Is there anything left we can trust as reliable? In the age of fabricated just about anything.. in an age where computers can convincing super-impose faces on people in a video.. in an age where audio can be altered in any way you can imagine.. what can we trust anymore?
Starting to worry they'll hack our eyeballs and eardrums next. Nothing would surprise me at this point.
Why is it every time some sort of awful tragedy happens, we have to go completely overboard with "preventative measures." Who runs a hotel like that? No one! These hotels will likely not be in business much longer if they persist on this. This sort of behavior garners a lot of bad reviews and publicity. Yes yes, no such thing as bad PR, but this could be the rare case of.. yeah, security goons barging into your room unannounced, that's going to ward off potential guests. At least, I hope it does.
That alone is a HUGE problem. The other security checks.. meh.. I mean if they're being polite, knocking, etc, I suppose it might be ok-ish, but not really. But barging in unannounced? Completely out of line.
Much of the services that allow for the internet to function are privately owned and are *not* common carriers.
I'm not sure why I'm bothering, but here goes!
It's true, all of the internet is pretty much in private hands. But if you're trying to convince me that a site like Daily Stormer can't find a single bent provider to host their pages.. it's not going to happen, not when there's still hosting for Westboro Baptist Church, don't they run the 'godhatefags.com' site, or something similar? If that trash can find hosting, Daily Stormer just isn't trying hard enough. Not buying it.
We should probably try to create more of those URL shortener redirect thingamajigs. It will really throw a wrench into attempting to censor certain sites/URLs from being shared.
This is why these things were an awful idea. We knew this would happen, platforms kicking off people for.. no reason at all.
Boycott this garbage, App Store, Play Store, Microsoft Store, it's all bullshit. Don't support it, don't publish to it, don't buy from it. The only thing these corporate entities understand is profit/loss. So seriously, vote with your wallet, don't buy anything from any of these sites.
Only a united front vs. these abominations will yield results. We all have to take a stand and say 'no.' Even you folks publishing and making money, stop, for the greater good. Go back to the old school software distribution, do it yourself. Building a website to host your app is cheap and easy, there's no excuse. If you can develop an app, you're definitely smart enough to set up a cloud based server.
Copyright was never intended to be extended. That more than anything else has completely crippled the entire point of copyrighting works. Until the extensions Disney keeps winning stop, we'll never see rational and reasonable copyright law.
If it was kept at 20 years like it was intended, all would be fine and good. The founding fathers had great insights on how to run a country, and every time we tinker with the original vision, our country becomes weaker.
But the damage that removing ROMs from the internet could do to video games as a whole is catastrophic.
If you believe this, I pity you. Just because these sites are getting nuked by litigation (or threat of) means nothing to ROM's being available online. It's the typical software piracy scenario, for every site they quash, 10 more will take it's place.
Also, all these ROMs are pretty easy to get via torrents. Claiming the sky is falling when it isn't is pretty old and worn out. Nintendo is perfectly in the right to be attacking these sites, but if you or they think it's going to stifle the availability of these ROMs, I got several bridges to sell.
The Alex Jones de-platforming brouhaha has frightened a lot of content creators. Many are fleeing to alternate platforms, or at least mirroring their content on them as insurance, because they realize that it only takes a shift in the politically-correct winds and suddenly *they* can be de-platformed and de-monetized as well.
I see this as a good thing. People need to get away from these 'platforms' and start learning how to create their own websites, not controlled by anyone other than themselves.
Google, Apple, et al have a perfect right to kick anyone off for any reason they like. It's theirs, after all. The internet will simply treat their censorship as damage and route around them.
That's all fine and good, but you have to remember, this censorship isn't so easy to 'route around', because so many have no idea how to publish content to the internet without someone like Facebook or YouTube standing there and holding their hand. Also, it's refreshing to see someone write that Google, Facebook, etcetc are perfectly within their right to kick anyone off their services, with or without a reason. People have become deluded into thinking 'free speech' somehow gives them rights over these sites, but fail to realize, websites and companies have the same free speech rights, and that includes the freedom to not speak.
