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Self-interest again perfectly explains Jewish affinity for Marxism and support of Bolshevism. You are the one who is inserting conspiracies, schemes, and accusations of genetic inferiority into the mix. Jacob Schiff did not fund Japan in its war with Russia (and single-handedly secure that victory) for any other reason than his hatred of Tsarist Russia, which he viewed as hostile to Jews. Marxism gave an ideology to rally Jews and others of the era who considered themselves victims of traditional western civilization. Of course they would flock to it in outsized numbers and see a tremendous opportunity in the weak post-abdication provisional Russian government to establish the first Communist state, which they intended to use as a lever to upturn the entirety of Europe and have their ultimate revenge.

When the weak see an opportunity to take power, they seize upon it just as the Bolsheviks did. When the weak can't have power, they bide their time by seeking to undermine those who do and Marxist ideology is useful in that endeavor as well. But, ah, that takes us to another "conspiracy theory" of "Cultural Marxism." We live in a time when one's authenticity as a human is measured by the extent of his (pardon, "zir") grievances and the traditional leaders of American society (white males) roll off most tongues as the designated oppressor class but dare anyone identify any similarity between this state of affairs and Marx and he (whoops, I mean "zie") is immediately adjudicated a raving delusional lunatic. And when you point out Jews count for an inordinate amount of the leadership of organizations that seek to create "multicultural" societies out of white countries, that seek to destabilize the traditional European idea of the nuclear family (no-fault divorce is, by the way, an entirely Bolshevik innovation), and that agitate and stir up direct action against Gentiles and their traditions and institutions --- well, now you've just become a criminal.
>> Idealist me thinks that Wall Street should invest in those companies they believe in and wish to assist in achieving their business goals.

Isn't that what the buy-side is for?
> I see all of this more a question of "can Americans actually have anything remain private on a commercial device?".

It's Americans now, but if Apple gives in, investigators from other big markets might pressure Apple to do the same for them. I think that's what's meant with cutting the ribbon many times.
I tried too:

http://imgur.com/wF232UC
Perhaps it's just me, but I think it'd be more interesting to discover which high profile figures in government that the NSA hasn't been spying on.
Apple's position is that if they provide the FBI with the software, then the FBI will effectively be able to use it in every other situation.

And once the software leaks, which will eventually happen, everyone will be able to do it in every situation.

Moreover, every other government will ask for it, and not all governments meet the same moral standards.
Reaper is praised by a lot, that's true.

But I wouldn't call it a killer app when linux has great native DAW like ardour (libre), LMMS (libre), Non (libre), Renoise (proprietary) or Bitwig (proprietary) and probably others.
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It's not semi-transparent, which means antialiasing isn't preserved when pasted over some colored background.
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That's the entire point - if Apple designed a backdoor through their security into this specific iPhone, it could be used to backdoor into any iPhone.
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Finally Caterpillar improves the specification of its smartphone. Its processing power is closer to ordinary consumer phones! In the past, I wondered why Caterpillar used weaker processor and less RAM than consumer phones. I believe people working in industrial area also need a powerful phone for their work. Am I right?

PS: I think 720p resolution on a 4.7" monitor is good enough. Acceptable for media consumption already.
"In the cases where a company chose to prioritize speed of delivery, it was typically after an overwhelming number of engineers (not just me) had conducted research on the system, the business needs, and so forth, and presented quite a lot of evidence that the fast approach would actually cost the business more money than the more careful approach, even in the short term."

It doesn't matter. You were probably right in your analysis, but it's not your decision. Think of it like a lawyer does: give the best advice, then do whatever the client desires.
Bill Gates: "Let's say the bank had tied a ribbon round the disk drive and said 'don't make me cut this ribbon because you'll make me cut it many times'"

...Well, that sums up his understanding of the the encryption technology. Then what are we to expect of the general public, when even Bill Gates sees a "ribbon around a disk drive"?
Doesn't seem to work too well on Windows 10. It might be missing some DLLs. /s

Super cool! (I really can't get it to click on anything though)
Of course, this makes senese. Thank you.
It's been a few years, and my recollection is hazy. Sorry. Were these statements political statements of a sort that opposes the US government in a clearly defined way? Did they state some kind of ideological agreement and allegiance to ideas considered anti-US or anti-US-govt? It's late, and I guess I wasn't as clear as I needed to be. I was making a pretty obvious and clear distinction on what kind of political statements I meant. I didn't say statements of any sort qualify the terrorism label.
haven't tried yet, i think samsung sells an hdmi thing that needs power via usb and connects to the galaxy tab micro usb port.

