I kinda hope Trumps wins the republican nomination, if only for the fact that he would instantly rename everything to TRUMP and change the party color to gold or purple.
I think all their hardware guys are in the process of retiring and all the new recruits only know Java (or whatever is in these days) and don't know their flash chips from their some-other-type-of-chip chip.
Or, they probably figured that since they had standing deals with every major US hardware company, so they'd just have to ask for access and get it.
They don't have to do full validation test, but they damn well be 100% certain that the unlocks-before-wipe change works. If it doesn't then the FBI will roast them for purposefully botching the job, intentional or not. And by roasting I men most certainly filing some sort of negligence or disobedience charges.
edit - re-reading, you must mean set the wipe-after-10-tries settings setting in hardware somewhere so that the OS can't change it, which I don't think iPhones do now, and is a good idea.
Apple has already done both of those things. The timer is already in place on the phone in question, and I believe any Apple device with an A7 or newer moved some parts of the encryption key blah blah into hardware - I really don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to the specifics but have seen this info come up in previous articles.
I think general iOS updates do require one to unlock their phone before proceeding, what is being talked about is the phone recovery mechanism when one connects the phone to a computer. I assume this was left 'open' so that it could be performed when the phone is software "bricked" so that the hardware may be ok, but the software is beyond usable/repairable.
If Apple blocks this for the obvious personal info safety benefits it would mean that the only way to recover a phone may be to wipe it completely clean, which I'm all good with, but expect lots of people complaining about it as well.
Yes you can keep trying to guess the pin, but there is a exponentially increasing time delay between allowed attempts after 5 or so. Getting into something like 10+ hours the closer you get to 10 tries.
So, no, you can't casually wipe people's phone at the coffee shop.
(I don't actually own a recent iphone, just know this from general discussion about this case - someone with first hand knowledge can chime in)
Sure sounds like a great way to get some light interactive experiences, err, I mean, ad-fun-dvertising into developer's hands. I'm at least glad flash is dead, because if it wasn't, then you'd have flash popups right in your OS.
I don't have anything else to say on the topic, it's just nice to hear about awsome stuff like this on a Monday morning. Sure, it isn't a flying car, but I'll settle for smaller colonoscopy cameras (as justcauseisjustthat points out above) just fine.
Won't this exact thing happen to Tesla once they plateau? Things move much slower in the auto sector, but Tesla hits 50% market share in a few years/decades, then they'll be facing the exact same problem. They'll be part of the old established club and fancy new startups will be taking all their talents.
Isn't it very likely that users would have 'regular' Chrome running almost all the time and periodically open up incognito tabs to do banking or just browse pr0n. Once finished, they would close the incognito tabs/windows but would most likely keep Chrome itself running for a good while longer.
Another use case is working in MS Word on two documents at once. One is top secret, the other is not, you finish with the top secret one and close it, but you keep working on the other document, keeping Word open.
In those situations neither the OS or the graphics driver would get the ok to clear out memory as the application itself is still running. The OS could (maybe) protect memory assigned to specific apps, if that is possible with video RAM?
Maybe running separate processes for each window/tab sidesteps this?
I have no idea, but certainly this isn't as simple as clearing video RAM after closing an app since the app isn't closed
Does it matter if it's not a "phone number" anymore, whatever it will be (certainly not an Facebook account), will function pretty much the same way, just with less oversight and more government and corporate snooping involved.
Well, count my lucky stars that OS X isn't affected! Mac master race wins again! I'm guessing there's no Prime95 mac users, so therefore I must be safe, right? right?
On a slightly more serious note, how does one bios-update the CPU on a Mac? Does Apple roll it into their updates? Just curious.
What in the world are you trying to do with the site?
Yes, updating a drupal site is a bit of a pain (and going from major version to major version is a real pain), but other than that, it handles content creation and management just fine.
If you're getting requests from marketing to create new sections or completely new content types with fancy new functionality, then no CMS makes that part easy.
That whole landmine story still doesn't sit well with me. It's not very good border security if a couple guys with a backpack full of mines can just wander around un-noticed.
Yeah, I get that they're set up against a large full scale invasion, but you'd think with all the fancy technology they have on display, and especially with previous small-team infiltrations, they would be on top of things. (I know, I know, armchair quarterbacking.)
This lowers the bandwidth/data requirements for places that are already using Dropbox. Surely a terrible thing. Never have I heard of a company improving their product to the benefit of it's customers.
Should they be getting a patent on this, probably not, but that is the game that is being played for the time being. Better them, who will actually use it, than some patent holding company who will hold it hostage.
