I don't know why people modded you down as flamebait. You've summed up the dilemma perfectly. Better than most, actually, since tend you see a lot of people falling for the "liberty vs security" rhetorical trap when topics like this come up. You recognised that privacy is security. And only an idiot would think that lives aren't important.
It's not really relevant to the current case, since realistically we all know that exactly zero lives will be saved by the act of the government breaking into the phone. But as a general point, weakening security can indeed potentially save lives, and the "most wrong" answer is to kid yourself that all answers are simple.
...and that's precisely one of the issues in this case. It's not clear that the warrant is lawful because we're in genuinely new territory here.
Is there any precedent at all for a warrant which compels a company to build a special-purpose product (which previously did not exist) for the benefit of law enforcement? Has a warrant of this nature ever been tested in court and found to be legal?
It's about this specific case.
...and that's the other issue. Once the new technology exists, other courts will compel its use for other cases. Law enforcement elsewhere is already drooling.
Maybe the next case will be a child pornography case. Maybe the one after that will be a stalking case. Eventually, it will be a tool used in divorce cases. Or perhaps a Chinese dissident case.
Now, I know that James Comey said that it was about this specific case, so I don't blame you for believing it, but it turns out he was flat-out lying about that. This is actually the 13th case.
Why didn't you know that? Because the 12 previous cases were sealed. Apple also requested that this one be sealed, and the DOJ refused. Now it's all come out.
So while, yes, Apple is fighting a PR battle, they didn't want to. The DOJ chose to wait until it had a high-profile sexy case to fight it out in the court of public opinion. The DOJ fired the first shot, and Apple responded in kind.
There are lots of things I hate about Apple. This is not one of them.
Also, in this case, they even said point blank the government would have been welcome to the data if it had been backed up to iCloud.
...as they should have. Apple should comply with any reasonable legal court order to turn over any information that they have which is relevant to a criminal case. Say, any personal information about a mass-murder suspect that they may have in their possession.
In this case, the FBI is not demanding that Apple turn over information. They are demanding that Apple engineer something new and dangerous.
In terms of body count per abrahamic religion christianity is still a few centuries ahead of islam and probably will lead the hitlist for all eternity.
Only if you define "violence caused by Christianity" as "violence caused by Europeans before 1914". But even then, "violence caused by Christianity" is not in the same league as what Mao and Stalin managed. And if we're talking about per capita deaths, I'm pretty sure the Mongols won that one handily.
I do think that a Christian, who is actually practicing Christianity, and probably a Muslim, actually practicing Islam, might well consider themselves to be justified in not accepting "blame" for these terrorists.
If it helps, rather than religion, think nationality. Should an American accept blame for atrocities committed by the US government? Sayyid Qutb thought so, but I don't think that civilisation should accept his premises.
It has a similar structure to ntoskrnl, so it does have a microkernel which is relatively separate to the other parts of the kernel (e.g. virtual memory, object manager), but they're all linked together. Just because it's a microkernel doesn't mean it's easy to emulate other OSes on top of it.
If a studio releases a title for PlayStation 4, they're basically there on a Linux port.
Not really, no. The PS4 runs a variant of FreeBSD, but that's not the most important distinction. The most important difference between PS4 and Linux is that on the PS4 you can be sure that all the drivers are well-supported.
I don't know if this is a coincidence, but Dallas Buyers Club went live on SBS On Demand service on Thursday. So if you're Australian, you can watch it for free, legally, right now.
Haven't seen it myself. No idea if the movie is any good. But there you go.
Some researchers argue that autonomous weapons would commit fewer battlefield atrocities than human beings [...]
No, it's just that if an autonomous weapon does it, it would be more difficult to call it an "atrocity". If a dozen villagers are killed because of a minefield that some idiot decided should go near where they live, the only reason you can't call that a "massacre" is that there was no human making the targeting decision.
In the 1920s, there were some who argued that aerial bombing would be more humane because they could be far more precise than field artillery, hitting only the target that you want to hit. Look how well that worked out.
As a statistician who's not a programmer, but who hangs out sometimes on slashdot and stackoverflow, it feels sometime like it's in danger of becoming just another language for programmers, instead of a tool for statisticians.
As a programmer who used to research programming languages, here's no danger of that at all.
