So what exactly constitutes a "user generated active file"?
From the document: "Please note the only categories of user generated active files that can be provided to law enforcement, pursuant to a valid search warrant, are: SMS, photos, videos, contacts, audio recording, and call history. Apple cannot provide: email, calendar entries, or any third-party App data."
The problem with communism is that it's inherently a top-down system of government.
That's the opposite of what communism is.
I'm afraid this just reflects more of the thinking that communism is "what happened in the USSR". As opposed to a political system set out by Marx in his writings.
To put it another way, an oppressive nation can continue to be an oppressive nation regardless of the political system they adopt, but some political systems make it easier than others.
How many of the countries that the USA has performed regime change in continue to be repressive? How many right wing totalitarian governments have there been?
My theory is that isn't not the political system that breeds repression, but that people brought up under one repressive system will tend to learn the lesson and be repressive when they get their chance at power. I believe the stats correlate closer with my explanation.
She was convicted AND sentenced by a jury of her peers; not the police, not a judge.
Unfortunately most people have an unwarranted trust of what cops say.
Besides, I looked at the video and when I see the way she hits him and runs, it seems to me she planned on doing that from the get-go.
The video is poor quality, and it;s hard to see the cop because he's dressed in black. But watch the slo-mo version a couple of times, and you can clearly see the cop grab her around the torso from behind before she swings her arm. She can't have planned what was instigated by the cop.
You don't elbow somebody on accident and then run from them.
If you're a woman being grabbed from behind, that's exactly what you do. It's also what you do if you've just accidentally elbowed an angry cop in the face. Either way it's instinctive, not premeditated.
Furthermore, if she was groped, how come she didn't make that claim until way later?
Who says she didn't?
Sorry, but I'm with the 12 jurors on this one.
Don't be sorry, most people will be. But most people haven't seen the extent to which cops the world over tend to be abusive and dishonest people with power trips.
The sentence is probably meant to serve as an example. There's been a notable uptick in the past decade of violent protesters committing criminal acts, then crying police brutality and pretending to be innocent victims.
That's exactly what a repressive regime would say.
Police and judges may be biased, but the jury is not.
Sure they are. They are biased towards believing the word of the police over the word of the prosecuted. A bias that is perhaps warranted when dealing with real criminals. But protestors are typically not criminals, and typically have a higher sense of morality than the police. That's usally why they are protesting!
Sure, to the losing side of any court proceedings, it seems like the entire world conspired against them â" that's typical.
It seems that way to plenty of others too.
But the fact remains, not one blogger was prosecuted for their blog posts in the US. Certainly none of the OWS-associated bloggers.
Irrelevant. My only comment was to correct your claim that being peaceful protestors was inconsistent with the conviction of one protestor on charges of violence. It can be perfectly consistent, and in the case quoted seems to be so.
I find that proposition to be plausible - any kind of government can become oppressive; communism just tends to go well with tyrants.
It looks to me like that's a false association. Look at the countries that the USA has done regime change in, and the countries of the Arab spring. When you overthrow one repressive government, the replacement often becomes repressive itself. Even when the most capitalist democracy in the world tries to create the new system, as soon as US troops leave, it's back to the old repression.
Communism has only ever happened after a revolution. And revolutions happen because the old system was repressive. It's hardly surprising that they continue to be repressive.
So I simply point out one misrepresentation - that repression in Russia came and went with communism - and you rapidly jump in with another.
My post didn't say "communism was right all along". It has it's pros and cons the same as any other political system. My point is that it's clearly been blamed for faults that were not the product of communism at all, but simply cultural practices of the country involved.
Oops, except that Communism was tried in many, many other countries, big and small, and it always turned out the same way: in human misery.
Just stop and think for one moment. Communism has only ever come about as a result of revolution, which means that it's only ever been a system in countries that already had a repressive system before.
As the USA has found only too well in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Arab Spring countries, the most likely result of regime change of one repressive government is another repressive government. Even if you try to establish democracy.
The current Russian system is extremely capitalist. If you recall after the fall of the USSR, America sent in it's businessmen to show them how to do it. And it worked, Russia rapidly gained the massive wealth disparity of the USA.
But as I pointed out, Russia was already repressive under the Tzars, pre revolution. In fact the only way communism ever comes about is by revolution, which means it only ever happens in countries with existing repressive governments.
As to Gulags, I hope you're not American, as Guantanamo has shown that keeping political prisoners without proper trial, and even using torture on them is by no means a uniquely communist or even totalitarian tactic.
No, it does not mean that. It just makes it very likely. Beyond reasonable doubt likely...
I'm sorry, but no. That is only true if the police and criminal justice system are non-political. Which is almost never the case when it comes to protests and is not the case here.
I'd go further and say that at most demonstrations the police commit more criminal acts than the demonstrators.
go to any tape printing facility with your "master".
