In fairness, when manufacturers lock their bootloaders and sign their firmware with certificates Google does not have access to, what the fuck is Google supposed to do about it?
That's a serious question and I expect a serious answer.
Fine. They could have simply told the manufacturers from the start to make sure people could update their phones without a problem.
But that would have gotten in the way of stuffing all kinds of shit into Android phones, so nobody would have made and sold any Android devices.
So ultimately, no they couldn't have done anything, because the customer doesn't matter (at least to anyone but Apple).
Sorry if that isn't the answer you wanted to hear.
KABS employees carry out mosquito control on a 300 km stretch of the Rhine between Bingen and Offenburg over an area of around six thousand square kilometers. They exclusively use a protein produced by Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (BTI)....At a cost of 400 thousand Euros annually the result is a reduction of the mosquito population by 99% compared to untreated areas.
Yeah, Amazon was the good guy, because they were the ones keeping eBook prices reasonable.
Only for their customers, because Amazon just took the losses of selling the e-books below what they paid the publishers, that other e-book sellers couldn't. But hey, you don't get a 90+% market share by not cheating.
Not if Amazon charge, say, 1/3 of the price for distributing through their kindle network.
Fun fact: before Apple and their silly 30% cut came along, Amazon demanded 70% for Kindle Published ebooks. And when Amazon feels like it, they still ask 70%.
BURLINGAME, Calif.— Sometime around the middle of this decade no one is sure exactly when -- executives on the go will begin carrying pocket-sized digital communicating devices.
...
At one end of the spectrum is John Sculley, the chief executive of Apple Computer Inc., who says these personal communicators could be "the mother of all markets."
At the other end is Andrew Grove, the chairman of the Intel Corporation, the huge chip maker based in Santa Clara, Calif. He says the idea of a wireless personal communicator in every pocket is "a pipe dream driven by greed."
This is the same problem as DNA 'fingerprinting'. Statistically, there are likely to be around 50 people in the UK who have the same DNA fingerprint..
Not that I'm doubting your 'integrity' (fwiw, I'm not) but this is a new statistic to me and one which, if true, is seriously troubling.
Would you, by any chance, have a reference to a reliable source for this figure? If that reference went into detail regarding accuracy based on number of STR's used or the number of sample sites or the like so much the better.
Yes, and the distribution of those people is important. If fingerprints have 150,000 people randomly distributed through the entirety of earth's population that would unlock your phone, that's not bad. It would be pretty hard to find one of those people. It would be much better than say, in the worst case, that the 7,500 people that can unlock your phone with FaceID happen to be your 7,500 closest relatives, which would be fairly easy to find. This is an extreme example, but it demonstrates my point in the importance of the distribution.
Errm, dude, only in our home town everybody under 30 looks like the postman.
I was wondering about this from another standpoint. What if you set-up Face-ID at the age of 10 and by the time you reach 12/13 your face has elongated enough that you can no-longer unlock your device.
Well, you could have read the fucking report by Apple, but you chose to look like an idiot instead (and no, that doesn't mean any idiot could unlock your iPhone).
To improve unlock performance and keep pace with the natural changes of
your face and look, Face ID augments its stored mathematical representation
over time. Upon successful unlock, Face ID may use the newly calculated
mathematical representation—if its quality is sufficient—for a finite number
of additional unlocks before that data is discarded. Conversely, if Face ID fails
to recognize you, but the match quality is higher than a certain threshold and
you immediately follow the failure by entering your passcode, Face ID takes
another capture and augments its enrolled Face ID data with the newly
calculated mathematical representation. This new Face ID data is discarded
after a finite number of unlocks and if you stop matching against it. These
augmentation processes allow Face ID to keep up with dramatic changes in
your facial hair or makeup use,
while minimizing false acceptance.
And if it CANNOT be changed even with your consent it is not fit as a security token either. It's great for identity, but it could hardly be worse for authorization.
Hunh? I'll break your nose for free. "Problem" solved, motherfucker.
It's all bullshit. Whatshisfuck stood on stage and claimed that it was orders of magnitude more secure and reliable than TouchID. What happened?
If a completely perfect mask is made, which fools the identification neural network, the defensive system will still notice -- just like a human.
Nope. If a "perfect" mask is made, the defensive system won't notice. And neither will a human. And if a "good" mask is made, the defensive system won't notice, but a human will.
So it's just like with "perfect artificial fingerprints". And nobody uses those to unlock iPhones either, Yeah all you write is bullshit.
That is so wrong it's not even funny. They had nothing to do with the development of the fingerprint sensor... They bought the company over, right underneath Google which was planning to do it on their next phone
How dare they buy a company that Google wanted to buy to pretend they developed something!
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No, I got your point;
No you didn't. My point wasn't that Google "simply had to" kill its uncle because his inheritance was the only way tp get rich.
So ultimately, no they couldn't have done anything
That was kind of my point.
Well, you clearly didn't understand my point then.
In fairness, when manufacturers lock their bootloaders and sign their firmware with certificates Google does not have access to, what the fuck is Google supposed to do about it? That's a serious question and I expect a serious answer.
Fine. They could have simply told the manufacturers from the start to make sure people could update their phones without a problem.
But that would have gotten in the way of stuffing all kinds of shit into Android phones, so nobody would have made and sold any Android devices.
So ultimately, no they couldn't have done anything, because the customer doesn't matter (at least to anyone but Apple).
Sorry if that isn't the answer you wanted to hear.
And humans will subsist exclusively on Roundup in our underground caverns. The future will be amazing!
Considering the effects of Roundup on humans - there will actually be less of us too.
