Unsurprisingly, mdsolar is posting this as soon as possible, because he has a hard on for hating on solar power. They've had a whole 96 hours to think about this. The world is going to end! OMG! They're not doing anything.
Great logic: mdsolar is biased towards solar power, therefore ignore the engineers at the NRC... because mdsolar... biased...
I'll just ignore this for a while because, frankly, this is way too early to give a crap.
FWIW, the 2012 incident didn't do anything anyone but a solar panel hugging, nuke hating asshole would care about, either.
You'll ignore it because you're a possibly biased, "nuke loving asshole" perhaps, but thankfully the engineers at NRC aren't ignoring it.
It will be corrected, but as far as emergencies go, this one isn't one because it has happened 13 times in the past 14 years and... nothing of consequence happened. It will happen one more time before it's fixed and... nothing of consequence will happen. It went unnoticed for several weeks and... nothing of consequence happened.
Logic failure: "I rolled no 6 for the last 6 rolls, so I'll take needless risks, self-assured that I'll not roll a six for a long time."
But, because nuclear safety is taken seriously (unlike employee safety when installing solar panels) this will be corrected quickly and without incident.
I didn't realize that workmen's safety compliance was waived for solar installations - can you provide a link for that assertion?
Every single licensed commercial reactor in the US uses a negative void coefficient, so if you have a loss of coolant, the reaction shuts down. If you can't get coolant back onto the fuel, you might end up with some melt, but it will stay contained (Three Mile Island) rather than EXPLODING and showering radioactive debris over hundreds of miles.
Weren't the Fukushima reactors by Westinghouse, and of American design?
If that's so, how did they get significant melt that breached containment at the bottom of the reactors?
Also worth noting tangentially, they did have explosions and corium was dispersed and radioactive material also get dispersed, I think over hundreds of miles (probably mostly ocean but across the main island too).
Would be interested in having the above clarified if anyone has more knowledge and maybe some links.
Here's a possibility: a group of advertisers form an industry organization...
The organization can police itself by having contractual penalties for members that violate the standards,
A trade association currently exists, I think, maybe even more than one. But the problem is, membership is not mandatory.
or having them agree that violating the standards does irreparable harm to other members of the organization, or something like that.
This might be a gem of an idea - have the trade association target violators - members or non members - with legal action seeking damages for reputational harm, tortious interference, or something similar.
Because this version is modular, do you understand what that word means?
Yes, it means when you want a better phone, you'd have to upgrade all the parts rather than just one phone.
Or it means when new spectrum becomes available, whether former analogue TV, or new LTE, or new WiFi, you just swap the SoC module and have access to them.
If one travels frequently and depends on frequencies significantly different than home location, swap SoC and SIM.
Some awareness that was apparently raised by the creation of this phone about conflict minerals in DR Congo. Awareness not apparently being which minerals, what wars, and what evidence there is that depriving DR Congo of business is going to help them.
Focus on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to buy from local initiatives, increase employment for small-scale miners and contribute to economic development and regional stability.
More importantly, by avoiding conflict minerals, what is being sacrificed to make this phone: you don't get something for nothing.
Probably money - it's not a cheap phone. It gives people a chance to vote with their dollars / Euros, etc.
I know I know, I should just "know". But I don't, and I'm not going to google it and deal with all the hipster shit either, I want facts and primary sources that at least try not to sound like Sally Struthers. That's awareness.
Not that you should "just know", but you should click the link to TFA (no need to even Google it) before spewing uninformed ad hominems and sounding stupid.
It's the new hip thing to remain wilfully ignorant and smug.
A further initiative these guys are taking that I fully endorse: and end to the so-called "land-fill Android" syndrome
I don't see anything about the other big cause of land-fill Android syndrome: software updates. Are they also going to update the phone to new OS versions for a decade or so?
Excellent point.
I went looking, and I saw this rather disappointing post, indicating they were reliant on MediaTek and then the manufacturer (with a link off to HTC's explanation of what's involved with the updating process from a couple years ago).
Now, that was talking about the old version 1, not this release.
I sure hope they've come up with a better solution this time around. Perhaps they should have gone with something like CyanogenMod pre-installed, but that would mean no Gapps which itself would cause them hassles when customers complained.
Regardless, 10 years would be great, but as it stands now, 10 months is often more than manufacturers support, they don't need to offer 10 years.
