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Heads up that I just recently discovered - if your iphone has touch id enabled, you can go into the touch id settings and selectively disable touch id for phone unlocking while keeping it for the app store.
You don't need 50% efficient solar collectors. That'd be the case if 1 meter squared of plants had 1 meter squared of leaves. Even at full growth there are large gaps and for most of the growing time there are even larger gaps. 1 meter squared of solar panels is always going to be 1 meter squared. Also plants can't use light above 10,000 lux while solar panels will just generate more power.

And again how do you stack plants? How do you keep them warm enough? How do you grow them during the night?
Maybe?
I work in 50-100k people software corporation, employer owns the phone and PC i use, but does not know phone pin or LUKS password.
"I'm not sure you can draw the conclusion that Apple can push OS updates to a locked phone."

The iphone contains a sim card.

A sim card is a complete, general purpose computer with its own CPU and RAM and the ability to run arbitrary java programs that can be uploaded, without your knowledge by your carrier.

You are owned. Deeply, profoundly, in ways that you have no way to manage/mitigate.

The real question, for me, is why authorities are dealing with Apple at all and not just working with the carriers who have proven to be their trusted allies.
Dell used to provide abundant configurations. You could get significantly different prices for identical or very similar machines depending on the shop you used, special URLs, promotions or changing components on different models.

Asus was lauded ITT for their website design. I'd disagree because I've been considering a zenbook. I couldn't find the comparison between the models or even the submodels of the UX305. It is pretty though.
This looks cool, but it seems like yet another data aggregator. What I would really pay for is data interpretation. Tell me what to do based on the many charts available.
I thought they already did this, but I have no proof. It seems reasonable because Google got evicted from China for not playing ball, so I find it hard to believe that Apple would get a free pass.
...and here again in Poland, also a week ago:

http://paczaizm.pl/jesli-zastanawiasz-sie-gdzie-spierdzielil...
Yes. That's why I said "appropriate algorithm" and not just "algorithm."

There is a tradeoff between predictability and correctness. Where you come in on that tradeoff is pretty different from most other people.
> 90% of people don't inspect their bank statements close enough

But 10% of people is more than enough (by a substantial margin) to get the operation shut down, the money (all of it) returned, and probably land the guy in jail.
Where do you see this? I see authoritative statements saying otherwise.
"Private businesses are free to develop their own policies on whether or not to accept cash unless there is a State law which says otherwise"
https://www.treasury.gov/resource-center/faqs/Currency/Pages...
Sure. Laws don't have to be so specific and they are typically better if they aren't so specific. The law basically says courts can order anything to upload the law. Encryption is part of anything.
Kinda interesting, but I'm not sure if I like the idea of The Linux Foundation investing in alternative operating systems. Surely the industry would have some other venues through which they could do this.
OPEC oil is sold exclusively in US Dollar, not Chinese Yuan;
Not knowing anything about this, it sounds like that's probably true, but even your description makes it seem much more likely to happen in a startup.
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"... the endless flow of dirty, dangerous, hard-to-track cash."

Wait what?
Everyone in the U.S., please write to your Congressional representatives and also to the Presidential candidates you support. They need to know they can't get away with this.
As someone who had to carry large amounts of cash regularly, I feel like the author is neglecting many of the costs of cash. Personal security is one of them, and certainly one that local government care a lot more about than controlling drug traffic.

As someone who lived in Northern Sweden, freezing your fingers off is another — albeit negligible.

More seriously, I doubt that rampant inflation was the tool Argentinian government used to force a technologically unimaginable solution on its citizen.
Nobody wants to be a grocery store clerk for minimum wage, full stop. We don't stay in the retail business because we love not being able to afford anything better than Spaghettios.
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The word "push" appears nowhere in their letter. There is no way (in evidence) of "pushing" anything to the locked phone OTA. Physical access as a requirement? Sure, there's likely some way to get something onto the phone. But any DFU or JTAG-enabled update (likely the only vectors available on a passcode-protected device) would not be able to gain access to any appreciable fraction of the data on the phone, since doing so would invalidate the keys.

I wouldn't be surprised (It isn't stated in their iOS security doc) if the key generation uses a hash of the system files as part of a seed for the entropy source used for keys, though that's pure speculation on my part.

Edited for clarity regarding "push" vs physical access.
I'm clearly in the minority here, but I don't really understand Apple's position here, nor do I understand why everyone is rallying behind them.

Apple built hardware which was not particularly secure. The software defaults to a four-digit PIN. They attempt to mitigate this by adding an escalating interval between entries, and by optionally wiping the phone after too many failed tries, but this is not set in stone and those limits can be removed with a software update.

