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by aljones 10y ago
It is disappointing to see simple statements of facts down voted.
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by aljones 10y ago
"good artists copy, great artists steal" This quote is meant to make you think about the differences between stealing and copying ideas. It isn't literal. It doesn't even make sense literally. Stealing means you make it
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by aljones 10y ago
Well its actually function calls that look like markup language. Which is why you can write the function calls yourself if you hate it.
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by aljones 10y ago
So about 2 NBA teams.
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by aljones 10y ago
"Email is so important to the functioning of the Internet that it gets its own record type." Well that is one way of looking at it. Probably the appropriate way if you're teaching, but if you want to be critical then it re
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by aljones 10y ago
Is there more to your question than is my math right?
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by aljones 10y ago
But there are 3 types of Apple Watch and 3 types of MacBooks.
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by aljones 10y ago
They are. That isn't the actual goal, but a side effect. What they do is ensure the supply of oil to America.
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by aljones 10y ago
Please point out where this discussion about oil subsidies became restricted to American oil companies.
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by aljones 10y ago
Half the population doesn't pay gas taxes? You're aware that they do. That was a silly thing to say. Gas taxes may be trivial to the portion of the population that pays most of the income taxes, but I doubt the bottom half thinks
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by aljones 10y ago
Current deficit is actually about 500 billion per year.
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by aljones 10y ago
Yeah. https://youtu.be/TVJ4VnN6YPY?t=3422
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by aljones 11y ago
You shouldn't be concerned about unanimity. You should be concerned if it is true or not. https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgXjY3cWIAAVfCM.jpg:large Unfortunately we can't run experiments on this question. Every c
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by aljones 11y ago
I've never seen Jordan accused of taking a pay cut before. The lockout was because of his huge salary. I don't even think there was a salary cap then...
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by aljones 11y ago
Which I find to be a pretty weird idea. The list of players that played their best while playing with Kobe is long and varied.
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by aljones 11y ago
Probably never happening. The protocol became a moving target because of patent suits, and made to rely upon Apple servers to a much greater extent. http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/08/report-after-pat
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by aljones 11y ago
Babel is highly configurable and relatively easy to write plugins for.
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by aljones 11y ago
Actually there are not. Reasonable people have been disagreeing about this all along.
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by aljones 11y ago
So that you're vulnerable to a whistleblower?
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by aljones 11y ago
This is not true. Such tools exist, but are not what Apple used. They just extracted data. It wasn't encrypted so that was all they needed to do.
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by aljones 11y ago
Indeed, people who valued their security highly, like terrorists, would still have security, but the common person would not.
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by aljones 11y ago
And they wouldn't just ask Apple.
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by aljones 11y ago
The order came from a public court. According to an article in the nytimes Apple asked the FBI to keep it secret.
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by aljones 11y ago
The order explicitly requires the cracking tool to not be written to flash. Just as easy? Maybe if you ignore the effort to create it and secure it. I really can't believe writing secure software is being trivialized in the comments
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by aljones 11y ago
Now wait. If the passcode is complex then it is secure, which is a very typical requirement for security.
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by aljones 11y ago
but it wasn't a brute force attack those 70 times so how is it the same thing?
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by aljones 11y ago
Apple has explicitly stated they can do what is asked at every opportunity. You ever been responsible for writing secure software? It isn't easy. Locking it down to a single device is in principle possible. No one wants to be respon
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by aljones 11y ago
That is generally what is meant by new. People always object whenever any software is described as new and it is ridiculous. It isn't just software where we don't start from scratch and yet still call things new. iPhone's the
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by aljones 11y ago
This is why we invented links. Something can be posted on twitter without twitter being the primary source.
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by aljones 11y ago
Why do you have such little sympathy?

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