Isn't Nexus guaranteed only 18 months of updates, and if owners get updates after that, lucky them?
You know what's worse than one retard spewing off about a "Marxist" business trying to fill a niche market?
The comment sits at +5 Insightful (70% Insightful, 30% Funny).
What the ever-loving fuck is happening at Slashdot?
It was looking so hopeful when whipslash came on board, but the mods on some articles in the past week have just been so out of whack that I can't understand what skull-fuckery is going on.
Just what I want and desperately need, more militantly dysfunctional subjectivist Marxist bullshit in my objectively functional technology.
What a fucking retarded statement.
They're capitalists trying to fill a niche for ethically sourced phones with a modular design (a great and exciting idea all by itself), high reparability, and easily recyclable - the entire life cycle carefully considered.
We've all heard the "child labour" comments and accusations regarding the manufacturing of our electronics - this business is trying to do something about it. How the fuck you get "militant Marxist" bullshit out of that makes it sound like you've fallen on your head. A few times.
And at +5 Insightful, a few others have too.
Before I know it my pull requests are going to be totally triaged by feels and privilege checks
If you're talking about making pull requests to a hardware manufacturer who is using Android from AOSP, then yeah, your pull requests are probably pretty fucking useless.
You don't like it, don't buy it, but getting your feels all hurt, along with your butt, makes you a militant Marxist moron. Since you like slinging non-sequiturs...
Promoting conflict-free tungsten exports from Rwanda
Conflict-free tin from the Democratic Republic of Congo
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) possesses 80 percent of the world’s coltan supply. Many of the mines there have been controlled by rebels who extort money from the miners, leading tantalum to be classified as a conflict mineral.
Starting with the production of the Fairphone 1, we worked with Solutions for Hope to source conflict-free tantalum from the DRC.
It appears they've made an honest effort to source things intelligently.
Reading these comments (not the one I'm replying to) bitching, moaning, and whining about "hipsters" getting a "feel good" from stupidly being duped through the entire process, I'm pretty fucking disgusted with Slashdot today.
There are lots of downsides to the commodities and technologies needed to supply our gadgets, but given that demand is not going to be the level to be pulled here, I don't buy that this movement will solve them.
And I'm pretty sure they're not deluded enough to think they alone will solve the issues.
But, judging by the number of (often snarky) comments one hears about our electronics being built by child labour and the like, it seems there could be a market for ethically sourced products.
And if there isn't, that's more a failure on everyone else but Fairphone really. We'll bitch, whine, joke, whatever about the terrible conditions in the factories and mines, but won't make the slightest sacrifice to do something - anything - about it.
I can absolutely see why the network providers would want this as well. Talk about a way of dramatically decreasing your network utilisation without any negative impacts on consumers.
Honestly I was surprised an ISP installed this (recently in the news).
From their point of view, customers run through their data cap in half the month due to ads?
Great - overage charges.
I just wouldn't have thought the ISPs would care much about consumers' negative impacts.
I suppose this does put the ISPs that implement this at a competitive advantage though, which might be beneficial to them.
Benjamin Faes, managing director of media and platforms at Google, called Shine's technology a "blunt" solution that punishes users and good advertisers
If advertisers aren't going to police their own industry then, yeah, count on other people to create a blunt solution.
I've often felt the same way, but now I'm idly wondering - how would they police themselves? Nothing short of the FTC has such power in the USA, and that's just for the USA.
They have trade groups but seem unable to force bad actors to desist.
It's like, how would the 0.0001% of responsible telemarketers stop the rest from spamming us via telephone?
I guess I'm just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on how this could be implemented.
Blocking all ads I think it's diminishing my experience of advertising
Of course it's diminishing your experience of advertising, you're an advertiser. Blocking all ads actually improves my experience of advertising, by a lot. If only I could extend it to the physical world.
Because manufacturing doesn't work that way. Their Chinese supplier makes their phone. The supplier supplies the electronics and the raw materials. It isn't like Fairphone sends them a shipment of tungsten saying "hey use this to make our phone".
Citation needed, again.
How the fuck do you know how their setup works? You haven't provided a single link to support your bullshit; you probably haven't even looked at their site.
