But the fact that SSD has caught up HDD quite so quickly means the writing is on the wall.
Quite what is the factor that will keep people buying HDD? At the moment, it's only capacity. With matching densities, matching capacities won't be far off. I've said for the last few years the storage companies should give up on making HDDs or at least plan that way.
You can get a 1Tb 2.5" SSD for a decent price now. And desktop ranges are easily catered for with SSDs and even being supplied by default. The max size hard drive you would really see? It's only 2-4Tb. I don't think it will be "several years", given that you can match capacities now (just by putting multiple 2.5 boards into a 3.5" drive), and the price per Tb is dropping fast, while HDDs are offering nothing over SSDs any more.
Sure, the top-end brand-names will be behind everyone else as they ensure reliability, but it will only be a couple of years before people are basically ignoring HDDs in purchasing.
Why should the touch ID sensor need to, or be actually doing, store any data or provide authentication?
What you're saying is that you can replace the fingerprint sensor and thus fool the device into thinking you provided ANY fingerprint, without any knowledge of that fingerprint? Sound inherently INSECURE to me. I could steal Barack Obama's iPad, change the sensor, and order a coffee on his credit card without having to enter a single credential or knowing what his fingerprint looks like.
Compare and contrast to "it's just a fingerprint reader that provides a hash of the offered finger, which the OS compares to a list of known hashes of valid users", for instance. Unless you know what the fingerprint looks like, or can read the original hash and generate hashes of any possible combination you want, you shouldn't be able to do that. And if you did it properly, only Apple would know what the hash was on a remote server, and the entire conversation between reader and end-server would be encrypted and nonced to prevent replay attacks.
Consumer law trumps any EULA, signed consensually or not.
Apple tried to only give you one year's warranty in the EU, the EU told them that's not how it works. Now everybody gets a "free" 2-year warranty. Amazing, that, given that's its compulsory under EU law on such goods.
Just because you signed something, just because Apple says something, just because they can point at a line on a piece of paper, does NOT mean that's the end of the matter. By far.
You tried to get Microsoft EU to send all our EU-based personal data to the US courts, in pretty much the same kind of shitty outmaneuver described here, even when we told you where to go.
If you're that cut off from Britain, please remove your authority required to launch our Trident missile solutions too.
I have been pulled over several times. For car checks. Never for speeding.
If you're below the limit, why would they pull you? And in my country we hold police accountable to the reasonable cause - you can't just pull people over "just because". Even a dodgy taillight - fine. Suspicious swerving, sudden slowdown when they see the cop, fine. Because "normal" people don't do those things or have those problems.
And the vehicle is safer FOR YOU. Stopping distance at a given speed for a car with ABS hasn't really changed in decades. This is precisely the point - you FEEL safe, but that safety is only for you, inside the car. Outside the car, you're just as dangerous to other road-users or pedestrians.
And speed limits used to be "slower than the guy with the flag walking in front", so don't talk bollocks.
If you have a problem with the police state, try not breaking a quite clear, reasonable and obvious law, and hold your police accountable. And if everyone does what you do, don't be surprised that the limits keep lowering. "We lowered the limit to 20 but people are still doing 40" is a known problem. So they lower the limit more to get more of them convicted on harsher limits when they do it.
Honestly, quite what do you think you save in terms of average hassle over your life by going over that number? Because the seconds you gain each time you go over are more than cancelled out by the hour by the side of the road while you're ticketed and your car looked over, even if that's once a year.
I've been pulled over any number of times - I drive old bangers of cars and they are an instant pull because of the appearance, but are always road-legal. I've not actually had anything more than a "Sorry to keep you, sir, everything appears in order" from any of the stops and never been delayed more than a few minutes.
Or, alternatively, the punishment for speeding isn't harsh enough.
It all depends on your point of view of whether a legal limit is a legal limit, or something you can just ignore without consequence.
If you were only allowed to bring 100 cigarettes back from abroad and you took 110, and it was plainly stated everywhere, and it was common knowledge, and you had to pass a cigarette test to be allowed abroad, and there were signs all over the place, would you expect to get away with bringing back 110 cigarettes?
Or to drink at 20 and a few months instead of 21?
Personally, I'd be all in favour of people campaigning to raise speed limits - nobody EVER does. But to expect, allow, or ignore people breaking a limit is just stupid and a bad precedent to set. And yet everyone thinks that's fine.