The government is coming to Apple and saying, "You can remove these limits. Do that for us on this phone." Coming as a legitimate court order, I see no problem with this request. The government isn't even asking them to crack the phone, they just want Apple to remove the limits so the government can try to brute force it. They're even paying Apple for their trouble.

If Apple didn't want to be put in a position where the government can ask them to compromise their users' privacy, they should have built hardware which even they couldn't crack. And of course they did; starting with the A7 CPUs, the "secure enclave" system prevents even Apple from bypassing these limits. The phone in question just happens to predate that change.

If the government was demanding that Apple do the impossible, I'd be on their side. If the government was demanding that Apple stop manufacturing secure phones, I'd be on their side. But here, all they're asking is for a bit of help to crack an insecure system. They're doing this in the open, with a court order. What's the problem?
The tricky question is - how does this work at petrol stations? You already have the fuel in your tank when you go to pay. Surely the service has been rendered at that point?
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Although this is not great information, there are way worse submissions that make it to the front page.

The useful thing with this article is that it tell one cannot really estimate the battery usage of a user, even knowing much of his habits.

I think the reason is that HN readers (most people?) are great gobblers of "fun fact" information. Just look at how many random mostly useless trivia makes it to the front page...
I was a long time Mac aficionado. I loved Apple and their products. It was a heart breaking experience when I felt like it was time to move on.

I paid about $2,300 for a Performa 550 back in 1993. That machine served me well. I added memory, internal and external hard drives, a Zip drive, a 68882 FPU and a bunch of other peripherals. Between 1990 and 2000, I probably spent $6,000 in hardware, software and peripherals for those machines.

They served me well. I still have a G3 and Performa 6400/200 with G3 upgrade under my desk. Every once in a while, I fire one up just to reminisce.

Commodity parts and easy interchange is just so powerful that the community of Apple users just doesn't provide the same kind of benefits to outweigh that. At least, in my humble opinion.
Ah, the panic attacks. If I don't wake up with one at least once every three weeks, I feel I'm not working hard enough. Besides, 3am is a good time to get work done.

That said, I believe pacing yourself is a big part of managing the mental health issues. Make sure you eat, sleep, exercise, and take appropriate breaks, even if you feel you have to work. It's a marathon, not a sprint.
RIPA was never designed for purely to fight terror - it was always designed to agglomerate all surveillance powers under one umbrella, including stuff like "putting up a covert camera to catch dog fowlers" or HRMC tapping your phone for serious tax avoidance investigation. All that has been written directly into the legislation since day 1.
What exercise is better for improving my cooking skill? What about the exercise that's best for my alcohol consumption?

If you want to improve your brain, it's important to be healthy, I get that. But come on, the point of exercising is to be healthy. Beyond that no exercise is going to improve your brain directly if it doesn't actually use your brain. This whole movement makes me very skeptical.
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actually high altitude might be damaging the brain quite a bit, albeit 6000m is not really that bad (but it depends on person)
However, the US Government is known to have gathered hidden evidence in drug cases, then used parallel construction to hide the violation. So, now the government's presentation of evidence should always be considered in question. As it has shown dishonesty at the presentation and gathering of evidence and there's nothing that says they haven't changed their unethical ways, how can they be trusted to present evidence legally gathered?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2013/08/05...
Is it just me, or can you only set up one workflow per organization? Does that mean that you can't have multiple teams/projects using their own styles within one account?
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> On the contrary, Debian having a longer release cycle (about every two
years), release cycles don't align.

Then change your release cycle. Seriously, it's not that hard. Say that browsers are different and get released frequently. Create a firefox-lts package that is updated at the beginning of your Debian release cycle -- and never again. Let the firefox package be the firefox package, updated as frequently as upstream wants.
The judge wouldn't need to ask Apple if that were the case.
Any rich-text editor can do that if you find the two stars in a font, or it can include graphics. That's pretty much drag-and-drop.
What would happen when other governments, their court,
their agencies make similar demand?