It's not much of a stretch to say that no programmer really uses R. At most, programmers use the high-quality statistical libraries which only work with R. R is basically the best statistical packages every written bound together by one of the worst programming languages ever developed.
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Yeah, yeah, I know, but be fair. Carly Fiorina's presidential run is not "news for nerds". Carly Fiorina crashing and burning in any capacity, however, is.
It's kind of like "Steve Jobs bought a yacht" isn't news for nerds, but "Steve Jobs died because he thought woo-woo was better than actual medicine" is. Many of us enjoy schadenfreude if it's people we collectively dislike.
The only true statement in your post is the first and 2nd one the 3rd one reveals that most people make up excuses to feel better about their lame jobs and then the 4th one is completely your own creation.
The second statement is true according to Microsoft.
The fourth is indeed my own creation, based only on my own experience dealing with myself. Not sexual harassment in my case, but we were all young and dumb once.
At the cache level, usually. I haven't checked, but I would hope that the Linux scheduler is smart enough to know that it's cheaper to migrate a thread between cores on the same die than between dies because the cache is likely to be warmer.
If it's not sentient, and I *own it*, then it should be completely servile, [...]
No piece of software does exactly what you want, unless you wrote it or customised it. Having said that, as a more general point, there's a reason why the second law of robotics is second.
There are also times when its correctly applied, [...]
Even if we accept that as a correct application, that doesn't really characterise the vast majority of uses of the term, especially in the comments section on Slashdot.
Cortana is modelled on real-world personal assistants. They spent a lot of time interviewing PAs to understand the job that they have to do. One of the things which came out of the research is that PAs are assistants, not servants.
If it helps, consider that not putting up with your shit is one way of keeping you on track.
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I don't know why people modded you down as flamebait. You've summed up the dilemma perfectly. Better than most, actually, since tend you see a lot of people falling for the "liberty vs security" rhetorical trap when topics like this come up. You recognised that privacy is security. And only an idiot would think that lives aren't important.
It's not really relevant to the current case, since realistically we all know that exactly zero lives will be saved by the act of the government breaking into the phone. But as a general point, weakening security can indeed potentially save lives, and the "most wrong" answer is to kid yourself that all answers are simple.
Apple is in the right... this time.
They also need to comply with lawful warrants.
...and that's precisely one of the issues in this case. It's not clear that the warrant is lawful because we're in genuinely new territory here.
Is there any precedent at all for a warrant which compels a company to build a special-purpose product (which previously did not exist) for the benefit of law enforcement? Has a warrant of this nature ever been tested in court and found to be legal?
It's about this specific case.
...and that's the other issue. Once the new technology exists, other courts will compel its use for other cases. Law enforcement elsewhere is already drooling.
Maybe the next case will be a child pornography case. Maybe the one after that will be a stalking case. Eventually, it will be a tool used in divorce cases. Or perhaps a Chinese dissident case.
Now, I know that James Comey said that it was about this specific case, so I don't blame you for believing it, but it turns out he was flat-out lying about that. This is actually the 13th case.
Why didn't you know that? Because the 12 previous cases were sealed. Apple also requested that this one be sealed, and the DOJ refused. Now it's all come out.
So while, yes, Apple is fighting a PR battle, they didn't want to. The DOJ chose to wait until it had a high-profile sexy case to fight it out in the court of public opinion. The DOJ fired the first shot, and Apple responded in kind.
There are lots of things I hate about Apple. This is not one of them.
Also, in this case, they even said point blank the government would have been welcome to the data if it had been backed up to iCloud.
...as they should have. Apple should comply with any reasonable legal court order to turn over any information that they have which is relevant to a criminal case. Say, any personal information about a mass-murder suspect that they may have in their possession.
In this case, the FBI is not demanding that Apple turn over information. They are demanding that Apple engineer something new and dangerous.
If you're worried about how fast you'll hit the cap, then perhaps you should switch [...]
I don't think you realise how absurdly small the typical Australian data cap is, especially relative to the speed.
In terms of body count per abrahamic religion christianity is still a few centuries ahead of islam and probably will lead the hitlist for all eternity.
Only if you define "violence caused by Christianity" as "violence caused by Europeans before 1914". But even then, "violence caused by Christianity" is not in the same league as what Mao and Stalin managed. And if we're talking about per capita deaths, I'm pretty sure the Mongols won that one handily.