And you're discussing it on a medium that didn't even exist 50 years ago, in a browser that only works as expected on websites if it was made in the last 5 years, running on a computer that has to have been made in the last 10 at least to be fast enough, and the markup surrounding your post would probably fill the memory of any machine made when you were a kid (let alone the processing and display of that markup).
Tech moves fast. Hell, we've basically ended up in a Star Trek-like universe where anyone can call anyone they know, at any time of the day, almost anywhere in the world, by tapping a button and saying "Call Fred". And we barely even noticed.
And that had to emulate a Microsoft piece of software not that much older than itself too, to the point that all DOS programs (even things like BIOS Flashing utilities) still work.
GNU Hurd is just a dead-end. An intellectual project of little practical use. It's like pushing for MINIX or similar. Yes, alternative OS are all good. But only if they are vaguely in the same decades as the machines you can buy today.
Does rather call into question the surveys we do of foreign systems.
I mean, if we were surprised by how much water Pluto has, and Mars has recently changed in our opinion several times too, how we can pretend we're measuring the potential atmospheres or compositions of just about anything outside the solar system with any degree of accuracy?
We have things SITTING on Mars and we're still not sure. So should we really be playing such guessing games at all?
A guy did this at a little local election near my workplace.
He was an idiot, but changed his name to None of the Above in protest.
Come election time, there was an option for "Of the Above, None". The idiot forgot to check how names were listed on the ballot. It was quite funny.
That was until the next month when the guy came to the school I was working for in the middle of the night and thought it funny to glue up all the locks, including the fire doors.
The reason I was originally aware of him was because he was canvassing parents leaving the school (and it was only a primary school) so vigorously that they made complaints. So he was asked to leave by a member of senior staff. There was a scuffle, and a child was injured. The police came, took him away.
Then he came back a few months later and gummed up all the locks in the middle of the night. The police came again, arrested him and charged him with trespass on a school property and criminal damage.
What do you want in a guy you vote for? Of the above, None.
Can't be arsed to use them because of the problems they have (so not perfectly useable at all). Simple shit, like joining to Exchange accounts, is actually not as easy as you think. So they got used as "just phones" until the contracts were up, and then put aside for real "just phones".
And they were in my office to get sold off because they were of no use. Literally, they were junk. Unfortunately, the school budget is so huge that nobody had the time or inclination to bother to trade them in. They don't even figure on our radar.
We were offered £20 a unit on them, second hand. It's not even worth the time to document, charge, wipe, box and send at that price (and the price sort of reflects how good the devices are and how sought after).
It took me 25 minutes to Bluetooth a photo off one of them. Fuck knows what they claimed to support but that's usually a 10-second job and it turned into a farce of epic proportions.
Kind of my point. We had them and they were just junk, so we put them aside and bought something that could actually do the job. It was more a case of "old shite that we had no end of problems with, consigned to the bin, never touched again, and it wasn't even worth the effort to deal with them at EOL".
I sit next to a box of Lumia's that someone bought for the school I work for before I started. They were only ever used as... well... phones. Nobody ever even tried to log in and use apps on them. And when I started two years ago, they'd not been used in over a year. Recently they were given to me as they'd been "sitting in a box" in someone's office collecting dust, and had been replaced with bog-standard dial-only phones.
My tech had one when he first started here - but he was 19 and naive. Within days of seeing what a real phone did (and not crashing his on-screen keyboard like his one did all the time), he changed his contracts.
The only other one I've ever seen was a teacher's at a previous school - who knew nothing about them and bought it because it "had Skype". She never managed to collect her email or anything else reliably and so never used anything that it could do.
That's out of literally HUNDREDS of adults that I know who come to me with all their tech problems, all the new-starters whose phones I set up with our email etc., all the parents and kids that I see every day about anything even vaguely technical. I must touch several hundred different phones a year, and the majority are almost 50:50 iPhone and Samsung, with the rest being cheap knock-offs and less common brands.
But Windows phones? Honestly? I've touched more Palm Pilots and Windows CE devices in the last year. And to be honest, they probably worked better and did more.
(Funniest thing ever was trying to get a WPA key into a WIndows phone where the on screen keyboard crashes, and then trying to modify the key so it didn't use the numbers that you couldn't get to, then finally getting it online and finding out that the "Update" button not only would never fix the problem, but also that it never actually did anything... it would download for over an hour, reboot, and be exactly the same... this was THREE MONTHS after the tech discovered that it was sucking up all his data trying to download the update and his phone company just wrote off the data charges the second he mentioned "Windows phone" because they were so accustomed to it).
I have to say that immature troll ratio is high. The fact that they no longer get modded out of existence tells me that everyone else is of the same mind as them, so it's a community problem.
