If I was ever in a situation like this where I was asked to decrypt my phone, I would let the police know that I no longer remember my password. Then when/if I ever receive my phone back, I'd do a complete factory reset on it without entering the password.
I think on an iPhone you can do make the phone unusable (just enter the wrong passcode 12 times), but you can't make the phone usable again without knowing your Appleid and passcode. Obviously to make it much less useful for thieves. Unfortunately when you buy an iPhone on eBay and the idiot seller didn't reset the phone properly there's a problem.
Facebook will have joined two separate programs: The normal "developer" program, where they pay $99 a year just like every other developer, and the "enterprise" program, where they pay $299 a year for a program that plays by different rules: No review by Apple, the apps don't go on the App Store, and the enterprise must make sure that the app _only_ gets installed on devices belonging to the company.
Their enterprise account just got nuked (their Enterprise certificate probably got revoked, which kills all enterprise apps that they legitimately installed on Facebook devices as well), but their normal developer account would be unaffected.
So now we have Apple essentially ban hammering an application outside the app store. Think about that. If you have an enterprise, and your write an application, to run on devices you have purchased; Apple might still come along and disable it; if they don't like you or it!
F***ing nonsense. The whole point is that they _didn't_ run the app on devices that FaceBook purchased.
Apple has an "Enterprise Developer" program that lets companies joining the program develop applications that they can download without any review by Apple to the phones owned by the enterprise. There is absolutely no permission to give these applications to anyone outside the company. The terms and conditions, which are in a contract signed by FaceBook, state very, very clearly that FaceBook had no permission to do what they did, and that violation of the terms means that Apple will kill any applications using the Enterprise Development Certificate.
Usually this happens when a rogue employee steals the certificate and uses it to distribute usually malware. That malware gets nuked as soon as Apple finds out. In this case it was the company (Facebook) itself producing malware, so it gets nuked.
Just like the previous version, an official "VPN" app, that secretly tracked everything that users of that VPN app were doing.
... then you go on eBay and buy a used iPhone. If you really don't want to be able to make phone calls, you put in a Sim card once to set it up, then you remove the SIM card.
Germany's coal plants are among the dirtiest in Europe.
Nonsense. The coal is low quality, the coal plants are top notch. You may not realise that, but the more efficient a coal plant is, the less pollution from incompletely burnt coal it will produce. Which means the plant makes more money by being less pollutant.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Germany is tearing down villages and forests in order to expand their mines. Lignite coal is the largest power source in Germany.
Closedown is supposed to be in 2022. So they need three years worth of coal. And you could tell us which village exactly is being torn down right now. For example, Elsdorf, Esch, Angelsdorf, Niederzier and all the villages around Hambach Forest seem to be quite safe to me.
The major difference is that the ITV hub is streaming only, while iPlayer allows downloads. And lots of people are watching TV while travelling, where your internet connection is either very expensive, very slow, or if you are underground, non existing.
With iPlayer I have a reasonably good choice of TV series that I can download at home with a good internet connection and watch on the train for free, and movies can usually be downloaded for a week.
Being advert free is nice, but other factors are much stronger in favour of iPlayer.
...are the professional forensic kits that law enforcement use as bad as this?
Law enforcement mostly wants to know: Is the DNA that we found at a crime scene identical to the DNA we took from a suspect? That's a much much simpler question, and can be decided clearly. If there is very little DNA, then they can say "the DNA matches, but it will be matching other people as well".
They can also reasonable well decide that the DNA found at a crime scene belongs to a relative of someone in the system, if there is an unusual high number of markers matching, with a good number of mismatches added. But that's just a first step to figure out which of your relatives can be found that is an _exact_ match.
I haven't heard of the police ever using something like "this person seems to come from France, with a bit of Scottish mixed in and a tiny bit of Japanese". You wouldn't be able to find someone with that information. The criminal himself or herself probably wouldn't know where they come from.
Because manufacturers are not offering them in higher-end phones, and other features are more important to lusers than a replaceable battery.
All phones have replaceable batteries. Well, all iPhones have, and I hope all Android phones as well. It's just that you have to go to a shop and find someone who has the right tools and pay them to do it.
Hard-to-replace batteries have advantages. The biggest is that the batteries can be shaped and fit into any gap in the phone. They don't have to be rectangular. And a simple opening mechanism takes space, and will eventually wear out. A hard-to-replace battery doesn't have these problems.
Was fire a big problem before glued in batteries? I seem to remember a phone with glued in batteries having to be completely withdrawn not long ago.
You may be thinking about Samsung here.
No, batteries on fire has nothing to do with batteries glued in or not. Someone at Samsung forgot that batteries expand a little bit when they are charged - they all do that, so you just leave a bit of space. One Samsung model didn't have that extra space, so when the battery expanded, as it does quite normally, you were in trouble.