The world -needs- zero computers. We were doing just fine before the first one was invented, so we don't really need them.
But how many computers does the world want? Now that's a question. I've literally lost count of how many I interact with on a daily basis. I mean, I could count the obvious ones: my desktop PC, my server PC, my smartphone. But then there's the less obvious ones.. My microwave has a computer in it, so does my clock-radio, and my stereo amplifier. My car has numerous computers in it, I don't even know how many. Even my coffee maker has a computer in it! Not a very good one, but we didn't put a qualifier of how good a computer has to be to count. Glancing around I have a couple remote controls for TV and stereo. Computers again.
Psst. You're already doing this. With all your software and media, you rent it. You just feel like you own it cuz you paid for the piece of media it came on and the lifetime rental fee for that one piece of media. You don't own anything that's music, video, or software. You're just buying a license to use it. Just for you.
This age old argument just falls flat in the face of what license agreements say. This is why I'm pretty much ok with things like NetFlix and Steam... I don't need all that damn media taking up space in my living space. I just need the contents of the media, available whenever I want to use it.
Also.. the convenience! I can't tell you how many times I've turned my massive collections of CDs upside down looking for Disc 3 for Diablo II. Screw that old school way of doing things! I want a game? I tell Steam to install it, done. Also, have you ever lifted a milk-crate packed to the gills with CD's? They are frickin HEAVY. Pass.
Where Steam, NetFlix and their ilk really kick consumers in the nuts is secondary markets. Used games, tapes, CD's, movies, VCR tapes, all that stuff generated huge secondary markets. Steam/NetFlix basically shutdown the secondary market utterly. That kind of sucks. Price you pay I suppose. There's tradeoffs for sure.
But just remember, you don't own any of that stuff. You just own a license to use it as it's intended to be used, according to that license.
If this is how they plan to deal with the Spectre/Meltdown issues permanently, I'm ok with that.
It will degrade power performance I believe, since HT allowed a CPU's execution engine to stay busy flipping back and forth between the two instruction pipelines. Now you're just going to have full blown cores doing the same work. There's gunna be more dead time on these non-HT CPU's since when a CPU normally would be waiting in previous setups, it would just execute it's other pipeline, now it'll just wait.
And the end of the day, if I can still play my games, I really don't care what's inside that hunk of silicon, as long as my games still work as good as they always have.
Thin laptops are a nightmare. They're really hard to service. They are generally designed to never be serviced. This sort of disposable equipment is exactly the sort of thing we need to get away from. Run away from these devices. They are the manufacturers answer to slumping sales: Make something that can never be repaired so people will buy another one every so often.
Just stop. This is not good for anyone. As a middle finger to the manufacturer, we whom are in the repair field should outright refuse to service these machines and ward customers away from buying them. "We can't fix it cuz it's designed to not be fixed. Buy one designed to be serviceable and we can help you any time any day." Consumers don't like to be told no. And do this enough, they'll learn to stop buying them.
Seems like we've been here before. Possibly more than once. It's never really flown well in the past, but maybe this time will be different?
It does makes a lot of sense, for manufacturers and developers. If you take away all the hardware and turn the 'console' into basically a glorified VNC viewer... what's not to love about this?
Modding your console system becomes moot. Piracy ends instantly. Hell, it's the last console you'll buy, since when the games need more processing power, they just move your game onto a better data center system.
I'm surprised this hasn't happened much sooner. Let's just pray it sticks to games and console systems, and doesn't migrate into the general computing arena, cuz then they have us, by the balls. Forever. Alas, it already is honestly, one needs only point to Microsoft Office 365.
Sarcasm aside.. this actually does make a hell of a lot of sense, from every angle. It will eventually lead to console systems just going away entirely and you 'subscribe' to your game console delivery service, and you 'play' with whatever device you happen to have.. laptop, desktop PC, smart TV, tablet, phone, endless possibilities for this technology.