Fixing that is much more of an issue than just clamping down on moderation. We've gone from small geek clique to teenagers en masse who think it's cool to be contrary. It's especially noticeable when topics come up that were discussed years ago, that require a modicum of experience, or that require some of the older skills. The techy articles are gone and even when one does pop up, there's nothing new in it - there was one on processor cache design a while back and it was... lacking.
I can't see a way back from here to be honest. Unfortunately, the "it's cool to be on Slashdot" crowd are also creeping over into all the clone sites. There's comments on SoylentNews that I read and cringe and just think "I don't want to be associated with you by being on the same board". Not just opinions, but the expression of them, and the trolling.
It's time to move on but I've not found a place to move on to that's similar. Maybe the kind of intellectual-yet-open-to-all boards of old no longer work in the mass-Internet era.
The articles went downhill long ago, the comments have gone downhill ever since, and there's not much left to stick around for.
"Fuck, we couldn't monetize those geeks after all, even after breaking our promises and showing ads to people with the 'Disable Advertising' switch that they paid for, and they had no interest in our jacket reviews, business management articles, or videos of utter shite, so let's sell it off cheap"
FUND YOUR FUCKING HEALTHCARE, like a civilised country.
The hospitals are only doing this so that THEY get paid.
When the guy with your life in his hands is only going to touch you if he thinks you're going to pay, he's breaching everything from basic morals to the Hippocratic Oath.
Pay people who care to be able help everyone, instead.
The UK had all-electric vehicles doing local milk, bread, etc. delivery since at least the 60's. We call them milk floats.
They were generally lead-acid powered but the newer models use Li-Ion and other technologies, and because they generally did morning rounds, they could charge all day and night to get their runs done early the next morning.
Many a child woke up with the motor-whine and bottle-jingle of the milk float coming down the road. They died out around where I live about 10 years ago, with the advent of local supermarkets and online shopping.
So if the browser didn't crash, but just produced an error that satisfied your pedantry, there's no problem with that? Because the server sent data?
And the browser doesn't necessarily crash. It's an unhandled exception, there's nothing to suggest it's exploitable or dangerous, it's just unexpected. The correct response is to fatal error and then get out of there. There's nothing you can really do. I suppose you could just throw away the error and carry on regardless, but that's hardly the point - and all the user would see is a broken search still.
And the BBC article was just updated. The servers were sending junk between two times. That got cached in the suggestions cache on the browser. They recommend you clear the cache now and try again.
Please explain why yeseterday it worked, today it doesn't.
On 1/4 of 400 iPads. On every level of iOS from 7 to 9. On iPads updated either today or last month, rebuilt today or last month, restored today or last month, no matter how old the backup restored from. Simultaneously. Suddenly. Today. And only on search suggestions.
Because, as a programmer, the only thing I can think of is that they are sending some unexpected junk in the search suggestion reply from the Apple server that isn't handled properly by the browser causing a crash.
Literally, this morning, a load of our pupil's iPads all started crashing on Safari search suggestions no matter how old, how long ago they updated, what iOS level, what apps were installed, or anything else. But they were all working yesterday. And 3/4 of them still work today.
It's currently suspected that some Apple server from some kind of round-robin response system has flaked out and produced bad responses that are being cached by those iPads. Restore from known-good-working-backup does not fix the problem and the first search suggestion can crash them again.
So stop being a smart-arse and research the problem first.
At least 100 affected. As soon as the keyboard should pop up to let you type in the search/address bar, it closes Safari. Doesn't matter what you do or what version of iOS you are on (which suggests the server is sending some junk instead of what it's supposed to send, but still bad programming).
The only fix is to disable search suggestions.
In fact, I linked all staff and pupils to the BBC News article this morning because it solved the problem we've been having with that all day.
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But the fact that SSD has caught up HDD quite so quickly means the writing is on the wall.
Quite what is the factor that will keep people buying HDD? At the moment, it's only capacity. With matching densities, matching capacities won't be far off. I've said for the last few years the storage companies should give up on making HDDs or at least plan that way.
You can get a 1Tb 2.5" SSD for a decent price now. And desktop ranges are easily catered for with SSDs and even being supplied by default. The max size hard drive you would really see? It's only 2-4Tb. I don't think it will be "several years", given that you can match capacities now (just by putting multiple 2.5 boards into a 3.5" drive), and the price per Tb is dropping fast, while HDDs are offering nothing over SSDs any more.
