Apple has indicated that a forked version of the OS that they would have to digitally sign could be created.
For the phone in question, it could be a fork that simply NOPs out the wipe after ten attempts, and possible shortens some integers that set a delay time between subsequent attempts.
Then the fork would have to be digitally signed by Apple of course, so that it could be pushed onto the phone, which is the crux of the matter.
'Secure Enclave' is the new buzzword, though, and the new hardware is better (It's ALWAYS better with Apple, line up at the store for your new shiny!)
And I am talking about not having to funnel my music through a single mandatory application to get it onto my portable media player.
And I have VLC on my Android tablet and used it at noon today to watch a TV episode I'd copied onto my external SD card. I didn't have to 'delete anything from an application and reimport it'. Just point to the file with an android file manager and it plays.
An aside on the subject of USB: It's nice the Firewire is now deprecated. Like the Altivec unit, the 'RISC wars' and other hyped crap from Apple, it's gone away. Apple stuff now sports a flavor of USB.
The delicious thing will be if the FBI has managed to break into the phone on their own. After all the crowing of Apple about how unbreakable it is and what extraordinary means they refuse to engage to open it... If the FBI gets in, Apples use of this whole 'crisis' as a marketing opportunity to flaunt their 'security' will explode and tumble like a castle made of playing cards.
We can hope, anyway, those of us who are so tired of Apple's smug use of the issue to hype their stuff.
And the 'solution' to the burner phone problem is for us all to buy expensive Apple phones. Or other brands, as long as they're expensive and we have to sign a mandatory contract for some significant term of time,
I use a month-at-a-time phone from Virgin Mobile just because I don't like the commitment. I've had the same number on it for years now. But if I try to do things like use it to 'validate' my Battle.net account, they refuse, because it's not 'under contract.' I haven't tried using it to 'secure' my Google account, because I'm not that thrilled about giving Google another data point on me, but I'm pretty sure they'd refuse to use it for that, either.
The worst thing that could come of this phenomenon would be for nerds and the populace at large to decide 'burner phones should just be illegal.' No thanks, Apple. My Android 5.1 smartphone cost $40, and there are cheaper smartphones than it.
And the Communist USSR sent Trotskyites and other leftist factions to the firing squad, early after the revolution, while Lenin was still alive. Though the "Trots" will maintain it was all Stalin's fault.
I vote that the food producers should label anything that they think MIGHT have any GMO components in it should voluntarily label it GMO. In fact, they should slap the label on everything they produce just to be safe.
The people terriified of GMO food can live on granola from the health-food-cooperative and those smallish very expensive wilted 'organic' oranges.
It only seems like that until your Junior year. Wait and you'll see. The homework load then makes it impossible to have the time to hang out around those cute freshmen chicks at the lit table.
That's just weird. You're saying you can lock your music files into iTunes and then iTunes will find them wherever you put them and just play them.
As if iTunes isn't one of the most lock-down ways possible to play MP3s.
I can use Windows Explorer, or a file transfer tool (Midnight Commander would be a good choice) on any of the Freenixes to copy MP3 files to my phone or tablet, after mounting it as a plain vanilla USB drive, and play them on the phone no matter where they are located. Also works with Windows phone that way. I used iTunes and an iPod touch for awhile, but I eventually figured out what a bad deal that was.
For Cross Platform development, something like NetBSD is probably a better choice than Windows, AppleOS, or Linux. You can port and test your code on multiple hardware architectures all running the same exact code (NetBSD is built for every architecture from the same source tree, not a dogs breakfast of blocks of code thrown together for whatever architectures one of the various 'distro' producers fancies. You can check out the entire NetBSD kernel and userland source from the source repository and build it on all it's supported systems) There are no idiosyncrasies or inconsistencies in NetBSD.
If you're a 'hardcore' developer who is serious about producing portable code, you don't want to use any of the 'big three' OSes.
mac hardware lets you run all three major OS's (osx + windows + linux) on a single piece of hardware.
