Yeah, people like you who have sexual intercourse with non-mammals should be banned, assuming that accused == guilty.
There was a photograph of Franken making a crude sexual gesture, yes. It was clearly a setup shot, with no actual contact. Franken was trying for edgy humor at that time, and when you do that you'll go over the line into bad taste (which this was) now and then. There were accusations. I don't trust "no apparent political motive" when we're dealing with a prominent Senator, and the idea of accusations would be pretty clear if some woman wanted to smear Franken for some reason.
So, the idea of investigating would be to find out which accusations were true, and how bad the conduct was. One of the women involved accepted Franken's apology and said that she was satisfied. The opposite idea is the lynch mob.
The #metoo movement has done some very good things. It is currently allowing people to be essentially convicted without evidence.
Either you are misinterpreting the photo, or you're looking at an altered version. In the photo I saw, it's clear on close examination that there was no physical contact.
iPhones have always had motion sensors. There was a neat app on my original that scrolled text by at a rate controlled by the angle the phone was held at. I don't know what the deal was on it. TFA is short, and I had to read the Google Translate version.
The extreme right doesn't need admissions. The extreme right doesn't need facts. (The same appears to be true of the extreme left, but for a change nobody here's complaining about them.)
Your writing is no more coherent than what I can glean of your thoughts.
There will be criminals in any large group. There are Muslims who will rape and murder. There are Christians who will rape and murder. There are Buddhists who will rape and murder. The idea is to make sure they get caught, and apparently the guy got caught and the prosecutors have evidence against him. The system is working.
Age can't be determined just from teeth. There's no obvious natural aging process. Once the adult teeth are in, what we can find is damage from various causes, not aging.
TFA said it was an iPhone 4S. That's two generations earlier than the Secure Enclave, and we already know iPhones without that can be hacked into. No mystery here.
Using Google Translate on TFA, it appears that the phone was a 4S. It's known to be possible to break into an iPhone older than 5S, when Apple introduced the Secure Enclave.
Moral: If you're going to commit a heinous crime, and carry an iPhone while doing so, make sure it's a 5 or 5C or earlier, so the prosecution can gather more evidence. (I'm not on the side of people who commit heinous crimes, like rape and murder.)
Would be nice. Learning for 12 years in public schools will teach you a lot of useful things, but prep courses work to raise SAT results. You might want to ask yourself exactly what the SATs measure, given that.
You can't objectively measure the more important things about reality. You can't objectively measure who's more suited for success, except retroactively (and then only if you have an objective measure for success). Hard work is less likely to yield tangible benefits than a whole lot of other things. Deal.
If we're talking about iPhones, go into settings - passcodes or whatever - and turn on the wipe after ten tries. Even if you have only a four-digit passcode (the default), if you make it impossible to guess easily there's about a 0.1% chance they can crack it at all.
I'm not going to argue with you there. However, Apple, to a very small extent, works for me, in that they've profited off my purchases. I'm a customer.
The problem with government is that it's imperfect, and has a tremendous amount of power. This attracts people who want to misuse power, and there's no good way to keep them out. Therefore, you can't trust government as much as it seems we should. Government is made of people, and people are seriously imperfect. (If people were perfect, what would we need a government for?)
Can the Secure Enclave accept new firmware? If it wasn't designed to get new firmware, and no such facility was built in, how would that work? Code signing keys can get an existing firmware updater to trust the incoming firmware. What if there is no such updater?
As far as I know, Apple designed the Secure Enclave to be secure. It wouldn't be secure if the security could be reprogrammed, would it?
Thing is, there isn't a fortress of any sort that can be opened only by law enforcement. We have a choice between secure phones and insecure phones, not phones that are secure unless and until some law enforcement person gets a warrant.
Law enforcement can get into my house, but only by using some skill not many people have (lock-picking) or leaving something obviously broken. Clearly the private-sector bad guys can get in by the same means, but they usually can't pick locks and usually would rather not leave obvious external evidence. There's a sort of balance there.
With a phone, there is no balance. If the FBI can break into it, all it takes is one leak and any reasonably well-off private party can also (possibly any script kiddie). If law enforcement can get in, so can identity thieves.
The Wired article says that the courts might be able to order you to unlock your phone. The case law is unsettled on this (and legislative action won't help, because it's a Fifth Amendment thing).
Nobody's iPhone is going to have the location of a nuclear device on it, unless it belongs to the person with the nuke, who probably has his or her phone with him or her.
It may be possible to attack backups, either in iCloud or in computers less secured than the phone. Apple has put a good amount of work into making the phone uncrackable, even to them. Apple gets most of its money from selling stuff to people, so iPhone owners are Apple's customers. They have a financial interest in keeping their customers secure.
There's no reason to think modern crypto is cracked. We know from energy requirements that a 256-bit AES (or similar cipher) key can't be cracked by brute force using only the resources of the Solar System. The NSA does stay ahead of private-sector crypto, but as far as I can tell not by that much, and the NSA seems to think AES is good enough for top secret government documents, including ones they don't want cracked even decades in the future.
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As far as I'm concerned, you sold at a very reasonable time. It went up from there, but that was hardly a guarantee.
Yeah, people like you who have sexual intercourse with non-mammals should be banned, assuming that accused == guilty.
There was a photograph of Franken making a crude sexual gesture, yes. It was clearly a setup shot, with no actual contact. Franken was trying for edgy humor at that time, and when you do that you'll go over the line into bad taste (which this was) now and then. There were accusations. I don't trust "no apparent political motive" when we're dealing with a prominent Senator, and the idea of accusations would be pretty clear if some woman wanted to smear Franken for some reason.
