In fairness though, if I saw 40 men attacking 10 women I wouldn’t be stepping in. There would be nothing I could do against 40 men other than get myself killed - and that wouldn’t help the women being attacked.
I would be on the phone to the police though, yelling at them to get down there in numbers as quickly as humanly possible.
I’d be making siren sounds real loud.
I don’t get it. Two girls shot, each shot fatally with one bullet, and the police say they are not searching for a suspect?
Something doesn’t add up, especially not with the gunshots being reported close to each other. And it’s far too early to assume murder suicide.
Back on December 15th, there was the mass shooting and attempted bombing in San Bernardino that left 14 dead and 22 injured. Syed’s iPhone was recovered and the FBI wants Apple to break the encryption or make a replacement version of iOS to install on the phone so they can find out what’s on it. Apple is contesting the court order since it will set a precident to be used in the future. The White House and the FBI say, no, it’s just for this one time.
BBC News reports that John McAfee has said he’ll break the encryption in 3 weeks for free, and the reason he wants to do it is so that Apple isn’t forced to create the back door into iOS. Other companies like Google and Facebook are backing Apple’s stance. Tim Cook’s open letter has some good points in it, especially that it won’t end here.
Once this gets to a court and there’s a ruling, the precident is in place, regardless of which way it goes. For instance, Dodge made the decision a few years ago to stop putting “Dodge” on the name of their “Dodge Ram” pickup and just calli it a “Ram”. A court ruled that Microsoft couldn’t just call it “Windows” as a trademarkable name, so it’s “Microsoft Windows”. If I wanted to, had enough money and wanted to be a jerk about it, I could build my own pickup and call it “Rabbit’s Ram”, then point back at the Microsoft ruling when Dodge objected.
“It will be just one time” is almost never “one time”.
Yup. I agree completely.
So the shooter in Kalamazoo Michigan (for those of you in other countries, that’s another planet) turns out to be an Uber driver, who was picking up and dropping off riders between shootings. Some of the riders had to jump out of the car when he slowed down, because they were so afraid of his reckless driving.
Uber really has a problem.
Yeah, I read about this in the weekend and silently applauded Apple’s stance.
Actually, the headline I read was misleading and implied that Apple was just refusing to release information they already had. It wasn’t until I read the article that I realised the scope of what the FBI was asking demanding.
If anyone believes that the FBI would only use the back-door just the once, I have a bridge for sale at a bargain price.
My waterfront property in Mesa Arizona is priced to move!
Unfortunately, the Supremes just lost the judge that would have most agreed with Apple.
Uber seems to have set a record for flipping the PR image from “Plucky upstart challenging The MAN!” (in this case, the artificial scarcity and general poor experience of taxi services in many cities) to “Horrible screwed-up mess of a company” what with driver concerns like this, less-scary but still weird concerns about drivers being obsessed with 5 star ratings, and concerns that ultimately the pay for drivers is pretty poor.
I’ve never used Uber, but was keeping them as an option for some upcoming trips. Not sure if I want to do so, now.
The problem with publicly rated and contracted workers. I’m sure Uber’s point is that they don’t hire these people, and even if they did, how would they know some dude was insane. I like the service, I love the idea, and I hate that things like this will call for solutions
I will say I know a couple people that Uber drive for fun and profit and I’ve been tempted to sign up. You have to work the system and work at it smart, not hard. Being in the right place at the right time is more important than how many total hours you work. Working for 6 hours during the day will make you less than working 3 hours at midnight in the party zone.
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I wish I was here
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Dunno, it’s right next to the danger zone.
And now Kenny Loggins is in my head
And once the magic has been brewed, who really believes it won’t ever be stolen/ captured/ duplicated by a hacker/ terrorist/ thief?
Of course Bill Gates is on the FBI’s side. He personally made PC security as effective as a tissue paper firewall. And it has nothing to do with his long-standing rivalry with Steve Jobs, right?
I haven’t spent much time on it, but in Bill G’s limited defense, I’ve heard this quote may be out of context and not his whole thoughts on the matter.
I’d still prefer he stick to fighting malaria, which is certainly a good initiative I really can’t find fault with, though.
He doesn’t use the one thing that’s actually been successful at eliminating malaria though. Zap the areas with issues with DDT and malaria goes away. But considering the alliance of corporations and bad science that killed DDT in the first place he likely doesn’t want to fight that PR battle.
We can do the same thing with West Nile and Zika.
We might want to split off the messages dealing with unlocking the iPhone into a new message thread because now we have the following:
I’d have to dig back through the recent newspapers to get the exact details, but I read an article that could be summed up like this: one of the guys in the FBI or CIA who had been pushing for this kind of access has now backtracked a bit because even he sees where this could lead.
Apple isn’t actually refusing to decrypt data. What they are doing is refusing to give the FBI (and anyone else who gets hold of the hack) carte blanche to break into any iPhone they get hold of.
There is a world of difference between those two things. (Edit: Both are bad, but the iPhone hack is immensely worse)