Often not even that. I was familiar with one of the well known UK 8-bit games publishers, and they had a box converting one DIN plug into 10, such that with 10 standard cassette recorders they could produce 10 game tapes from one SAVE command.
To me, Minecraft is a very dull game. Mining out raw materials, and combining them to make tools and then manufactured goods, in order that you have shelter before nightfall and don't starve. And all played in a randomly generated, rather than designed environment.
Dull, dull, dull.
Where Minecraft seems to have become popular is as a toy. A construction set somewhat like a virtual lego set. And that does indeed seem to be a happy accident.
Convicted of assaulting a cop doesn't mean she assaulted a cop. Policing and jailing of protestors is very often political.
In this case the flip side of the story is that she was grabbed on the left breast by a hand from behind, and the person doing so received an elbow in return. Any in other situation, it would be the boob grabber if anyone that would have been at fault. But cops are above the law.
Sure, Charles Dicken's novels were long because of their original publication in serial form. But what do you mean there was no way to enforce exclusivity? Copyright applied. Albeit not internationally. But that didn't affect the worth of his writing in his home country.
Mind you Charles Dickens did have another method of generating income from his works: performance readings of his works. That would only work for authors that are charismatic though. And probably wouldn't work anyway now that there are so many more convenient and more dynamic entertainments.
There's nothing wrong with the Metro UI for the purpose it was designed for - finger operated touch screen devices such as tablets. The mistake to use it universally even on PCs was not a UI designers mistake, but one in a series of bad company strategy decisions made by Ballmer. And he's finally paid for it with his job.
You want examples: Well OSX is clearly better than any of the Linux desktops. And the fantastic array of apps available have UIs in a different league from Linux.
Last I heard, you can't get away from Metro if you need to launch a new program (basically, Metro is the "start menu"), unless you purchase some extra third-party add-on program.
Apparently with 8.1 they allow you to select a "classic view" which gives you the classic Windows desktop. You can go back and forth to Metro with a button press. But at no stage do you have to go back to Metro. The classic desktop does have a start menu.
But the big difference is that in Linux, users have choice. I think GNOME sucks, so I simply don't use it, and use KDE instead, which works great for me. Other people choose one of the many alternatives, like XCFE, LXDE, Cinnamon, MATE, etc. In fact, MATE is little more than a forked version of Gnome2. Can Windows users fork Windows (or parts of it) and keep using it when MS goes in a different direction you don't like? Nope. With Free software you can, and people do on a regular basis.
Ah, the paradox of choice. Choice is not necessarily a good thing, yet people very often state it as if it is a good thing. In this case, it's likely that Linux would have been rather more successful on the desktop were it not so fragmented. And apps would have a more consistent feel if there was a consistent OS feel to emulate. Ordinary users, and lets face it many technical users, don't even know what you mean by fork. It's an irrelevance.
One example of a UI you don't like does not prove me wrong. Of course there are bad commercial UIs. And there tend to be worse examples of FLOSS UIs.
I can't comment on the example you give as I've not used Windows 8.
But the examples of the best UIs are virtually always commercial. And the reason is obvious. Commercial software companies have money to employ UI designers. And it's a programmers job to follow the UI specs.
With FLOSS, there are few designers offering their work. Most UIs aren't designed. And even if there is a designer, the programmers have no compulsion to follow the recommendations.
Yeah, thanks Mr Andi for a very good answer. And yes, much led the politicians answer than Stallman!
So it's basically kickstarter, with the fixed condition that a work goes into the public domain before payment is made.
I see this was proposed in 1998. Do you know if it was ever actually tried?
I do see a problem with it in that rewards don't reflect quality of product. Though for an established author it will represent reputation.
For first time, or unknown authors, it seems the rewards will go to those with friends, good marketing, and a conventional idea. Those without friends, and with an idea different from what's been before will probably not get funding.
And as many often have only one big success, that could be a big problem.
I can envisage the author that works for a year on a book that he managed to fund to the value of £5000, that's a big success a film is subsequently made from it. Doesn't seem very fair.
Though on the other hand, if they can do another year to work on a sequel, they could probably get that financed for significantly more.
How do the publishers, editors and printers get financed? Or is this only for self published ebooks?
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So what exactly constitutes a "user generated active file"?
From the document: "Please note the only categories of user generated active files that can be provided to law enforcement, pursuant to a valid search warrant, are: SMS, photos, videos, contacts, audio recording, and call history. Apple cannot provide: email, calendar entries, or any third-party App data."
It's things that no phone tends to encrypt.
It would do me as much good as it did 99.99% of OpenSSL users.
Actually 100% of OpenSSL users, for several years.
The problem with communism is that it's inherently a top-down system of government.
That's the opposite of what communism is.
