The manufacturers should be forced to do something to make cars unhackable. And then to add a backdoor, so the FBI can get in, because else the terrorists win.
"On Friday, Congress passed legislation making the solar investment tax credit (ITC) available for several years and creating a new production tax credit for wind power projects.
The solar ITC, which was scheduled to expire at the end of 2016, was extended for as many as eight years as part of a $1.15 trillion spending bill."
I'm not worried about tens of millions in subsidized alternative energy rebates that arguably helps to make our country cleaner.
Fair enough, but its closer to $10 billion per year than tens of millions.
Last I checked that number, it not only wasn't for a year, but almost 2 decades, and a large part went into "alternative" energies like oil and coal (making them "cleaner").
I find it interesting how they could claim to correlate wildfires with global warming.
Their chart on p. 83 of the report does not contradict THIS chart, but this chart does contradict that idea.
There were vastly more acres of woodland burned by wildfires per year in the 1920s-1930s than today.
Funny how your graph is conveniently leaving out a decade of data. Pure coincidence, I'm sure. Nice how you ignore the obvious invention of fire plane, too.
From what little I understand of American politics, Obama cannot be re-elected anymore. So he is now free to spout off any nonsense he wishes.
But what pray tell enables the Republican pre-candidates (every single one of them) to do the same? Not only that, the more nonsense they spout off, the more likely they are to become the candidate.
Even so, it's a ridiculous loophole: all they have to do is arrest anyone who doesn't consent and then they can go wherever they like.
They'd still have to find one person who asks them inside. Or pretend they heard someone scream for help. Okay, not much difference, but still a completely different excuse.
They could, except the FBI screwed up and changed the cloud password for the phone (locking themselves out of it in an attempt to keep anyone else out of it) and while the County paid for the employer option of being able to reset the PIN on their owned phones, they never actually got around to installing it on their employee's phones. Now they want Apple to bail them out of their mistakes by creating a special version of their phone OS which drops all the PIN code brute force protection.
Actually, they not only paid for MDM, there's indication they actually used it(*) - and thus they should be able to unlock the phone without Apple's help.
My wife also had an iPhone issued by the County and she did not use it for any personal
communication. San Bernardino is one of the largest Counties in the country. They can track the
phone on GPS in case they needed to determine where people were
If that doesn't sound like MDM was active on the phone, what would? But hey, remember kids, this case isn't actually about the data on this phone anyway. It's just sounds important enough so the slippery slope water park ride can be opened.
You seem to be saying that you think that the people saying that Apple doesn't make computers that meet their needs are the same people that don't actually own Apple computers. Surely that makes perfect sense?
Actually, it seems he's saying that the people complaining that Apple doesn't make computers that meet their needs are also the people who say they would never buy an Apple, not even if they had the perfect computer for them.
Actually the reason the original iPhone didn't multitask was that it was so underpowered. 400MHz single core CPU and just 128MB of RAM.
And yet the Android phones coming out years later supported multitasking but had much weaker CPUs. Of course their performance and battery time sucked,.
And don't use iTunes, don't get any proprietary accessories / chargers, don't use AirPlay, don't use iMessage... in the end you might as well not get an iPhone to begin with if you care about vendor lock-in.
Well, at least you won't be locked into Google then. Or Amazon.
But when we start getting excited about a new strap for a bloody watch is when we should stop and think if we're not taking our fanboi-ism a tad too far.
The Apple Watch is not a technology product. It is a fashion product. You wear it to make a statement about yourself. Apple realized from the beginning that the Watch was not competing with Samsung or LG, but with Rolex and Patek Philippe.
So that's why it not only outsells the competition, but also the non-competition. Because Samsung tried to sell their high-tech tool by telling people to make a statement about themselves: that they secretly film girls with their watch and then show it to them in some bar.
Yeah, can't wait for Apple to ship some Skatlake products. Well, maybe they really only freeze Windows and Linux computers, and OS X never had those problems.
But maybe that's your problem, that you can't blame Apple for that?
No, the device would wipe itself after a few tries.
Says who? This is not a default option, so you can only claim that to be the absolute truth if you already have full access to the phone, or have already erased it by trying. In either case Apple couldn't help you.
Assuming the FBI is privy to the NSA's capabilities.
This is a terrorism case, so the FBI and the NSA are supposed to cooperate.
In general, that would be correct. But, just like when the Enigma was developed, you wouldn't have let that secret out for a single case like this when you're fighting a larger war.
But everybody already knows the NSA can crack your phone. Why pretend they can't just for this case?
regarding 2): They do not need a warrant, as the phone in question is owned by the county government and they have given permission to search the phone.
To bring this important legal question into the public eye?
Which one? That you can't get evidence from a broken phone? At least the shooter knew - else he wouldn't have destroyed all his devices with evidence on it.
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The manufacturers should be forced to do something to make cars unhackable. And then to add a backdoor, so the FBI can get in, because else the terrorists win.
Then you haven't checked recently:
"On Friday, Congress passed legislation making the solar investment tax credit (ITC) available for several years and creating a new production tax credit for wind power projects.
The solar ITC, which was scheduled to expire at the end of 2016, was extended for as many as eight years as part of a $1.15 trillion spending bill."
http://www.forbes.com/sites/wi... - December 18, 2015 - not even 4 months ago.
I don't believe you because you linked to Forbes.com - and I don't have the time to dive through the ad-blocker-blocker bullshit and the malware.
Also "as part of a bill" means that probably 90% of the $1.15 trillion was going to something totally unrelated. Spread over several years again.
I'm not worried about tens of millions in subsidized alternative energy rebates that arguably helps to make our country cleaner.
