Because there is a greater than zero chance of a political shift in the Department of Justice come January. Should that happen, they wouldn't want to have the ability to actually indict and prosecute, would they?
I disagree. I'm no lawyer, but I'd think that the best way of getting everyone else to talk is by empaneling a federal grand jury and putting an indictment on them. I'll bet you can get far better terms in any agreement.
This is the way that anyone else would be treated.
Can't blame him for that. I'm a registered Republican who is seriously considering abandoning that because they have a serious wish to go the way of the Federalists and the Whigs - being a footnote in Wikipedia.
From what I read, the immunity deals were arranged in order to get their hands on the laptops in question. Why they didn't just use subpoena or search warrants is beyond me - unless the reason is the most obvious, which is a DOJ sponsored cover-up.
Oh, and nobody can get charged for destroying evidence if the FBI does it. How convenient.
Changing the connector is still changing the connector. Now, instead of saving a bit of space inside the phone (spurious justification at best), you are saving no space and still using a dongle of some variety so you can plug in your 3.5mm cable.
Leave the god damn thing alone, or do something that is actually better. For the record, neither what Apple has done, nor Samsung possibly, is better.
it's the codec being used over Bluetooth. If it's using the standard crap that's been available for like 10 years, it's bitcrushed over-compressed crap. Newer stuff uses different codecs that are far more efficient, but even the marketingspeak only claims "near CD-quality".
Bluetooth audio is shit if you are looking for fidelity. If you're just looking for a waveform to come out of speakers, it's adequate.
I have a second vehicle that is a piece of crap SUV that I use during inclement weather or when I need to haul things around - it still has a tape deck in it. I use one of those crappy tape-to-phono adapters with a cheap bluetooth audio receiver USB stick thing to play music.
Why? The speakers are garbage, the amplifier is garbage, so the audio stream can be garbage and nobody will notice. The convenience of not having to plug things in / unplug things whenever getting in and out of that piece of crap is more important to me than the fidelity of audio that is being delivered to shitty speakers through a garbage stock 1990s Toyota in-dash amplifier.
Short version: even people with tape decks can use Bluetooth audio with a $15 investment.
Oh, the Republican Party has all but given up on Trump - look how many surrogates he has stumping for him - practically nobody except for has-beens and washouts that have no other way back into the spotlight.
The GOP is cutting their losses and stopping the damage by focusing on Congress. If Hillary gets elected, she still can't do shit without compromising with the House and Senate.
And where does your water come from? Did you dig your own well and install a hand pump in order to get the water out of it? Do you have your own purification system that you can power yourself, or a massive supply of purification tablets?
Because if you didn't, you are relying exclusively on the grid to stay alive as well. See: Post-Katrina New Orleans.
I have a slightly different take on it - Splunk sucks because of their licensing and cost, not the tech. The tech is merely "ok".
If I'm spending money for log aggregation and searching, I'd be throwing that money towards SumoLogic.
If I'm not spending money, then it's Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana, which still works better than Splunk most of the time, without the thing holding my data hostage if we should actually have servers logging things and overrun the daily quota.
That's because the value-add that Splunk gives you is the draconian and super expensive licensing quotas. Oh, your servers did more than your per-day data allotment? Well, you better call us and get a code so that you can look at any of your logs at all. And yes, if you do that more than a few times, we're charging you more.
Or plug in any wired headphones in existence with the adapter that comes in the box with the phone?
Yes, it's inconvenient; it's also inconvenient for people spreading the kind of FUD you are. My Sennheiser PXC500 headphones would work just fine with iPhone 7.
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In practice, this queen appears to be.
Why destroy evidence?
Because there is a greater than zero chance of a political shift in the Department of Justice come January. Should that happen, they wouldn't want to have the ability to actually indict and prosecute, would they?
Yes, the source matters. But the content matters more.
If the story is factual, it is deeply troubling.
I disagree. I'm no lawyer, but I'd think that the best way of getting everyone else to talk is by empaneling a federal grand jury and putting an indictment on them. I'll bet you can get far better terms in any agreement.
This is the way that anyone else would be treated.
Because if the FBI destroys it, who would they charge with obstruction?
I'm guessing that clause was put into the agreement over the loud objections of the FBI, and the DOJ signed it anyway.