Put up a link or shut up. Fairphone has put up claims, feel free to debunk them if you have anything other than bullshit:
Starting with the production of the Fairphone 1, we worked with Solutions for Hope to source conflict-free tantalum from the DRC. They established a closed-pipe supply chain (including mines, smelters and manufacturers) to provide greater transparency and supply conflict-free minerals from regions experiencing ongoing conflict. For the Fairphone 2, we will continue to support buying tantalum through Solutions for Hope. This initiative uses a mass balance model of traceability, which means that conflict-free tantalum from the DRC is mixed with conflict-free tantalum from other sources at the smelter. The resulting blend will be used in the capacitors in our latest phone.
It is just a bunch of hipsters with a gimmick.
No, it's a bunch of whiny, cynical assholes bitching because someone is making an effort to provide consumers choice - a choice that whiny, cynical assholes don't want to look into in the slightest, never mind a choice they'd make.
Fine, if you don't want one no one cares. But just because someone shat in your cereal, don't have a whinefest about someone else making an effort.
I can get iPhone parts on ebay and "repair" my phone.
Problem is, usually requires some specialty tools, depending on the phone.
The battery is straightforward to access. Removing it requires a proprietary pentalobe screwdriver and knowledge of the adhesive removal technique, but is not difficult.
The iPhone 6s still uses proprietary Pentalobe screws on the exterior, requiring a specialty screwdriver to remove.
And think about it: if the phone is upgradable, why isn't the Fairphone 2 upgradeable from the Fairphone 1???
Because this version is modular, do you understand what that word means?
we’d like to encourage you to keep your existing mobile as long as it works. If you do buy Fairphone, we’re selling spare parts and offering repair tutorials to help make your phone useful for as long as possible, plus adding features like dual SIM to make the phones more attractive on the secondhand marketplace. We’re also working with partners to set up projects in Ghana to improve local waste collection efforts and transport discarded phones to Europe for safe recycling. Finally, our Take Back Program helps ensure that your old mobile phone is reused or properly recycled.
That's pretty great really. What's not to like about that?
The mining and trading of tungsten has been associated with financing local armed groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and adjoining countries. For this reason, tungsten is identified by a US law – the Dodd Frank Act – as a conflict mineral. Companies that are publicly listed in the US have to report on their use of the minerals tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold and the measures taken to prevent supporting conflict in the African Great Lakes Region.
I mean, they are giving people a chance to put their money where their mouths are:
Why focus on sourcing tungsten from Rwanda? In short, we want to transform and improve sourcing from the African Great Lakes Region.
I see no problem with this in an initial TFA.
You don't care how much fuckery is used to produce your electronics, good for you, be proud of being a douche. Buy something else.
But I find it commendable that someone's at least trying to do business in a "win-win" manner.
Finally, for the record, the tungsten is sourced from Rwanda.
4) If they hadn't screwed up and changed the iCloud account's apple id - they'd have a recent backup too - and this would be a moot point. They screwed up.
I've seen this brought up many times, but I'd like it clarified: who changed the ID / password?
I thought it was the employer as part of a standard employment termination procedure, not the FBI or any government officials.
Anyone able to link to a source that clarifies this point?
Followed by, "Would your answer change, knowing that the government had a chance to obtain this data on the day of the shooting, but instead changed the password that could've been used to access the data?"
Wait, does anyone know this?
I thought the owner (through their IT department) changed the password as part of a standard "he's not employed here anymore" procedure that changes all ex-employee passwords, like any company does.
How would the government change the password without being able to unlock it in the first place?
And then RIP and SHARE ALL your shit 24 hours a day 365 days a year nonstop with complete untouchable location anonymous encrypted hidden service glee and impunity and put these copyright motherfuckers in their grave.
Nonsense.
Kill them with boycotts: more effective, easier, less risky, creates lots of free time to actually do things.
Unless you're really just concerned about getting stuff for free.
The paper, published on Wednesday inthe journal Nature Geoscience, explores the performance of a climate forecast based on data up to 1996 by comparing it with the actual temperatures observed since. The results show that scientists accurately predicted the warming experienced in the past decade, relative to the decade to 1996, to within a few hundredths of a degree.
but yeah, dumbass, liquidate western civilization over it, you deserve it for being such sheep
Who needs to liquidate western civilization? Oh, right, the polluters and their denialist useful idiots like yourself. The world would certainly be a better place without illiterate, biased, useful idiot liars like yourself.