I'm afraid this just reflects more of the thinking that communism is "what happened in the USSR". As opposed to a political system set out by Marx in his writings.
To put it another way, an oppressive nation can continue to be an oppressive nation regardless of the political system they adopt, but some political systems make it easier than others.
How many of the countries that the USA has performed regime change in continue to be repressive? How many right wing totalitarian governments have there been?
My theory is that isn't not the political system that breeds repression, but that people brought up under one repressive system will tend to learn the lesson and be repressive when they get their chance at power. I believe the stats correlate closer with my explanation.
Well you sure must be starved of entertainment in your mom's basement.
Which is rather contradicted by the Russian Revolution between points 1 and 2 in my list.
She was convicted AND sentenced by a jury of her peers; not the police, not a judge.
Unfortunately most people have an unwarranted trust of what cops say.
Besides, I looked at the video and when I see the way she hits him and runs, it seems to me she planned on doing that from the get-go.
The video is poor quality, and it;s hard to see the cop because he's dressed in black. But watch the slo-mo version a couple of times, and you can clearly see the cop grab her around the torso from behind before she swings her arm. She can't have planned what was instigated by the cop.
You don't elbow somebody on accident and then run from them.
If you're a woman being grabbed from behind, that's exactly what you do. It's also what you do if you've just accidentally elbowed an angry cop in the face. Either way it's instinctive, not premeditated.
Furthermore, if she was groped, how come she didn't make that claim until way later?
Who says she didn't?
Sorry, but I'm with the 12 jurors on this one.
Don't be sorry, most people will be. But most people haven't seen the extent to which cops the world over tend to be abusive and dishonest people with power trips.
The sentence is probably meant to serve as an example. There's been a notable uptick in the past decade of violent protesters committing criminal acts, then crying police brutality and pretending to be innocent victims.
That's exactly what a repressive regime would say.
Russian people are no different from any other people. It's Russian culture that is different.
Police and judges may be biased, but the jury is not.
Sure they are. They are biased towards believing the word of the police over the word of the prosecuted. A bias that is perhaps warranted when dealing with real criminals. But protestors are typically not criminals, and typically have a higher sense of morality than the police. That's usally why they are protesting!
Sure, to the losing side of any court proceedings, it seems like the entire world conspired against them â" that's typical.
It seems that way to plenty of others too.
But the fact remains, not one blogger was prosecuted for their blog posts in the US. Certainly none of the OWS-associated bloggers.
Irrelevant. My only comment was to correct your claim that being peaceful protestors was inconsistent with the conviction of one protestor on charges of violence. It can be perfectly consistent, and in the case quoted seems to be so.
I find that proposition to be plausible - any kind of government can become oppressive; communism just tends to go well with tyrants.
It looks to me like that's a false association. Look at the countries that the USA has done regime change in, and the countries of the Arab spring. When you overthrow one repressive government, the replacement often becomes repressive itself. Even when the most capitalist democracy in the world tries to create the new system, as soon as US troops leave, it's back to the old repression.
Communism has only ever happened after a revolution. And revolutions happen because the old system was repressive. It's hardly surprising that they continue to be repressive.
So I simply point out one misrepresentation - that repression in Russia came and went with communism - and you rapidly jump in with another.
My post didn't say "communism was right all along". It has it's pros and cons the same as any other political system. My point is that it's clearly been blamed for faults that were not the product of communism at all, but simply cultural practices of the country involved.
Oops, except that Communism was tried in many, many other countries, big and small, and it always turned out the same way: in human misery.
Just stop and think for one moment. Communism has only ever come about as a result of revolution, which means that it's only ever been a system in countries that already had a repressive system before.
As the USA has found only too well in Iraq, Afghanistan and the Arab Spring countries, the most likely result of regime change of one repressive government is another repressive government. Even if you try to establish democracy.
The current Russian system is extremely capitalist. If you recall after the fall of the USSR, America sent in it's businessmen to show them how to do it. And it worked, Russia rapidly gained the massive wealth disparity of the USA.
But as I pointed out, Russia was already repressive under the Tzars, pre revolution. In fact the only way communism ever comes about is by revolution, which means it only ever happens in countries with existing repressive governments.
As to Gulags, I hope you're not American, as Guantanamo has shown that keeping political prisoners without proper trial, and even using torture on them is by no means a uniquely communist or even totalitarian tactic.
No, it does not mean that. It just makes it very likely. Beyond reasonable doubt likely...
I'm sorry, but no. That is only true if the police and criminal justice system are non-political. Which is almost never the case when it comes to protests and is not the case here.
I'd go further and say that at most demonstrations the police commit more criminal acts than the demonstrators.
go to any tape printing facility with your "master".
Often not even that. I was familiar with one of the well known UK 8-bit games publishers, and they had a box converting one DIN plug into 10, such that with 10 standard cassette recorders they could produce 10 game tapes from one SAVE command.
