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I don't see the connection with the video, which was a nice explanation of "survival bias." Not sure I agree that your love life has much to do with business, either.
Yes exactly like apple. To quote the link: "When the FBI has requested data that’s in our possession, we have provided it."

The point I was trying to make is that Google and Facebook have direct access to all the data of their customers, and already provide access to government agencies. Contrary to Apple they don't safely store some data of their costumers safely on the device, which this case is about.
You and OP are both wrong:

"Specifically, the FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation. In the wrong hands, this software — which does not exist today — would have the potential to unlock any iPhone in someone’s physical possession."

Apple's argument isn't about a deluge of one-off court orders creating a slippery slope to reducing security. Apple is claiming that complying with just this one request would make Apple's other iPhone users significantly less secure. There would be a piece of software, signed by Apple, that could potentially be used to unlock any iPhone you have in your physical possession.
Maybe it's impossible by design in current iPhones. But this is an older one, not so secure.

As Tim Cook says, it would be a bad precedent. And obviously bad PR for Apple to admit vulnerability.
Yeah I know. Since then I haven't done that. Keep in mind these series of events happened years ago.

It's one of StartSSL's flaws too. They are an enabler of doing stupid things.
Polish contributions were ignored in the film U-571, which showed Americans recovering enigma machines before they entered the war.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U-571_(film)#Controversies_reg...
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Check out this comment where Adam Stew explains how the phones are secured: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=8756397&cid=51524693
> "Do those markets lack adequate competition?"

Yes, they certainly do. All of the markets you listed could do with stronger competition.

As for banks, I also think they could do with stronger competition. We should never have any company which is 'too big to fail'.
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If I understand correctly, you are against having one rule for writing French and you'd prefer some anarchy in spelling. Personally, I don't agree with you: serious documents need to be written in a language which provides an official grammar.

> Orthographe is a tragedy for two reasons:

The current ortographe is a tragedy, but they could have chosen a simpler and more logical one. In particular, they could have avoided keeping in written all those details that have been lost in speaking (ex: "(je) faisais", "(il) faisait", "(ils) faisaient"): why not just writing the same if you pronounce the same?

OTOH, I fully agree with you that the result of adding a tolerated alternative, instead of forcing a change, doesn't even look like a simplification.
The FBI's point is that Apple can update the software on the device to not honor that setting, which means it is not effective against a government attacker.
I see what you're saying but this has never been done before. BIOS passwords could be bypassed by draining the battery. Encryption is practically the only way to protect your data, because the storage can be taken out of the phone and hooked up to something else if need be.

Making a new OS is just the easiest way for Apple to do this; there are other ways.
You see no evil, yet. I don't want to know what happens when the latest wannabe dictator comes along and nationalises all the Chinese infrastructure...
What happens to all your stuff when you die?
Since every cancer is different in the markers it displays, I think that is unlikely to happen. It would mean an insane amount of vaccinations and the assumption that they have none to acceptable side effects.
Most plants photosynthesise on a very narrow band of light. It's actually more efficient to generate electricity using solar panels and reemit using specific wavelength leds. Plants are around 2% efficient while solar panels are around 20%.

Also as has been said below it allows you to stack plants in a way that would be impossible if you were using sunlight.

Additional thoughts are that greenhouses are terrible at retaining heat (interestingly the origin of greenhouses used to have a thick southern facing brick wall to act as a heat soak to maintain an even heat throughout the night) and so if you're trying to keep a certain heat level having glass might end up costing you way more in energy because of the need to heat than you gain from the sun.
It's not his phone. He worked for the government
It belongs to the government.
Good point, you're right, not surgery, more like an (significantly invasive) procedure.

Still good to differentiate from "giving a drug".
Depends, if that person keeps trying (different strategies, not failing the same way), it's a lesson in patience and courage.
Oh god, if you want concrete numbers, buy a report from a market research firm. Believing the official numbers for their growth is like believing in Santa Claus. The consensus among professionals is that they haven't hit their 7% target since the beginning of this century.
BBC has before-and-after satellite photos: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-35592988
True. It's an Elixir best practice to keep macro definitions short and basically make them invoke functions as match as possible.

No perfect answer I guess...
Was it? Or was just Turing's method import?
Well, I live in the UK now and every single person I asked what nationality she was said "uhm..........French?". I'm sure a lot of people know that she was Polish, but it's certainly not a common knowledge, given that the Polish part of her surname is omitted from nearly every mention of her I saw over here so far.
Right, but isn't "impossible" too high a bar? Or is the ability to comply with a warrant worth nothing?

