Or, even better, had the County employee(s) in charge of managing the phones done their job and put MDM software on the phone, this wouldn't be an issue. The County could have been given the court order to unlock the phone and ten seconds later told the FBI, "Here ya go."
As I have said in previous posts, I did this for a government agency I worked for. I was the one put in charge to develop the procedures to secure the phone, including turning off Siri and cloud backup (the users were told no documents were to be put on the phone). Without exception every iPhone we got had MDM software put on it despite the whining from some about being tracked. As I told one guy, "We're not tracking you, we're tracking the phone. We don't care about you. We care about our equipment."
On a few occasions I was asked by a user to unlock their phone because they forgot their passcode so I know how easy this procedure is. As I said above, it is literally ten seconds to unlock the phone with this software installed.
I'm not sure why all the surprise. This is exactly what happened in the last tech bubble, people suddenly realizing they had to produce something which earned them money. They couldn't keep leeching off someone else to get their paycheck.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" couldn't be any more clear.
Looks like those smug, hipster millennials are suddenly having to face reality and they don't like it. Too bad.
turn off-the-shelf products into tools and devices to harm citizens or disrupt American military operations.
You mean like the 8 - 10" chef knives one can find at any yard sale or flea market? Or do they mean the rolls of aluminum foil which can be cut into ribbons then sent via bottle rocket to land across power lines and short them out?
I'm presuming I should be expecting a knock on my door in the very near future.
Not having 14 scripts be needed to post a comment, not having 8 other scripts clogging the pipes for one advertisement, 6 scripts for tracking you, and multiple other scripts for whatever reason.
Nor having a giant, moving graphic as the base part of your page which can't be turned off, menus which bounce up or down when you hover your mouse over them, or needing to have the latest and greatest browser so you don't miss out on the latest and greatest "features" of a site.
But no, finding an algorithm to speed web page loading is what we should concentrate on.
We had 30" of snow in 24 hours this winter. That's all the snow we received.
Why? Because we had temperatures in the 40s and 50s through all of December, including hitting 71 on the 24th. We've had 40s through large portions of January and February and February had 50s at the end of the month. Today our temperature was almost 70, tomorrow it will be above 70 and winter isn't yet over.
Why would I be proud of someone who thinks bankruptcy is the first option, that taxpayers should foot the bill for private companies, who ran their casinos into the ground while everyone else was flourishing, who has been married 3 times and whose grasp of reality seems to be on par with Jeb Bush's, "My brother protected this country"?
Why a parachute if all they're going to do is figure out who the idiot is that was flying the drone? You don't need to have the drone be in good condition to figure out who owns it.
If the drone happens to break as the result of its fall then maybe the idiot shouldn't have had the drone in the area in the first place.
But I'm sure someone will give an excuse why personal responsibility doesn't enter into the equation.
Did I say brownies? No, I did not. But to show you how stupid YOU are, here are the stories proving what I am saying is true. But I'm sure you'll make up some excuse how the coroner in these cases are wrong.
Right now people are in a tizzy because people are dying from heroin overdoses (mainly white folks, but that's another story). If those people hadn't been using heroin they wouldn't have died, would they?
You can say the same for any other drug, including marijuana, where we've had people jump out windows after eating marijuana laced candies or blowing their brains out after smoking (both in Colorado btw).
Not doing drugs will absolutely prevent you from dying from a drug overdose. That is an unequivocal fact. But then drug users will always have an excuse for why logic and facts don't apply to them, how it's all a government conspiracy and every other excuse they can come up with.
How many Russian trolls inhabit/. to mark this crap informative? Every single word is straight out of the Russian propaganda playbook. Not a single statement resembles reality.
Though this should not be surprising since there is no word for truth in the Russian language.
The fact this St. Petersburg-based Russian troll used Russian insider as their source should be the clearest evidence this is nothing but blatant propaganda on the part of the Kremlin trolls.
it was pitched as US proof of a RUSSIAN MiG-29 shooting down MH 17.
No it wasn't. Never. No one except drunk Russians claimed the U.S. said it was a Russian MiG which shot down MH-17.
Everyone, except the drunk Russians, knew it was either a Russian-manned Buk shooting down the civilian airliner, or terrorists in East Ukraine with assistance from the Russians shooting down the civilian airliner.
