Also note the remote disabling capability (even in owned cars) is similar to the laws requiring carriers remotely brick phones which have been reported stolen (to help thwart cell phone theft). Can the government really give a third party that power if the owner doesn't want it? There's some vague justification in cars, since they have to be operated on government-owned roads. But cell phones operate on spectrum which has been lawfully licensed so the government is not involved.
In México, at least, RF spectrum is government property. They are, as you say, licensed to the operator (be it a radiostation, a telco or whatever) but they are not their property. So I would think that it is more similar than a government-owned roads than not.
Exactly! "its up to the person who would be in control": The point of all this is that there would be no "person" in control. Just a machine with a predefined set of rules and, possibly, very little more. That's the point I was trying to make: there are cases where the "correct" (or less bad) answer could be very difficult to program into an IA. Or maybe not possible at all. One as a human makes a choice (with some obscure logic or rationalization) and you try to live with the consequences of said choice. For an IA it's another story.
It just came to my mind that Isaac Asimov did several short stories about robots with "problems" like this.
For what is worth, I do strongly believe that a pure IA driven car would be much safer than a human-driven one. And having *only* IA driven cars would be the best possible scenario where accidents and stuff like that would be minimized as much as possible. Only the fringe cases would remain (like my not-so-good example) and in that cases in might be better to just roll a dice and choose the selected option (it wouldn't surprise me if deep down that's more or less what we humans do).
This is interesting... although I don't think the technology is ready for something like this. Consider the thought experiment of having to select one of two options, where in one you die and in the other you kill somebody else, for instance: you're going on the highway, and ahead of you, blocking all the lanes, are different subjects, and hitting anyone will kill them. What should the autopilot do? Or, say that you as the driver selected one of the lanes, but the autopilot tries to correct it by changing to other lane?
I understand your point, though, but prevention of this kind of accidents can easily escalate to much more complex decisions that I don't think computers will be ever be able to make. Or, if they do, we as humans will always believe there could have been a better choice to be made.
Totally agree. I guess that, if they haven't had ads before about their device security (as the article mentions) then the next versions of their products certainly should have. And I'm sure the iPhone 7 will have closed as much as possible the possible holes regarding the upgrading of the OS without the user password. Hopefully that's something they can do in some next iteration of the iOS for the current versions.
And I can see a lot of people upgrading from pre-5S to more current devices because of the somewhat better security (in theory, at least, the method proposed by the FBI shouldn't work there).
As far as I understand, you can't copy the WHOLE contents of the iPhone outside. So you can't try in an emulator outside. The reason is that the phone is encrypted with something like a hash of the password AND a unique, hardware burned key that can't be read. So you can copy all the data, but that data is not encrypted with the password itself, but with a hash of the password AND the unique hardware key that you can't access nor read. At least not easily.
I was thinking on something along these lines: the keys are in a device encrypted more or less with the same features of the iPhone... and the only people with access to it suddenly moved to some other country... so in order for them to have the keys, they need to break the encryption of this device... that would at least gets me a big laugh.
IANAL, but would the FBI *really* have to pay Apple if they get the source code? I mean, what they are asking is already, in my very humble opinion, totally against the law and the Constitution, so... Apple could say that the FBI now owes them X billions dollars... but what? At this point everything that would "make sense" is getting thrown out of the window.
But I sure as hell hope Apple gets as many lawyers as they can to fight this, fight this for as long as it can, and in the mean time do whatever they can to move their IP somewhere else (if they aren't doing it right now).
As far as I know, they did NOT change the password on this phone, but on the iCloud account (they are not the same). If they did change the password on this phone then they are really playing a very dirty game, even for Government standards. Not that I don't think they will... but if that's the game they are playing then all bets are off, and we can just assume this will happen... and probably worse.
Government doesn't need to try the custom firmware in secret... if they manage to force Apple to create this special firmware, then they will be able to force Apple to create "specific" firmware for any device they want. That's the thing with Legal Precedents. So, why bother trying to hack the hacked firmware produced by Apple, when you can just "ask nicely" again... and again... and again...
Agreed. I also have a mid-2010 Macbook Pro 15" and I have not seen one kernel panic. The only ones I got were on my Mac Pro, and that was because I had some old m-audio drivers for my FW410. Other than that, Lion has been pretty solid.
The only thing I do have, and could be related, is when going fullscreen mode on VLC (haven't tried Quicktime) and playing a movie. It looks for a moment bad (blocks of different colors, etc.) But it's only for a moment and later the movie keeps going ok.
I have this same problem but without doing anything graphically intensive. Just a common work session (the compiler, messenger, Thunderbird and like 6-7 explorer windows). It keeps telling me system is running low on memory (I have 5gb) and eventually it just disables aero automatically. I really hate when that happens.
"Hopefully" this has something to do with this bug and they can fix it along when fixing the bug mentioned in TFA.
They could probably do the Hari Seldon books (which are probably the ones I like the most), that in my opinion have enough material to create a movie or two. The last two books are great too, and don't change characters as much as the original Foundation Trilogy, which, as you say, are a collection of short stories bound together.