It's not like iOS is impossible to hack now and it would be terrible that it becomes possible. There are other aspects of the system that allow malicious exploits more easily than this theoretical threat. So it doesn't make sense to preserve at all costs (e.g. making warrants unenforceable) an "impossibilty" that never was.
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Matter of opinion. I've seen better OpenGL performance on Linux on the same hardware, for example, and better filesystem performance too. (I'd also be much less productive without the customizability of Linux window management, but that's getting into more subjective territory).
It bothers me that Tim Cook lied: he stated in his open letter that if they provided the modified OS it could be used on other phones, but the court order specifically says Apple should make the software only work on the specific phone in question.
File a patent on the generic supposed protection of intellectual, design and creative ideas to overworked, inconsisent and vague government entity that are then hoarded by lawyers with lots of money whom frequently visit Texas. Maybe that would wake up some folks to the fact that their ostensible protection process is right now a protection racket.
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> "I'm not sure I want any of my banking to ever be "at the tap of an app". I don't take money so casually. Online yes, app tapping no."

I'm not sure why convenience takes away the seriousness of what a bank does. It's just a place to store money and invest in the economy, what does it matter how you access the information about your account? For example, what's the issue with a bank like Mondo?

https://getmondo.co.uk
Very unconvincing, because of so many assumptions that are never justified.

Frex:

In a society where warfare is rampant and violence may be the only means of survival, people surely would have learned to make better weapons than the ones that Lipo and Hunt found.

Really? Says who? That's just an assumption- who knows what factors influence the development of better technology?

On the subject of those artifacts so far considered as spear points, I imagine that if something was used to dig and turn the earth instead of killing people a) there would be evidence of its use on the tool itself and b) there would not be any evidence of its use as a weapon in the remains of people on the island.

So where's that analysis? The article doesn't mention it. Was it done by the authors?

Unfortunately in the article we're just left with "Surely" this and "Surely" that. It's not convincing at all.
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Also UK, knew about her but had no idea (or had completely forgotten, very possible) that she was Polish until walking path her old home in Warsaw and seeing a plaque.
Plants are around 2% efficient.
Well your opinion is kind of moot at that point.
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Does anyone have any advice for finding a mentor as a junior developer?

The problem is that I have everything to learn and nothing to give in return, so how can I convince someone to help me?
The French are going to get a new standardized keyboard, partly to protect the language. [1]

Would dropping circumflexes help creating a simpler keyboard?

[1] http://www.theverge.com/2016/1/21/10805562/france-change-key...
Doubtful. Our little wars cost us too much. China already has the second most powerful economy in the world, and they've greatly increased military spending.

http://www.cnn.com/2015/03/05/asia/china-military-spending/
Here's the exact text of the court order:

"Apple's reasonable technical assistance may include, but is not limited to: providing the FBI with a signed iPhone Software file, recovery bundle, or other Software Image File ("SIF") that can be loaded onto the SUBJECT DEVICE. The SIF will load and run from Random Access Memory and will not modify the iOS on the actual phone, the user data partition or system partition on the device's flash memory. The SIF will be coded by Apple with a unique identifier of the phone so that the SIF would only load and execute on the SUBJECT DEVICE."

How am I wrong?
The FBI is asking that it be built now and then loaded onto the already recovered phone.

> Specifically, the FBI wants us to make a new version of the iPhone operating system, circumventing several important security features, and install it on an iPhone recovered during the investigation.
> "The core business of a bank is taking a global view on risk."

You don't need to own the assets of an economy to take a global view on risk. Anyone with access to financial indicators can do this, whether that comes from government statistics, stock market positions, etc...
That a similar story with helmets in WW1. After they introduced helmets the amount of people with head wounds skyrocketed. So they wanted to remove helmets again.
XPS is a high-end consumer line. Latitude is an entry-level business line (the consumer equivalent is Inspiron).
Originally I was going to question your math - I thought your trillion was off by three zeroes. Then I did the math myself and realized that you're right. :-) If you count US mortgage debt that they hold, the number may be even higher.

A couple quick comments:

1 - We'll feel the economic threat of China when they have a crisis. The world was less interconnected in the 90s, yet troubles in Mexico, Thailand and Russia caused global damage.