Question is whether the tablet could only mirror it's own resolution on linux, or run at a higher monitor resolution, with usb connected mouse and keyboard. That's make it a really useful device all of a sudden.
> it's not unthinkable that with more details, 3rd parties could figure out how to get in too.

This sounds like a misunderstanding. No clever third parties are going to find a way to break code signing. To exploit the security hole Apple already created would require having Apple's signing certificate so that a phone could install the code. If it wasn't for the certificate, it would be quite a bit more trivial to hack a firmware to do a malicious thing and install it on any phone.
Bill Gates isn't in charge at Microsoft. Sure, he's still on the board, but he's not even the chairman anymore. It's possible that he disagrees with Microsoft fighting the government regarding access to data stored overseas, but is staying silent because he doesn't want to be seen as badmouthing current management.
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No surprises, considering his attitude to Bitcoin.
Thinking about it some more, I think it is essential to get the resonance right. And when you do get it right, it fixes a million other small problems along with it.

Focusing hard on the vowels is the easiest way I know to get the resonance
In order to do so, Apple has to make an update that loosens the restrictions the current version has.

Once that update exists, it can be installed on any device because it has been signed by Apple.
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Bill Gates is well aware that people will take this, not as his personal opinion, but as the opinion of Microsoft. He could have made it it clear that this was his personal opinion and not related to the Microsoft position, but he did not.
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https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics ?
my understanding - there is currently no software package created to allow this (ie modified kernel or whatever is necessary). government doesn't have resources/knowledge to do it on its own, otherwise they would already have it.

once this is created, apple would pressed HARD by all authorities to re-use it for all iphones captured. these days we know damn too well that people in CIA, aNSA etc don't hold any reasonable moral values when it comes to privacy of about anybody on this planet.

plus it could be taken from this specific phone and very probably copied anywhere, without any apple approval or court order.

if government was playing mr nice guy till now, there would be at least some hope and faith. currently, there is simply none.
Specifically, my comment addressed these parts of your comment:

> It won't make phones less secure in any technological sense... The kind of insecurity people are talking about is a policy concern;

(My comment alleges there is no such thing as a "technological sense" as distinct from a "policy concern".)

> It annoys me a lot when people in technology deploy special- pleading logic like this.

(My comment alleges that the logic isn't special-pleading.)

I didn't intend to be read as confrontationally as perhaps I sounded. You have a minority position in this kind of environment; I take minority positions sometimes, I understand it is not always pleasant to prosecute them. If you don't want to prosecute them, I won't make you. I'm just explaining that I really did offer a good-faith rebuttal of what I understood to be your position. There may be something wrong with it, but I don't think it's off-topic.
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Gut feeling and first-second impression: Meh...

I felt somehow connected to the Typesafe name. It felt tech-y, dev-y, but this one is somehow... non-charismatic.
This project started a while ago[1].This could pretty much change the way people approach medicine.

[1]:https://experiment.com/projects/open-insulin
The reality is that Apple already has unfettered access to this device: they left themselves a backdoor to which only they have the key, in the form of a "secure" update mechanism that is so "secure" that even the user can't control it, only Apple can. To me the actual question here is whether the FBI should be allowed to ask and then force Apple to use the backdoor Apple built into their product; Apple painting this as if they are being asked to build a backdoor instead of use an existing one is them being nothing more than dishonest in an attempt to twist the story and shift the blame. So yes: I think it is fair to describe the security of this device, from the perspective of Apple, as nothing more than a ribbon, as Apple already has "unfettered access to [your] data". Apple trusts users so little that they don't give users control of the hardware they own... this is frankly a good lesson on them that this is responsibility they should never have hoarded. "Here's hoping that the iPhone 7 no longer has a backdoor that is controlled by Apple."
Exactly, especially now that the D.O.D. is rushing to upgrade every device to windows 10, what a joke ;d
Even the NSA don't have a magic wand for braking cryptographic security. Designing well engineered, secure cryptographic systems that are not hackable is a thing people can do and it appears Apple have done it.

Most of the NSA hacking has nothing to do with cracking cryptographic keys anyway, it's exploiting weaknesses in systems so you don't even need the keys at all. In this case, it appears they would need the keys.
A terrorist is someone who uses violence or the threat of violence to coerce or intimidate.

Revenge murders or anger murders are not terrorists. They kill people and then kill themselves; directly or by police. Because they are dead they are no longer a threat. There is no parent organization to fear.

