I thought the encryption key was securely stored in the iPhone hardware and can only be accessed by firmware running on that hardware which then decrypts the kernel.
... that moment when you lose you phone and realise that not only will someone have access to all your contacts and logins, but they can potentially clean out your bank account too. Isn't progress wonderful?
If you don't patent your invention then someone else eventually will. You can whine and bitch all night long about how unfair it is, it won't change anything. Life is unfair. The real satoshi could easily have patented it and given the patent to the community. He chose not to. Oh well, too bad.
Their share of of the iPhone ticket price might be tiny. However the knowledge they get from building it has been priceless. You think all these other chinese manufacturers got up to speed this quickly on their own? Who needs industrial espionage when the stupid westerners hand you the designs and get you to build all their hi-tech electronics for them!
How many western companies would dream of building all their kit in Russia? Quite. Yet for some reason China is ok! Go figure.
The psuedo scientific drivel my wife reads in these moronic magazines just beggars belief sometimes. Whether its health, diet or beauty advice, most of it seems to be either made up on the spot with no scientific basis, either by the know-nothing neurotic maghag "journalists" , or by whatever crank they've waved some money at and who can string together enough semi coherent sentences to create an article out of. I genuinely believe some of these magazines should come with a health warning on the cover because of the rubbish they peddle to impressionable girls.
So Sony announced a 4K PS4 and Surprise! There's now going to be a 4K Xbox one. Well who didn't see that coming. Of course now they effectively both destroyed the console lifecycle I expect we'll soon see the law of diminishing returns kick in as people stop buying consoles because they're worried they might out of date in a few years rather than the usual 5 or more.
"take an easy swipe at young people doing something you disapprove of."
You're confusing disapproval with pointing out a fact. Personally I don't give a shit, if a kid wants to share their life with big brother thats their lookout. Just don't want to hear them whine like babies when the inevitable happens.
"Very few people forecast the rise of large data processing, "
Bullshit. Anyone with a working braincell could see where things were heading from at least the turn of the century before Facebook even existed when AlvaVista and Google kicked off. If people were too blind or naive to see it , well thats just tough isn't it.
"I get that you hate millenials, perhaps you should also consider how catastrophically they've been failed by previous generations, rising debt, lowering salary possibility, massively rising housing costs, as a generation they have been royally fucked over."
Oh spare me. It took me 10 years to save up for my first mortgage deposit for a miserable 1 bed flat after uni. You kids spend your life whining about how tough you have it.
" The average starting salary for a graduate in the UK is the same as it was 15 years ago"
Bullshit. It was £20,300 in 2000 compared to £29K in 2014. Google it. Want to know what my starting salary was in the 90s? 8K , yes EIGHT thousand a year for a graduate position. So take your 29K and STFU.
"No, they'll just see you as a risk and discount you."
I won't be applying to rent anywhere anymore so I couldn't care less. Its the generation that gave life to social media that needs to worry. Oh, that'll be you.
Wtf are you talking about? Slashdot has my email address and the IP I log in from. Good luck trying to monetize that.
"Let me guess you don't realise that VISA or Target"
Sure, big companies you have almost no choice but to use (if you want to eat without hunting your own food) will do it. But even they don't have my picture or my interests (other than what they can glean from what I buy) , they don't know my friends or my family, they don't know what car I drive, they don't know where I work etc. There's a big difference between giving away the minimum amount of data when necessary and sharing your entire life on social media like naive millenials do.
If Millenials weren't so damn eager to tell the whole world and his dog about their tedious lives on social media in the first place this company couldn't exist. Reap what you sow kiddies.
"Roll dice enough, and you will see a run of 10 6's in a row, "
Thats not necessarily true. Even perfect dice may never give you a certain combination no matter how many times you roll them for no other reason than chance.
"Try something millions of trillions of times,"
There's 200 billion stars in our galaxy. Assuming even all of them have habital planets thats still a tiny number when you work out the likelihood of a technological civilisation.
"Everything in your list from 3 on is just our path,"
Well I did state that in my first sentence. The point however is that a lot of statistically unlikely events had to happen for a technological civilsation to arise. The fact that we have one and we're here is essentially a fluke.
"Wind turbines are easy to produce given copper wire and some wood and canvas. It seems backwards to us, but it isn't completely implausible."
But to build a transmission network you need vehicles powered by something so transport the materials and move the earth. Would be very hard to do just with horses. Could have ended up with local wind powered village generators however I suppose.
"yet Babbage's engines were largely regarded as interesting experiments rather than useful machines"
Computers are all about accuracy and fast calculation. If there's limited use for that in a low tech society then computers won't be seen as much use.