Of course, any network outage, burp or bump, and you are going to feel it, every time, every tiny hiccup gunna translate into sluggish response from the game, or complete momentary desync from your inputs to it's outputs. I imagine these are issues that those peddling the Thin Clients of the future will try to keep buried.
Also, as a side note, this will in the long run, not be cheap. Initially, to hook people, they'll practically give these things away. But as the companies realize the maintenance and power costs for running all that back end for millions of people playing games... yeah, they're gunna need to charge a pretty hefty penny to make any kind of profit. Maybe they should abandon Thin Client.. as I said, we've tried it before and... see any thin clients near you? That's what I thought.
Their product is leaving in droves, after learning they're being sold out, every minute of every day. Why wouldn't they leave? And why wouldn't Facebook bend over backwards to egg these users back in? With the very things that traps people in the first place, the insatiable need to know what's going on with people you know. It's a great bait and I imagine it's pretty effective, given the addictive nature of Facebook and the peddling the 'tease' doses in email. Wow.
If anyone wanted to know what a drug dealer would look like if it grew up into a big company, Facebook is your model.
the Chinese apparently hold no sway over his actions, and is the nation that stands to lose the most if a trade war continues to fester.
Pardon, but really? The Chinese have the most to lose? They could care less about us. They own us. On paper at least, they hold so many bonds and assets in the us now.
But that's not even important, the Chinese have built up their own healthy base of consumers, they don't need us to buy their junk anymore. We need their junk though cuz we stopped making pretty much everything the Chinese make for us.
Americans will be the ones who suffer, not only from the price increases, but now the Chinese are just going to tariff us right back. Farmers are already bitching. And it's just begun? You think Americans have any stomach for policies that mess with their day to day lives? Support for Trump seems to be waning, even his own party seems to be waking from their collective coma.. I think?
Trump's delusion that the world needs the US is just that, a delusion, and as he isolates us more and more from the rest of the world, we're gunna have no one to turn to if someone does something unspeakable to us. We've turned our back, we will be repaid in kind.
See, the UNIX paradigm has been something that Microsoft has never been able to swallow. Keep it simple. That's it. That's why all the UNIX commands we know and love have survived through the years, they are simple. They get the job done.
Stuff has been added, sure, but most of the original shell and common system commands have remained the same, decades on. Some 50 years of sameness and simplicity that Microsoft will never understand.
In all my dealings with Microsoft software, they seem to strive to make things as complicated and insane as possible. Even this new powershell, the commands are needlessly long, with long parameters names and very strict syntax. And not to be outdone, a whole new spam of technobabble error messages. Their APIs and programming languages are the same way, sure they are pretty powerful, but the complexity, nothing is simple. Simple isn't something Microsoft does. So they'll never be able to ever be 'unix' like.
Since when does Slashdot report on and even wade into internet troll drama? Please. I dunno about other/. users, but I for one do NOT care about this. This isn't even news, it's just tabloid gossip talk. Get this off of here.
If it is a publication it is also to be held responsible for anything published there.
Maybe. This is where websites have gamed the system. Websites can get away with not calling themselves media companies, or publishers, or publications, or anything like that by jumping under the umbrella that protects ISPs. Technology companies, information services. Your cable provider falls under this umbrella as well as distributor of a multitude of 'publishers' ie tv stations.
This umbrella should really only cover places like Amazon Web Services, Steam (maybe, they are actual dual role company), internet providers large and small, data centers, etc. Facebook could really admit what they are, a dual use company, both a publisher and a distributor, but they don't. They just pick which one they are and aren't depending on who's asking, when and why. Mark Zuckerburg would gladly apologize for it, just don't expect anything else. And frankly, if Facebook is doing it, I'm sure others are too, we just might not hear about it as much as we hear about Facebook's follies.