Sure, the top-end brand-names will be behind everyone else as they ensure reliability, but it will only be a couple of years before people are basically ignoring HDDs in purchasing.
Why should the touch ID sensor need to, or be actually doing, store any data or provide authentication?
What you're saying is that you can replace the fingerprint sensor and thus fool the device into thinking you provided ANY fingerprint, without any knowledge of that fingerprint? Sound inherently INSECURE to me. I could steal Barack Obama's iPad, change the sensor, and order a coffee on his credit card without having to enter a single credential or knowing what his fingerprint looks like.
Compare and contrast to "it's just a fingerprint reader that provides a hash of the offered finger, which the OS compares to a list of known hashes of valid users", for instance. Unless you know what the fingerprint looks like, or can read the original hash and generate hashes of any possible combination you want, you shouldn't be able to do that. And if you did it properly, only Apple would know what the hash was on a remote server, and the entire conversation between reader and end-server would be encrypted and nonced to prevent replay attacks.
It doesn't matter.
Consumer law trumps any EULA, signed consensually or not.
Apple tried to only give you one year's warranty in the EU, the EU told them that's not how it works. Now everybody gets a "free" 2-year warranty. Amazing, that, given that's its compulsory under EU law on such goods.
Just because you signed something, just because Apple says something, just because they can point at a line on a piece of paper, does NOT mean that's the end of the matter. By far.
Looks like the new owners of Slashdot are also failing to combat the biggest problem faced by the site for the last few years.
Junk making the front page that talks to me like I don't already work in IT or understand how common household technologies work.
You tried to get Microsoft EU to send all our EU-based personal data to the US courts, in pretty much the same kind of shitty outmaneuver described here, even when we told you where to go.
If you're that cut off from Britain, please remove your authority required to launch our Trident missile solutions too.
I live in a different country to you.
I have been pulled over several times. For car checks. Never for speeding.
If you're below the limit, why would they pull you? And in my country we hold police accountable to the reasonable cause - you can't just pull people over "just because". Even a dodgy taillight - fine. Suspicious swerving, sudden slowdown when they see the cop, fine. Because "normal" people don't do those things or have those problems.
And the vehicle is safer FOR YOU. Stopping distance at a given speed for a car with ABS hasn't really changed in decades. This is precisely the point - you FEEL safe, but that safety is only for you, inside the car. Outside the car, you're just as dangerous to other road-users or pedestrians.
And speed limits used to be "slower than the guy with the flag walking in front", so don't talk bollocks.
If you have a problem with the police state, try not breaking a quite clear, reasonable and obvious law, and hold your police accountable. And if everyone does what you do, don't be surprised that the limits keep lowering. "We lowered the limit to 20 but people are still doing 40" is a known problem. So they lower the limit more to get more of them convicted on harsher limits when they do it.
Honestly, quite what do you think you save in terms of average hassle over your life by going over that number? Because the seconds you gain each time you go over are more than cancelled out by the hour by the side of the road while you're ticketed and your car looked over, even if that's once a year.
I've been pulled over any number of times - I drive old bangers of cars and they are an instant pull because of the appearance, but are always road-legal. I've not actually had anything more than a "Sorry to keep you, sir, everything appears in order" from any of the stops and never been delayed more than a few minutes.
Or, alternatively, the punishment for speeding isn't harsh enough.
It all depends on your point of view of whether a legal limit is a legal limit, or something you can just ignore without consequence.
If you were only allowed to bring 100 cigarettes back from abroad and you took 110, and it was plainly stated everywhere, and it was common knowledge, and you had to pass a cigarette test to be allowed abroad, and there were signs all over the place, would you expect to get away with bringing back 110 cigarettes?
Or to drink at 20 and a few months instead of 21?
Personally, I'd be all in favour of people campaigning to raise speed limits - nobody EVER does. But to expect, allow, or ignore people breaking a limit is just stupid and a bad precedent to set. And yet everyone thinks that's fine.
And you're discussing it on a medium that didn't even exist 50 years ago, in a browser that only works as expected on websites if it was made in the last 5 years, running on a computer that has to have been made in the last 10 at least to be fast enough, and the markup surrounding your post would probably fill the memory of any machine made when you were a kid (let alone the processing and display of that markup).
Tech moves fast.
Hell, we've basically ended up in a Star Trek-like universe where anyone can call anyone they know, at any time of the day, almost anywhere in the world, by tapping a button and saying "Call Fred". And we barely even noticed.
