I had a coworker who would just send letters off resignation from your email if you left your computer unlocked. I like your thing better.
As a manager, if someone sends a letter of resignation, I would accept it. Note that I say "if someone sends a letter of resignation", not "if a letter of resignation is sent from someone's computer".
What? 32GB DDR-4 SO-DIMMs Should cost around 200-300$. Wtf are you smoking.
Idiot. Read what I posted: I checked the Crucial website for 32GB DDR-4 chips, and they had _none_ on their website. If you say they should cost $200 - $300, post where you get them. And I mean not chips with "32 GB" printed on them, but chips with 32 working GB inside.
He wasn't really fired for mining crypto currency. He was fired for adding $2,100 to the school's electricity bill, plus probably causing significant wear on eight computers owned by the school. Absolutely should have been fired for that.
I also would completely agree that crypto currency mined on school computers, with the electricity paid for by the school, should be property of the school.
Do you have a source for 32GB DDR-4 SO-DIMMs for less than $700 each?
Crucial sells 128GB (looks like one chip) DDR-4 chips for $3,299. No 64GB or 32GB chips on sale. Didn't check what form factor (SO-DIMM or else) they were.
That doesn't mean Apple can't decode the data anyway.
I'll hereby declare you as paranoid.
Unless you can state a good reason why Apple would want the ability to decode the data on your hard drive. There is no upside for them, just downsides. All it would do is cost them time and money providing services for the government, which they have no intent to do.
And you are basing this on the fact that the drive is not removable. What does that have to do with anything? If Apple _could_ read the data, and the NSA wanted the data, they would knock on your door with a warrant, or break in in the middle of the night, and take your Mac mini with the SSD drive, whether it's removable or not.
A top-of-the-line Mac Mini is now over $4000, and Apple labels this as their "entry-level" model.
You are being ridiculous. The "top-of-the-line" Mac Mini is so expensive because it can be upgraded to 64 GB Ram / 2TB SSD. Would it make you happier if it could be upgraded to 32GB / 1TB only for much less money?
BTW. You can upgrade the RAM yourself, and there are four thunderbolt parts where you can attach the fastest and biggest SSD drives you can find.
And believe it or not for *most* criminals there is such thing as honor among thieves.
Actually, there isn't.
A UK police phone line where you can phone in information about crimes anonymously reported that 1/3rd of all calls come from criminals who want to get rid of the competition. And it's common knowledge for everyone in jail that the ones saying "don't rat on anyone" will be the first ones to rat on you.
Its not end-to-end if the service provider / middleman is providing or transmitting the keys. The key should be exchanged via an entirely different and unrelated channel of communications
You would be right if the purpose of the app was to provide secure communications. It wasn't. The purpose was to make money from criminals that are willing to pay for an application where they _believe_ they get secure communications.
Twitter should create a website, where they list each account, and each message from each account. So that people can check out what propaganda messages have been sent out.
No, wrong. Android uses more threads than I-os because the Linux scheduler is a lot more efficient than the Mach scheduler. On Linux there usually is no benefit to writing complex, fragile non-blocking code just to avoid the scheduler, only drawbacks. So with threads you get to have nice clean code and high performance too. On Linux.
I use Grand Central Dispatch, and you can stick your Linux threads wherever you prefer them.
Apple has a license that lets it do _anything they want_ with ARM. The new iPad Pro has four 2.5 GHz cores and four 1.5 GHz cores. Massive L1, L2 and L3 caches and another 16MB cache between CPU and anything looking like a memory access. 10 billion transistors.
But that's Apple ARM CPUs. Others are quite a bit behind (like 50%).
Actually, there is a chip in every Mac containing a 64 bit code that is needed during the boot process. Easy to get around. Just enough to invoke the DMCA against any Hackintosh user - if Apple wanted to.
Actually, the matter is in court and a court will decide how much Apple owes. $7bn is not what Apple owes, itâ(TM)s what Qualcomm would want in their wildest dreams.
Where I took my test, I was taught that you need to drive extra carefully when there are parked cars or other obstructions that might hide pedestrians from view. And with some experience, you can usually foresee what people are going to do, and you should be able to recognise dangerous situations (for example two pedestrians by the side of the road talking to each other, it is not uncommon that they walk off suddenly, and one tries to cross the road). AIs, listen!