2 - The GDP growth #s are suspect, and off of a smaller base. Hard to make an apples to apples comparison.

3 - Hard to compare absolute #s of cars or people in school - given that it's a country of a billion people, they should have a lot more cars and people in school. (If anything, it should be 3X)
If a macro used for a test suite is substantial enough and used often I'd say it's worth testing
Hi,

I just wrote a piece about mental health in startups.

This is something that has been covered by a few others in the past, but I still don’t think it is talked about enough.

I don’t know what the answer is, but I am trying to raise awareness and getting people to talk about their struggles more and more.

If you think that this is a topic we should be talking about more please could you like and share my post around?

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Hugo is still very much minded on blogs.

It doesn't even support a proper static frontpage.
The court order says Apple should make the software only work on the specific phone in question. Nobody could modify the software to work on other phones any more than they could make the changes to iOS themselves.

Apple is misrepresenting the situation and perhaps it's because they're afraid that in the future the government will come knocking again, but I think it hurts them to not be completely above-board about this.
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I think a lot of people use a laptop throughout the day like in our office - plugged into a large monitor, mouse, keyboard and put up on a desktop stand.

You then have the flexibility to just get up and walk into a meeting with it or walk out at the end of the day with everything just as you left it and carry on working on the train should you need.
While I agree, this is not what OP's comment was about. He makes it sound like Apple is forced to write a decryption tool that exploits existing backdoors into the encrypted content.

Highly ironically, the current "Error 53" hullabaloo is exactly about what happens once security it tightened to the extreme.
It's not a backdoor, it's a frontdoor. In cryptography, there's no way to make repeated attempts more computationally expensive. The lockout just an extra feature Apple put on, that Apple could easily remove. If we're going to have 4- and 6- digit PINs, there is no way to stop a dedicated attacker frome brute-forcing it. None.
No reason they can't be.
There needs to be a distinction between state security and "retail" security.
State security agencies have the legal framework to compel Apple to do anything and not even talk about it.
What I call "retail" security is any act by any legal enforcement agency in the country. Their requests are bound to be in large numbers and for all kinds of things.
On top of that, these requests, apparently, are not yet covered by a legal framework. Hence the need to force upon an old law to try and make Apple comply.

What's at stake for Apple is not only their principles but also one of their marketing pillar: "you, the user, can trust us with your data/privacy." By asking Apple to give that up, and quietly, you actually are asking them to undermine their business model. Shareholders will not appreciate that if they wouldn't have a chance to hear about it first.
The Apple brand would lose from its value and it would reflect in the AAPL share price.

My point is that the whole thing needs to have legal backup. And Apple is asking for this exact thing: give me a law to use. And not something from the 1700's.
Go for gaming PCs/laptops.
It's the same with clothes today: you can get the "survival/military" type of outwear which is better in quality and tend to last longer than usual outwear. You will look like a show-off, but in reality it's where the jean companies used to be when they first appeared (they used to be made for gold miners and construction workers).
I would get something like Aorus X3 or Razer Blade Stealth, both feature really good screens and great hardware. Also seem to be well-engineered, unlike those plastic toys from Dell, Lenovo and all the others.
I think he is saying that people who are naturally good at something (successful) don't really know why they are good and therefore cannot teach others (give advice).
The internet tells me you're Canadian. That is close enough to have a bias.

Look at the world from a different point of view, and you would understand that corruption is everywhere, not just in China. Some people are just better at hiding it.
This is my question, too. Can iOS updates be applied to a locked phone? Seems like it should be a simple yes/no answer (and I thought the answer was 'no') but I can't find any clarity here or elsewhere.
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I'm really interested to know more about this. Does TouchId secure enclave really enforce the password attempt limits?
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Why do you think he lied?

The court order may have said that, but I don't think it's possible.
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On the site, the "About PeachPy" link at top right corner seems to do nothing.
FFmpeg on Linux supports QSV either through the h264_qsv encoder or through some soon-to-be-merged va-api changes. On Mac I think you need to use the VideoToolbox API to access the GPU codec, and there is support for this in FFmpeg as well, but I haven't used it myself.
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This is a very cool demo of use of macros.