One iPhones caught fire on a plane (very unfortunate), and it was due to a botched repair where someone put some screws right into the battery. Ouch. They don't like that.
In either case, glued in or not glued in wouldn't have made a difference, because the average wouldn't be able to remove a removable battery once it has caught fire. When you notice it, it is too late.
So I return to the original question: How can Tidal, a fictional corporation, face criminal charges? If found guilty will it be sent to jail? What is jail for a fiction? We are banned from thinking about it for a period? Who's in jail?
Tidal is not a fictional corporation, it's a real one. And when a corporation does something that is an intentional crime (paying money to friends of the CEO, most likely at the expense of other artists, or at the expense of investors), then this doesn't happen by chance. It happened because someone decided it would happen. And then you start with criminal charges against a real person.
If you worked in different EU countries as an EU citizen, then free movement means any attempt to stop you from moving to a country other than your own and working there is illegal.
Very simple: If you don't want someone to take a job, you have to pay them "reasonable compensation". A judge will tell you what the "reasonable compensation" is. Typical it's the amount of money not earned, or possibly more if some prestigious job is lost. I'm a software developer.
You can force me to work at McDonalds for a year, but you pay the difference between McDonald's annual pay and the annual pay I could have received. Plus some on top for me to keep up-to-date in my real profession. And the way German courts work, you are going to pay for the court and for my lawyer.
I'm an Android user and while I keep half an ear out about Apple stuff, I kind of assumed there was just the iPhone X and a couple of variants.
You seem to have that in common with lots of Slasdot readers.
On slashdot you will find complainers saying that Apple raised prices. The reality is that Apple lowered the prices for iPhone 7, 7+, 8 and 8+, replaced the X with a better model. AND introduced some slightly more expensive top of the range model, and a cheaper model.
And yes, replacement cycles get longer which means fewer phones are sold. And with longer cycles, people can afford more expensive phones.
The law says what the law says. You have to state under threat of perjury that you are the copyright holder or an agent of the copyright holder. Nothing else is under threat of perjury.
For example, if you are the copyright holder of GPL licensed software (and therefore not legally allowed to stop me using the software or creating derived works as long as I follow the license), and you issue a DMCA takedown notice against me, that's not perjury because you _are_ the copyright holder. Even if my use of the software was totally legitimate.
In a DMCA notice, you state "I am the copyright holder and I believe you are using my copyrighted item illegally". The "I am the copyright holder" part must be true under threat of perjury. The rest not.
You swear under threat of perjury that you are the copyright holder or an agent of the copyright holder of the copyright that you claim is infringed. Itâ(TM)s no problem if you made a mistake and the thing that you believed is infringing isnâ(TM)t actually yours, or if it is yours but someone isnâ(TM)t actually infringing. So they are legally fine.
I was told (by people that I trust in that area) that Nvidia's cards are an expensive flop because they support ray-tracing which is slow, not used by any games, and doesn't look much better unless you look very closely, and which nobody wants, while all other performance aspects haven't improved.
AirPlay 2 is just a technology that lets you stream video and music from Apple devices to any receiver implementing it, with provisions that allow sound to be synchronised precisely between two devices, and a stereo signal being properly mixed by two devices.
The most well-known AirPlay 2 receiver is Apple's HomePod which _can_ listen (but will only listen when you speak the magic words "Hey Siri" and even then will filter out automatically everything from others present), but that's absolutely no requirement.
Apple doesn't build TVs. So they are not going to lose customers to Samsung with this. On the other hand, it improves the value of MacOS and iOS and their usefulness for Apple's customers. I can't see any reason why Apple wouldn't do this.
You really are deluding yourself if you think Android phones are any different. Basically everything is built or assembled in Chinese factories these days.
The first really badly negative news about Apple in China was an article claiming that the highest number of complaints by people building iPhones was about overtime. Then someone looked further and the complaints were about the fact that workers couldn't always get as much overtime (and extra money) as they wanted.
Then there was the scandal when 300 workers in the iPhone factory threatened to jump from a roof. Well, it was in fact at the factory where iPhones were built. At the same factory, Microsoft Xbox was built. And Microsoft was scaling down production, and these 300 workers were in danger of losing their jobs building Xboxes.
Do you think AAC is a proprietary Apple-only format?
Some people think AAC means "Apple Apple Crap", when in reality it means "Advanced Audio Codec". Among other things it is what all DVDs have been using. And as other says, MP3's work just fine.
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There's an entire universe of difference between "fully custom and designed from scratch" and licensing the entire architecture from ARM.
Apple needs a license to build anything using the ARM aarch64 instruction set. The implementation is pure Apple.