If I want you dead all I need to do is throw something that can trick a machine into thinking its a human baby into the road and watch the ensuing carnage!
And you will get caught by multiple cameras, and go to jail for a very long time. But also, if you want someone dead, you can just take a gun.
... know that they have to set priorities. You can spend time on X or on Y but not on both. So you decide what has more benefits, working on X or on Y, and that's what you do.
Working to make cars more secure is highly beneficial. Working on deciding moral dilemmas, whether to kill one person or another, isn't beneficial in any way. One person dead, one way or another. So spending developer time on this kind of question is absolutely pointless until these cars are 100% safe, and then it is even more pointless.
A self driving car should protect its passengers first or they wouldn't sell. Who would willingly ride in a vehicle that would intentionally sacrifice their life for any reason?
And if your car damages other people, that alone will make them win any court case against you.
What do you think happens if you intentionally kill people with your car to minimise your own damage?
If the NSA intervened, you wouldn't know. If they already did intervene, you don't know, I don't know.
Remember: The government can or could compel a company to stay silent. They cannot compel a company to lie. If Apple says anything, then you know they haven't been ordered by the government to keep quiet, and what they say is what Apple wants you to hear, not what the government wants you to hear.
I'd guess that the story is true and the affected megacorps are trying to cover it up.
It seems that Apple learned about the story from the newspaper, then asked the relevant employees "did you find anything and contact the FBI", then asked the FBI "did any of our employees contact you", and the FBI knew nothing, and the employees knew nothing. "Trying to cover it up" is a bit ridiculous when Bloomberg could just release the evidence (which they probably don't have).
Winning a libel suit requires proving intentional falsehood motivated by malice.
True, but Apple or Amazon wouldn't have to win. If a judge decided "Apple, you lose.The whole story was total nonsense, but you cannot prove it was motivated by malice.", that's all that Apple would want.
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I had a coworker who would just send letters off resignation from your email if you left your computer unlocked. I like your thing better.
As a manager, if someone sends a letter of resignation, I would accept it. Note that I say "if someone sends a letter of resignation", not "if a letter of resignation is sent from someone's computer".
All Apple computers are easily upgradable.
Step 1: Put your Mac on eBay.
Step 2: Order a new Mac. Seriously, prices for used Macs on eBay are so high, it works out.
What? 32GB DDR-4 SO-DIMMs Should cost around 200-300$. Wtf are you smoking.
Idiot. Read what I posted: I checked the Crucial website for 32GB DDR-4 chips, and they had _none_ on their website. If you say they should cost $200 - $300, post where you get them. And I mean not chips with "32 GB" printed on them, but chips with 32 working GB inside.
He wasn't really fired for mining crypto currency. He was fired for adding $2,100 to the school's electricity bill, plus probably causing significant wear on eight computers owned by the school. Absolutely should have been fired for that.
I also would completely agree that crypto currency mined on school computers, with the electricity paid for by the school, should be property of the school.
Apple Lisa. Never forget
I can remember on CeBit seeing an Apple Lisa head to head against a Xerox Star at five times the price, and the Lisa ran rings around it.
Do you have a source for 32GB DDR-4 SO-DIMMs for less than $700 each?
Crucial sells 128GB (looks like one chip) DDR-4 chips for $3,299. No 64GB or 32GB chips on sale. Didn't check what form factor (SO-DIMM or else) they were.
That doesn't mean Apple can't decode the data anyway.
I'll hereby declare you as paranoid.
Unless you can state a good reason why Apple would want the ability to decode the data on your hard drive. There is no upside for them, just downsides. All it would do is cost them time and money providing services for the government, which they have no intent to do.
And you are basing this on the fact that the drive is not removable. What does that have to do with anything? If Apple _could_ read the data, and the NSA wanted the data, they would knock on your door with a warrant, or break in in the middle of the night, and take your Mac mini with the SSD drive, whether it's removable or not.
A top-of-the-line Mac Mini is now over $4000, and Apple labels this as their "entry-level" model.
You are being ridiculous. The "top-of-the-line" Mac Mini is so expensive because it can be upgraded to 64 GB Ram / 2TB SSD. Would it make you happier if it could be upgraded to 32GB / 1TB only for much less money?
