Every few months for the past 20 years there is some news article that IBM has found a way to store data in some strange new way. I remember decades ago something about storing data in crystals with lasers or some shit. Yet what technology are we using today? The same as 20 years ago, semiconductors and disk drives. Can IBM please STFU until they have a shippable product?
It's already possible. People have booted up Windows 95 on their Apple Watch. It's just not enormously practical. For one things, apps tend to work better together when they agree on things... things to do with the OS. Secondly, input devices. You can run Windows on your apple watch, but there is no mouse. Thirdly, performance.. the more different the platform the more emulation has to be done. Fourthly, intellectual property. Simulating the OS is a lot of work (Wine), and running it in an emulator hurts performance and gives a disjointed experience.
So Microsoft have invented the procedure call, except they implement it by copying code around from a library instead of a procedure call, like someone in the 1960s might have done. Riiiiiight.
Mmm, but if you give up your email address, someone else can grab it, then they can accumulate any potential private emails coming to that address which itself is s breach. If you have any thought that private data might come to an address you are better off keeping it.
Yeah, maybe it was dumb, but comedians have to walk this tightrope all the time. Remember Colbert got slammed by the social justice warriors over the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever. Roseanne Barr called Israel a Nazi state. Frankie Boyle has made fun of Down syndrome. And on and on it goes. PewDiePie is comedy, and this skit was clearly comedy. Was it funny or in bad taste? Eye of the beholder. My opinion of YouTube went down a lot in cancelling his show, and I might have to cancel my YouTube Red subscription in retaliation.
Your pad is as big as the original message, so how do you send the pad to someone in a secure manner? One time pads are very secure but don't solve many real world problems.
It's not so much that someone predicted dark matter, and the observable universe backs up the theory. Rather the theory of gravity doesn't match the observable universe, so some scientists came up with a total fudge factor called dark matter to match up with what is observed. Bit of a difference, huh!
Apple have said its only mandatory where it makes sense. Where it is fundamental to the app that be able to connect to random servers, they won't force it.
They're only forcing ATS on apps where it is appropriate. Like where the developer controls their own server. Obviously forcing ATS onto something like say, Chrome browser whose reason for being is to connect to random servers, isn't caught up in this. Apple aren't completely stupid, even though they can be bloody annoying at times.
Yeah, if he was spilling his guts to Russia, you could hardly blame the guy since they are keeping him alive. If the US had any vestigial brains left they would give Snowden a pardon, even if only to shut him up.
So why aren't the authorities mailing themselves a lot of GPS units with big batteries and pinhole cameras and prosecuting whoever takes them? Or are thefts so few that it's not worth it?
No, (d) is the correct answer. You've then got 4 possible lines of defence:
(i) I tried to comply but I guess I forgot. (ii) Maybe the phone has a problem and corrupted the data. (iii) Maybe the police or some 3rd party changed the code. (iv) Maybe this phone isn't actually my phone, it's a similar phone that has been switched.
(d) throws a lot of obfuscation into the mix that should be enough to get him off.
Well yeah, but, this guy is perfectly willing to turn over everything he's got, including the smartphone. He's just not willing to help them interpret what the 1s and 0s on it mean by decrypting it for them.
Think about stenography for a moment. You can never prove if there is anything interesting in a stenographic piece of data. What if he revealed the passcode, then there was a hidden 2nd level of passcode with the REAL data? Or a 3rd level? The judge could hold you in jail because he thinks there is a 4th level when there isn't.
It's a real minefield to try and put people in jail because you won't tell them stuff.
I'm guessing the courts would rule this law unconstitutional as abusing the separation of government and judiciary, but until someone can figure out how to get that question to the Supreme court, who knows what abuses will take place.
And if you raised the question of whether it is legal, haven't you already raised the issue itself contrary to the law? I can't imagine any judge accepting this nonsense.
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Every few months for the past 20 years there is some news article that IBM has found a way to store data in some strange new way. I remember decades ago something about storing data in crystals with lasers or some shit. Yet what technology are we using today? The same as 20 years ago, semiconductors and disk drives. Can IBM please STFU until they have a shippable product?
Say what you want about Apple, but they would never do shit like this.
