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So now they have a new excuse to make people buy the newest iPhones. "Your old phones can be spied upon by the FBI, buy the [even more expensive] new one that can't be."
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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LMAO. That could be. I thought the same when I saw the article.
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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TheGreatAndPowerfulOz wrote: Go Tim Cook! I'm not an Apple fan, but I support them in this case.
Took the words right out of my mouth.
"If you don't fail at least 90 percent of the time, you're not aiming high enough."
Alan Kay.
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The flash chips have double the read speed of a typical SSD.[^]
Wowza!
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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Microsoft Corp. backs Apple Inc. in its fight with the U.S. government over unlocking a terrorist’s iPhone, said President and Chief Legal Officer Brad Smith. It's everyone vs. the FBI in a Battle Royale!
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Strange enough, that Bill Gates doesn't care about Microsoft's official statements anymore: Bill Gates supports government efforts in Apple case[^]. Now Microsoft says, they support Apple. Funny, how things go in business, and how they go around in personal lives. 
The sh*t I complain about
It's like there ain't a cloud in the sky and it's raining out - Eminem
~! Firewall !~
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In addition to welcoming Xamarin, we also wanted to provide an update on the Windows 10 Bridges. Astoria becomes a bridge too far
Which I think makes it the second time something codenamed Astoria has rapidly gone nowhere.
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Thanks. Now I'm hungry for a cannoli.
There's the "Astoria Pastry Shop" just around the corner from here.
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Don’t get me wrong. I want to build software I can be proud of. I want to be part of teams that build great products. I aspire to craftsmanship. What I dislike is the word “quality”, and how it tends to polarise conversations. At least during my next code review
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According to reports from Japanese business journal Nikkei and Reuters, Sharp has decided to accept a takeover offer from Foxconn. Playing "hokey-pokey" with press releases
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Google's latest AI is PlaNet, a new deep-learning machine that specializes in figuring out where a photo was taken—using nothing but the image’s pixels. "All I've got is a photograph, but it's not enough"
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PlaNet : Is this mug shot ? with slate ? It must be prison.....
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Maths is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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There is a new batch of proposals for C++17, published for next weeks ISO C++ Committee meeting. Find all the ways your code will break in the future
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The Apple chief made his case against helping the FBI in a TV interview on ABC News. Uhm, Tim - go ahead and take it down a notch, please?
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Because iTunes, the music/configuration application from Apple is... what exactly? How many people on here have said iTunes is essentially a cancer in and of itself.
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The FBI is more in the wrong than it first appears.
Apple first complied with FBI requests in giving them all the information it could. Two months later, more was demanded from Apple, not because the FBI needed it, but just to see how much abuse they could get away with inflicting on Apple.
Their current demands for Apple are insane, and unless Apple wants to re-categorize iPhones as expensive paperweights, they have to fight back.
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All true. I just think his throwing "cancer" around is a bit much.
TTFN - Kent
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He may have meant the zodiac sign...
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Well... That's OK then.
TTFN - Kent
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So you say "All true." Even to "Apple first complied with FBI requests in giving them all the information it could. Two months later, more was demanded from Apple, not because the FBI needed it, but just to see how much abuse they could get away with inflicting on Apple."
Please help me out here . . . how do you/he know the additional information wasn't needed? The remainder of the sentence, following 'but', is hardly different than the thoughtless cancer analogy in its desire to raise objections to an event by emotional rather than logical considerations.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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The thing is it is an emotional even when people get at your private stuff. It makes me and everyone I know angry. So leaving emotional arguments out of it seems a bit illogical don't you think?
Decrease the belief in God, and you increase the numbers of those who wish to play at being God by being “society’s supervisors,” who deny the existence of divine standards, but are very serious about imposing their own standards on society.-Neal A. Maxwell
You must accept 1 of 2 basic premises: Either we are alone in the universe or we are not alone. Either way, the implications are staggering!-Wernher von Braun
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The FBI and other government agencies have a long history of abusive conduct against businesses (which doesn't get addressed much in relevant current events). Thorough and logical conversations about the issue take a long time (too long for both forum posts and TV interviews, unfortunately).
If you'd like to research the issue yourself, you'd probably come up with the same conclusion as my original post. The fact that the FBI waited so long before demanding the backdoor and the fact that other major technology companies so strongly sided with Apple tells us enough to understand the situation.
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And what about business with a history of abusing their customers? Apple's rather high on this list. The current death-dealing automobile airbags also show how you can trust business to do the right thing. And, of course, big tobacco! My own personal despising of GM for the OnStar they integrated into my Mrs.'s car - which actually is monitoring the vehicle and could be used to stop it at any time - and the microphone can pick up conversations. And their decision (1977 Ford Pinto) to calculate how many dead burned drivers was cheaper, legally, than fixing the deadly flaw. Oh Yes! Business can be trusted to do the right thing if asked nicely!
How long they have demanded the data vs. how long before Apple's denial finally became a court case (and thus Apples source of free publicity)? I can't say I know - but the request probably preceded the publicity. And - had it been complied with quietly, it would mean that the terrorists would still feel secure (mine more of their data) and Apple's secret would still be considered secret.
| "The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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