Of course, doing the whole Foundation "novel" would be great if done right, but I don't think studios are going to try to respect the books, and the whole project will end up probably with the movie adaptation of Timeline (of Michael Crichton) that was really *really* bad.
I didn't enjoy I, Robot the first time I saw it, but somewhat it became a bit better the next times I saw it. The Bicentennial Man is much better, IMHO.
I'm not sure Four Thirds or Micro Four Thirds mounts would make sense in a camera/system like this, specially when the sensor size is not that size.
Supporting Adobe DNG would be great for stills, but I'm not sure the specs of it support movies. Actually I don't think there is an open spec for raw movies.
When are the mod points when one needs them???
This was maybe one of the funniest things I have heard in a long time (except from some kxcd comics, that's it).
You're correct, at least from my point of view. Telmex is right now pretty good in what they do, but that is because there are now some companies that offer telco services. For instance, the long distance calls. Telmex charged whatever they wanted some years ago because there were no other players. When Alestra, and so on came, they had to lower their prices and offer a better service. Unfortunately, that only happens widely in the long distance carrier. The local service is only Telmex in a lot of cities, even somewhat big cities. Most of the companies that offer local service use "wireless" services: they put you an antenna, with it's pros and cons. I guess that's because they have no [redituable] way of wiring, or leasing Telmex' lines.
So, yes, Telmex has improved a lot in recent years, say, from 7 years or so, but there are still a lot of things to improve. Competition is always good for customers, and here in Mexico we really could use other 2 or 3 players in the telephone and communications area.
Umm, most video cards work just fine. I always check before buying one, but I've never, ever had a problem. Some of the cards that are coming out now do not support EFI, and fail back to BIOS compatibility, which may work with Windows, but not OS X (who never used BIOS). In general, however, any video card you buy will work fine.
As far as I know, Mac OS X only supports some video cards. I did this some weeks ago when moving everything to my Mac Pro, and just dual boot (while I move everything to Fusion or Parallels). My Mac has the GeForce 7300 card and I put a Radeon x1600 that I had in my other PC, just to be able to use 3 screens. Windows recognizes the Radeon and was able to use it without problems, but I was never able to make it work in OS X. I even installed some drivers from the osx386 project with no luck. About this Mac recognizes the card, but I was never able to make it display anything in OS X. I ended up buying a second Mac GeForce 7300.
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Also note the remote disabling capability (even in owned cars) is similar to the laws requiring carriers remotely brick phones which have been reported stolen (to help thwart cell phone theft). Can the government really give a third party that power if the owner doesn't want it? There's some vague justification in cars, since they have to be operated on government-owned roads. But cell phones operate on spectrum which has been lawfully licensed so the government is not involved.
In México, at least, RF spectrum is government property. They are, as you say, licensed to the operator (be it a radiostation, a telco or whatever) but they are not their property. So I would think that it is more similar than a government-owned roads than not.
I'm on the exact same boat. I already cancelled the subscription to HBO GO. Not going to pay for their non-service.
Exactly! "its up to the person who would be in control": The point of all this is that there would be no "person" in control. Just a machine with a predefined set of rules and, possibly, very little more. That's the point I was trying to make: there are cases where the "correct" (or less bad) answer could be very difficult to program into an IA. Or maybe not possible at all. One as a human makes a choice (with some obscure logic or rationalization) and you try to live with the consequences of said choice. For an IA it's another story. It just came to my mind that Isaac Asimov did several short stories about robots with "problems" like this. For what is worth, I do strongly believe that a pure IA driven car would be much safer than a human-driven one. And having *only* IA driven cars would be the best possible scenario where accidents and stuff like that would be minimized as much as possible. Only the fringe cases would remain (like my not-so-good example) and in that cases in might be better to just roll a dice and choose the selected option (it wouldn't surprise me if deep down that's more or less what we humans do).
This is interesting... although I don't think the technology is ready for something like this. Consider the thought experiment of having to select one of two options, where in one you die and in the other you kill somebody else, for instance: you're going on the highway, and ahead of you, blocking all the lanes, are different subjects, and hitting anyone will kill them. What should the autopilot do? Or, say that you as the driver selected one of the lanes, but the autopilot tries to correct it by changing to other lane? I understand your point, though, but prevention of this kind of accidents can easily escalate to much more complex decisions that I don't think computers will be ever be able to make. Or, if they do, we as humans will always believe there could have been a better choice to be made.
Totally agree. I guess that, if they haven't had ads before about their device security (as the article mentions) then the next versions of their products certainly should have. And I'm sure the iPhone 7 will have closed as much as possible the possible holes regarding the upgrading of the OS without the user password. Hopefully that's something they can do in some next iteration of the iOS for the current versions. And I can see a lot of people upgrading from pre-5S to more current devices because of the somewhat better security (in theory, at least, the method proposed by the FBI shouldn't work there).