If you cannot see the benefits of network storage like Dropbox (or Google Drive / Skydrive / Box / OwnCloud) then I think you must just now be waking up from a coma.
Is being primarily cash-only (SUICA being an extension of this) such a bad thing? Sure, credit is convenient, but as we've seen over and over again, people can't really be trusted with it.
With the spread of SUICA into convenience stores and other not high cost places like restaurants, Japan might be able to cut out banks all together from day-to-day live, and I think that would be just great! Yes the services banks provide have their place, but paying 5 bucks a month for a crappy 10 transaction chequing account where you worry about what special order your deposits and withdrawals will be processed is not what I would call progress.
This. I never thought that the general gaming population were such prudes.
Grumbling under their mustaches about the crap that big publishers have been doing for years, but upon hearing allegations that a women used sex to procure favorable review of a no-name indie game, they were just roused to action. Grabbing their pitchforks and all that./s/s/ss?
Sarcasm, but serious. Not everyone's favourite Godwining backup band.
It helps a bit in determining which of all those notes floating in 'the clouds' are yours.
I do like the idea of all notes by all people getting dumped onto a server and syncing back to everyone. Then having to come up with creative ways to find the ones that are yours.
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A good few years ago, people deemed wireless syncing between desktops, phones, tablets, fridges, cars, the NSA, and everything in between a good thing. To accomplish such a thing, unsurprisingly, an account of some type is required.
I'm curious, have others licensed this tech, or is Apple simply the first to get sued? The article mentioned Intel, but what about other mobile manufacturers?
Is this just a really buzzwordy-I-win-bullshit-bingo way of saying "lets outsource our jobs to China/India and surf youtube all day"?
Because all Apple does is call up Foxcomm every year and tell them "yea, we need a new phone this year, make it a bit bigger and round out the edges, you kno wat I mean", right?
It's trolling because it's not Microsoft sneaking into the Cyonagen offices at night and switching search engine providers on their builds. Cyanogen made a decision to use Bing as the default search engine (most certainly cash was involved), but it is still a decision Cyanogen made.
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I kinda hope Trumps wins the republican nomination, if only for the fact that he would instantly rename everything to TRUMP and change the party color to gold or purple.
I think all their hardware guys are in the process of retiring and all the new recruits only know Java (or whatever is in these days) and don't know their flash chips from their some-other-type-of-chip chip.
Or, they probably figured that since they had standing deals with every major US hardware company, so they'd just have to ask for access and get it.
They don't have to do full validation test, but they damn well be 100% certain that the unlocks-before-wipe change works. If it doesn't then the FBI will roast them for purposefully botching the job, intentional or not. And by roasting I men most certainly filing some sort of negligence or disobedience charges.
edit - re-reading, you must mean set the wipe-after-10-tries settings setting in hardware somewhere so that the OS can't change it, which I don't think iPhones do now, and is a good idea.
Not sure if serious.
Apple has already done both of those things. The timer is already in place on the phone in question, and I believe any Apple device with an A7 or newer moved some parts of the encryption key blah blah into hardware - I really don't know what I'm talking about when it comes to the specifics but have seen this info come up in previous articles.
I think general iOS updates do require one to unlock their phone before proceeding, what is being talked about is the phone recovery mechanism when one connects the phone to a computer. I assume this was left 'open' so that it could be performed when the phone is software "bricked" so that the hardware may be ok, but the software is beyond usable/repairable.
If Apple blocks this for the obvious personal info safety benefits it would mean that the only way to recover a phone may be to wipe it completely clean, which I'm all good with, but expect lots of people complaining about it as well.
Yes you can keep trying to guess the pin, but there is a exponentially increasing time delay between allowed attempts after 5 or so. Getting into something like 10+ hours the closer you get to 10 tries.
So, no, you can't casually wipe people's phone at the coffee shop.
(I don't actually own a recent iphone, just know this from general discussion about this case - someone with first hand knowledge can chime in)
Sure sounds like a great way to get some light interactive experiences, err, I mean, ad-fun-dvertising into developer's hands. I'm at least glad flash is dead, because if it wasn't, then you'd have flash popups right in your OS.
Was wondering how this stacked up against the German test - which is oddly not referenced in the summary.
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I don't have anything else to say on the topic, it's just nice to hear about awsome stuff like this on a Monday morning. Sure, it isn't a flying car, but I'll settle for smaller colonoscopy cameras (as justcauseisjustthat points out above) just fine.
Won't this exact thing happen to Tesla once they plateau? Things move much slower in the auto sector, but Tesla hits 50% market share in a few years/decades, then they'll be facing the exact same problem. They'll be part of the old established club and fancy new startups will be taking all their talents.