The Pandora's box is opened?
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Fake money is probably the bigger issue overall though.
In the UK at least, PIN-challenges for contactless payment are random. I've heard it's supposedly approx 1 in 10 payments require the PIN, but I've been using contactless payment for just over 6 months, and it hasn't asked once (I've also used it a few times in mainland Europe, again, no PIN needed).
US law enforcement has an impressive track record of extending their authority through unilateral reinterpretation of the US code. Once it's been established that Apple are able to extract data, what's to prevent agencies from slapping Apple with gag orders and forcing them to comply under completely opaque proceedings, that may not even have a way of appeal? I think Apple is right in resisting while it's still in the open. For all we now, this might really be about forcing them to demonstrate the technical capability to cooperate for use with in one or several secret cases we do not now.
> Real chocolate - dark, milk or white - melted into steamed milk and combined with our rich espresso and caramel. Topped with whipped cream, caramel sauce and Snickers®

I think you can probably work out from the description that its not going to be a healthy drink.
It certainly doesn't help that Europe, particularly France, has spent the past two decades selling China the weapons and tech to do the invasion.

That said, Taiwan is a country of roughly similar population and economic clout as Australia. Standing by and ignoring an act of war on that scale would be devastating to international stability (and US security interests).
I really hope that these types of blogs don't become mainstream on HN.
I see the specs are better, but I wonder how it measures up in real world usage to the $35 Intex phone.
PS. We're are going to claim your work was sub-par to also save on unemployment!
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An initiative here in the UK has an app for counting how much sugar is in any product with a barcode:

http://www.nhs.uk/change4life/Pages/change-for-life.aspx
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The knowledge will only spread. The software can only leak.

Then why don't we have Apple's private keys yet?

Plenty of companies keep a lot of things very secret, including things like powerful debug modes, for a long time. At least long enough that everybody forgets the details and the software has long since rotted away.
On Apple hardware? Which?
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You'll need an older Mac Pro then. There is quite a bit of proprietary hardware in the new ones that I'm pretty sure have no open source drivers (ie: SMC controller, force touch pad, etc).

Not that the community couldn't find a way to reverse-engineer and build an open source version... but a straight up Ubuntu install on a current-generation Mac Pro is probably the fastest way to kill a battery, processor, flash drive and miss out on taking advantage of the ambient sensors.

To use an unfitting analogy -- you might as well buy a sports car to retrofit it into a classic gremlin.
You can't compel someone to pay you something other than cash. For people who insist on paying in cash, a business can just refuse to serve them.
The UK has Mondo coming soon (https://getmondo.co.uk/) which looks very promising.

For the Eurozone, there's Number26 (https://number26.eu/). I've been using them. They took a long time to send me their card but overall they're a million times better than any other bank in Europe. (If you want more info, email me)
I've never run a startup so I don't know exactly how you feel but I do feel many of these things in my corporate job day to day. There is even some creep from startup culture finding it's way into corporate life. Now megacorps are launching new product/divisions/whatever and treating them as a "startup". What that tends to mean is "we expect you to work more hours than you are now, for the same pay, even though we're already making billions of dollars a year".
I will do that probably within a day or two.
".. what this means is that even Apple can't break into an iPhone with a secure passphrase (10+ characters) and disabled Touch ID - which is hackable with a bit of effort to get your fingerprint."

That is not exactly true. They wrote the OS, they designed the phone, they know where the JTAG connectors are. Cracking the phone apart and putting is logic board up on a debugger would likely enable them to bypass security.

From what I understand Tim is doing, and I greatly admire, is trying to avoid a judicial requirement that they be able to do this on demand. The so called "back door" requirement, because he knows, as others do, that such a feature would be used by more than the intended audience, and for more than the intended uses, to the detriment of Apple's users.

What I really find amazing is that I was at a talk hosted by the East-West Institute where the Air Force General of the new cyber command (whose name escapes me) complained that "we" (silicon valley) had let the government down by not writing strong enough crypto to keep our adversaries out. I remarked that it was the ITARS regulation and the Commerce department at the behest of the NSA which had tied our hands in that regard, and that with a free reign we would have, and could do, much better. Whit Diffie was there and also made the same point with them. And now, here we are 10 years later, and we "fixed" it, and now its our fault that they can't break into this stuff? Guess what? Our adversaries can't either!

The right to privacy, and the right of companies to secure that right with technology for their customers, is a very important topic and deserves the attention. I am really glad that one of the most valuable companies in the world is drawing a bright line in the sand. So I really support Tim's position on this one.
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Is it possible to update a phone without the user accepting the change (with the phone locked)?