At least that's my definition. And what I think along the lines of what most people intuitively think.
First of all, it sets a precedent that companies can be forced to create software that willfully compromises their security mechanisms. This is very much different from your typical data dump ordered by a judge. It's quite likely that the FBI and other law enforcement agencies would use such a precedent in many future cases.

Second, it's unclear how easy it would be to create firmware that only works on a specific device. What if there's a bug, or what if someone finds a way to spoof the device ID that would probably be checked? It could very well end up being a backdoor for all iPhones after all (or, at least, for all iPhones without a Secure Enclave).

This EFF article has a couple more points[1].

[1]: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/02/technical-perspective-...
Yes, it can be illegal. But it also can be legal. Therefore it's exactly what's Google done. I'm talking in normal English, not in American lawyers' English.

But sure, keep being an apologist and call people who blame, among other things, the actual source of the problems "confused". Oh wait, you don't seem to consider that a problem. You just shift the entirety of the blame on some theoretical "Government" entity, because that entity didn't think of every imaginable and unimaginable way one could circumvent a law, while still keeping the laws clear.

Then I'm sorry, we have nothing more to talk about.
As a huge Scala fan, I fear that Dotty will suck the oxygen away. In particular, freezing the syntax for as long as the proposed timeframe for Dotty to be delivered would kill any language.

I would urge typesa^H^Hlightbend to bring forward the introduction of vital syntactic features from dotty (e.g. existentials as HKTs, if they really think that's the best way to express type lambdas). Even if that involves making large changes to scalac that will have to be thrown away, the Scala community cannot survive with the syntax the way it is for much longer.
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I agree, the biggest issue with extra tools is that they require additional effort to use them.

After all, lint was created to compensate for C's unsafety in 1979 and up until clang's introduction of static analysis, barely unused in the industry.

Still C++ isn't going anywhere and is the only native language with first class support in all mobile SDKs, so anything that helps improve its use is welcome.
Tesla demonstrated battery swap in less than 2 minutes. So it is at least technically possible.
"oko" is also similar to words of romance origin (compare: "ojo" in spanish and "occhio" in italian).

Anyway, the author of the language basically just got random words off of many languages, see

http://archive.is/6lxwq
Just out of curiosity: how often do you find yourself using !g and then actually finding a better answer?
GNURoot is amazing --- it's a non-root chroot which uses ptrace to fake being in a multiuser root environment while being in a single, normal user --- but it doesn't always work. Something about the security systems of modern Androids can cause it to fail in a variety of ways.

Weirdly, the exact failure mode seems to vary from device to device, so one person's tablet will work fine, while another's will report incorrect errnos on any system call which refers to a nonexistent file, while another will fail to load binaries, etc.

I used GNURoot heavily on a Nexus 7 for a while. Worked beautifully. I used it to write on, with a USB keyboard and a word processor what I wrote myself (<plug> http://cowlark.com/wordgrinder </plug>). But then I unwisely upgraded it to Android 5.1 and everything stopped working. These days I use a Chromebook with Crouton.
I thought it was quite clear that Gates was making an analogy for non-technical readers. He doesn't really think of encrypted devices that way.

Unfortunately, there's no way Gates can win here. If he uses technical language, journalists and/or readers won't understand. Or worse: they'll misunderstand his views. If he uses simplistic analogies, he invites mockery from technical readers.
JORN is also interesting
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Actually not a bad name, and it sounds more "do good" rather than mostly "prevent bad" as TypeSafe did.
I think so too. The design looks cool! I hope more consumer phones can provide this kind of design!
Coming from a man who created aptly named "Windows", where FBI never needs to ask for access.
There's a layer between userland and firmware where those things should be handled, and indeed everyone agreed that it should be handled in the kernel

Saying that Lennart is wrong has become a rather popular sport, let's not go overboard to say it even when he's right by all accounts.
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I found out, in a happy little accident, that dgg.gg also works.
Is anyone doubting apple unlocked the iPhone? I don't understand B Gates stance. of course they did unlock and give it to the police. of course they will never say it in a PR and we all know why. Is anyone doubting that we are now living in a world where EVERY one of us is a potential suspect being processed in a set of crappy ML algorithms and stats where our faces, fingersprints, RFID cards are being captured at every instant of our lives? and don't worry IOT is coming. Alexa is already the premise of HAL except that the AI that controls the world will never happen. Much worse will happen. People that do not care about mankind or freedom will listen to our every moves, every instant of our lives.
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I agree with you that people capitalize on events to fit into their political narratives, and I also agree that privacy is not an absolute value, and that tensions between values calls for tradeoffs to be made.

