chaz72

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by chaz72 12y ago
er - possibly, I'm not a lawyer. I read it somewhere on the internet and it sounded credible at the time.
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by chaz72 12y ago
Nope. They could use a warrant to compel the sender or the recipient of the messages to unlock them or face jail time. But Apple doesn't have the keys.
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by chaz72 12y ago
Exactly. The world has had some time to react to last year's revelations, and this is just getting started!
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by chaz72 12y ago
This year, you're absolutely right: Apple has among the best support for older devices, among smartphone makers, which are a breed apart from more general purpose computing. For now. Long term, as things stabilize, I think we all can
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by chaz72 12y ago
plot twist: a Swift-to-JS compiler
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by chaz72 12y ago
More secure than Flash or Silverlight which are what I personally use today. VP9 and Daala are not, as far as I know, available for me to use when watching netflix.
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by chaz72 12y ago
You are presumably already choosing not to use Netflix now. I'm not. I'm choosing to use Netflix now, and I want the more secure, more efficient built-in method. That said, I would like a more secure, more efficient built-in metho
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by chaz72 12y ago
As far as I can tell, as long as the DRM is in Flash or Silverlight then some people still hope that "getting rid of DRM" is a winnable fight. I doubt that's true, myself. It'd be nice, but I don't see it happening.
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by chaz72 12y ago
Yeah, maybe to Wired it makes sense to say "they should have just used Python or Ruby". No doubt those languages can be optimized just as well. Lol, why would that be hard?
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by chaz72 12y ago
Granted, a primary source would have been better, but the NY Times does link to several. Though you didn't cite a lot of primary sources in your own comment, I would still be interested in your real response to the referenced studies.
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by chaz72 12y ago
Microsoft had a monopoly position at that time, and Apple does not.
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by chaz72 12y ago
Not at all. Make it clear to OEM partners that this is not a competitor to their low-margin products but rather a competitor to Apple's high-margin products. MS & OEMs both need to understand that it will always be a small fraction
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by chaz72 12y ago
What they consider to be the "third entry" is a cryptographically signed receipt. Is that a newly invented "triple entry" or is that just a better way to keep track of the traditional "source documents"? (still
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by chaz72 13y ago
The title is "How I learned to...", so I think he's following his own advice here.