Do you want such a tool (the one the removes the security of updating) to exist so that anyone with physical access can replace the OS with something else?
Just so you know when I forgot the password to my password to my iPhone remembered that I choose 1 from the top section 2 repeated numbers from the row below 1 below that and then a zero. So I tried it untill it said "iPhone disabled connect to iTunes", this is when I found out you can reset the disabled time by clicking on a computer the backup button. So therefor you could successfully create a program that tries passcodes 5 or 10 times then tries and fails to back the iPhone up. (There is no need for a backdoor or anything fancy)
He's saying that if you take out a loan for 12k * 78 = 287k, you can buy a house.
The iPhones with an A7 or later CPU should be secure against this. This whole thing is only an issue because the phone in question is an iPhone 5C, which uses an older CPU without the "secure enclave" system.
Ron Paul's take on this from few month ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KudfRyn3ZbA

interesting to watch it now, where will this lead to, and what is the strategic goal here?
I've always been a fan of iSpy (https://www.ispyconnect.com/) and still occasionally mess with it even though my couple of cheapo cameras (a Foscam and a Dahua) now just record on motion to my Synology NAS.

I think I messed with Blue Iris when I was initially playing with using an old laptop as an IP cam DVR but never bought it after the trial expired.
Java isn't viable for anything that requires low latencies and predictable throughput. Really, no GC language is.
> they change the spelling to match actual usage

Unfortunately, as already said, they are not changing it: they are adding an alternative.

> Show me a random French word and I may not know what it means, but I do know how to pronounce it

Three villages in "Pays de Gex":

Ornex: final "x" is not pronounced, like in standard French.

Challex: final "x" is pronounced.

Moëns: "oë" is pronounced like "wa" in "thwart", as if the dieresis wasn't there.

Btw, tell me a random Italian word and I may not know what it means, but I do know how to write it. Now that's nice, never having to ask: "What's your surname? How do spell it? Where are you from? How do you spell it?".
That is not true at all. There is a very easy way to increase your IQ - just study for IQ tests!
When you're looking for work and need to get a job (e.g. to support a family) spending 10-20 hours working on a single job opportunity is risky because they may just say "sorry, we like you but _____". where _____= {there's a corporate headcount freeze, we don't need that skill, we already have something that does that better, we're not good at hiring}. I still think it's likely a good strategy, just worth acknowledging the inherent risk.

If you have oodles of free time, then sure, it's low risk.
A device containing an encryption key that's just protected by a software password check would be absolutely useless. Part or all of the encryption key (maybe even the IV) is derived from the phone passphrase, this is why you can't just pop the NVRAM off a phone and try to find the key.
Anecdotally, that's how we hired our designer - her last "mockup" project matched exactly what we were working on next - the hiring process was super fast, and there are a lot of benefits to hiring someone who has already spent time thinking about the same problem space as you did.
...why is this downvoted? I explained the process.
I rarely if ever have to sign for a purchase under $25.
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Even then, his articles from the distant past would show up on HN, which I attribute to the phenomena mentioned in my original post.
Which UX305? The UX305LA has an i7 or i5, the UX305FA has an old core M, the UX305CA has the latest core M. Some have HD or QHD displays.
Hi all,
We're former founders of Webs (formerly FreeWebz). We made Truebill because too many people are getting ripped off by monthly subscriptions that they either forgot about or are too lazy to cancel. Now that so much is moving over to subscriptions, we think it warrants one place to manage them all.
And alas we live in an age where we are scored by a cargo-cult process that mostly rewards sitting at a desk for 8-12 hours a day over producing actual results yet it is somehow called "agile."

Evidence: my last job watching the t-crossers and the i-dotters get promoted over the engineers doing the heavy lifting hence why I left.
They took spaced-repetition and added another level of study to it.

Very cool.
> For example, a bus line may prohibit payment of fares in pennies or dollar bills. In addition, movie theaters, convenience stores and gas stations may refuse to accept large denomination currency (usually notes above $20) as a matter of policy.

These are all examples where payment is being offered before service is rendered. OP is referring to instances where payment is being collected for services already rendered (i.e. debts).
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> Obviously, rats are not people.

We'll have a separate study for that.
The public doesn't want to be informed.

They want the illusion of safety that the 3-letter agencies provide.
Yes, but the reason isn't what you suggest it is. The reason is that people like the OP on Facebook, whoever posted it here, and whoever up-voting it, are happy to feed the fear of strangers by propagating these kinds of stories. This story will probably make it into the tabloids tomorrow thanks to having gone viral.

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
> The government isn't even asking them to crack the phone, they just want Apple to remove the limits so the government can try to brute force it. They're even paying Apple for their trouble.

Well this exact thing isn't THAT big of a deal but it's a slippery slope. If Apple agreed to this then what else can the government ask them to do under the banner of "public safety"? And if Apple were to give the government an electronic way to brute force the touch codes, it would break the trust of every iPhone owner.
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Under the hood for mobile is the same as Ubuntu Desktop.

Unity is built for mobile devices, and works great.
But underneath that, you have a full linux environment.