Can't tell if trolling or not, but DOS had no such limit. Even Doom required 2Mb of RAM in its tech specs, IIRC. And Windows 3.0.
And there's two parts anyway - 64-bit processor instruction support,and 64-bit memory access.
I agree.
But they have to be usable.
Technically, FreeDOS had USB before GNU Hurd.
And 64-bit.
And that had to emulate a Microsoft piece of software not that much older than itself too, to the point that all DOS programs (even things like BIOS Flashing utilities) still work.
GNU Hurd is just a dead-end. An intellectual project of little practical use. It's like pushing for MINIX or similar. Yes, alternative OS are all good. But only if they are vaguely in the same decades as the machines you can buy today.
Does rather call into question the surveys we do of foreign systems.
I mean, if we were surprised by how much water Pluto has, and Mars has recently changed in our opinion several times too, how we can pretend we're measuring the potential atmospheres or compositions of just about anything outside the solar system with any degree of accuracy?
We have things SITTING on Mars and we're still not sure. So should we really be playing such guessing games at all?
A guy did this at a little local election near my workplace.
He was an idiot, but changed his name to None of the Above in protest.
Come election time, there was an option for "Of the Above, None". The idiot forgot to check how names were listed on the ballot. It was quite funny.
That was until the next month when the guy came to the school I was working for in the middle of the night and thought it funny to glue up all the locks, including the fire doors.
The reason I was originally aware of him was because he was canvassing parents leaving the school (and it was only a primary school) so vigorously that they made complaints. So he was asked to leave by a member of senior staff. There was a scuffle, and a child was injured. The police came, took him away.
Then he came back a few months later and gummed up all the locks in the middle of the night. The police came again, arrested him and charged him with trespass on a school property and criminal damage.
What do you want in a guy you vote for? Of the above, None.
Not a case of can't figure them out.
Can't be arsed to use them because of the problems they have (so not perfectly useable at all). Simple shit, like joining to Exchange accounts, is actually not as easy as you think. So they got used as "just phones" until the contracts were up, and then put aside for real "just phones".
And they were in my office to get sold off because they were of no use. Literally, they were junk. Unfortunately, the school budget is so huge that nobody had the time or inclination to bother to trade them in. They don't even figure on our radar.
We were offered £20 a unit on them, second hand. It's not even worth the time to document, charge, wipe, box and send at that price (and the price sort of reflects how good the devices are and how sought after).
It took me 25 minutes to Bluetooth a photo off one of them. Fuck knows what they claimed to support but that's usually a 10-second job and it turned into a farce of epic proportions.
Kind of my point. We had them and they were just junk, so we put them aside and bought something that could actually do the job. It was more a case of "old shite that we had no end of problems with, consigned to the bin, never touched again, and it wasn't even worth the effort to deal with them at EOL".
Was it ever alive?
I sit next to a box of Lumia's that someone bought for the school I work for before I started. They were only ever used as... well... phones. Nobody ever even tried to log in and use apps on them. And when I started two years ago, they'd not been used in over a year. Recently they were given to me as they'd been "sitting in a box" in someone's office collecting dust, and had been replaced with bog-standard dial-only phones.
My tech had one when he first started here - but he was 19 and naive. Within days of seeing what a real phone did (and not crashing his on-screen keyboard like his one did all the time), he changed his contracts.
The only other one I've ever seen was a teacher's at a previous school - who knew nothing about them and bought it because it "had Skype". She never managed to collect her email or anything else reliably and so never used anything that it could do.
That's out of literally HUNDREDS of adults that I know who come to me with all their tech problems, all the new-starters whose phones I set up with our email etc., all the parents and kids that I see every day about anything even vaguely technical. I must touch several hundred different phones a year, and the majority are almost 50:50 iPhone and Samsung, with the rest being cheap knock-offs and less common brands.
But Windows phones? Honestly? I've touched more Palm Pilots and Windows CE devices in the last year. And to be honest, they probably worked better and did more.
(Funniest thing ever was trying to get a WPA key into a WIndows phone where the on screen keyboard crashes, and then trying to modify the key so it didn't use the numbers that you couldn't get to, then finally getting it online and finding out that the "Update" button not only would never fix the problem, but also that it never actually did anything... it would download for over an hour, reboot, and be exactly the same... this was THREE MONTHS after the tech discovered that it was sucking up all his data trying to download the update and his phone company just wrote off the data charges the second he mentioned "Windows phone" because they were so accustomed to it).
Been there since DICE takeover - I have the same, and the Disable Advertising donation apparently means nothing to them.
