It's exactly what you said. I find it interesting how bigots always fall back on the "strawman" accusation when someone cuts through the coded speech to the essence of such statements.
You seem to have an issue with statistics and English. You probably went to Public School in NC.
Nope. You seem to be too fucking stupid to do basic multiplication.
Very few people consider 1 in a 100 a "rare" medical condition. In fact, that's what most people would consider "common". 1 in a 100 is "multiple people at your high school" even if it's a tiny private school, "dozens of people" at most high schools common. 1 in a 100 is "you interact with these people every week" (even though you don't know it) common. 1 in a 100 is "you pass them if you walk down the sidewalk to lunch" common. 1 in a 1,000 is still somewhere in between, but still not "rare" at all.
DNA absolutely specifies sex for the vast majority (around 99.9% last I looked) of the people out there.
Ah, so you think that because NC's new law only discriminates against 10,000 NC citizens with what you'd judge to be a legitimate reason, that it's ok?
...I just want you to know that I am here to stop you.
Troglodytes like you are going to be steamrolled. Society has mostly progressed beyond your bigotry, and you fools will be left in the ashbin of history.
Sorry, AC... Gender is not defined by your thoughts.
noun 1. either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior: the feminine gender. Compare sex (def 1). 2. a similar category of human beings that is outside the male/female binary classification and is based on the individual's personal awareness or identity. See also third gender.
this was not a sudden car crash. they knew this was going to happen and the father did not get the son to open his phone for him, to at least send over the things that -should- be shared?
Well, if you'd actually read anything about it, you'd already know the answer. The son set up TouchID on one of his father's fingers; obviously his intent was to share. But they didn't know, or weren't thinking clearly, that the passcode is required after 48 hours without use...
Well, not about cartoons maybe, but Christians certainly shoot and blow other people up based on: skin color, some cartoonish fantasy that a single fertilized cell is a human being, etc.
If they were known to be stolen, then MS has a duty to limit losses. They can blacklist the keys and prevent further activation. If they were "known to have been stolen" then MS should have limited their losses as soon as they found out.
There is nothing in the article to indicate that they knew the keys were stolen before the keys were abused. It could well be that this knowledge came after, as a result of noticing the pattern of fraudulent activations, and investigating.
And performance, and scalability, and encryption, and replication, and backup / restoration, and reporting / analysis, and tuning / optimization, and...
If you want to compare it to MySQL, fine. If you're comparing it to PostgreSQL, then you're just babbling nonsense.
...is an industry-leading product for good reason.
Only if the "industry" you're referring to is "DBMS that only runs on Windows";-)
f the lack of security--due to government mandated back doors--allows for state sponsored persecution of innocents, enemy state or NGO attacks, etc. where would you stand then? You do grasp the concept that a security vulnerability may be exploited by any actor, at any time, not solely the "right and just" United States government after receiving a lawfully obtained court warrant?
Exactly, it's really not an exaggeration to say that if the FBI gets their way, when the "just for this phone" (a bald-faced lie anyway) software eventually leaks, dissidents in totalitarian countries will be MURDERED because of it.
That's the FBI's position. Apple says it can't be done.
They have NEVER said it cannot be done. In fact, they have quite loudly acknowledged that it can be done. Their position is that a) such a version of iOS does not currently exist and b) to create that special version and load it onto an iPhone most certainly does not fall within the law's definition of "not burdensome".
Starting in iPhone6, the hardware ("secure enclave") will destroy its key if there are ten bad PIN entries in a row. The same hardware is designed such that updating it's software will also destroy the key. So the trick won't work anymore.
Apple has already said that they could break an iPhone 6 in a similar manner. So the exact same trick may not work, but there's still a way.
concision != clarity. This is a common misperception.
That's a good point in this context. What little I remember of Kotlin specifics, I'd say that its concision comes from reduction in useless boilerplate, and therefore contributes to clarity. But only very mildly. In order to be worth anything, a JVM language needs to be substantially different than Java, not mildly improved here and there...
I am not sure Kotlin offers any advantages over Scala...
Bwahahaha oh lord. If you want to waste some time look into Kotlin. It is nothing even remotely close to Scala. It is some small unimportant changes to Java with no real advantaged, whereas Scala is a truly impressive effort and semantically much richer language. Comparing Kotlin to Scala would be like comparing a Yugo to a Model X.
Its syntax is Java like in its lack of expressiveness and verbosity. What is the point when Scala, Clojure and JRuby are all more expressive and much more mature?
Good summary, AC. Which is why I'm quoting it and putting my name to the sentiment;-) Kotlin seems to be slightly less verbose than straight Java, but not more semantically expressive in any meaningful way. I'd call it a worthless experiment doomed to failure because it simply does not offer enough to make it worthwhile.
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That isn't what I said...
It's exactly what you said. I find it interesting how bigots always fall back on the "strawman" accusation when someone cuts through the coded speech to the essence of such statements.
You seem to have an issue with statistics and English. You probably went to Public School in NC.
Nope. You seem to be too fucking stupid to do basic multiplication.
Very few people consider 1 in a 100 a "rare" medical condition. In fact, that's what most people would consider "common". 1 in a 100 is "multiple people at your high school" even if it's a tiny private school, "dozens of people" at most high schools common. 1 in a 100 is "you interact with these people every week" (even though you don't know it) common. 1 in a 100 is "you pass them if you walk down the sidewalk to lunch" common. 1 in a 1,000 is still somewhere in between, but still not "rare" at all.
It is at least an order of magnitude more rare than people who have only one set of bits at birth.