As far as I understand, you can't copy the WHOLE contents of the iPhone outside. So you can't try in an emulator outside. The reason is that the phone is encrypted with something like a hash of the password AND a unique, hardware burned key that can't be read. So you can copy all the data, but that data is not encrypted with the password itself, but with a hash of the password AND the unique hardware key that you can't access nor read. At least not easily.
I was thinking on something along these lines: the keys are in a device encrypted more or less with the same features of the iPhone... and the only people with access to it suddenly moved to some other country... so in order for them to have the keys, they need to break the encryption of this device... that would at least gets me a big laugh.
IANAL, but would the FBI *really* have to pay Apple if they get the source code? I mean, what they are asking is already, in my very humble opinion, totally against the law and the Constitution, so... Apple could say that the FBI now owes them X billions dollars... but what? At this point everything that would "make sense" is getting thrown out of the window. But I sure as hell hope Apple gets as many lawyers as they can to fight this, fight this for as long as it can, and in the mean time do whatever they can to move their IP somewhere else (if they aren't doing it right now).
As far as I know, they did NOT change the password on this phone, but on the iCloud account (they are not the same). If they did change the password on this phone then they are really playing a very dirty game, even for Government standards. Not that I don't think they will... but if that's the game they are playing then all bets are off, and we can just assume this will happen... and probably worse.
Government doesn't need to try the custom firmware in secret... if they manage to force Apple to create this special firmware, then they will be able to force Apple to create "specific" firmware for any device they want. That's the thing with Legal Precedents. So, why bother trying to hack the hacked firmware produced by Apple, when you can just "ask nicely" again... and again... and again...
Agreed. I also have a mid-2010 Macbook Pro 15" and I have not seen one kernel panic. The only ones I got were on my Mac Pro, and that was because I had some old m-audio drivers for my FW410. Other than that, Lion has been pretty solid. The only thing I do have, and could be related, is when going fullscreen mode on VLC (haven't tried Quicktime) and playing a movie. It looks for a moment bad (blocks of different colors, etc.) But it's only for a moment and later the movie keeps going ok.
I have this same problem but without doing anything graphically intensive. Just a common work session (the compiler, messenger, Thunderbird and like 6-7 explorer windows). It keeps telling me system is running low on memory (I have 5gb) and eventually it just disables aero automatically. I really hate when that happens. "Hopefully" this has something to do with this bug and they can fix it along when fixing the bug mentioned in TFA.
BTW - isn't Steve on Disney's board?
IIRC, he owns a chunk of Disney after the merge with Pixar and he is in the Board.
They could probably do the Hari Seldon books (which are probably the ones I like the most), that in my opinion have enough material to create a movie or two. The last two books are great too, and don't change characters as much as the original Foundation Trilogy, which, as you say, are a collection of short stories bound together.
Of course, doing the whole Foundation "novel" would be great if done right, but I don't think studios are going to try to respect the books, and the whole project will end up probably with the movie adaptation of Timeline (of Michael Crichton) that was really *really* bad.
I didn't enjoy I, Robot the first time I saw it, but somewhat it became a bit better the next times I saw it. The Bicentennial Man is much better, IMHO.
I'm not sure Four Thirds or Micro Four Thirds mounts would make sense in a camera/system like this, specially when the sensor size is not that size. Supporting Adobe DNG would be great for stills, but I'm not sure the specs of it support movies. Actually I don't think there is an open spec for raw movies.
When are the mod points when one needs them??? This was maybe one of the funniest things I have heard in a long time (except from some kxcd comics, that's it).
You're correct, at least from my point of view. Telmex is right now pretty good in what they do, but that is because there are now some companies that offer telco services. For instance, the long distance calls. Telmex charged whatever they wanted some years ago because there were no other players. When Alestra, and so on came, they had to lower their prices and offer a better service. Unfortunately, that only happens widely in the long distance carrier. The local service is only Telmex in a lot of cities, even somewhat big cities. Most of the companies that offer local service use "wireless" services: they put you an antenna, with it's pros and cons. I guess that's because they have no [redituable] way of wiring, or leasing Telmex' lines.
So, yes, Telmex has improved a lot in recent years, say, from 7 years or so, but there are still a lot of things to improve. Competition is always good for customers, and here in Mexico we really could use other 2 or 3 players in the telephone and communications area.
Umm, most video cards work just fine. I always check before buying one, but I've never, ever had a problem. Some of the cards that are coming out now do not support EFI, and fail back to BIOS compatibility, which may work with Windows, but not OS X (who never used BIOS). In general, however, any video card you buy will work fine.
As far as I know, Mac OS X only supports some video cards. I did this some weeks ago when moving everything to my Mac Pro, and just dual boot (while I move everything to Fusion or Parallels). My Mac has the GeForce 7300 card and I put a Radeon x1600 that I had in my other PC, just to be able to use 3 screens. Windows recognizes the Radeon and was able to use it without problems, but I was never able to make it work in OS X. I even installed some drivers from the osx386 project with no luck. About this Mac recognizes the card, but I was never able to make it display anything in OS X. I ended up buying a second Mac GeForce 7300.