But getting cheap, clean energy is the opposite of "liquidating western civilization" unless one is a shill, a troll, and / or a complete fucking idiot.
that the software engineering is good says nothing about the science... fool
Maybe, if you're stupid. I guess you're stupid (stating the obvious).
"All models are wrong, some models are useful."
If being stupid were painful, you'd have died of the agony ages ago.
It's long been said that if stupidity were painful, the world would be a better place. You are evidence of that.
Steve Easterbrook, a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto, has been studying climate models for several years. “I'd done a lot of research in the past studying the development of commercial and open source software systems, including four years with NASA studying the verification and validation processes used on their spacecraft flight control software,” he told Ars.
When Easterbrook started looking into the processes followed by climate modeling groups, he was surprised by what he found. “I expected to see a messy process, dominated by quick fixes and muddling through, as that's the typical practice in much small-scale scientific software. What I found instead was a community that takes very seriously the importance of rigorous testing, and which is already using most of the tools a modern software development company would use (version control, automated testing, bug tracking systems, a planned release cycle, etc.).”
“I was blown away by the testing process that every proposed change to the model has to go through,” Easterbrook wrote. “Basically, each change is set up like a scientific experiment, with a hypothesis describing the expected improvement in the simulation results. The old and new versions of the code are then treated as the two experimental conditions. They are run on the same simulations, and the results are compared in detail to see if the hypothesis was correct. Only after convincing each other that the change really does offer an improvement is it accepted into the model baseline.”
But don't let reality get in the way of your anti-science jihad.
If the bug population changes at all, they will blame "global warming" er... climate change. It doesn't matter what actually happens, they will blame one thing, and one thing only.
And you'll be there, denying that climate change is responsible for anything, it doesn't matter what actually happens.
And there there is the problem, it creates sloppy science, and lazy record keeping.
[Citation Needed]
Here's one that proves you're either ignorant (probably willfully) or lying:
I am waiting for the Zika virus to be blamed on global warming.
And we're waiting for you to tell us which branches of science that you, in your omniscience, condone.
Meanwhile, here in reality, even Alexander Graham Bell, of the telephone inventor fame, recognized that CO2 had been proven a greenhouse gas 1 or 2 generations prior to him, and that the long term consequences could be significant. A lot of CO2 has been released since then, in case you hadn't noticed or chose to ignore.
Get with the 19th century levels of discovery; this is a damned tech site.
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Unsurprisingly, mdsolar is posting this as soon as possible, because he has a hard on for hating on solar power. They've had a whole 96 hours to think about this. The world is going to end! OMG! They're not doing anything.
Great logic: mdsolar is biased towards solar power, therefore ignore the engineers at the NRC... because mdsolar... biased...
I'll just ignore this for a while because, frankly, this is way too early to give a crap.
FWIW, the 2012 incident didn't do anything anyone but a solar panel hugging, nuke hating asshole would care about, either.
You'll ignore it because you're a possibly biased, "nuke loving asshole" perhaps, but thankfully the engineers at NRC aren't ignoring it.
It will be corrected, but as far as emergencies go, this one isn't one because it has happened 13 times in the past 14 years and... nothing of consequence happened. It will happen one more time before it's fixed and... nothing of consequence will happen. It went unnoticed for several weeks and... nothing of consequence happened.
Logic failure: "I rolled no 6 for the last 6 rolls, so I'll take needless risks, self-assured that I'll not roll a six for a long time."
But, because nuclear safety is taken seriously (unlike employee safety when installing solar panels) this will be corrected quickly and without incident.
I didn't realize that workmen's safety compliance was waived for solar installations - can you provide a link for that assertion?
Every single licensed commercial reactor in the US uses a negative void coefficient, so if you have a loss of coolant, the reaction shuts down. If you can't get coolant back onto the fuel, you might end up with some melt, but it will stay contained (Three Mile Island) rather than EXPLODING and showering radioactive debris over hundreds of miles.
Weren't the Fukushima reactors by Westinghouse, and of American design?
If that's so, how did they get significant melt that breached containment at the bottom of the reactors?
Also worth noting tangentially, they did have explosions and corium was dispersed and radioactive material also get dispersed, I think over hundreds of miles (probably mostly ocean but across the main island too).
Would be interested in having the above clarified if anyone has more knowledge and maybe some links.
Here's a possibility: a group of advertisers form an industry organization...