It's fairly trivial to run OSX, Windows, and Linux on a single piece of hardware. Any old PC clone box, to be specific. Because the kludges to run OSX under VirtualBox have been put together and are easily downloaded.
Why anybody would pay extra for Apple hardware to run OSX is a mystery. Well, not a mystery, just like it's not really a mystery why people become Scientologists.
The Open Source Darwin is dead. I downloaded some of the last.isos before it died. It's dead, because it can't be compiled from source for generic x86 boxes. Also because 'Open Source' isn't just source code sitting out there in a tarball, it's a system with open collective development.
If you get a Nokia 535 from Virgin Mobile, you have a Windows phone, that costs $40. And you can go on an unlimited data/voice plan for $35/mo with no contract. The unlimited data is, of course, throttled at 3 GB. But it's a relatively low cost way to do a smartphone.
I use a Moto E on Virgin Mobile now. It was another $40 smart phone. I like it better than the Windows phone, but now that the Nokia will be upgradable to Windows 10 I might try it again for a bit. It's only $35 to put a month on it again and I can let the Moto go lax for that month.
Unfortunately there are rewards programs at places like Kroeger where you pay an obscene markup for products like meat and poultry if you don't have the card to flash at the checkout. There is a 'regular' price on the package and a 'members' price. The difference is always substantial.
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Apple has indicated that a forked version of the OS that they would have to digitally sign could be created.
For the phone in question, it could be a fork that simply NOPs out the wipe after ten attempts, and possible shortens some integers that set a delay time between subsequent attempts.
Then the fork would have to be digitally signed by Apple of course, so that it could be pushed onto the phone, which is the crux of the matter.
'Secure Enclave' is the new buzzword, though, and the new hardware is better (It's ALWAYS better with Apple, line up at the store for your new shiny!)
And I am talking about not having to funnel my music through a single mandatory application to get it onto my portable media player.
And I have VLC on my Android tablet and used it at noon today to watch a TV episode I'd copied onto my external SD card. I didn't have to 'delete anything from an application and reimport it'. Just point to the file with an android file manager and it plays.
An aside on the subject of USB: It's nice the Firewire is now deprecated. Like the Altivec unit, the 'RISC wars' and other hyped crap from Apple, it's gone away. Apple stuff now sports a flavor of USB.
Yeah, we know. There were third party mice by the time the Mac Plus become popular.
I am talking about the priesthood at Apple accepting a second mouse button.
I bet there are still a some of them holding out.
In other words, a key we can deauth and then sell on to the next user.
Microsoft won't want that, though. That would have to be forced on them with some sort of First Sale rights ruling.
It might be a little late to short some Apple.
The delicious thing will be if the FBI has managed to break into the phone on their own. After all the crowing of Apple about how unbreakable it is and what extraordinary means they refuse to engage to open it... If the FBI gets in, Apples use of this whole 'crisis' as a marketing opportunity to flaunt their 'security' will explode and tumble like a castle made of playing cards.
We can hope, anyway, those of us who are so tired of Apple's smug use of the issue to hype their stuff.
And the 'solution' to the burner phone problem is for us all to buy expensive Apple phones. Or other brands, as long as they're expensive and we have to sign a mandatory contract for some significant term of time,
I use a month-at-a-time phone from Virgin Mobile just because I don't like the commitment. I've had the same number on it for years now. But if I try to do things like use it to 'validate' my Battle.net account, they refuse, because it's not 'under contract.' I haven't tried using it to 'secure' my Google account, because I'm not that thrilled about giving Google another data point on me, but I'm pretty sure they'd refuse to use it for that, either.
The worst thing that could come of this phenomenon would be for nerds and the populace at large to decide 'burner phones should just be illegal.' No thanks, Apple. My Android 5.1 smartphone cost $40, and there are cheaper smartphones than it.
Hey Microsoft, can I buy used digital download Xbone games from my friend instead? Or sell them to my friend for the 10% you are offering me?