Can't blame him for that. I'm a registered Republican who is seriously considering abandoning that because they have a serious wish to go the way of the Federalists and the Whigs - being a footnote in Wikipedia.
From what I read, the immunity deals were arranged in order to get their hands on the laptops in question. Why they didn't just use subpoena or search warrants is beyond me - unless the reason is the most obvious, which is a DOJ sponsored cover-up.
Oh, and nobody can get charged for destroying evidence if the FBI does it. How convenient.
Just like the Democratic People's Republic of Korea is a democratically elected government.
Sorry, no. Personal enrichment is NOT a "necessary evil." There are plenty of politicians that don't exit their office with 9-digit bank accounts.
She might be the most corrupt politician since Nixon, and that's really saying something.
Changing the connector is still changing the connector. Now, instead of saving a bit of space inside the phone (spurious justification at best), you are saving no space and still using a dongle of some variety so you can plug in your 3.5mm cable.
Leave the god damn thing alone, or do something that is actually better. For the record, neither what Apple has done, nor Samsung possibly, is better.
it's the codec being used over Bluetooth. If it's using the standard crap that's been available for like 10 years, it's bitcrushed over-compressed crap. Newer stuff uses different codecs that are far more efficient, but even the marketingspeak only claims "near CD-quality".
Bluetooth audio is shit if you are looking for fidelity. If you're just looking for a waveform to come out of speakers, it's adequate.
Well, for one thing, the audio standard for USB-C was just ratified. It's right there in TFS!
Apple? /ducks
I have a second vehicle that is a piece of crap SUV that I use during inclement weather or when I need to haul things around - it still has a tape deck in it. I use one of those crappy tape-to-phono adapters with a cheap bluetooth audio receiver USB stick thing to play music.
Why? The speakers are garbage, the amplifier is garbage, so the audio stream can be garbage and nobody will notice. The convenience of not having to plug things in / unplug things whenever getting in and out of that piece of crap is more important to me than the fidelity of audio that is being delivered to shitty speakers through a garbage stock 1990s Toyota in-dash amplifier.
Short version: even people with tape decks can use Bluetooth audio with a $15 investment.
I'm sure there's many dildo and douche companies that would love to advertise to the dildos and douches that frequent 4chan...
Yeah, because /b/tards only shitpost to /b/
They have already metastasized to the rest of the Internet.
Oh, the Republican Party has all but given up on Trump - look how many surrogates he has stumping for him - practically nobody except for has-beens and washouts that have no other way back into the spotlight.
The GOP is cutting their losses and stopping the damage by focusing on Congress. If Hillary gets elected, she still can't do shit without compromising with the House and Senate.
Thanks for your insightful rebuttal. I found it to be well reasoned and quite comprehensive.
Except for if you turn that off.
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But you knew that when you said it was "impossible" right?
Just wait until someone uses this hammer to smash in someone's skull! Then we'll be able to go around outlawing hammers!
You are fucking retarded, and it's probably a good thing you posted AC.
And where does your water come from? Did you dig your own well and install a hand pump in order to get the water out of it? Do you have your own purification system that you can power yourself, or a massive supply of purification tablets?
Because if you didn't, you are relying exclusively on the grid to stay alive as well. See: Post-Katrina New Orleans.
I have a slightly different take on it - Splunk sucks because of their licensing and cost, not the tech. The tech is merely "ok".
If I'm spending money for log aggregation and searching, I'd be throwing that money towards SumoLogic.
If I'm not spending money, then it's Elasticsearch / Logstash / Kibana, which still works better than Splunk most of the time, without the thing holding my data hostage if we should actually have servers logging things and overrun the daily quota.
The funny thing is that you can spend a day with Elasticsearch and Logstash and come up with the same thing for essentially free.
That's because the value-add that Splunk gives you is the draconian and super expensive licensing quotas. Oh, your servers did more than your per-day data allotment? Well, you better call us and get a code so that you can look at any of your logs at all. And yes, if you do that more than a few times, we're charging you more.
Fuck Splunk.
Or plug in any wired headphones in existence with the adapter that comes in the box with the phone?
Yes, it's inconvenient; it's also inconvenient for people spreading the kind of FUD you are. My Sennheiser PXC500 headphones would work just fine with iPhone 7.