So, oppression of a minority is OK as long as it's less than 10%? You really want to stand by that argument?
That's pretty rare...
Oh, yeah, that's only somewhere between roughly 10,000 and 100,000 NC residents. Super, super rare...
DNA absolutely specifies sex for the vast majority (around 99.9% last I looked) of the people out there.
Ah, so you think that because NC's new law only discriminates against 10,000 NC citizens with what you'd judge to be a legitimate reason, that it's ok?
Yes, I'm aware a very small number of people are born with both, but they are so unbelievably few in number that it just isn't a concern.
Perhaps you should look it up. It's not nearly as rare as you think.
...I just want you to know that I am here to stop you.
Troglodytes like you are going to be steamrolled. Society has mostly progressed beyond your bigotry, and you fools will be left in the ashbin of history.
...but there are certainly plenty of edge cases.
IIRC, ~3% at birth. Most resolved within the first few days of life, but still, not a one-in-a-million thing.
If some idiots want to proclaim that they are women (or men) when they are not (and never will be)...
Google "mixed phenotype genitalia", then maybe just maybe you'll be less of an ignorant bigoted pig.
Sorry, AC... Gender is not defined by your thoughts.
noun
1. either the male or female division of a species, especially as differentiated by social and cultural roles and behavior:
the feminine gender.
Compare sex (def 1).
2. a similar category of human beings that is outside the male/female binary classification and is based on the individual's personal awareness or identity.
See also third gender.
The point is that if airport security would be private that kind of nonsense would not exist by definition.
Bullshit.
this was not a sudden car crash. they knew this was going to happen and the father did not get the son to open his phone for him, to at least send over the things that -should- be shared?
Well, if you'd actually read anything about it, you'd already know the answer. The son set up TouchID on one of his father's fingers; obviously his intent was to share. But they didn't know, or weren't thinking clearly, that the passcode is required after 48 hours without use...
Well, not about cartoons maybe, but Christians certainly shoot and blow other people up based on: skin color, some cartoonish fantasy that a single fertilized cell is a human being, etc.
Russia gave up in Syria?
If they were known to be stolen, then MS has a duty to limit losses. They can blacklist the keys and prevent further activation. If they were "known to have been stolen" then MS should have limited their losses as soon as they found out.
There is nothing in the article to indicate that they knew the keys were stolen before the keys were abused. It could well be that this knowledge came after, as a result of noticing the pattern of fraudulent activations, and investigating.
And performance, and scalability, and encryption, and replication, and backup / restoration, and reporting / analysis, and tuning / optimization, and...
If you want to compare it to MySQL, fine. If you're comparing it to PostgreSQL, then you're just babbling nonsense.
...is an industry-leading product for good reason.
Only if the "industry" you're referring to is "DBMS that only runs on Windows" ;-)
.. and real stored procedures.
Oh, bullshit. Plain & simple: bullshit.
f the lack of security--due to government mandated back doors--allows for state sponsored persecution of innocents, enemy state or NGO attacks, etc. where would you stand then? You do grasp the concept that a security vulnerability may be exploited by any actor, at any time, not solely the "right and just" United States government after receiving a lawfully obtained court warrant?
Exactly, it's really not an exaggeration to say that if the FBI gets their way, when the "just for this phone" (a bald-faced lie anyway) software eventually leaks, dissidents in totalitarian countries will be MURDERED because of it.
That's the FBI's position. Apple says it can't be done.
They have NEVER said it cannot be done. In fact, they have quite loudly acknowledged that it can be done. Their position is that a) such a version of iOS does not currently exist and b) to create that special version and load it onto an iPhone most certainly does not fall within the law's definition of "not burdensome".
Starting in iPhone6, the hardware ("secure enclave") will destroy its key if there are ten bad PIN entries in a row. The same hardware is designed such that updating it's software will also destroy the key. So the trick won't work anymore.
Apple has already said that they could break an iPhone 6 in a similar manner. So the exact same trick may not work, but there's still a way.
They've even told Apple that they can do it in-house so there's no chance the method will be used on anyone else's phone.
And they're certainly 100% trustworthy on this, they will never ever use it again.
Apple doesn't want to admit that they can flash new firmware to the locked device even though everyone knows they can.
Apple has clearly and publicly admitted they can do so.
How such ignorant foolishness ever gets modded up is beyond me...
concision != clarity. This is a common misperception.
That's a good point in this context. What little I remember of Kotlin specifics, I'd say that its concision comes from reduction in useless boilerplate, and therefore contributes to clarity. But only very mildly. In order to be worth anything, a JVM language needs to be substantially different than Java, not mildly improved here and there...
I am not sure Kotlin offers any advantages over Scala...
Bwahahaha oh lord. If you want to waste some time look into Kotlin. It is nothing even remotely close to Scala. It is some small unimportant changes to Java with no real advantaged, whereas Scala is a truly impressive effort and semantically much richer language. Comparing Kotlin to Scala would be like comparing a Yugo to a Model X.
Its syntax is Java like in its lack of expressiveness and verbosity. What is the point when Scala, Clojure and JRuby are all more expressive and much more mature?
Good summary, AC. Which is why I'm quoting it and putting my name to the sentiment ;-) Kotlin seems to be slightly less verbose than straight Java, but not more semantically expressive in any meaningful way. I'd call it a worthless experiment doomed to failure because it simply does not offer enough to make it worthwhile.
believe they meant the company's primary point of contact being a pager ...
1) That's not what the post said. It said as "a point of contact".
2) Seriously? You really think that because somebody has a pager that's a "valid warning indicator" that they do not have a cell phone???