The lines between content provider and transport is increasingly blurring, much to the glee of the new media conglomerates that're coalescing under their new found regulatory freedoms. Start to panic when a huge transport provider merges with someone like Facebook, Netflix, or pick you're favorite horse. Sort of like that whole AT&T Time Warnerer thing. Oops. Panic now?
Apple has added protections against the USB devices being used by law enforcement and private companies that connect over Lightning to crack an iPhone's passcode and evade Apple's usual encryption safeguards.
So first, get this part out of the way. Better device security is better. Bad security is just insecurity.
Now. I really gotta wonder about this one though. They are actively trying to put a stop to law enforcement gaining access to devices they have confiscated? Who does this? Why would someone do this? It's one thing to make a product very secure and shrug when LE finds a way around it to get evidence, but it's an entirely another thing when one sees what LEO is doing to break into devices and FIXING IT!
I'm not saying this is a bad move by Apple. I'm sure drug dealers are going to be buying up iPhones in droves, again. But.. why? I get the whole 'it should have been this way' line of answers... but I'm still puzzled. Actively roadblocking all LE's good, bad and maybe, seems pretty much yet another 100% dick move. Normally, when I see this, I'm elated like any good computer goon should be. But this is just baffling. Not because it's a fix, it's what they're fixing. They're fixing it so LE's cannot get in, period. And we all know how LE's trying to negotiate with Apple goes, even when the phone's owner is DEAD. And not just dead like normal dead, dead as in shot dead by LE, for you know... shooting up the town basically.
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Is there anything left we can trust as reliable? In the age of fabricated just about anything.. in an age where computers can convincing super-impose faces on people in a video.. in an age where audio can be altered in any way you can imagine.. what can we trust anymore?
Starting to worry they'll hack our eyeballs and eardrums next. Nothing would surprise me at this point.
Why is it every time some sort of awful tragedy happens, we have to go completely overboard with "preventative measures." Who runs a hotel like that? No one! These hotels will likely not be in business much longer if they persist on this. This sort of behavior garners a lot of bad reviews and publicity. Yes yes, no such thing as bad PR, but this could be the rare case of.. yeah, security goons barging into your room unannounced, that's going to ward off potential guests. At least, I hope it does.
That alone is a HUGE problem. The other security checks.. meh.. I mean if they're being polite, knocking, etc, I suppose it might be ok-ish, but not really. But barging in unannounced? Completely out of line.
The title suggests Amazon screwed up, when it was GoDaddy that screwed up their usage of Amazon's services. Kinda shady. The title.
Much of the services that allow for the internet to function are privately owned and are *not* common carriers.
I'm not sure why I'm bothering, but here goes!
It's true, all of the internet is pretty much in private hands. But if you're trying to convince me that a site like Daily Stormer can't find a single bent provider to host their pages.. it's not going to happen, not when there's still hosting for Westboro Baptist Church, don't they run the 'godhatefags.com' site, or something similar? If that trash can find hosting, Daily Stormer just isn't trying hard enough. Not buying it.
We should probably try to create more of those URL shortener redirect thingamajigs. It will really throw a wrench into attempting to censor certain sites/URLs from being shared.
This is why these things were an awful idea. We knew this would happen, platforms kicking off people for.. no reason at all.
Boycott this garbage, App Store, Play Store, Microsoft Store, it's all bullshit. Don't support it, don't publish to it, don't buy from it. The only thing these corporate entities understand is profit/loss. So seriously, vote with your wallet, don't buy anything from any of these sites.
Only a united front vs. these abominations will yield results. We all have to take a stand and say 'no.' Even you folks publishing and making money, stop, for the greater good. Go back to the old school software distribution, do it yourself. Building a website to host your app is cheap and easy, there's no excuse. If you can develop an app, you're definitely smart enough to set up a cloud based server.
