
I'm not trying to deny AGW at all. It's serious, and needs to be addressed. No doubt about it.
But to imply that the last 15 years have all been the 15 hottest on record is ridiculous. As though we never had a single warm year in the 1990s or earlier, or a single cold year in the last 15 (the phrase Polar Vortex comes to mind.)
This is exactly the kind if alarmist bullshit that deniers can clamp on to. This screams bad science.
Don't fall into that trap. Don't present obviously skewed data when the real data will show a clear enough pattern.
But... the reason for this hall of fame hissy fit is that the phone is *too* secure. They can't break into it, so they're gonna show apple who's boss and stop buying their stuff
When really, this is the exact opposite of the correct response. If the iPhone is so secure that the FBI is having to run through all this legal crap to even get an attempt at breaking in (which still might fail) the gubmint should be switching to iPhones across the board.
Apple should stand firm for the EXACT reasons listed. This case very much is slanted towards the FBI.
If Apple wins, they'll set the strongest possible precedent. If they lose, deniability is built in: we lost because the case was so obviously slanted, we'll bring a case to court again if a less slanted case shows up.
I wasn't aware of that. If youtube is flagging and removing videos of their own volition, that needs to stop immediately, if not sooner.
Really, takedown requests should only be accepted if they come from a verified source, or at least a verified domain (e.g. legal@sony.com). Otherwise, what's to stop you or I from filing takedown requests against the entire Nickleback catalog, on the grounds that it violates a patent and-"/or trademark that I hold on sewage delivery systems?
Really, Youtube should require a digital signature (PKI) on the requests, but let's not get too far ahead of ourselves.
While I agree in principle, in reality money is the only language these ad companies speak.
Charging them straight cash money is the easiest and most direct way to inform them that their current business practice is unacceptable. Pairing that payment with "acceptable ads" that don't auto-play, pop-under, or any of the other hokey bullshit is a sweet bonus that may eventually lead to not needing as block software. Maybe.
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Make it happen.
Right there in TFS.
How is that even remotely legal? I could almost understand if they were trying to get fines from confirmed and convicted pirates. I certainly wouldn't support such behavior, but I would understand it.
But this? This is a clear violation of due process.
Welcome to the Fermi Paradox.
Anonymous isn't a "real group," the same way that punk rock or heavy metal aren't real groups.
There's no official requirements, formal entry or leadership. But if Hillary or Donald came out tomorrow claiming to be "punk rock," you'd call bullshit.
As for their agenda, they mostly stand for freedom of information and crass humor. At least ... they used to. I've no idea what's been going on recently.
I'm honestly surprised that they didn't go after Cruz and Rubio for their recent anti- net neutrality stance. That used to be the thing that got the anons riled up enough to start drawing dicks on websites.
Solid sample size.
Except not really. That was sarcasm.
Because I'm a jerk. A jerk who will correct your grammar for you
Agreed. Keying errors are one thing: "teh, shuold, beacuse," are simple errors of typing too fast or not caring if an IM is perfectly proof-read. And I've no issue with those.
Homophones are another story entirely, and convey a fundamental lack of understanding. If someone genuinely doesn't know the difference between their and there, affect and effect, reign and rein, it would be impolite to _not_ correct this oversight.
I'm just helping you better grasp the English language. People shouldn't take a minor correction as some indictment of their intellect. English is pretty fucked up, as languages go, accept the help graciously and move on.
While your assumption isn't without merit, it's still an assumption.
"Bold faced lie" : yes
"For no reason" : not necessarily
Claiming to have unlocked the phone saves face, plus it spites Apple. Petty retribution for Apple's stubbornness.
Really, there's no reason for the FBI to tell the truth. The inverse of what you said. Admitting they couldn't hack it, and admitting they knew the court case was bound to fail ... what does any of that accomplish?
At this point, I'm assuming it's all lies, until the FBI either publishes the hack, or some info from within the phone that they now can access.
Nothing honest about it. He'll lie to your face if it'll improve his polls. He's a showman, and certainly entertaining. His his relationship with the truth is tenuous as best, if not entirely accidental.
Youtube is a business, first and foremost. Their goal is to make money.
The big corporate partners (Sony, Disney, Warner Bros, etc.) serve that goal much better than little one-man review channels, mommy blogs, or whatever else.
Right now we are advising all our clients to put everything they've got into canned food and shotguns.
We're causing previously unseen conditions because we are engaged in previously unseen activities.