I do think that a Christian, who is actually practicing Christianity, and probably a Muslim, actually practicing Islam, might well consider themselves to be justified in not accepting "blame" for these terrorists.
If it helps, rather than religion, think nationality. Should an American accept blame for atrocities committed by the US government? Sayyid Qutb thought so, but I don't think that civilisation should accept his premises.
Easy, if you have a time machine.
That ride sucks.
Does ReactOS have a microkernel OS?
It has a similar structure to ntoskrnl, so it does have a microkernel which is relatively separate to the other parts of the kernel (e.g. virtual memory, object manager), but they're all linked together. Just because it's a microkernel doesn't mean it's easy to emulate other OSes on top of it.
If a studio releases a title for PlayStation 4, they're basically there on a Linux port.
Not really, no. The PS4 runs a variant of FreeBSD, but that's not the most important distinction. The most important difference between PS4 and Linux is that on the PS4 you can be sure that all the drivers are well-supported.
Hey, be nice. The guy has just died. I apologise for the Australian cultural references, but I think you'll get the gist.
I don't know if this is a coincidence, but Dallas Buyers Club went live on SBS On Demand service on Thursday. So if you're Australian, you can watch it for free, legally, right now.
Haven't seen it myself. No idea if the movie is any good. But there you go.
No, it's just that if an autonomous weapon does it, it would be more difficult to call it an "atrocity". If a dozen villagers are killed because of a minefield that some idiot decided should go near where they live, the only reason you can't call that a "massacre" is that there was no human making the targeting decision.
In the 1920s, there were some who argued that aerial bombing would be more humane because they could be far more precise than field artillery, hitting only the target that you want to hit. Look how well that worked out.
As a statistician who's not a programmer, but who hangs out sometimes on slashdot and stackoverflow, it feels sometime like it's in danger of becoming just another language for programmers, instead of a tool for statisticians.
As a programmer who used to research programming languages, here's no danger of that at all.
It's not much of a stretch to say that no programmer really uses R. At most, programmers use the high-quality statistical libraries which only work with R. R is basically the best statistical packages every written bound together by one of the worst programming languages ever developed.
Yeah, yeah, I know, but be fair. Carly Fiorina's presidential run is not "news for nerds". Carly Fiorina crashing and burning in any capacity, however, is.
It's kind of like "Steve Jobs bought a yacht" isn't news for nerds, but "Steve Jobs died because he thought woo-woo was better than actual medicine" is. Many of us enjoy schadenfreude if it's people we collectively dislike.
Do you even have a geek card to turn in?
Teun's geek card has a 5 digit uid, licensed for advanced deadpan sardonic commenting.
Yours is 4 digit? Damn, you might have to retake your sarcasm detection certification.
If you're committed to using M$, you're probably already using profiling.
I don't think they meant psychological profiling.
The only true statement in your post is the first and 2nd one the 3rd one reveals that most people make up excuses to feel better about their lame jobs and then the 4th one is completely your own creation.
The second statement is true according to Microsoft.
The fourth is indeed my own creation, based only on my own experience dealing with myself. Not sexual harassment in my case, but we were all young and dumb once.
At the cache level, usually. I haven't checked, but I would hope that the Linux scheduler is smart enough to know that it's cheaper to migrate a thread between cores on the same die than between dies because the cache is likely to be warmer.
If it's not sentient, and I *own it*, then it should be completely servile, [...]
No piece of software does exactly what you want, unless you wrote it or customised it. Having said that, as a more general point, there's a reason why the second law of robotics is second.
That will be hard to find since such a thing does not exist.
I don't know about you, but I've gone to some trouble to see some advertisements, mostly those which are works of entertainment in their own right.
When John K or Spike Jonze makes an ad, nobody skips it.
The Roman Empire still exists. Today, we call it the Roman Catholic Church.
There are also times when its correctly applied, [...]
Even if we accept that as a correct application, that doesn't really characterise the vast majority of uses of the term, especially in the comments section on Slashdot.
Cortana is modelled on real-world personal assistants. They spent a lot of time interviewing PAs to understand the job that they have to do. One of the things which came out of the research is that PAs are assistants, not servants.
If it helps, consider that not putting up with your shit is one way of keeping you on track.
OK, so recommend me a motherboard with an open-source-friendly system management mode.
I'm reliably told that the US has some very funny Canadians.