This is just how it works. More at 11:00.
Isn't it very likely that users would have 'regular' Chrome running almost all the time and periodically open up incognito tabs to do banking or just browse pr0n. Once finished, they would close the incognito tabs/windows but would most likely keep Chrome itself running for a good while longer.
Another use case is working in MS Word on two documents at once. One is top secret, the other is not, you finish with the top secret one and close it, but you keep working on the other document, keeping Word open.
In those situations neither the OS or the graphics driver would get the ok to clear out memory as the application itself is still running. The OS could (maybe) protect memory assigned to specific apps, if that is possible with video RAM?
Maybe running separate processes for each window/tab sidesteps this?
I have no idea, but certainly this isn't as simple as clearing video RAM after closing an app since the app isn't closed
Does it matter if it's not a "phone number" anymore, whatever it will be (certainly not an Facebook account), will function pretty much the same way, just with less oversight and more government and corporate snooping involved.
Guilty as charged, but I'm going to go with "Everyone, I found the OS X manifestation of this bug!!"
Well, count my lucky stars that OS X isn't affected! Mac master race wins again! I'm guessing there's no Prime95 mac users, so therefore I must be safe, right? right?
On a slightly more serious note, how does one bios-update the CPU on a Mac? Does Apple roll it into their updates? Just curious.
What in the world are you trying to do with the site?
Yes, updating a drupal site is a bit of a pain (and going from major version to major version is a real pain), but other than that, it handles content creation and management just fine.
If you're getting requests from marketing to create new sections or completely new content types with fancy new functionality, then no CMS makes that part easy.
That whole landmine story still doesn't sit well with me. It's not very good border security if a couple guys with a backpack full of mines can just wander around un-noticed.
Yeah, I get that they're set up against a large full scale invasion, but you'd think with all the fancy technology they have on display, and especially with previous small-team infiltrations, they would be on top of things. (I know, I know, armchair quarterbacking.)
This lowers the bandwidth/data requirements for places that are already using Dropbox. Surely a terrible thing. Never have I heard of a company improving their product to the benefit of it's customers.
Should they be getting a patent on this, probably not, but that is the game that is being played for the time being. Better them, who will actually use it, than some patent holding company who will hold it hostage.
If you cannot see the benefits of network storage like Dropbox (or Google Drive / Skydrive / Box / OwnCloud) then I think you must just now be waking up from a coma.
So human makes calculation on paper. The result is 66,400kg. Human then enters the same number onto a tablet.
Sure the human involved sucked at math and got the wrong result in the first place, but he copied the (wrong) result into the tablet perfectly fine.
How does this have anything to do with the tablet?
(yes, all this stuff should probably be automatically generated in this day and age, but that is a different discussion to have)
Is being primarily cash-only (SUICA being an extension of this) such a bad thing? Sure, credit is convenient, but as we've seen over and over again, people can't really be trusted with it.
With the spread of SUICA into convenience stores and other not high cost places like restaurants, Japan might be able to cut out banks all together from day-to-day live, and I think that would be just great! Yes the services banks provide have their place, but paying 5 bucks a month for a crappy 10 transaction chequing account where you worry about what special order your deposits and withdrawals will be processed is not what I would call progress.
This. I never thought that the general gaming population were such prudes.
Grumbling under their mustaches about the crap that big publishers have been doing for years, but upon hearing allegations that a women used sex to procure favorable review of a no-name indie game, they were just roused to action. Grabbing their pitchforks and all that. /s /s /ss?
Sarcasm, but serious. Not everyone's favourite Godwining backup band.
It helps a bit in determining which of all those notes floating in 'the clouds' are yours.
I do like the idea of all notes by all people getting dumped onto a server and syncing back to everyone. Then having to come up with creative ways to find the ones that are yours.
.
A good few years ago, people deemed wireless syncing between desktops, phones, tablets, fridges, cars, the NSA, and everything in between a good thing. To accomplish such a thing, unsurprisingly, an account of some type is required.
I'm curious, have others licensed this tech, or is Apple simply the first to get sued? The article mentioned Intel, but what about other mobile manufacturers?
Is this just a really buzzwordy-I-win-bullshit-bingo way of saying "lets outsource our jobs to China/India and surf youtube all day"?
Because all Apple does is call up Foxcomm every year and tell them "yea, we need a new phone this year, make it a bit bigger and round out the edges, you kno wat I mean", right?
It's trolling because it's not Microsoft sneaking into the Cyonagen offices at night and switching search engine providers on their builds. Cyanogen made a decision to use Bing as the default search engine (most certainly cash was involved), but it is still a decision Cyanogen made.