Never in the 4.5 billion year history of this planet has a species done any of the things we're doing (to the best of our knowledge). Driving cars, farming, surfing a massively interconnected network of computers while pooping. It's all uncharted territory for our dear planet Terra. So I'm not terribly surprised to hear that these events are causing some changes.
The real question is whether or not these changes will make the planet inhospitable to life.
Sounds more like the "one failed attempt" counter passes through RAM before being stored in non-volatile memory.
If you can rig up something to detect that message in RAM and hard-power-down the system before it transitions the data, you could have unlimited attempts.
If we assume they do this on every single attempt, and it takes exactly 1 minute to reboot and try again, you could brute force all 10,000 possible 4-digit numerics in just under a week.
Of course ... That's all wild speculation. I could be way off base.
Vegans and vegetarians can only exist in a society of carnivores (well, omnivores). Alone, the veggies would fail.
The primary benefit of eating meat is the nutritional density. A but of beef provides more energy than all the kale you can eat.
How many vegans do you know with physically or mentally demanding jobs? How many builders, roofers, personal trainers? How many professors, neural surgeons, aerospace engineers? Not many, I'd wager. And the few that exist require extreme dedication and nutritional study to keep it up.
If you want to live a veggie/vegan life, go ahead. It's certainly your right to do so. But don't act as though the whole world could live like that.
Or, they'll just use an app within Apple devices to send encrypted messages.
DoJ is so off-base, it's ridiculous. Short of installing a key logger into every device that real-time reports every input from every user, they're not going to crack encryption as a whole. It's simply mathematically impossible.
The DoJ needs to start doing some actual fucking police work and catch these yahoos BEFORE they strike. But that wouldn't serve the narrative that "we're under attack and need fucking tanks to protect and serve suburbia."
20 flights in a decade really isn't stuffing anyone's pockets.
Corrupt though they may be, this is certainly not monetary corruption on display here.
You're confusing a pattern of global warning with a gospel of annual record breaks.
There SHOULD be some "weather" happening. At least one year this century should have some cold weather. At least one year in the previous century should have some warm weather.
But there isn't. The numbers are adhering perfectly with the alarmist rhetoric, instead of following a natural pattern of peaks and valleys slowly increasing over time.
That's absolutely absurd.
I'm not trying to deny AGW at all. It's serious, and needs to be addressed. No doubt about it.
But to imply that the last 15 years have all been the 15 hottest on record is ridiculous. As though we never had a single warm year in the 1990s or earlier, or a single cold year in the last 15 (the phrase Polar Vortex comes to mind.)
This is exactly the kind if alarmist bullshit that deniers can clamp on to. This screams bad science.
Don't fall into that trap. Don't present obviously skewed data when the real data will show a clear enough pattern.
Based on that logic, any anonymous coward comment is just as credible as anything else posted on the internet.
Says the AC, replying to the AC.
That's not to say you're wrong, source matters. But the palpable irony couldn't go unmentioned.
How much XP do you require before your tooling can operate a zipper?
But ... the reason for this hall of fame hissy fit is that the phone is *too* secure. They can't break into it, so they're gonna show apple who's boss and stop buying their stuff
When really, this is the exact opposite of the correct response. If the iPhone is so secure that the FBI is having to run through all this legal crap to even get an attempt at breaking in (which still might fail) the gubmint should be switching to iPhones across the board.
If Apple wins, they'll set the strongest possible precedent. If they lose, deniability is built in: we lost because the case was so obviously slanted, we'll bring a case to court again if a less slanted case shows up.
His immunity means one of two possible things.
Either he's going to take the fall hard ("it was totally my fault, she had no idea, etc.") or he's dragging her down hard.
Either way, there's going to be some resolution soon.
I wasn't aware of that. If youtube is flagging and removing videos of their own volition, that needs to stop immediately, if not sooner.
Really, takedown requests should only be accepted if they come from a verified source, or at least a verified domain (e.g. legal@sony.com). Otherwise, what's to stop you or I from filing takedown requests against the entire Nickleback catalog, on the grounds that it violates a patent and-"/or trademark that I hold on sewage delivery systems?
Really, Youtube should require a digital signature (PKI) on the requests, but let's not get too far ahead of ourselves.
While I agree in principle, in reality money is the only language these ad companies speak.
Charging them straight cash money is the easiest and most direct way to inform them that their current business practice is unacceptable. Pairing that payment with "acceptable ads" that don't auto-play, pop-under, or any of the other hokey bullshit is a sweet bonus that may eventually lead to not needing as block software. Maybe.