On testing, I think DRY principles are a good thing in your production code but I don't believe there is anything wrong with having lots of repetition in your test code. Each test can be read from front to back by the reader. If you have to wander around trying to understand the design of the test then that may not be ideal. Shouldn't need unit testing for your unit tests :P
lawless? not at all. police corrupt to unbelievable levels and doing basically what they want in some places? hell yes
The windows xp USER has these problems. YOU have the problem of him not being able to connect to your SSL website.
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What happened that now the companies can talk about these gov requests? The most nefast thing in these gov orders about terrorism is that the companies were forbidden to discuss it publicly.
The code which decrypts the system (and is responsible for wiping the drive on repeated failures) is definitely not encrypted. How would it be able to take the input in order to decrypt the drive.
I think the important word missing in that phrase is "any _future_ iPhone".

For existing devices I imagine that a hypothetical iOSX which removes the protections would require you to enter your passcode so the OS can decrypt the data and then re-encrypt them using the new backdoored option.
The Macbook isn't very usable in that space though, since they have no first-party docking station support.
Particularly on HN: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=polish%20enigma&sort=byPopular...
Cook says any iOS device could be breached if this software were created. But other articles have led me to believe that any iOS model with touchid is immune due to the secure enclave being in play even for non-touch passcode access. Is this wrong?
+1. If it is possible to push software updates to a "locked" phone then is this not tantamount to remote code execution with root privileges, and hence the BACKDOOR ALREADY EXISTS?

"Locked" seems like an improper term for such a scenario.

I applaud apple for appealing this case to the public however there is a HUGE HUGE difference between "we can't unlock" and "we shouldn't unlock". This distinction will likely be lost on the general public unfortunately.
> no way to stop a dedicated attacker from brute-forcing it

Wipe after x incorrect? Can't stop the attacker, but you can make it futile, surely.
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The problem is DNS/UDP and DNS/TCP responses that are larger than 2048 bytes hitting your BIND DNS client library. Do you have any reason to believe that Google Public DNS (in your part of the world) always limits its responses to smaller than 2048 bytes?
Not wrong. You're forced to do all that if you don't want to spend inordinate amounts of money/time on maintaining the server. There are so many cheap certificates available -which are much simpler to use- that it's not worth the hassle, not by a long shot.
Isnt there an entire replica of Paris with barely 1k people?

How can value be justified with whole half-finished cities with no customers?

Sounds like deferring a real-estate crash is only making a future event even more painful when that paper value evaporates and takes real comparables along with them.
vs. heavily lobbied Congress that makes the real decisions. I build you a factory in your home town, you say yes to these heavy arms sales.

My point is that the line between democracy and autocracy is quite thin in reality.
The new keyboards are pretty good (perhaps even the best) relative to other modern laptop keyboards, but probably wouldn't even have earned a mention eight years ago before the great chiclet revolution...

I still can't quite comprehend how the market could have managed to conspire to so thoroughly eradicate the technologically superior option that not even obscure non-US vendors serving only local markets offer it anywhere anymore.
People still do good things with greenhouses. I recently watched a video from a guy growing veggies through the winter in his greenhouse. He did have a non-glass southern wall but it wasn't the type for storing heat. Instead, he was using drums of water inside the greenhouse as thermal mass, which kept the temperature up during the night.
It's interesting that all of the numbers in your post seem to be significant, but really aren't.

The US "owes" China a trillion USD because the Chinese, investing on a national scale, need a safe investment that can support trillions and trillions of yuans. And in that regard right now, the US is the only game in town.

China's GDP growth is high, but that's because they're starting from a GDP that's much lower than that of the US. As with any logarithmic curve, growth starts quickly and then becomes harder over time. China has a ways to go.

The number of cars sold and the number of children enrolled in school are indicators that China does indeed have a much larger population than the US. Almost all of the BRIC nations have large populations, but are still in the process of turning that into wild economic growth. We'll see.

Other than the missing context for the numbers you provide, I agree with your general sentiment. There is a bit of schadenfreude among the US media whenever China struggles economicallly. This is probably because China is the US's biggest economic and military rival now that the Soviet Union is gone. It's natural to cheer for your team and boo the other team. I wouldn't take too much offense.
Why doesn't the FBI simply clone the current device, make brute force attempts and then clone again if locked out? Yes, lots of work but also doesn't force Apple to participate.
I'm not sure I follow you on taking a global view on risk. The core business of banks is connecting people with money to people who need it. Risk management is vital, but they're in the connecting business, not the risk business. (Hedge funds should get paid to hold risk, banks should get paid for brokering connections)