Civilians in the area corroborated claims the missile was fired near their village/town which at the time, and still is, under the control of Russian-backed terrorists.
Further, only the Russian-backed terrorists had been shooting down aircraft because only Ukraine had aircraft so the claim from the drunk Russians and terrorists that it was Ukrainian Buk which shot down the civilian airliner is, like this picture, completely false and made up out of thin air.
In this study they took a sample and edited the gene. This editing showed that removal of these EVRs produced a reduced immune response.
How much (or many) of these EVRs would have to removed from within a person for this immune deficiency to show? By that I mean, they are altering a single gene within a cell but doesn't the body have multiple copies of the same gene as backup?
Also, could a blast of radiation alter a single gene enough to cause this lack of immune response in a person? Would it be possible, under some extreme scenario, for the reverse to happen: a common virus turned into a super virus due to it being hit by a high energy radiation burst which then spreads throughout the world because our immune response can't handle this new virus?
While I can't remember that particular quote, let's go with the sentiment. At what point is one considered to be able to cope with mathematics? I took algebra in high school and a single stats course for one of my bachelors yet never use any of it in daily life. Even my programming classes (which I despised) had no use for maths.
Can I determine the load limit on a bridge? Maybe. Give me the formulas and I'll take a shot at it. Is that considered coping or cheating because I don't know the formula off the top of my head?
As to quotes from Heinlein and his works, I much prefer the following:
Gwen, my love, if one tolerates bad manners, they grow worse. Our pleasant habitat could decay into the sort of slum Elli-Five is, with crowding and unmannerly behavior and unnecessary noise and impolite language. I must find the oaf who did this thing, explain to him his offense, give him a chance to apologize, and kill him.
What a wonderful place it would be if this could be true. Civility would be at hand.
It's a matter of public health - if self driving cars will save lives, they should be required.
If it's about public health then we should ban all illegal drugs and tightly control prescription drugs because they kill more people every year than are killed in car accidents.
While we're at it, and since it's all about public health, we should ban all smoking and tobacco products, get rid of all alcoholic products, require the obese to undergo stomach banding, get rid of every form of junk food (no cookies, no cakes, no cereals with sugar, etc), any type of food high in fat (no more pizzas), and the list goes to protect public health. That is what you want, right?
with steering wheels if you can imagine such a thing! How quaint!
Yes, how horrible that someone else wants to enjoy themselves by driving a car. The horror of independence and self-reliability. What is the world coming to?
The owner has consented. It's the property of a county in California, not the terrorist. The county has already given permission to search the phone.
The problem is some lazy ass person within the county IT department never bothered to load the MDM software, which they had paid for, on the phone. This software would have allowed the county to say, "You want to see what's on the phone? Give us ten seconds."
I used to manage iPhones for a government agency I worked for. On a few occasions I had to use MDM software to unlock someone's phone or even reset their password. This could have been over a long time ago had someone done their job.
Here are James Madisons's (the guy who wrote the Constitution) own words from Federalist Paper 46 regarding standing armies and the use of militias to oppose them:
The highest number to which, according to the best computation, a standing army can be carried in any country, does not exceed one hundredth part of the whole number of souls; or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms. This proportion would not yield, in the United States, an army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men. To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence.
While further down Madison makes the case:
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.
he is clearly stating that the people, i.e. the militia, will be subordinate to the powers of government in relation to opposing a standing army of the federal government. Those powers were already enumerated by Hamilton in Federalist Paper 29 in which he states the need for regular drills by the militia under the control of the government.
While these papers are not part of the writings of the delegates to the Constitution, that the men who wrote these papers had a hand in forming that Constitution and would most certainly have used similar arguments during its construction, it is clear their intended meaning was to have Americans armed for the defense of the country, as I stated, and which Switzerland employs.
..and that's why Switzerland has such an incredibly high murder rate, right?
Which has nothing to do with gun ownership. Every time people claim the folks in Switzerland, or even Israel, have guns coming out their ears which is why they have low murder rates shows their true lack of understanding those country's gun laws.
While this article is not the one I was looking for, you will note the heavy regulation of guns in Switzerland including how much ammunition one can buy and mandatory registration with the government, both of which the NRA howls over any time either subject is brought up.
