I just got a new Sony Xperia phone for $300. Nice screen, fast CPU. Works great.
Exactly. GP is like a Ferrari owner objecting to the high cost by saying "All cars are expensive - just look at the Lamborghini. And the Bugatti is more expensive than the Ferrari".
I still use a perfectly usable Nexus 4 and my daughter has just bought a Moto-G for a fraction of the price of an iPhone and that works really well
They have such a markup that they can afford to buy market share. On the other hand I don't know how attractive a change would be though. I think that a lot of people buy one system and stick with it because of the integration. Either you use hangouts, gmail, google calendar etc, or facetime, iCalender, and so on. Changing from one to another would be a pain.
Mastercard and Visa are the only two companies that handle credit card transactions at the end of the day, and theyve often admitted theyre effectively the same company.
Sure there is. All you have to do is use stegnography to encode your message into a photo, then use that photo in what looks like a spam email message, then pretend your computer is taken over by a botnet and send the spam to a few thousand email addresses (including the one you actually want to send to). Absolutely no useful metadata there.
Do you know what metadata is? It's the information like who it originated from and the destination address. That will still be
you can be compelled to give the encryption keys to the security services
In America, there would be a strong argument that this is in contravention of the Fifth Amendment of the consitution (as it would be self-incrimination). Not sure how that's played out though.
But yes, in the UK, there is a specific criminal offense of "Not disclosing your encryption key" which carries a 2 year sentence... and you can of course, be asked to disclose your key again once you've served it...
I think that you would have a good chance of arguing that being asked again after serving a sentence would be attempting to try the same offence again, for which a sentence had already been server. Of course you never know which way courts will go though.
I wonder how many people access yahoo mail on their phone, in effect reducing the protection to 1-factor authentication again? I know people who have Paypal accounts accessed on the smart phone with passwords remembered - and use SMS to the same phone as authentication!
Its still in America so its subject to NSL, patriot act and all those other "freedom" laws they have.
American crypto just cant be trusted, fundamentally flawed by law.
Is that right? I assumed that US law was like UK law - there is no law against using strong encryption but you can be compelled to give the encryption keys to the security services.
So, we're supposed to get excited because it has water? It has virtually no atmosphere. And from Wikipedia, the temperature never gets above 152K (that's -186F). Which of those two factors is going to allow for the evolution of any life form?
That's the surface temperature, liquid water oceans must be a lot hotter. Wikipedia estimates the core temperature as 1500–1700 K so there is certainly heat coming up.
Well - informing and educating is in it's charter and if done successfully it is a bit difficult to argue that it is more of a waste of money than many of their programs.
Not sure if it alters anything. Surely it just ratifies the status quo after George Harrison vs Ronnie Mack where George was determined to have subconsciously copied "He's So fine" when writing "My Sweet Lord".
Maybe he just had enough of being monitored all the time?
Maybe this will turn him into a terrorist - you know like all the Muslims say that they only become terrorists because they are monitored so it must be true
I wouldn't spend a fortune on a watch, but if I did I wouldn't spend it on one that will be obsolete in 5 years. A good quality Swiss watch will retain much of its value.
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Older iPhones are $100, so it's not a fraction of the price, is it?
What your doing is comparing your pinto to a vette and pretending the you got the same car for 1/10th the price.
Read the thread, the assertion was that "all phones are expensive" because high end Samsungs and HTCs cost as much or more than the iPhone.
ALL cellphones are expensive as hell.
I just got a new Sony Xperia phone for $300. Nice screen, fast CPU. Works great.
Exactly. GP is like a Ferrari owner objecting to the high cost by saying "All cars are expensive - just look at the Lamborghini. And the Bugatti is more expensive than the Ferrari".
I still use a perfectly usable Nexus 4 and my daughter has just bought a Moto-G for a fraction of the price of an iPhone and that works really well
They have such a markup that they can afford to buy market share. On the other hand I don't know how attractive a change would be though. I think that a lot of people buy one system and stick with it because of the integration. Either you use hangouts, gmail, google calendar etc, or facetime, iCalender, and so on. Changing from one to another would be a pain.
will not confirm nor deny as per praxis.
What does an explodey Klingon moon have to do with this?
Didn't you know that the UK establishment is run by Klingons? Though they have let a Ferengi and a Vulcan enter the government too.
Funded by the NSA? After all we don't want them compiling their own OSs with home grown backdoors instead of American ones
Don't take it - its a trap! They'll have you locked in and in future you'll pay
I use domainmonster. No issues, reasonable price, just does the job.
Because were living in the Roman Empire.
Vote Caligula for 2016
Fool you once, shame on him. Fool you twice, shame on you.
Or George Bush's take on it
Mastercard and Visa are the only two companies that handle credit card transactions at the end of the day, and theyve often admitted theyre effectively the same company.
Don't American Express handle their own too?
Have you ever actually gone to California and smelled the air?
You can literally SEE the smog.
They are like the American version of China. Oh, and I heard that Apple employs Chinese slaves.
That's terrible. Why can't they employ Californian slaves instead?
Nice try Cuba, no cigar ... oh wait!
Sure there is. All you have to do is use stegnography to encode your message into a photo, then use that photo in what looks like a spam email message, then pretend your computer is taken over by a botnet and send the spam to a few thousand email addresses (including the one you actually want to send to). Absolutely no useful metadata there.
Do you know what metadata is? It's the information like who it originated from and the destination address. That will still be
In a standard smtp environment nothing can protect the email meta-data.
you can be compelled to give the encryption keys to the security services
In America, there would be a strong argument that this is in contravention of the Fifth Amendment of the consitution (as it would be self-incrimination). Not sure how that's played out though.
But yes, in the UK, there is a specific criminal offense of "Not disclosing your encryption key" which carries a 2 year sentence... and you can of course, be asked to disclose your key again once you've served it...
I think that you would have a good chance of arguing that being asked again after serving a sentence would be attempting to try the same offence again, for which a sentence had already been server. Of course you never know which way courts will go though.
I wonder how many people access yahoo mail on their phone, in effect reducing the protection to 1-factor authentication again? I know people who have Paypal accounts accessed on the smart phone with passwords remembered - and use SMS to the same phone as authentication!
Its still in America so its subject to NSL, patriot act and all those other "freedom" laws they have. American crypto just cant be trusted, fundamentally flawed by law.
Is that right? I assumed that US law was like UK law - there is no law against using strong encryption but you can be compelled to give the encryption keys to the security services.
It's just the reverse of the cubicle system .. which turned coders into prisoners
So criminals will wait until the police pass by before committing a crime. Pretty obvious. .
So, we're supposed to get excited because it has water? It has virtually no atmosphere. And from Wikipedia, the temperature never gets above 152K (that's -186F). Which of those two factors is going to allow for the evolution of any life form?
That's the surface temperature, liquid water oceans must be a lot hotter. Wikipedia estimates the core temperature as 1500–1700 K so there is certainly heat coming up.
As a matter of interest, what do you use?
Yet another pointless waste of money by the BBC.
Well - informing and educating is in it's charter and if done successfully it is a bit difficult to argue that it is more of a waste of money than many of their programs.
Not sure if it alters anything. Surely it just ratifies the status quo after George Harrison vs Ronnie Mack where George was determined to have subconsciously copied "He's So fine" when writing "My Sweet Lord".
Maybe he just had enough of being monitored all the time?
Maybe this will turn him into a terrorist - you know like all the Muslims say that they only become terrorists because they are monitored so it must be true
I wouldn't spend a fortune on a watch, but if I did I wouldn't spend it on one that will be obsolete in 5 years. A good quality Swiss watch will retain much of its value.