The organization can police itself by having contractual penalties for members that violate the standards,
A trade association currently exists, I think, maybe even more than one. But the problem is, membership is not mandatory.
or having them agree that violating the standards does irreparable harm to other members of the organization, or something like that.
This might be a gem of an idea - have the trade association target violators - members or non members - with legal action seeking damages for reputational harm, tortious interference, or something similar.
Because this version is modular, do you understand what that word means?
Yes, it means when you want a better phone, you'd have to upgrade all the parts rather than just one phone.
Or it means when new spectrum becomes available, whether former analogue TV, or new LTE, or new WiFi, you just swap the SoC module and have access to them.
If one travels frequently and depends on frequencies significantly different than home location, swap SoC and SIM.
Also allows swappable camera modules.
Some awareness that was apparently raised by the creation of this phone about conflict minerals in DR Congo. Awareness not apparently being which minerals, what wars, and what evidence there is that depriving DR Congo of business is going to help them.
Sigh. They're not depriving DRC of business:
More importantly, by avoiding conflict minerals, what is being sacrificed to make this phone: you don't get something for nothing.
Probably money - it's not a cheap phone. It gives people a chance to vote with their dollars / Euros, etc.
I know I know, I should just "know". But I don't, and I'm not going to google it and deal with all the hipster shit either, I want facts and primary sources that at least try not to sound like Sally Struthers. That's awareness.
Not that you should "just know", but you should click the link to TFA (no need to even Google it) before spewing uninformed ad hominems and sounding stupid.
It's the new hip thing to remain wilfully ignorant and smug.
A phone is a phone.
And a car is a car, food is food, blah blah blah.
A further initiative these guys are taking that I fully endorse: and end to the so-called "land-fill Android" syndrome
I don't see anything about the other big cause of land-fill Android syndrome: software updates. Are they also going to update the phone to new OS versions for a decade or so?
Excellent point.
I went looking, and I saw this rather disappointing post, indicating they were reliant on MediaTek and then the manufacturer (with a link off to HTC's explanation of what's involved with the updating process from a couple years ago).
Now, that was talking about the old version 1, not this release.
I sure hope they've come up with a better solution this time around. Perhaps they should have gone with something like CyanogenMod pre-installed, but that would mean no Gapps which itself would cause them hassles when customers complained.
Regardless, 10 years would be great, but as it stands now, 10 months is often more than manufacturers support, they don't need to offer 10 years.
Isn't Nexus guaranteed only 18 months of updates, and if owners get updates after that, lucky them?
You know what's worse than one retard spewing off about a "Marxist" business trying to fill a niche market?
The comment sits at +5 Insightful (70% Insightful, 30% Funny).
What the ever-loving fuck is happening at Slashdot?
It was looking so hopeful when whipslash came on board, but the mods on some articles in the past week have just been so out of whack that I can't understand what skull-fuckery is going on.
Just what I want and desperately need, more militantly dysfunctional subjectivist Marxist bullshit in my objectively functional technology.
What a fucking retarded statement.
They're capitalists trying to fill a niche for ethically sourced phones with a modular design (a great and exciting idea all by itself), high reparability, and easily recyclable - the entire life cycle carefully considered.
We've all heard the "child labour" comments and accusations regarding the manufacturing of our electronics - this business is trying to do something about it. How the fuck you get "militant Marxist" bullshit out of that makes it sound like you've fallen on your head. A few times.
And at +5 Insightful, a few others have too.
Before I know it my pull requests are going to be totally triaged by feels and privilege checks
If you're talking about making pull requests to a hardware manufacturer who is using Android from AOSP, then yeah, your pull requests are probably pretty fucking useless.
You don't like it, don't buy it, but getting your feels all hurt, along with your butt, makes you a militant Marxist moron. Since you like slinging non-sequiturs...
in my opinion, taking away the ability to earn at least a little money is only going to hurt the mostly innocent bystanders.
It looks like they're still putting money into poverty stricken areas:
It appears they've made an honest effort to source things intelligently.
Reading these comments (not the one I'm replying to) bitching, moaning, and whining about "hipsters" getting a "feel good" from stupidly being duped through the entire process, I'm pretty fucking disgusted with Slashdot today.
There are lots of downsides to the commodities and technologies needed to supply our gadgets, but given that demand is not going to be the level to be pulled here, I don't buy that this movement will solve them.