Second, as the person in the story relates, the people of Switzerland own guns to protect their country as part of the militia, the exact same thing our Founding Fathers said in the Constitution. That people deny this prima facia fact is the result of deliberate twisting by certain groups, not the least of which the NRA who originally held to the Constitutional writing (to use a Scalia-ism).
Also, as to Israel, which some people bring up, this article explains one must have a reason to own a gun. Not that you want one, a valid reason AND you have go back every six months to justify you continuing to keep your gun.
If you want to point to Switzerland you had better tell the whole story. It's not as neat and simple as you and others make out. The government has a heavy hand in regulating firearms in the country, something which people like you fight against every time the subject is brought up.
In closing, I have no problem with anyone owning a gun. I've shot them in the past and have considered owning one but can't justify the cost even though I can easily afford one. Maybe some day.
But this nonsense that using Switzerland or Israel as examples of the notion "more guns = less crime" is shown to be false because of how their respective governments control guns. One might as well use Somalia where nearly everyone owns a gun yet there is crime in abundance.
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Or, even better, had the County employee(s) in charge of managing the phones done their job and put MDM software on the phone, this wouldn't be an issue. The County could have been given the court order to unlock the phone and ten seconds later told the FBI, "Here ya go."
As I have said in previous posts, I did this for a government agency I worked for. I was the one put in charge to develop the procedures to secure the phone, including turning off Siri and cloud backup (the users were told no documents were to be put on the phone). Without exception every iPhone we got had MDM software put on it despite the whining from some about being tracked. As I told one guy, "We're not tracking you, we're tracking the phone. We don't care about you. We care about our equipment."
On a few occasions I was asked by a user to unlock their phone because they forgot their passcode so I know how easy this procedure is. As I said above, it is literally ten seconds to unlock the phone with this software installed.
I'm not sure why all the surprise. This is exactly what happened in the last tech bubble, people suddenly realizing they had to produce something which earned them money. They couldn't keep leeching off someone else to get their paycheck.
"Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it" couldn't be any more clear.
Looks like those smug, hipster millennials are suddenly having to face reality and they don't like it. Too bad.
And implemented by an American in a board room deciding who they need to fire next so they can make their quarterly bonus.
turn off-the-shelf products into tools and devices to harm citizens or disrupt American military operations.
You mean like the 8 - 10" chef knives one can find at any yard sale or flea market? Or do they mean the rolls of aluminum foil which can be cut into ribbons then sent via bottle rocket to land across power lines and short them out?
I'm presuming I should be expecting a knock on my door in the very near future.
will fare about as well as the War on Drugs has
That's only because we've been coddling the drug dealers. Had we gotten rid of them things would have turned out much different.
Instead we keep doing the same things over and over and expecting different results.
Not having 14 scripts be needed to post a comment, not having 8 other scripts clogging the pipes for one advertisement, 6 scripts for tracking you, and multiple other scripts for whatever reason.
Nor having a giant, moving graphic as the base part of your page which can't be turned off, menus which bounce up or down when you hover your mouse over them, or needing to have the latest and greatest browser so you don't miss out on the latest and greatest "features" of a site.
But no, finding an algorithm to speed web page loading is what we should concentrate on.
I didn't readily find anything for squeezable Spam, but I did find squeezable sauerkraut.
There is even squeezable bacon if you so choose.
The IRS has been hacked even worse,
No, it hasn't. Not even close to the 56 MILLION payment cards affected by Home Depot's breach.
The IRS has said roughly 700,000 people, or 0.013% the number Home Depot let loose, were affected by their breach.
Target had 40 MILLION people affected by their breach in 2013.
So no, the IRS was not hacked worse, not in any fantasy world you can conceive. Not even in the same galaxy by comparison.
We had 30" of snow in 24 hours this winter. That's all the snow we received.
Why? Because we had temperatures in the 40s and 50s through all of December, including hitting 71 on the 24th. We've had 40s through large portions of January and February and February had 50s at the end of the month. Today our temperature was almost 70, tomorrow it will be above 70 and winter isn't yet over.
See how the game works?
Why would I be proud of someone who thinks bankruptcy is the first option, that taxpayers should foot the bill for private companies, who ran their casinos into the ground while everyone else was flourishing, who has been married 3 times and whose grasp of reality seems to be on par with Jeb Bush's, "My brother protected this country"?