To me, Minecraft is a very dull game. Mining out raw materials, and combining them to make tools and then manufactured goods, in order that you have shelter before nightfall and don't starve. And all played in a randomly generated, rather than designed environment.
Dull, dull, dull.
Where Minecraft seems to have become popular is as a toy. A construction set somewhat like a virtual lego set. And that does indeed seem to be a happy accident.
Convicted of assaulting a cop doesn't mean she assaulted a cop. Policing and jailing of protestors is very often political.
In this case the flip side of the story is that she was grabbed on the left breast by a hand from behind, and the person doing so received an elbow in return. Any in other situation, it would be the boob grabber if anyone that would have been at fault. But cops are above the law.
So often what happened in "Communist Russia" was used as an argument that communism was flawed.
Well now we've seen Russia as:
1) An Imperial State up to and including the reign of Tzar Nicholas II.
2) A communist state.
3) A capitalist democracy.
And in all cases it's been a repressive state. So maybe that wasn't anything to do with communism after all and was more to do with Russian culture.
Ah, helpful of you to point out that iOS apps crash more often than Android apps.
Do try not to be a moron.
the numbers are for US, Apple's most important market
Bullshit. It doesn't matter where in the world a profit is made. Global figures are what matter to all companies.
The Android global increase is starting from a base that has been up till now, considerably higher than the US.
Indeed. Which is why up to now, you've been interested in global figures, and switched to US figures now that they're levelling off.
Sure, Charles Dicken's novels were long because of their original publication in serial form. But what do you mean there was no way to enforce exclusivity? Copyright applied. Albeit not internationally. But that didn't affect the worth of his writing in his home country.
Mind you Charles Dickens did have another method of generating income from his works: performance readings of his works. That would only work for authors that are charismatic though. And probably wouldn't work anyway now that there are so many more convenient and more dynamic entertainments.
There's nothing wrong with the Metro UI for the purpose it was designed for - finger operated touch screen devices such as tablets. The mistake to use it universally even on PCs was not a UI designers mistake, but one in a series of bad company strategy decisions made by Ballmer. And he's finally paid for it with his job.
You want examples: Well OSX is clearly better than any of the Linux desktops. And the fantastic array of apps available have UIs in a different league from Linux.
Last I heard, you can't get away from Metro if you need to launch a new program (basically, Metro is the "start menu"), unless you purchase some extra third-party add-on program.
Apparently with 8.1 they allow you to select a "classic view" which gives you the classic Windows desktop. You can go back and forth to Metro with a button press. But at no stage do you have to go back to Metro. The classic desktop does have a start menu.
But the big difference is that in Linux, users have choice. I think GNOME sucks, so I simply don't use it, and use KDE instead, which works great for me. Other people choose one of the many alternatives, like XCFE, LXDE, Cinnamon, MATE, etc. In fact, MATE is little more than a forked version of Gnome2. Can Windows users fork Windows (or parts of it) and keep using it when MS goes in a different direction you don't like? Nope. With Free software you can, and people do on a regular basis.
Ah, the paradox of choice. Choice is not necessarily a good thing, yet people very often state it as if it is a good thing. In this case, it's likely that Linux would have been rather more successful on the desktop were it not so fragmented. And apps would have a more consistent feel if there was a consistent OS feel to emulate. Ordinary users, and lets face it many technical users, don't even know what you mean by fork. It's an irrelevance.
I agree, and I think you described it better than I did.
One example of a UI you don't like does not prove me wrong. Of course there are bad commercial UIs. And there tend to be worse examples of FLOSS UIs.
I can't comment on the example you give as I've not used Windows 8.
But the examples of the best UIs are virtually always commercial. And the reason is obvious. Commercial software companies have money to employ UI designers. And it's a programmers job to follow the UI specs.
With FLOSS, there are few designers offering their work. Most UIs aren't designed. And even if there is a designer, the programmers have no compulsion to follow the recommendations.
Yeah, thanks Mr Andi for a very good answer. And yes, much led the politicians answer than Stallman!
So it's basically kickstarter, with the fixed condition that a work goes into the public domain before payment is made.
I see this was proposed in 1998. Do you know if it was ever actually tried?
I do see a problem with it in that rewards don't reflect quality of product. Though for an established author it will represent reputation.
For first time, or unknown authors, it seems the rewards will go to those with friends, good marketing, and a conventional idea. Those without friends, and with an idea different from what's been before will probably not get funding.
And as many often have only one big success, that could be a big problem.
I can envisage the author that works for a year on a book that he managed to fund to the value of £5000, that's a big success a film is subsequently made from it. Doesn't seem very fair.
Though on the other hand, if they can do another year to work on a sequel, they could probably get that financed for significantly more.
How do the publishers, editors and printers get financed? Or is this only for self published ebooks?