TBH even up until the 70s computers weren't seen as mass market devices. It took until they were cheap enough and available enough to allow kids with imagination and ideas to get hold of them before the computer revolution took off. Not something that could have happened with a Difference engine. Though if it had it would be interesting to speculate on how history would have been different!
These idiots are just shifting Oooh-shiny systems that look good in the dealership to clueless idiots. Luckily its only the infotainment - if it had been the entire dashboard and or one or more critical systems then the car could have been undrivable.
"however you can make charcoal from wood (burn it with insufficient oxygen) and then use that to smelt iron. "
Yes, fair point. However there simply weren't enough trees around to do it - even in tudor times entire forests had to be grown just for ship wood - which is why the industrial revolution didn't really get going until mass coal production started.
They might have done, but they didn't manage it in 200m years and their descendents the birds haven't managed it since (ok crows, but even they're no Einsteins) so I don't think they genetically had what it takes.
Just some of the things that had to happen for us to be where we are now:
1) Life had to evolve 2) Multicelluar life had to evolve (this took a billion years after life itself arose so is probably not a forgone conclusion) 3) Life had to climb out of the oceans (dolphins might be smart but they won't be building any rockets with their flippers anytime soon) 4) Suitable intelligence had to evolve. Had it not been for the asteroid the dinosaurs would still be in charge. 5) Humans had to survive numerous climate changes and if the genetics is to be believed we almost died out and everyone today comes from a very small population who made it. 6) Farming had to be created to allow people to do something other than hunting and gathering. 7) For the industrial revolution plenty of freely available energy had to be lying around near the surface - ie coal. You can't melt iron with wood fires. 8) Someone had to invent radio.
I'm sure there are dozens of other things that could fit inbetween those points but my basic point is that a technological civilisation than can broadcast information out from his own planey is very VERY unlikely. IMO we could well be the only one surrounded by planets full of the equivalents of bacteria and jellyfish but little more.
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I thought the encryption key was securely stored in the iPhone hardware and can only be accessed by firmware running on that hardware which then decrypts the kernel.
... that moment when you lose you phone and realise that not only will someone have access to all your contacts and logins, but they can potentially clean out your bank account too. Isn't progress wonderful?
Just out of interest, how much codebase do they have in common, does anyone know? Is it the same mach kernal running on both for example?
If you don't patent your invention then someone else eventually will. You can whine and bitch all night long about how unfair it is, it won't change anything. Life is unfair. The real satoshi could easily have patented it and given the patent to the community. He chose not to. Oh well, too bad.
"Russia is honest about it and always has been"
I didn't realise people as naive as you could actually form joined up sentences. Congratulations. When's nurse coming to pick you up?
"The person I shared the source with assured me he would keep it to himself. He didn't..."
Well duh.
Hacker stills: 7/10
Social skills: 0/10
Their share of of the iPhone ticket price might be tiny. However the knowledge they get from building it has been priceless. You think all these other chinese manufacturers got up to speed this quickly on their own? Who needs industrial espionage when the stupid westerners hand you the designs and get you to build all their hi-tech electronics for them!
How many western companies would dream of building all their kit in Russia? Quite. Yet for some reason China is ok! Go figure.
So you watch the football and eurovision on TV and go to facebook for your news. Wow, you're the real intellectual arn't you.
" It rarely covers important issues anyway"
Guess it depends on your definition of important really doesn't it. Obviously if kitten pictures are top of your list then Facebook News is for you.
The psuedo scientific drivel my wife reads in these moronic magazines just beggars belief sometimes. Whether its health, diet or beauty advice, most of it seems to be either made up on the spot with no scientific basis, either by the know-nothing neurotic maghag "journalists" , or by whatever crank they've waved some money at and who can string together enough semi coherent sentences to create an article out of. I genuinely believe some of these magazines should come with a health warning on the cover because of the rubbish they peddle to impressionable girls.
So Sony announced a 4K PS4 and Surprise! There's now going to be a 4K Xbox one. Well who didn't see that coming. Of course now they effectively both destroyed the console lifecycle I expect we'll soon see the law of diminishing returns kick in as people stop buying consoles because they're worried they might out of date in a few years rather than the usual 5 or more.
Turns out that wasn't such a clever idea after all. Its the reason I never installed Chrome on any linux box I own.
"take an easy swipe at young people doing something you disapprove of."
You're confusing disapproval with pointing out a fact. Personally I don't give a shit, if a kid wants to share their life with big brother thats their lookout. Just don't want to hear them whine like babies when the inevitable happens.
"Very few people forecast the rise of large data processing, "
Bullshit. Anyone with a working braincell could see where things were heading from at least the turn of the century before Facebook even existed when AlvaVista and Google kicked off. If people were too blind or naive to see it , well thats just tough isn't it.
"I get that you hate millenials, perhaps you should also consider how catastrophically they've been failed by previous generations, rising debt, lowering salary possibility, massively rising housing costs, as a generation they have been royally fucked over."