Copyright was never intended to be extended. That more than anything else has completely crippled the entire point of copyrighting works. Until the extensions Disney keeps winning stop, we'll never see rational and reasonable copyright law.
If it was kept at 20 years like it was intended, all would be fine and good. The founding fathers had great insights on how to run a country, and every time we tinker with the original vision, our country becomes weaker.
But the damage that removing ROMs from the internet could do to video games as a whole is catastrophic.
If you believe this, I pity you. Just because these sites are getting nuked by litigation (or threat of) means nothing to ROM's being available online. It's the typical software piracy scenario, for every site they quash, 10 more will take it's place.
Also, all these ROMs are pretty easy to get via torrents. Claiming the sky is falling when it isn't is pretty old and worn out. Nintendo is perfectly in the right to be attacking these sites, but if you or they think it's going to stifle the availability of these ROMs, I got several bridges to sell.
The Alex Jones de-platforming brouhaha has frightened a lot of content creators. Many are fleeing to alternate platforms, or at least mirroring their content on them as insurance, because they realize that it only takes a shift in the politically-correct winds and suddenly *they* can be de-platformed and de-monetized as well.
I see this as a good thing. People need to get away from these 'platforms' and start learning how to create their own websites, not controlled by anyone other than themselves.
Google, Apple, et al have a perfect right to kick anyone off for any reason they like. It's theirs, after all. The internet will simply treat their censorship as damage and route around them.
That's all fine and good, but you have to remember, this censorship isn't so easy to 'route around', because so many have no idea how to publish content to the internet without someone like Facebook or YouTube standing there and holding their hand. Also, it's refreshing to see someone write that Google, Facebook, etcetc are perfectly within their right to kick anyone off their services, with or without a reason. People have become deluded into thinking 'free speech' somehow gives them rights over these sites, but fail to realize, websites and companies have the same free speech rights, and that includes the freedom to not speak.
The world -needs- zero computers. We were doing just fine before the first one was invented, so we don't really need them.
But how many computers does the world want? Now that's a question. I've literally lost count of how many I interact with on a daily basis. I mean, I could count the obvious ones: my desktop PC, my server PC, my smartphone. But then there's the less obvious ones.. My microwave has a computer in it, so does my clock-radio, and my stereo amplifier. My car has numerous computers in it, I don't even know how many. Even my coffee maker has a computer in it! Not a very good one, but we didn't put a qualifier of how good a computer has to be to count. Glancing around I have a couple remote controls for TV and stereo. Computers again.
How do you mentally imagine 20 trillion of anything?
I just imagine 20 followed by an absurd number of zeros. Works for me.
Have you considered condensing your thoughts into a few sentences instead of posting in a lump of stream of consciousness text?
I consider a lot of things. But not that. Don't read it if you don't like the way I write? Downvote if it's that bad?
(i) I'm just renting games, not owning them,
Psst. You're already doing this. With all your software and media, you rent it. You just feel like you own it cuz you paid for the piece of media it came on and the lifetime rental fee for that one piece of media. You don't own anything that's music, video, or software. You're just buying a license to use it. Just for you.
This age old argument just falls flat in the face of what license agreements say. This is why I'm pretty much ok with things like NetFlix and Steam... I don't need all that damn media taking up space in my living space. I just need the contents of the media, available whenever I want to use it.
Also.. the convenience! I can't tell you how many times I've turned my massive collections of CDs upside down looking for Disc 3 for Diablo II. Screw that old school way of doing things! I want a game? I tell Steam to install it, done. Also, have you ever lifted a milk-crate packed to the gills with CD's? They are frickin HEAVY. Pass.
Where Steam, NetFlix and their ilk really kick consumers in the nuts is secondary markets. Used games, tapes, CD's, movies, VCR tapes, all that stuff generated huge secondary markets. Steam/NetFlix basically shutdown the secondary market utterly. That kind of sucks. Price you pay I suppose. There's tradeoffs for sure.