And I'm pretty sure they're not deluded enough to think they alone will solve the issues.
But, judging by the number of (often snarky) comments one hears about our electronics being built by child labour and the like, it seems there could be a market for ethically sourced products.
And if there isn't, that's more a failure on everyone else but Fairphone really. We'll bitch, whine, joke, whatever about the terrible conditions in the factories and mines, but won't make the slightest sacrifice to do something - anything - about it.
I can absolutely see why the network providers would want this as well. Talk about a way of dramatically decreasing your network utilisation without any negative impacts on consumers.
Honestly I was surprised an ISP installed this (recently in the news).
From their point of view, customers run through their data cap in half the month due to ads?
Great - overage charges.
I just wouldn't have thought the ISPs would care much about consumers' negative impacts.
I suppose this does put the ISPs that implement this at a competitive advantage though, which might be beneficial to them.
Benjamin Faes, managing director of media and platforms at Google, called Shine's technology a "blunt" solution that punishes users and good advertisers
If advertisers aren't going to police their own industry then, yeah, count on other people to create a blunt solution.
I've often felt the same way, but now I'm idly wondering - how would they police themselves? Nothing short of the FTC has such power in the USA, and that's just for the USA.
They have trade groups but seem unable to force bad actors to desist.
It's like, how would the 0.0001% of responsible telemarketers stop the rest from spamming us via telephone?
I guess I'm just wondering if anyone has any thoughts on how this could be implemented.
Blocking all ads I think it's diminishing my experience of advertising
Of course it's diminishing your experience of advertising, you're an advertiser. Blocking all ads actually improves my experience of advertising, by a lot. If only I could extend it to the physical world.
I just cannot agree with this more; well put.
Because manufacturing doesn't work that way. Their Chinese supplier makes their phone. The supplier supplies the electronics and the raw materials. It isn't like Fairphone sends them a shipment of tungsten saying "hey use this to make our phone".
Citation needed, again.
How the fuck do you know how their setup works? You haven't provided a single link to support your bullshit; you probably haven't even looked at their site.
Put up a link or shut up. Fairphone has put up claims, feel free to debunk them if you have anything other than bullshit:
It is just a bunch of hipsters with a gimmick.
No, it's a bunch of whiny, cynical assholes bitching because someone is making an effort to provide consumers choice - a choice that whiny, cynical assholes don't want to look into in the slightest, never mind a choice they'd make.
Fine, if you don't want one no one cares. But just because someone shat in your cereal, don't have a whinefest about someone else making an effort.
Because it is silly in practice.
We've never had a modular phone "in practice".
I can get iPhone parts on ebay and "repair" my phone.
Problem is, usually requires some specialty tools, depending on the phone.
And think about it: if the phone is upgradable, why isn't the Fairphone 2 upgradeable from the Fairphone 1???
Because this version is modular, do you understand what that word means?
Christ, the stupidity never ends.
Yes, and if you'd shut up there'd be less of it.
A further initiative these guys are taking that I fully endorse: and end to the so-called "land-fill Android" syndrome:
Extending the lifespan of your mobile phone
That's pretty great really. What's not to like about that?
The entire thing is a joke.
[Citation Needed]
The difference is that their suppliers say "sure, we only use tungsten from Colorado, not from the Congo". And the hipsters fly home happy.
Ya know, there's a bunch of links right there in the fucking article explaining how they try to ensure their products are sourced ethically.
Something the large manufacturers often took heat for not doing enough of.
Oh dear, seems they're not alone, all publicly listed companies in the USA are required by law to report:
I mean, they are giving people a chance to put their money where their mouths are:
I see no problem with this in an initial TFA.
You don't care how much fuckery is used to produce your electronics, good for you, be proud of being a douche. Buy something else.
But I find it commendable that someone's at least trying to do business in a "win-win" manner.
Finally, for the record, the tungsten is sourced from Rwanda.
the GOVERNMENT reset the phone
Any link to support this claim?
I thought it was the owner of the phone that did it as part of a standard end-of-employment procedure.
4) If they hadn't screwed up and changed the iCloud account's apple id - they'd have a recent backup too - and this would be a moot point. They screwed up.
I've seen this brought up many times, but I'd like it clarified: who changed the ID / password?
I thought it was the employer as part of a standard employment termination procedure, not the FBI or any government officials.
Anyone able to link to a source that clarifies this point?