Welcome to the 10th Generation Slashdot, where the new owner has no bloody idea about what they should be editing or allowing through - yet again.
SoylentNews is struggling on a few thousand dollars per quarter, with mostly volunteering staff.
I have to say that immature troll ratio is high. The fact that they no longer get modded out of existence tells me that everyone else is of the same mind as them, so it's a community problem.
Fixing that is much more of an issue than just clamping down on moderation. We've gone from small geek clique to teenagers en masse who think it's cool to be contrary. It's especially noticeable when topics come up that were discussed years ago, that require a modicum of experience, or that require some of the older skills. The techy articles are gone and even when one does pop up, there's nothing new in it - there was one on processor cache design a while back and it was... lacking.
I can't see a way back from here to be honest. Unfortunately, the "it's cool to be on Slashdot" crowd are also creeping over into all the clone sites. There's comments on SoylentNews that I read and cringe and just think "I don't want to be associated with you by being on the same board". Not just opinions, but the expression of them, and the trolling.
It's time to move on but I've not found a place to move on to that's similar. Maybe the kind of intellectual-yet-open-to-all boards of old no longer work in the mass-Internet era.
The articles went downhill long ago, the comments have gone downhill ever since, and there's not much left to stick around for.
"Fuck, we couldn't monetize those geeks after all, even after breaking our promises and showing ads to people with the 'Disable Advertising' switch that they paid for, and they had no interest in our jacket reviews, business management articles, or videos of utter shite, so let's sell it off cheap"
FUND YOUR FUCKING HEALTHCARE, like a civilised country.
The hospitals are only doing this so that THEY get paid.
When the guy with your life in his hands is only going to touch you if he thinks you're going to pay, he's breaching everything from basic morals to the Hippocratic Oath.
Pay people who care to be able help everyone, instead.
Ironically, you're going 50 years back.
The UK had all-electric vehicles doing local milk, bread, etc. delivery since at least the 60's. We call them milk floats.
They were generally lead-acid powered but the newer models use Li-Ion and other technologies, and because they generally did morning rounds, they could charge all day and night to get their runs done early the next morning.
Many a child woke up with the motor-whine and bottle-jingle of the milk float coming down the road. They died out around where I live about 10 years ago, with the advent of local supermarkets and online shopping.
Everything goes in circles.
So if the browser didn't crash, but just produced an error that satisfied your pedantry, there's no problem with that? Because the server sent data?
And the browser doesn't necessarily crash. It's an unhandled exception, there's nothing to suggest it's exploitable or dangerous, it's just unexpected. The correct response is to fatal error and then get out of there. There's nothing you can really do. I suppose you could just throw away the error and carry on regardless, but that's hardly the point - and all the user would see is a broken search still.
And the BBC article was just updated. The servers were sending junk between two times. That got cached in the suggestions cache on the browser. They recommend you clear the cache now and try again.
Please explain why yeseterday it worked, today it doesn't.
On 1/4 of 400 iPads. On every level of iOS from 7 to 9. On iPads updated either today or last month, rebuilt today or last month, restored today or last month, no matter how old the backup restored from. Simultaneously. Suddenly. Today. And only on search suggestions.
Because, as a programmer, the only thing I can think of is that they are sending some unexpected junk in the search suggestion reply from the Apple server that isn't handled properly by the browser causing a crash.
Literally, this morning, a load of our pupil's iPads all started crashing on Safari search suggestions no matter how old, how long ago they updated, what iOS level, what apps were installed, or anything else. But they were all working yesterday. And 3/4 of them still work today.
It's currently suspected that some Apple server from some kind of round-robin response system has flaked out and produced bad responses that are being cached by those iPads. Restore from known-good-working-backup does not fix the problem and the first search suggestion can crash them again.
So stop being a smart-arse and research the problem first.
400+ iPads here, a school.
At least 100 affected. As soon as the keyboard should pop up to let you type in the search/address bar, it closes Safari. Doesn't matter what you do or what version of iOS you are on (which suggests the server is sending some junk instead of what it's supposed to send, but still bad programming).
The only fix is to disable search suggestions.
In fact, I linked all staff and pupils to the BBC News article this morning because it solved the problem we've been having with that all day.
EU data protection law simply doesn't allow that.
They do not have permission to email that address from the OWNER of that address. This is already well-established.
But that doesn't affect anything like someone sharing on their own Facebook, via their own Facebook account. It's an entirely different process.
You can't give someone else permission to email me or see my Facebook. Only I can do that. But that doesn't affect what you spam on your own timeline.