But just remember, you don't own any of that stuff. You just own a license to use it as it's intended to be used, according to that license.
If this is how they plan to deal with the Spectre/Meltdown issues permanently, I'm ok with that.
It will degrade power performance I believe, since HT allowed a CPU's execution engine to stay busy flipping back and forth between the two instruction pipelines. Now you're just going to have full blown cores doing the same work. There's gunna be more dead time on these non-HT CPU's since when a CPU normally would be waiting in previous setups, it would just execute it's other pipeline, now it'll just wait.
And the end of the day, if I can still play my games, I really don't care what's inside that hunk of silicon, as long as my games still work as good as they always have.
Thin laptops are a nightmare. They're really hard to service. They are generally designed to never be serviced. This sort of disposable equipment is exactly the sort of thing we need to get away from. Run away from these devices. They are the manufacturers answer to slumping sales: Make something that can never be repaired so people will buy another one every so often.
Just stop. This is not good for anyone. As a middle finger to the manufacturer, we whom are in the repair field should outright refuse to service these machines and ward customers away from buying them. "We can't fix it cuz it's designed to not be fixed. Buy one designed to be serviceable and we can help you any time any day." Consumers don't like to be told no. And do this enough, they'll learn to stop buying them.
Seems like we've been here before. Possibly more than once. It's never really flown well in the past, but maybe this time will be different?
It does makes a lot of sense, for manufacturers and developers. If you take away all the hardware and turn the 'console' into basically a glorified VNC viewer... what's not to love about this?
Modding your console system becomes moot. Piracy ends instantly. Hell, it's the last console you'll buy, since when the games need more processing power, they just move your game onto a better data center system.
I'm surprised this hasn't happened much sooner. Let's just pray it sticks to games and console systems, and doesn't migrate into the general computing arena, cuz then they have us, by the balls. Forever. Alas, it already is honestly, one needs only point to Microsoft Office 365.
Sarcasm aside.. this actually does make a hell of a lot of sense, from every angle. It will eventually lead to console systems just going away entirely and you 'subscribe' to your game console delivery service, and you 'play' with whatever device you happen to have.. laptop, desktop PC, smart TV, tablet, phone, endless possibilities for this technology.
Of course, any network outage, burp or bump, and you are going to feel it, every time, every tiny hiccup gunna translate into sluggish response from the game, or complete momentary desync from your inputs to it's outputs. I imagine these are issues that those peddling the Thin Clients of the future will try to keep buried.
Also, as a side note, this will in the long run, not be cheap. Initially, to hook people, they'll practically give these things away. But as the companies realize the maintenance and power costs for running all that back end for millions of people playing games... yeah, they're gunna need to charge a pretty hefty penny to make any kind of profit. Maybe they should abandon Thin Client.. as I said, we've tried it before and ... see any thin clients near you? That's what I thought.
Their product is leaving in droves, after learning they're being sold out, every minute of every day. Why wouldn't they leave? And why wouldn't Facebook bend over backwards to egg these users back in? With the very things that traps people in the first place, the insatiable need to know what's going on with people you know. It's a great bait and I imagine it's pretty effective, given the addictive nature of Facebook and the peddling the 'tease' doses in email. Wow.
If anyone wanted to know what a drug dealer would look like if it grew up into a big company, Facebook is your model.
Wait. What? You call him a racist, but if he was then why would you claim he wants to help China?
Greed.
the Chinese apparently hold no sway over his actions, and is the nation that stands to lose the most if a trade war continues to fester.
Pardon, but really? The Chinese have the most to lose? They could care less about us. They own us. On paper at least, they hold so many bonds and assets in the us now.
But that's not even important, the Chinese have built up their own healthy base of consumers, they don't need us to buy their junk anymore. We need their junk though cuz we stopped making pretty much everything the Chinese make for us.