Oh spare me. It took me 10 years to save up for my first mortgage deposit for a miserable 1 bed flat after uni. You kids spend your life whining about how tough you have it.
" The average starting salary for a graduate in the UK is the same as it was 15 years ago"
Bullshit. It was £20,300 in 2000 compared to £29K in 2014. Google it. Want to know what my starting salary was in the 90s? 8K , yes EIGHT thousand a year for a graduate position. So take your 29K and STFU.
"No, they'll just see you as a risk and discount you."
I won't be applying to rent anywhere anymore so I couldn't care less. Its the generation that gave life to social media that needs to worry. Oh, that'll be you.
Wtf are you talking about? Slashdot has my email address and the IP I log in from. Good luck trying to monetize that.
"Let me guess you don't realise that VISA or Target"
Sure, big companies you have almost no choice but to use (if you want to eat without hunting your own food) will do it. But even they don't have my picture or my interests (other than what they can glean from what I buy) , they don't know my friends or my family, they don't know what car I drive, they don't know where I work etc. There's a big difference between giving away the minimum amount of data when necessary and sharing your entire life on social media like naive millenials do.
Debugging symbols and hooks should be an OPT IN you idiot. Even if they're harmless they slow down the program and make the binary larger.
Right, because my slashdot login gives all my personal details away doesn't it.
Is a discussion board social media? I suppose it is in a way but there's no personal aspect to it so its not the same as facebook et al IMO.
If Millenials weren't so damn eager to tell the whole world and his dog about their tedious lives on social media in the first place this company couldn't exist. Reap what you sow kiddies.
"and the tests for each are done by different people."
Hahahaha. Yeah, sure, maybe in the text books!
"Roll dice enough, and you will see a run of 10 6's in a row, "
Thats not necessarily true. Even perfect dice may never give you a certain combination no matter how many times you roll them for no other reason than chance.
"Try something millions of trillions of times,"
There's 200 billion stars in our galaxy. Assuming even all of them have habital planets thats still a tiny number when you work out the likelihood of a technological civilisation.
"Everything in your list from 3 on is just our path,"
Well I did state that in my first sentence. The point however is that a lot of statistically unlikely events had to happen for a technological civilsation to arise. The fact that we have one and we're here is essentially a fluke.
"Wind turbines are easy to produce given copper wire and some wood and canvas. It seems backwards to us, but it isn't completely implausible."
But to build a transmission network you need vehicles powered by something so transport the materials and move the earth. Would be very hard to do just with horses. Could have ended up with local wind powered village generators however I suppose.
"yet Babbage's engines were largely regarded as interesting experiments rather than useful machines"
Computers are all about accuracy and fast calculation. If there's limited use for that in a low tech society then computers won't be seen as much use.
TBH even up until the 70s computers weren't seen as mass market devices. It took until they were cheap enough and available enough to allow kids with imagination and ideas to get hold of them before the computer revolution took off. Not something that could have happened with a Difference engine. Though if it had it would be interesting to speculate on how history would have been different!
This x10.
Mod points for parent please.
These idiots are just shifting Oooh-shiny systems that look good in the dealership to clueless idiots. Luckily its only the infotainment - if it had been the entire dashboard and or one or more critical systems then the car could have been undrivable.
"however you can make charcoal from wood (burn it with insufficient oxygen) and then use that to smelt iron. "
Yes, fair point. However there simply weren't enough trees around to do it - even in tudor times entire forests had to be grown just for ship wood - which is why the industrial revolution didn't really get going until mass coal production started.
They might have done, but they didn't manage it in 200m years and their descendents the birds haven't managed it since (ok crows, but even they're no Einsteins) so I don't think they genetically had what it takes.
Just some of the things that had to happen for us to be where we are now:
1) Life had to evolve
2) Multicelluar life had to evolve (this took a billion years after life itself arose so is probably not a forgone conclusion)
3) Life had to climb out of the oceans (dolphins might be smart but they won't be building any rockets with their flippers anytime soon)
4) Suitable intelligence had to evolve. Had it not been for the asteroid the dinosaurs would still be in charge.
5) Humans had to survive numerous climate changes and if the genetics is to be believed we almost died out and everyone today comes from a very small population who made it.
6) Farming had to be created to allow people to do something other than hunting and gathering.
7) For the industrial revolution plenty of freely available energy had to be lying around near the surface - ie coal. You can't melt iron with wood fires.
8) Someone had to invent radio.
I'm sure there are dozens of other things that could fit inbetween those points but my basic point is that a technological civilisation than can broadcast information out from his own planey is very VERY unlikely. IMO we could well be the only one surrounded by planets full of the equivalents of bacteria and jellyfish but little more.