Why a parachute if all they're going to do is figure out who the idiot is that was flying the drone? You don't need to have the drone be in good condition to figure out who owns it.
If the drone happens to break as the result of its fall then maybe the idiot shouldn't have had the drone in the area in the first place.
But I'm sure someone will give an excuse why personal responsibility doesn't enter into the equation.
Stop trying to find ways to steal other people's work without compensating them and you won't have this problem.
But just like drug users, there will always be an excuse for why people think it's acceptable.
Did I say brownies? No, I did not. But to show you how stupid YOU are, here are the stories proving what I am saying is true. But I'm sure you'll make up some excuse how the coroner in these cases are wrong.
First man jumping from window. Note is says cookies, not brownies.
Second man to jump though this time it was from eating marijuana brownies.
Man kills wife after eating edible marijuana.
Man shoots, kills self after eating marijuana candy.
Shall I continue to post facts or do you want to find more excuses?
Which, for as corny as it sounds, is the truth.
Right now people are in a tizzy because people are dying from heroin overdoses (mainly white folks, but that's another story). If those people hadn't been using heroin they wouldn't have died, would they?
You can say the same for any other drug, including marijuana, where we've had people jump out windows after eating marijuana laced candies or blowing their brains out after smoking (both in Colorado btw).
Not doing drugs will absolutely prevent you from dying from a drug overdose. That is an unequivocal fact. But then drug users will always have an excuse for why logic and facts don't apply to them, how it's all a government conspiracy and every other excuse they can come up with.
Yup, sure enough they came and marked me down to -1 so most people wouldn't see the truth of their lies.
Keep it up Russian trolls. Every time you do something like this it proves the point of your desperation.
This is the reason why Russians can never be trusted.
How many Russian trolls inhabit /. to mark this crap informative? Every single word is straight out of the Russian propaganda playbook. Not a single statement resembles reality.
Though this should not be surprising since there is no word for truth in the Russian language.
The fact this St. Petersburg-based Russian troll used Russian insider as their source should be the clearest evidence this is nothing but blatant propaganda on the part of the Kremlin trolls.
it was pitched as US proof of a RUSSIAN MiG-29 shooting down MH 17.
No it wasn't. Never. No one except drunk Russians claimed the U.S. said it was a Russian MiG which shot down MH-17.
Everyone, except the drunk Russians, knew it was either a Russian-manned Buk shooting down the civilian airliner, or terrorists in East Ukraine with assistance from the Russians shooting down the civilian airliner.
Civilians in the area corroborated claims the missile was fired near their village/town which at the time, and still is, under the control of Russian-backed terrorists.
Further, only the Russian-backed terrorists had been shooting down aircraft because only Ukraine had aircraft so the claim from the drunk Russians and terrorists that it was Ukrainian Buk which shot down the civilian airliner is, like this picture, completely false and made up out of thin air.
In this study they took a sample and edited the gene. This editing showed that removal of these EVRs produced a reduced immune response.
How much (or many) of these EVRs would have to removed from within a person for this immune deficiency to show? By that I mean, they are altering a single gene within a cell but doesn't the body have multiple copies of the same gene as backup?
Also, could a blast of radiation alter a single gene enough to cause this lack of immune response in a person? Would it be possible, under some extreme scenario, for the reverse to happen: a common virus turned into a super virus due to it being hit by a high energy radiation burst which then spreads throughout the world because our immune response can't handle this new virus?
While I can't remember that particular quote, let's go with the sentiment. At what point is one considered to be able to cope with mathematics? I took algebra in high school and a single stats course for one of my bachelors yet never use any of it in daily life. Even my programming classes (which I despised) had no use for maths.
Can I determine the load limit on a bridge? Maybe. Give me the formulas and I'll take a shot at it. Is that considered coping or cheating because I don't know the formula off the top of my head?
As to quotes from Heinlein and his works, I much prefer the following:
Gwen, my love, if one tolerates bad manners, they grow worse. Our pleasant habitat could decay into the sort of slum Elli-Five is, with crowding and unmannerly behavior and unnecessary noise and impolite language. I must find the oaf who did this thing, explain to him his offense, give him a chance to apologize, and kill him.
What a wonderful place it would be if this could be true. Civility would be at hand.
Drug use and abuse is a health issue, driven by the innate human quality that seeks to minimise discomfort felt through uncomfortable living.