Fair enough, but its closer to $10 billion per year than tens of millions.
Last I checked that number, it not only wasn't for a year, but almost 2 decades, and a large part went into "alternative" energies like oil and coal (making them "cleaner").
Rich Corinthian Blather. How much more testing do you need until you stop your politics based whining?
When I'm president, we're only gonna have elegant, classy science. Science Americans can be proud of, alright?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deutsche_Physik - hey, if it keeps America from building the next super-weapon, it could actually be a good thing.
I find it interesting how they could claim to correlate wildfires with global warming. Their chart on p. 83 of the report does not contradict THIS chart, but this chart does contradict that idea. There were vastly more acres of woodland burned by wildfires per year in the 1920s-1930s than today.
Funny how your graph is conveniently leaving out a decade of data. Pure coincidence, I'm sure. Nice how you ignore the obvious invention of fire plane, too.
What's your baseline? Water's been rising for 11,700 years since the current interglacial period started.
Yeah, and the "hiatus" during the last couple of millennia can be easily explained by?
From what little I understand of American politics, Obama cannot be re-elected anymore. So he is now free to spout off any nonsense he wishes.
But what pray tell enables the Republican pre-candidates (every single one of them) to do the same? Not only that, the more nonsense they spout off, the more likely they are to become the candidate.
Even so, it's a ridiculous loophole: all they have to do is arrest anyone who doesn't consent and then they can go wherever they like.
They'd still have to find one person who asks them inside. Or pretend they heard someone scream for help. Okay, not much difference, but still a completely different excuse.
They could, except the FBI screwed up and changed the cloud password for the phone (locking themselves out of it in an attempt to keep anyone else out of it) and while the County paid for the employer option of being able to reset the PIN on their owned phones, they never actually got around to installing it on their employee's phones. Now they want Apple to bail them out of their mistakes by creating a special version of their phone OS which drops all the PIN code brute force protection.
Actually, they not only paid for MDM, there's indication they actually used it(*) - and thus they should be able to unlock the phone without Apple's help.
(*) http://images.apple.com/pr/pdf...
My wife also had an iPhone issued by the County and she did not use it for any personal communication. San Bernardino is one of the largest Counties in the country. They can track the phone on GPS in case they needed to determine where people were
If that doesn't sound like MDM was active on the phone, what would? But hey, remember kids, this case isn't actually about the data on this phone anyway. It's just sounds important enough so the slippery slope water park ride can be opened.
You seem to be saying that you think that the people saying that Apple doesn't make computers that meet their needs are the same people that don't actually own Apple computers. Surely that makes perfect sense?
Actually, it seems he's saying that the people complaining that Apple doesn't make computers that meet their needs are also the people who say they would never buy an Apple, not even if they had the perfect computer for them.
When you are "locked" into Google you have choices between dozens of manufacturers.
Yeah, people keep switching between Android manufacturers - hoping that this time their phone won't suck. Much better that way.
http://appleinsider.com/articles/14/03/22/apples-iphone-5c-failure-flop-outsold-blackberry-windows-phone-and-every-android-flagship-in-q4
Actually the reason the original iPhone didn't multitask was that it was so underpowered. 400MHz single core CPU and just 128MB of RAM.
And yet the Android phones coming out years later supported multitasking but had much weaker CPUs. Of course their performance and battery time sucked,.
And don't use iTunes, don't get any proprietary accessories / chargers, don't use AirPlay, don't use iMessage... in the end you might as well not get an iPhone to begin with if you care about vendor lock-in.
Well, at least you won't be locked into Google then. Or Amazon.
But when we start getting excited about a new strap for a bloody watch is when we should stop and think if we're not taking our fanboi-ism a tad too far.
The Apple Watch is not a technology product. It is a fashion product. You wear it to make a statement about yourself. Apple realized from the beginning that the Watch was not competing with Samsung or LG, but with Rolex and Patek Philippe.
So that's why it not only outsells the competition, but also the non-competition. Because Samsung tried to sell their high-tech tool by telling people to make a statement about themselves: that they secretly film girls with their watch and then show it to them in some bar.
But maybe that's your problem, that you can't blame Apple for that?
Consumers get to save $50 for a slightly smaller phone. It'll go over as well as the iPhone 5c
You mean the phone that outsold almost every other phone model at the time? Yeah, it's gonna be just as unsuccessful.
By the way, are you allowed to have a beer on the Chicago public transit? If so, that's fantastic!
No, it isn't If we need any fucking "blockers" in public transport, it's beer blockers.
given unlimited time and money
No, the device would wipe itself after a few tries.
Says who? This is not a default option, so you can only claim that to be the absolute truth if you already have full access to the phone, or have already erased it by trying. In either case Apple couldn't help you.
Anyway An ACLU expert says the FBI wouldn't need Apple to get past the auto-erase
Assuming the FBI is privy to the NSA's capabilities.
This is a terrorism case, so the FBI and the NSA are supposed to cooperate.
In general, that would be correct. But, just like when the Enigma was developed, you wouldn't have let that secret out for a single case like this when you're fighting a larger war.
But everybody already knows the NSA can crack your phone. Why pretend they can't just for this case?
regarding 2): They do not need a warrant, as the phone in question is owned by the county government and they have given permission to search the phone.
Then what do they need Apple for?
Wouldn't that be a reason to throw it into a volcano instead of removing all safeties and turning it on?
To bring this important legal question into the public eye?
Which one? That you can't get evidence from a broken phone? At least the shooter knew - else he wouldn't have destroyed all his devices with evidence on it.
PS: At while they are at it, they should also swear that they actually believe there is even remotely helpful evidence on the phone.