We should all go back to 10Base2 in any event.
Hint: Most of the packages you find in the pet section of the supermarket that have pictures of cats on them don't actually contain cat meat.
And the Communist USSR sent Trotskyites and other leftist factions to the firing squad, early after the revolution, while Lenin was still alive. Though the "Trots" will maintain it was all Stalin's fault.
I vote that the food producers should label anything that they think MIGHT have any GMO components in it should voluntarily label it GMO. In fact, they should slap the label on everything they produce just to be safe.
The people terriified of GMO food can live on granola from the health-food-cooperative and those smallish very expensive wilted 'organic' oranges.
It only seems like that until your Junior year. Wait and you'll see. The homework load then makes it impossible to have the time to hang out around those cute freshmen chicks at the lit table.
If you're still using Facebook, it would be interesting to know why. (You like the interface? Business requirement? Just being contrarian?)
Give them time. You remember how long it took to accept a second button on the mouse, don't you?
Just download VirtualBox. It's certainly good enough for Web 'developing' (as if)
It bloody well better, since Apple has the trivial task of regression testing it on the handful of pieces of hardware they support at any one time.
That's just weird. You're saying you can lock your music files into iTunes and then iTunes will find them wherever you put them and just play them.
As if iTunes isn't one of the most lock-down ways possible to play MP3s.
I can use Windows Explorer, or a file transfer tool (Midnight Commander would be a good choice) on any of the Freenixes to copy MP3 files to my phone or tablet, after mounting it as a plain vanilla USB drive, and play them on the phone no matter where they are located. Also works with Windows phone that way. I used iTunes and an iPod touch for awhile, but I eventually figured out what a bad deal that was.
For Cross Platform development, something like NetBSD is probably a better choice than Windows, AppleOS, or Linux. You can port and test your code on multiple hardware architectures all running the same exact code (NetBSD is built for every architecture from the same source tree, not a dogs breakfast of blocks of code thrown together for whatever architectures one of the various 'distro' producers fancies. You can check out the entire NetBSD kernel and userland source from the source repository and build it on all it's supported systems) There are no idiosyncrasies or inconsistencies in NetBSD.
If you're a 'hardcore' developer who is serious about producing portable code, you don't want to use any of the 'big three' OSes.
mac hardware lets you run all three major OS's (osx + windows + linux) on a single piece of hardware.
It's fairly trivial to run OSX, Windows, and Linux on a single piece of hardware. Any old PC clone box, to be specific. Because the kludges to run OSX under VirtualBox have been put together and are easily downloaded.
Why anybody would pay extra for Apple hardware to run OSX is a mystery. Well, not a mystery, just like it's not really a mystery why people become Scientologists.
The Open Source Darwin is dead. I downloaded some of the last .isos before it died. It's dead, because it can't be compiled from source for generic x86 boxes. Also because 'Open Source' isn't just source code sitting out there in a tarball, it's a system with open collective development.
Apple killed it.
If you get a Nokia 535 from Virgin Mobile, you have a Windows phone, that costs $40. And you can go on an unlimited data/voice plan for $35/mo with no contract. The unlimited data is, of course, throttled at 3 GB. But it's a relatively low cost way to do a smartphone.
I use a Moto E on Virgin Mobile now. It was another $40 smart phone. I like it better than the Windows phone, but now that the Nokia will be upgradable to Windows 10 I might try it again for a bit. It's only $35 to put a month on it again and I can let the Moto go lax for that month.
Mobile slashdot has a LOT of issues.
It's definitely easier to just give up on logged-in browsing over a mobile device and post as AC. I know I do.
What was the damage done by the x-rays being sent to China?
No, not contrived and complex scenarios. Not slippery slopes. What was the actual damage?
Unfortunately there are rewards programs at places like Kroeger where you pay an obscene markup for products like meat and poultry if you don't have the card to flash at the checkout. There is a 'regular' price on the package and a 'members' price. The difference is always substantial.