If I was ever in a situation like this where I was asked to decrypt my phone, I would let the police know that I no longer remember my password. Then when/if I ever receive my phone back, I'd do a complete factory reset on it without entering the password.
I think on an iPhone you can do make the phone unusable (just enter the wrong passcode 12 times), but you can't make the phone usable again without knowing your Appleid and passcode. Obviously to make it much less useful for thieves. Unfortunately when you buy an iPhone on eBay and the idiot seller didn't reset the phone properly there's a problem.
Facebook will have joined two separate programs: The normal "developer" program, where they pay $99 a year just like every other developer, and the "enterprise" program, where they pay $299 a year for a program that plays by different rules: No review by Apple, the apps don't go on the App Store, and the enterprise must make sure that the app _only_ gets installed on devices belonging to the company.
Their enterprise account just got nuked (their Enterprise certificate probably got revoked, which kills all enterprise apps that they legitimately installed on Facebook devices as well), but their normal developer account would be unaffected.
So now we have Apple essentially ban hammering an application outside the app store. Think about that. If you have an enterprise, and your write an application, to run on devices you have purchased; Apple might still come along and disable it; if they don't like you or it!
F***ing nonsense. The whole point is that they _didn't_ run the app on devices that FaceBook purchased.
I am going say Bad Apple on this one.
And you are absolutely completely wrong on this.
Apple has an "Enterprise Developer" program that lets companies joining the program develop applications that they can download without any review by Apple to the phones owned by the enterprise. There is absolutely no permission to give these applications to anyone outside the company. The terms and conditions, which are in a contract signed by FaceBook, state very, very clearly that FaceBook had no permission to do what they did, and that violation of the terms means that Apple will kill any applications using the Enterprise Development Certificate.
Usually this happens when a rogue employee steals the certificate and uses it to distribute usually malware. That malware gets nuked as soon as Apple finds out. In this case it was the company (Facebook) itself producing malware, so it gets nuked.
Just like the previous version, an official "VPN" app, that secretly tracked everything that users of that VPN app were doing.
... then you go on eBay and buy a used iPhone. If you really don't want to be able to make phone calls, you put in a Sim card once to set it up, then you remove the SIM card.
The unix timestamp will roll over in 2038, too. The world ends anyway.
I'm using a Mac. Timestamps are seconds in double precision. That will last for a few million years.
Germany's coal plants are among the dirtiest in Europe.
Nonsense. The coal is low quality, the coal plants are top notch. You may not realise that, but the more efficient a coal plant is, the less pollution from incompletely burnt coal it will produce. Which means the plant makes more money by being less pollutant.
Meanwhile, in the real world, Germany is tearing down villages and forests in order to expand their mines. Lignite coal is the largest power source in Germany.
Closedown is supposed to be in 2022. So they need three years worth of coal. And you could tell us which village exactly is being torn down right now. For example, Elsdorf, Esch, Angelsdorf, Niederzier and all the villages around Hambach Forest seem to be quite safe to me.
Also, biometrics are very very easy to defeat.
Says who?
The major difference is that the ITV hub is streaming only, while iPlayer allows downloads. And lots of people are watching TV while travelling, where your internet connection is either very expensive, very slow, or if you are underground, non existing.
With iPlayer I have a reasonably good choice of TV series that I can download at home with a good internet connection and watch on the train for free, and movies can usually be downloaded for a week.
Being advert free is nice, but other factors are much stronger in favour of iPlayer.
...are the professional forensic kits that law enforcement use as bad as this?
Law enforcement mostly wants to know: Is the DNA that we found at a crime scene identical to the DNA we took from a suspect? That's a much much simpler question, and can be decided clearly. If there is very little DNA, then they can say "the DNA matches, but it will be matching other people as well".
They can also reasonable well decide that the DNA found at a crime scene belongs to a relative of someone in the system, if there is an unusual high number of markers matching, with a good number of mismatches added. But that's just a first step to figure out which of your relatives can be found that is an _exact_ match.
I haven't heard of the police ever using something like "this person seems to come from France, with a bit of Scottish mixed in and a tiny bit of Japanese". You wouldn't be able to find someone with that information. The criminal himself or herself probably wouldn't know where they come from.
Because manufacturers are not offering them in higher-end phones, and other features are more important to lusers than a replaceable battery.
All phones have replaceable batteries. Well, all iPhones have, and I hope all Android phones as well. It's just that you have to go to a shop and find someone who has the right tools and pay them to do it.
Hard-to-replace batteries have advantages. The biggest is that the batteries can be shaped and fit into any gap in the phone. They don't have to be rectangular. And a simple opening mechanism takes space, and will eventually wear out. A hard-to-replace battery doesn't have these problems.
Was fire a big problem before glued in batteries? I seem to remember a phone with glued in batteries having to be completely withdrawn not long ago.