Followed by, "Would your answer change, knowing that the government had a chance to obtain this data on the day of the shooting, but instead changed the password that could've been used to access the data?"
Wait, does anyone know this?
I thought the owner (through their IT department) changed the password as part of a standard "he's not employed here anymore" procedure that changes all ex-employee passwords, like any company does.
How would the government change the password without being able to unlock it in the first place?
And then RIP and SHARE ALL your shit 24 hours a day 365 days a year nonstop with complete untouchable location anonymous encrypted hidden service glee and impunity and put these copyright motherfuckers in their grave.
Nonsense.
Kill them with boycotts: more effective, easier, less risky, creates lots of free time to actually do things.
Unless you're really just concerned about getting stuff for free.
idiot... it is not science if there was never any experimentation.
Liar.
moron... none of this has been tested at all... it is simply computational speculation
Liar.
where are their successful predictions? there are none, zero. they can't predict shit
Liar:
but yeah, dumbass, liquidate western civilization over it, you deserve it for being such sheep
Who needs to liquidate western civilization? Oh, right, the polluters and their denialist useful idiots like yourself. The world would certainly be a better place without illiterate, biased, useful idiot liars like yourself.
But getting cheap, clean energy is the opposite of "liquidating western civilization" unless one is a shill, a troll, and / or a complete fucking idiot.
that the software engineering is good says nothing about the science... fool
Maybe, if you're stupid. I guess you're stupid (stating the obvious).
"All models are wrong, some models are useful."
If being stupid were painful, you'd have died of the agony ages ago.
It's long been said that if stupidity were painful, the world would be a better place. You are evidence of that.
He's bi-curious.
I heard he's into trans-sisters.
At least, that's what it sounded like. Eye kant spel gud.
It's not their fault, they are running their simulations on that same computer modeling software that says the Global Warning is real.
Spoken like a willfully and proudly ignorant troll.
How climate scientists test, test again, and use their simulation tools
Steve Easterbrook, a professor of computer science at the University of Toronto, has been studying climate models for several years. “I'd done a lot of research in the past studying the development of commercial and open source software systems, including four years with NASA studying the verification and validation processes used on their spacecraft flight control software,” he told Ars.
When Easterbrook started looking into the processes followed by climate modeling groups, he was surprised by what he found. “I expected to see a messy process, dominated by quick fixes and muddling through, as that's the typical practice in much small-scale scientific software. What I found instead was a community that takes very seriously the importance of rigorous testing, and which is already using most of the tools a modern software development company would use (version control, automated testing, bug tracking systems, a planned release cycle, etc.).”
“I was blown away by the testing process that every proposed change to the model has to go through,” Easterbrook wrote. “Basically, each change is set up like a scientific experiment, with a hypothesis describing the expected improvement in the simulation results. The old and new versions of the code are then treated as the two experimental conditions. They are run on the same simulations, and the results are compared in detail to see if the hypothesis was correct. Only after convincing each other that the change really does offer an improvement is it accepted into the model baseline.”
But don't let reality get in the way of your anti-science jihad.
How the ever-loving fuck did this get modded +4 Informative?!?
Slashdot has been looking so much more positive lately (thanks whipslash) but the mods on this topic, WTF?
Another tech site (like El Reg) where a science topic can't be discussed rationally due to the denialist BS.
It's a fucking shame. Truly shameful that technologists let their personal tribal biases and politics get in the way of real, actual science.
If the bug population changes at all, they will blame "global warming" er... climate change. It doesn't matter what actually happens, they will blame one thing, and one thing only.
And you'll be there, denying that climate change is responsible for anything, it doesn't matter what actually happens.
And there there is the problem, it creates sloppy science, and lazy record keeping.
[Citation Needed]
Here's one that proves you're either ignorant (probably willfully) or lying:
Why trust climate models? It’s a matter of simple science
I am waiting for the Zika virus to be blamed on global warming.
And we're waiting for you to tell us which branches of science that you, in your omniscience, condone.
Meanwhile, here in reality, even Alexander Graham Bell, of the telephone inventor fame, recognized that CO2 had been proven a greenhouse gas 1 or 2 generations prior to him, and that the long term consequences could be significant. A lot of CO2 has been released since then, in case you hadn't noticed or chose to ignore.
Get with the 19th century levels of discovery; this is a damned tech site.