So, the idea of investigating would be to find out which accusations were true, and how bad the conduct was. One of the women involved accepted Franken's apology and said that she was satisfied. The opposite idea is the lynch mob.
The #metoo movement has done some very good things. It is currently allowing people to be essentially convicted without evidence.
Either you are misinterpreting the photo, or you're looking at an altered version. In the photo I saw, it's clear on close examination that there was no physical contact.
I'm continually amazed at the right-wing idiots who say there's no evidence for Russian involvement, posting from their shithole homes.
iPhones have always had motion sensors. There was a neat app on my original that scrolled text by at a rate controlled by the angle the phone was held at. I don't know what the deal was on it. TFA is short, and I had to read the Google Translate version.
The extreme right doesn't need admissions. The extreme right doesn't need facts. (The same appears to be true of the extreme left, but for a change nobody here's complaining about them.)
Your writing is no more coherent than what I can glean of your thoughts.
There will be criminals in any large group. There are Muslims who will rape and murder. There are Christians who will rape and murder. There are Buddhists who will rape and murder. The idea is to make sure they get caught, and apparently the guy got caught and the prosecutors have evidence against him. The system is working.
Age can't be determined just from teeth. There's no obvious natural aging process. Once the adult teeth are in, what we can find is damage from various causes, not aging.
TFA said it was an iPhone 4S. That's two generations earlier than the Secure Enclave, and we already know iPhones without that can be hacked into. No mystery here.
Using Google Translate on TFA, it appears that the phone was a 4S. It's known to be possible to break into an iPhone older than 5S, when Apple introduced the Secure Enclave.
Moral: If you're going to commit a heinous crime, and carry an iPhone while doing so, make sure it's a 5 or 5C or earlier, so the prosecution can gather more evidence. (I'm not on the side of people who commit heinous crimes, like rape and murder.)
They had good reason to suspect the guy, or they wouldn't have had his phone hacked. Whatever reasons they used are probably additional evidence.
Or the message that, if you want to keep a political career, apologize for nothing, deny everything, and smear your accusers.
I still don't know about Franken. I wanted to see an investigation, but most of the Democratic Senators wanted him to resign.
Would be nice. Learning for 12 years in public schools will teach you a lot of useful things, but prep courses work to raise SAT results. You might want to ask yourself exactly what the SATs measure, given that.
You can't objectively measure the more important things about reality. You can't objectively measure who's more suited for success, except retroactively (and then only if you have an objective measure for success). Hard work is less likely to yield tangible benefits than a whole lot of other things. Deal.
The current banking system is largely immune to attacks, particularly when you consider that transactions can be reversed if found to be fraudulent.
Can I buy tulip bulbs instead?
Paid off as in you sold the Bitcoin, paid the taxes, and used the remainder to pay off your mortgage? Good for you!
If we're talking about iPhones, go into settings - passcodes or whatever - and turn on the wipe after ten tries. Even if you have only a four-digit passcode (the default), if you make it impossible to guess easily there's about a 0.1% chance they can crack it at all.
That's why I run Kaspersky. I figure the Russian government has no interest in me, for good or for ill, but my own government might.
I think you're being overoptimistic there. There will always be people who want to abuse power, and government offers them scope.
I'm not going to argue with you there. However, Apple, to a very small extent, works for me, in that they've profited off my purchases. I'm a customer.
The problem with government is that it's imperfect, and has a tremendous amount of power. This attracts people who want to misuse power, and there's no good way to keep them out. Therefore, you can't trust government as much as it seems we should. Government is made of people, and people are seriously imperfect. (If people were perfect, what would we need a government for?)
Can the Secure Enclave accept new firmware? If it wasn't designed to get new firmware, and no such facility was built in, how would that work? Code signing keys can get an existing firmware updater to trust the incoming firmware. What if there is no such updater?
As far as I know, Apple designed the Secure Enclave to be secure. It wouldn't be secure if the security could be reprogrammed, would it?
Thing is, there isn't a fortress of any sort that can be opened only by law enforcement. We have a choice between secure phones and insecure phones, not phones that are secure unless and until some law enforcement person gets a warrant.
Law enforcement can get into my house, but only by using some skill not many people have (lock-picking) or leaving something obviously broken. Clearly the private-sector bad guys can get in by the same means, but they usually can't pick locks and usually would rather not leave obvious external evidence. There's a sort of balance there.
With a phone, there is no balance. If the FBI can break into it, all it takes is one leak and any reasonably well-off private party can also (possibly any script kiddie). If law enforcement can get in, so can identity thieves.
The Wired article says that the courts might be able to order you to unlock your phone. The case law is unsettled on this (and legislative action won't help, because it's a Fifth Amendment thing).
Nobody's iPhone is going to have the location of a nuclear device on it, unless it belongs to the person with the nuke, who probably has his or her phone with him or her.
It may be possible to attack backups, either in iCloud or in computers less secured than the phone. Apple has put a good amount of work into making the phone uncrackable, even to them. Apple gets most of its money from selling stuff to people, so iPhone owners are Apple's customers. They have a financial interest in keeping their customers secure.
There's no reason to think modern crypto is cracked. We know from energy requirements that a 256-bit AES (or similar cipher) key can't be cracked by brute force using only the resources of the Solar System. The NSA does stay ahead of private-sector crypto, but as far as I can tell not by that much, and the NSA seems to think AES is good enough for top secret government documents, including ones they don't want cracked even decades in the future.