You may be thinking about Samsung here.
No, batteries on fire has nothing to do with batteries glued in or not. Someone at Samsung forgot that batteries expand a little bit when they are charged - they all do that, so you just leave a bit of space. One Samsung model didn't have that extra space, so when the battery expanded, as it does quite normally, you were in trouble.
One iPhones caught fire on a plane (very unfortunate), and it was due to a botched repair where someone put some screws right into the battery. Ouch. They don't like that.
In either case, glued in or not glued in wouldn't have made a difference, because the average wouldn't be able to remove a removable battery once it has caught fire. When you notice it, it is too late.
So I return to the original question: How can Tidal, a fictional corporation, face criminal charges? If found guilty will it be sent to jail? What is jail for a fiction? We are banned from thinking about it for a period? Who's in jail?
Tidal is not a fictional corporation, it's a real one. And when a corporation does something that is an intentional crime (paying money to friends of the CEO, most likely at the expense of other artists, or at the expense of investors), then this doesn't happen by chance. It happened because someone decided it would happen. And then you start with criminal charges against a real person.
If you worked in different EU countries as an EU citizen, then free movement means any attempt to stop you from moving to a country other than your own and working there is illegal.
Very simple: If you don't want someone to take a job, you have to pay them "reasonable compensation". A judge will tell you what the "reasonable compensation" is. Typical it's the amount of money not earned, or possibly more if some prestigious job is lost. I'm a software developer.
You can force me to work at McDonalds for a year, but you pay the difference between McDonald's annual pay and the annual pay I could have received. Plus some on top for me to keep up-to-date in my real profession. And the way German courts work, you are going to pay for the court and for my lawyer.
I'm an Android user and while I keep half an ear out about Apple stuff, I kind of assumed there was just the iPhone X and a couple of variants.
You seem to have that in common with lots of Slasdot readers.
On slashdot you will find complainers saying that Apple raised prices. The reality is that Apple lowered the prices for iPhone 7, 7+, 8 and 8+, replaced the X with a better model. AND introduced some slightly more expensive top of the range model, and a cheaper model.
And yes, replacement cycles get longer which means fewer phones are sold. And with longer cycles, people can afford more expensive phones.
The law says what the law says. You have to state under threat of perjury that you are the copyright holder or an agent of the copyright holder. Nothing else is under threat of perjury.
For example, if you are the copyright holder of GPL licensed software (and therefore not legally allowed to stop me using the software or creating derived works as long as I follow the license), and you issue a DMCA takedown notice against me, that's not perjury because you _are_ the copyright holder. Even if my use of the software was totally legitimate.
In a DMCA notice, you state "I am the copyright holder and I believe you are using my copyrighted item illegally". The "I am the copyright holder" part must be true under threat of perjury. The rest not.
You swear under threat of perjury that you are the copyright holder or an agent of the copyright holder of the copyright that you claim is infringed. Itâ(TM)s no problem if you made a mistake and the thing that you believed is infringing isnâ(TM)t actually yours, or if it is yours but someone isnâ(TM)t actually infringing. So they are legally fine.
I was told (by people that I trust in that area) that Nvidia's cards are an expensive flop because they support ray-tracing which is slow, not used by any games, and doesn't look much better unless you look very closely, and which nobody wants, while all other performance aspects haven't improved.
Is it indeed listening?
AirPlay 2 is just a technology that lets you stream video and music from Apple devices to any receiver implementing it, with provisions that allow sound to be synchronised precisely between two devices, and a stereo signal being properly mixed by two devices.
The most well-known AirPlay 2 receiver is Apple's HomePod which _can_ listen (but will only listen when you speak the magic words "Hey Siri" and even then will filter out automatically everything from others present), but that's absolutely no requirement.
Apple doesn't build TVs. So they are not going to lose customers to Samsung with this. On the other hand, it improves the value of MacOS and iOS and their usefulness for Apple's customers. I can't see any reason why Apple wouldn't do this.
You really are deluding yourself if you think Android phones are any different. Basically everything is built or assembled in Chinese factories these days.
The first really badly negative news about Apple in China was an article claiming that the highest number of complaints by people building iPhones was about overtime. Then someone looked further and the complaints were about the fact that workers couldn't always get as much overtime (and extra money) as they wanted.
Then there was the scandal when 300 workers in the iPhone factory threatened to jump from a roof. Well, it was in fact at the factory where iPhones were built. At the same factory, Microsoft Xbox was built. And Microsoft was scaling down production, and these 300 workers were in danger of losing their jobs building Xboxes.
Do you think AAC is a proprietary Apple-only format?
Some people think AAC means "Apple Apple Crap", when in reality it means "Advanced Audio Codec". Among other things it is what all DVDs have been using. And as other says, MP3's work just fine.