Americans will be the ones who suffer, not only from the price increases, but now the Chinese are just going to tariff us right back. Farmers are already bitching. And it's just begun? You think Americans have any stomach for policies that mess with their day to day lives? Support for Trump seems to be waning, even his own party seems to be waking from their collective coma.. I think?
Trump's delusion that the world needs the US is just that, a delusion, and as he isolates us more and more from the rest of the world, we're gunna have no one to turn to if someone does something unspeakable to us. We've turned our back, we will be repaid in kind.
See, the UNIX paradigm has been something that Microsoft has never been able to swallow. Keep it simple. That's it. That's why all the UNIX commands we know and love have survived through the years, they are simple. They get the job done.
Stuff has been added, sure, but most of the original shell and common system commands have remained the same, decades on. Some 50 years of sameness and simplicity that Microsoft will never understand.
In all my dealings with Microsoft software, they seem to strive to make things as complicated and insane as possible. Even this new powershell, the commands are needlessly long, with long parameters names and very strict syntax. And not to be outdone, a whole new spam of technobabble error messages. Their APIs and programming languages are the same way, sure they are pretty powerful, but the complexity, nothing is simple. Simple isn't something Microsoft does. So they'll never be able to ever be 'unix' like.
Since when does Slashdot report on and even wade into internet troll drama? Please. I dunno about other /. users, but I for one do NOT care about this. This isn't even news, it's just tabloid gossip talk. Get this off of here.
Can they actually eliminate fake accounts faster than they are being created?
If it is a publication it is also to be held responsible for anything published there.
Maybe. This is where websites have gamed the system. Websites can get away with not calling themselves media companies, or publishers, or publications, or anything like that by jumping under the umbrella that protects ISPs. Technology companies, information services. Your cable provider falls under this umbrella as well as distributor of a multitude of 'publishers' ie tv stations.
This umbrella should really only cover places like Amazon Web Services, Steam (maybe, they are actual dual role company), internet providers large and small, data centers, etc. Facebook could really admit what they are, a dual use company, both a publisher and a distributor, but they don't. They just pick which one they are and aren't depending on who's asking, when and why. Mark Zuckerburg would gladly apologize for it, just don't expect anything else. And frankly, if Facebook is doing it, I'm sure others are too, we just might not hear about it as much as we hear about Facebook's follies.
The lines between content provider and transport is increasingly blurring, much to the glee of the new media conglomerates that're coalescing under their new found regulatory freedoms. Start to panic when a huge transport provider merges with someone like Facebook, Netflix, or pick you're favorite horse. Sort of like that whole AT&T Time Warnerer thing. Oops. Panic now?
And not just dead like normal dead, dead as in shot dead by LE, for you know... shooting up the town basically.
Or shot himself, itself, herself... I can't keep all the mass shootings that have been happening in recent times all straight in my head anymore.
Apple has added protections against the USB devices being used by law enforcement and private companies that connect over Lightning to crack an iPhone's passcode and evade Apple's usual encryption safeguards.
So first, get this part out of the way. Better device security is better. Bad security is just insecurity.
Now. I really gotta wonder about this one though. They are actively trying to put a stop to law enforcement gaining access to devices they have confiscated? Who does this? Why would someone do this? It's one thing to make a product very secure and shrug when LE finds a way around it to get evidence, but it's an entirely another thing when one sees what LEO is doing to break into devices and FIXING IT!
I'm not saying this is a bad move by Apple. I'm sure drug dealers are going to be buying up iPhones in droves, again. But.. why? I get the whole 'it should have been this way' line of answers... but I'm still puzzled. Actively roadblocking all LE's good, bad and maybe, seems pretty much yet another 100% dick move. Normally, when I see this, I'm elated like any good computer goon should be. But this is just baffling. Not because it's a fix, it's what they're fixing. They're fixing it so LE's cannot get in, period. And we all know how LE's trying to negotiate with Apple goes, even when the phone's owner is DEAD. And not just dead like normal dead, dead as in shot dead by LE, for you know... shooting up the town basically.