But I do believe that calling this a backdoor is proper framing. Apple provided a weak password knowing that convenience often beats security, but Apple also provided a mechanism by which one can have weak passwords and still have strong security via a max-attempt mechanism. It is a circumvention of security features, and "backdoors" are about security, not encryption (which is merely a subset of security).

I also think the legal fight is not circumscribed around narrow parameters with predictably narrow legal outcomes. The FBI cites a law from 1789 that says that the court may issue "...all writs necessary or appropriate in aid of their respective jurisdictions and agreeable to the usages and principles of law". It does not sound easy to predict what case law shall determine to be "necessary or appropriate" 5-10 years from now.
well, what a coincidence, I guess MS phones aren't selling well, so let's undermine competition a bit.

not for a second do I suspect mr gates to be stupid or not comprehending situation in full detail, with all possible consequences. and here I thought that he went from most hated IT guy on this planet in '90s to somebody actually concerned about good of the mankind. can somebody shed some light what would be his true motivations for these statements?
http://indycube.cymru/ is help facilitate the tech scene in south wales. Great for co-working.

I have worked and lived in Cardiff, Bristol and London in tech startups and hands down Cardiff is the best for so many reasons. Cheap & lovely people. Welsh tech companies can get loads of grants and trade missions, especially if anywhere outside the Vale of Glamorgan.
I own the B15Q... a pity the new one doesn't come with a hackable Mediatek processor but a Snapdragon instead.

I hope that at least this time they manage to release the AOSP and kernel, which they didn't for the B15(Q)...
> from the perspective of Apple, as nothing more than a ribbon, as Apple already has "unfettered access to [your] data"

No! Since iOS8 Apple intentionally encrypts the user's data on the phone in a way that even they don't have access to them.

They have access to the hardware, to be able to reconfigure it, but not the encrypted data on the phone. Because the data is encrypted, intentionally so.

And they have access to the iCloud backup data and they gave that data to the FBI. Then FBI actually locked their access to the phone by changing the iCloud password.
Just on a side note, how does the "originalist" see the guns thing in america? Muskets?
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First thing i thoughtof was Darmok and Jilad at Tinagra. :)
Your approach still bricks motherboards if somebody forgets to remount ro after having remounted rw.

The kernel fix doesn't have such drawback.
This is completely upside down. Can all Apple haters for once put down their haters' hat and try and be reasonable for the good of everybody?

You phrased all that just to get to the conclusion that Apple is an over-controlling company imposing rules on otherwise super tech savvy users. Well sorry to break the news for you, but people decide on their own which smartphone to buy.

Globally, most of the time, it's an Android phone. Globally, most of the time, it's an OLD and cheap Android phone, with firmwares so old and so full of holes that calling it insecure would be an euphemism.

But hey, I suppose they're much better off, since they can DECIDE what phone to buy, right? It's certainly not their income deciding for them...
Better, they can even root it! Make it even more insecure! Install pirated software that hides malware and will steal their ids or their money! Now THAT's choice and power to the user!
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I'm under the impression that this "backdoor" is the fact that these phones can download updates to the OS. The phone checks that the update is signed by Apple. If Apple can be trusted to keep their code-signing keys secret, then surely they can be trusted to keep a special version of the OS secret.

I'm still opposed to this, though... The FBI wants to be able to dictate to a private company what features to build (because of the All Writs Act).
> I also wish that Rust authors stop adding more and more
> features.

I'm not sure what this is referring to. Rust hasn't added any features since the stable 1.0 release last May, and I also don't believe it added any features in the six-month beta period prior to that. And it's not an especially feature-heavy language in the first place, likely comparable in size to Python (e.g. a medium-sized language).
A fruitful interpretation could be that there is no one language for all jobs. Just as programming languages are chosen for the specific task at hand, you can also choose a natural language by its effectiveness for the current task.
Sure. It's a Backdoor that only you and Apple know of. Right?
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> Insulin has been around for almost a century

> In the United States, just three pharmaceutical giants hold patents that allow them to manufacture insulin

How does this work with patent lifetimes being 25 years?

Anyway, as the article says, in countries where chronic medical conditions aren't seen as an opportunity for price-gouging, it costs much less or is free to the user.
Most people outside the tech industry don't pay attention to what Bill Gates, Tim Cook, or anyone else in the tech industry says. Those in the industry are hopefully smart enough to recognize that Bill Gates saying something doesn't mean that Microsoft is necessarily in agreement with it.
This debate is global. Why is it so hard to understand for most politicians? It's a matter of national security because the matter is not strictly national, and could have reverberation all over the world, especially in very sensitive markets like China.