BTW. You can upgrade the RAM yourself, and there are four thunderbolt parts where you can attach the fastest and biggest SSD drives you can find.
And believe it or not for *most* criminals there is such thing as honor among thieves.
Actually, there isn't.
A UK police phone line where you can phone in information about crimes anonymously reported that 1/3rd of all calls come from criminals who want to get rid of the competition. And it's common knowledge for everyone in jail that the ones saying "don't rat on anyone" will be the first ones to rat on you.
Its not end-to-end if the service provider / middleman is providing or transmitting the keys. The key should be exchanged via an entirely different and unrelated channel of communications
You would be right if the purpose of the app was to provide secure communications. It wasn't. The purpose was to make money from criminals that are willing to pay for an application where they _believe_ they get secure communications.
Twitter should create a website, where they list each account, and each message from each account. So that people can check out what propaganda messages have been sent out.
No, wrong. Android uses more threads than I-os because the Linux scheduler is a lot more efficient than the Mach scheduler. On Linux there usually is no benefit to writing complex, fragile non-blocking code just to avoid the scheduler, only drawbacks. So with threads you get to have nice clean code and high performance too. On Linux.
I use Grand Central Dispatch, and you can stick your Linux threads wherever you prefer them.
Apple has a license that lets it do _anything they want_ with ARM. The new iPad Pro has four 2.5 GHz cores and four 1.5 GHz cores. Massive L1, L2 and L3 caches and another 16MB cache between CPU and anything looking like a memory access. 10 billion transistors.
But that's Apple ARM CPUs. Others are quite a bit behind (like 50%).
Actually, there is a chip in every Mac containing a 64 bit code that is needed during the boot process. Easy to get around. Just enough to invoke the DMCA against any Hackintosh user - if Apple wanted to.
I would say Saudi Arabia murdered a journalist, and Turkey squeezes their balls for it. As any country should in that situation.
Actually, the matter is in court and a court will decide how much Apple owes. $7bn is not what Apple owes, itâ(TM)s what Qualcomm would want in their wildest dreams.
Where I took my test, I was taught that you need to drive extra carefully when there are parked cars or other obstructions that might hide pedestrians from view. And with some experience, you can usually foresee what people are going to do, and you should be able to recognise dangerous situations (for example two pedestrians by the side of the road talking to each other, it is not uncommon that they walk off suddenly, and one tries to cross the road). AIs, listen!
If I want you dead all I need to do is throw something that can trick a machine into thinking its a human baby into the road and watch the ensuing carnage!
And you will get caught by multiple cameras, and go to jail for a very long time. But also, if you want someone dead, you can just take a gun.
... know that they have to set priorities. You can spend time on X or on Y but not on both. So you decide what has more benefits, working on X or on Y, and that's what you do.
Working to make cars more secure is highly beneficial. Working on deciding moral dilemmas, whether to kill one person or another, isn't beneficial in any way. One person dead, one way or another. So spending developer time on this kind of question is absolutely pointless until these cars are 100% safe, and then it is even more pointless.
A self driving car should protect its passengers first or they wouldn't sell. Who would willingly ride in a vehicle that would intentionally sacrifice their life for any reason?
And if your car damages other people, that alone will make them win any court case against you.
What do you think happens if you intentionally kill people with your car to minimise your own damage?
What a rant. Your problem is it just exposes you as an ignorant idiot.
When was the last time Stallman has done any programming?
If the NSA intervened, you wouldn't know. If they already did intervene, you don't know, I don't know.
Remember: The government can or could compel a company to stay silent. They cannot compel a company to lie. If Apple says anything, then you know they haven't been ordered by the government to keep quiet, and what they say is what Apple wants you to hear, not what the government wants you to hear.
I'd guess that the story is true and the affected megacorps are trying to cover it up.
It seems that Apple learned about the story from the newspaper, then asked the relevant employees "did you find anything and contact the FBI", then asked the FBI "did any of our employees contact you", and the FBI knew nothing, and the employees knew nothing. "Trying to cover it up" is a bit ridiculous when Bloomberg could just release the evidence (which they probably don't have).
Winning a libel suit requires proving intentional falsehood motivated by malice.
True, but Apple or Amazon wouldn't have to win. If a judge decided "Apple, you lose.The whole story was total nonsense, but you cannot prove it was motivated by malice.", that's all that Apple would want.