Thank you for making an excuse for why people use drugs because that's all we ever hear, an excuse.
"My life sucks which is why I do drugs."
Really? There's nothing else you can do to change your life except do drugs? That's nothing but an excuse.
It's a matter of public health - if self driving cars will save lives, they should be required.
If it's about public health then we should ban all illegal drugs and tightly control prescription drugs because they kill more people every year than are killed in car accidents.
While we're at it, and since it's all about public health, we should ban all smoking and tobacco products, get rid of all alcoholic products, require the obese to undergo stomach banding, get rid of every form of junk food (no cookies, no cakes, no cereals with sugar, etc), any type of food high in fat (no more pizzas), and the list goes to protect public health. That is what you want, right?
with steering wheels if you can imagine such a thing! How quaint!
Yes, how horrible that someone else wants to enjoy themselves by driving a car. The horror of independence and self-reliability. What is the world coming to?
In this case, the owner cannot consent
The owner has consented. It's the property of a county in California, not the terrorist. The county has already given permission to search the phone.
The problem is some lazy ass person within the county IT department never bothered to load the MDM software, which they had paid for, on the phone. This software would have allowed the county to say, "You want to see what's on the phone? Give us ten seconds."
I used to manage iPhones for a government agency I worked for. On a few occasions I had to use MDM software to unlock someone's phone or even reset their password. This could have been over a long time ago had someone done their job.
Here are James Madisons's (the guy who wrote the Constitution) own words from Federalist Paper 46 regarding standing armies and the use of militias to oppose them:
The highest number to which, according to the best computation, a standing army can be carried in any country, does not exceed one hundredth part of the whole number of souls; or one twenty-fifth part of the number able to bear arms. This proportion would not yield, in the United States, an army of more than twenty-five or thirty thousand men. To these would be opposed a militia amounting to near half a million of citizens with arms in their hands, officered by men chosen from among themselves, fighting for their common liberties, and united and conducted by governments possessing their affections and confidence.
While further down Madison makes the case:
Besides the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation, the existence of subordinate governments, to which the people are attached, and by which the militia officers are appointed, forms a barrier against the enterprises of ambition, more insurmountable than any which a simple government of any form can admit of.
he is clearly stating that the people, i.e. the militia, will be subordinate to the powers of government in relation to opposing a standing army of the federal government. Those powers were already enumerated by Hamilton in Federalist Paper 29 in which he states the need for regular drills by the militia under the control of the government.
While these papers are not part of the writings of the delegates to the Constitution, that the men who wrote these papers had a hand in forming that Constitution and would most certainly have used similar arguments during its construction, it is clear their intended meaning was to have Americans armed for the defense of the country, as I stated, and which Switzerland employs.
..and that's why Switzerland has such an incredibly high murder rate, right?
Which has nothing to do with gun ownership. Every time people claim the folks in Switzerland, or even Israel, have guns coming out their ears which is why they have low murder rates shows their true lack of understanding those country's gun laws.
While this article is not the one I was looking for, you will note the heavy regulation of guns in Switzerland including how much ammunition one can buy and mandatory registration with the government, both of which the NRA howls over any time either subject is brought up.
Second, as the person in the story relates, the people of Switzerland own guns to protect their country as part of the militia, the exact same thing our Founding Fathers said in the Constitution. That people deny this prima facia fact is the result of deliberate twisting by certain groups, not the least of which the NRA who originally held to the Constitutional writing (to use a Scalia-ism).
Also, as to Israel, which some people bring up, this article explains one must have a reason to own a gun. Not that you want one, a valid reason AND you have go back every six months to justify you continuing to keep your gun.
If you want to point to Switzerland you had better tell the whole story. It's not as neat and simple as you and others make out. The government has a heavy hand in regulating firearms in the country, something which people like you fight against every time the subject is brought up.
In closing, I have no problem with anyone owning a gun. I've shot them in the past and have considered owning one but can't justify the cost even though I can easily afford one. Maybe some day.
But this nonsense that using Switzerland or Israel as examples of the notion "more guns = less crime" is shown to be false because of how their respective governments control guns. One might as well use Somalia where nearly everyone owns a gun yet there is crime in abundance.
Clinton took $1 million in bribes while Secretary of State from Oracle and Microso
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.