But you don't see anybody raising the alarm over the disappearing honkey population
Insects don't have guns to go on a rampage ^w^w^w^w defend themselves with.
Get out of your mom's basement.
There are fucking mosquitoes all summer long, wasps everywhere, flies, box elder bugs, gnats, and those little fruit flies always get in my house.
Maybe you should open the window once in a while, to let those pesticides in that kill the insects everywhere else outside your house.
KABS employees carry out mosquito control on a 300 km stretch of the Rhine between Bingen and Offenburg over an area of around six thousand square kilometers. They exclusively use a protein produced by Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (BTI). ...At a cost of 400 thousand Euros annually the result is a reduction of the mosquito population by 99% compared to untreated areas.
Yeah, Amazon was the good guy, because they were the ones keeping eBook prices reasonable.
Only for their customers, because Amazon just took the losses of selling the e-books below what they paid the publishers, that other e-book sellers couldn't. But hey, you don't get a 90+% market share by not cheating.
Not if Amazon charge, say, 1/3 of the price for distributing through their kindle network.
Fun fact: before Apple and their silly 30% cut came along, Amazon demanded 70% for Kindle Published ebooks. And when Amazon feels like it, they still ask 70%.
... to not buy it. I will be buying no Apple products that have Face ID.
So you will be buying the Androids with cheap Face ID knockoffs then?
http://www.businessinsider.com...
By Peter H. Lewis Published: July 19, 1992
BURLINGAME, Calif.— Sometime around the middle of this decade no one is sure exactly when -- executives on the go will begin carrying pocket-sized digital communicating devices.
...
At one end of the spectrum is John Sculley, the chief executive of Apple Computer Inc., who says these personal communicators could be "the mother of all markets."
At the other end is Andrew Grove, the chairman of the Intel Corporation, the huge chip maker based in Santa Clara, Calif. He says the idea of a wireless personal communicator in every pocket is "a pipe dream driven by greed."
Errm, would being published at Infowars speak for or against his credibility? Infowars is the QVC for right wing conspiracy nuts after all.
This is the same problem as DNA 'fingerprinting'. Statistically, there are likely to be around 50 people in the UK who have the same DNA fingerprint..
Not that I'm doubting your 'integrity' (fwiw, I'm not) but this is a new statistic to me and one which, if true, is seriously troubling.
Would you, by any chance, have a reference to a reliable source for this figure? If that reference went into detail regarding accuracy based on number of STR's used or the number of sample sites or the like so much the better.
https://youtu.be/ScmJvmzDcG0?t...
Yes, and the distribution of those people is important. If fingerprints have 150,000 people randomly distributed through the entirety of earth's population that would unlock your phone, that's not bad. It would be pretty hard to find one of those people. It would be much better than say, in the worst case, that the 7,500 people that can unlock your phone with FaceID happen to be your 7,500 closest relatives, which would be fairly easy to find. This is an extreme example, but it demonstrates my point in the importance of the distribution.
Errm, dude, only in our home town everybody under 30 looks like the postman.
So a Donald Trump impersonator could unlock the Presidentâ(TM)s Twitter machine...
Actually, give how Trump distorts his own face when speaking, Face ID will probably not be able to identify him if he just opens his mouth.
I was wondering about this from another standpoint. What if you set-up Face-ID at the age of 10 and by the time you reach 12/13 your face has elongated enough that you can no-longer unlock your device.
Well, you could have read the fucking report by Apple, but you chose to look like an idiot instead (and no, that doesn't mean any idiot could unlock your iPhone).
To improve unlock performance and keep pace with the natural changes of your face and look, Face ID augments its stored mathematical representation over time. Upon successful unlock, Face ID may use the newly calculated mathematical representation—if its quality is sufficient—for a finite number of additional unlocks before that data is discarded. Conversely, if Face ID fails to recognize you, but the match quality is higher than a certain threshold and you immediately follow the failure by entering your passcode, Face ID takes another capture and augments its enrolled Face ID data with the newly calculated mathematical representation. This new Face ID data is discarded after a finite number of unlocks and if you stop matching against it. These augmentation processes allow Face ID to keep up with dramatic changes in your facial hair or makeup use, while minimizing false acceptance.
Disclaimer: I have siblings, but they don't look like me.
Good for them - who wants to look like an asshole?
I would recommend no one should use Face ID, or the IphoneX for that matter.
The NSA thanks you for the updated face scans.
And don't get me started on what they can do with your Android ...
We're doing something we think is cool, fuck whomever it doesn't work for.
You can't use your phone to make phone calls if your are dumb. And heck, are you dumb as fuck.
You must have forgotten that part where this feature is not compulsory. You may continue to use a passcode.
Yeah, but the chances that your twin (even non-identical) knows your birthday you use as your passcode are 100%.
And if it CANNOT be changed even with your consent it is not fit as a security token either. It's great for identity, but it could hardly be worse for authorization.
Hunh? I'll break your nose for free. "Problem" solved, motherfucker.
It's all bullshit. Whatshisfuck stood on stage and claimed that it was orders of magnitude more secure and reliable than TouchID. What happened?
If a completely perfect mask is made, which fools the identification neural network, the defensive system will still notice -- just like a human.
Nope. If a "perfect" mask is made, the defensive system won't notice. And neither will a human. And if a "good" mask is made, the defensive system won't notice, but a human will.
So it's just like with "perfect artificial fingerprints". And nobody uses those to unlock iPhones either, Yeah all you write is bullshit.
That is so wrong it's not even funny. They had nothing to do with the development of the fingerprint sensor... They bought the company over, right underneath Google which was planning to do it on their next phone
How dare they buy a company that Google wanted to buy to pretend they developed something!