It's already possible. People have booted up Windows 95 on their Apple Watch. It's just not enormously practical. For one things, apps tend to work better together when they agree on things... things to do with the OS. Secondly, input devices. You can run Windows on your apple watch, but there is no mouse. Thirdly, performance.. the more different the platform the more emulation has to be done. Fourthly, intellectual property. Simulating the OS is a lot of work (Wine), and running it in an emulator hurts performance and gives a disjointed experience.
But... it can be done.
So Microsoft have invented the procedure call, except they implement it by copying code around from a library instead of a procedure call, like someone in the 1960s might have done. Riiiiiight.
But think of the valuable research!
You are doing it wrong if the girl does NOT vomit.
"On a moral level, Kim knew he was stealing from copyright holders, and making millions doing it."
How is this different to YouTube or DropBox or iCloud or Facebook?
Errm, are there in fact any local apps that a foreigner in the country would care about? I doubt it, but what do I know.
Mmm, but if you give up your email address, someone else can grab it, then they can accumulate any potential private emails coming to that address which itself is s breach. If you have any thought that private data might come to an address you are better off keeping it.
They haven't said there should be no command structure at all. They've said they don't need one guy at the top.
PewDiePie's subscriber count hasn't moved, if anything it's up a bit. So clearly the world is not outraged.
Yeah, maybe it was dumb, but comedians have to walk this tightrope all the time. Remember Colbert got slammed by the social justice warriors over the Ching-Chong Ding-Dong Foundation for Sensitivity to Orientals or Whatever. Roseanne Barr called Israel a Nazi state. Frankie Boyle has made fun of Down syndrome. And on and on it goes. PewDiePie is comedy, and this skit was clearly comedy. Was it funny or in bad taste? Eye of the beholder. My opinion of YouTube went down a lot in cancelling his show, and I might have to cancel my YouTube Red subscription in retaliation.
Your pad is as big as the original message, so how do you send the pad to someone in a secure manner? One time pads are very secure but don't solve many real world problems.
Well... there are other theories out there about why it affects matter that don't involve it being matter. Faults in space time, etc etc.
It's not so much that someone predicted dark matter, and the observable universe backs up the theory. Rather the theory of gravity doesn't match the observable universe, so some scientists came up with a total fudge factor called dark matter to match up with what is observed. Bit of a difference, huh!
Apple have said its only mandatory where it makes sense. Where it is fundamental to the app that be able to connect to random servers, they won't force it.
They're only forcing ATS on apps where it is appropriate. Like where the developer controls their own server. Obviously forcing ATS onto something like say, Chrome browser whose reason for being is to connect to random servers, isn't caught up in this. Apple aren't completely stupid, even though they can be bloody annoying at times.
Yeah, if he was spilling his guts to Russia, you could hardly blame the guy since they are keeping him alive. If the US had any vestigial brains left they would give Snowden a pardon, even if only to shut him up.
So why aren't the authorities mailing themselves a lot of GPS units with big batteries and pinhole cameras and prosecuting whoever takes them? Or are thefts so few that it's not worth it?
Yup.
Not sure if they'd be clueless enough to allow you to enter 10 bad combinations, but if they let you, then you're home free.
No, (d) is the correct answer. You've then got 4 possible lines of defence:
(i) I tried to comply but I guess I forgot.
(ii) Maybe the phone has a problem and corrupted the data.
(iii) Maybe the police or some 3rd party changed the code.
(iv) Maybe this phone isn't actually my phone, it's a similar phone that has been switched.
(d) throws a lot of obfuscation into the mix that should be enough to get him off.
Well yeah, but, this guy is perfectly willing to turn over everything he's got, including the smartphone. He's just not willing to help them interpret what the 1s and 0s on it mean by decrypting it for them.
Think about stenography for a moment. You can never prove if there is anything interesting in a stenographic piece of data. What if he revealed the passcode, then there was a hidden 2nd level of passcode with the REAL data? Or a 3rd level? The judge could hold you in jail because he thinks there is a 4th level when there isn't.
It's a real minefield to try and put people in jail because you won't tell them stuff.
But then the judge will order you to change the combination and/or unlock the phone without asking the combination.
I'm guessing the courts would rule this law unconstitutional as abusing the separation of government and judiciary, but until someone can figure out how to get that question to the Supreme court, who knows what abuses will take place.
And if you raised the question of whether it is legal, haven't you already raised the issue itself contrary to the law? I can't imagine any judge accepting this nonsense.
I wonder if this might encrypt your backup while it's online though.