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Comment Re:Turn on FileVault (Score 3, Insightful) 135

You now know about this issue and can do it to your Macs... and that of your family & friends... but what about all of those people who do not have a person like you? How do they get the fix?

Short of a mandatory update that is pushed down even on devices that opt out of automatic updates... how do you propose to push such a change?

So yes... too late. If the device leaves the factory in an insecure state, a significant number of units are basically guarenteed to remain that way until they are decommissioned years from now.

Comment Re:And yet again terrorism wins (Score 2) 230

You are forgetting the implications of tort law.

Even if a physical attack is very unlikely, the costs of the lawsuits which would occurs afterwards would make proceeding a rather risky thing either way.

Don't believe me? The lawsuit against the theater which didn't prevent the Aurora theater shooting continues: http://deadline.com/2014/08/ci...

Comment Hurray for competing standards of nonsense! (Score 2) 87

On the one side we have the entrenched and largely ubiquitous gasoline infrastructure trying to keep electricity from becoming the dominant (good luck)... the recent upstart of hydrogen which requires you to rather carefully plan your commute... and LNG sitting there in the corner saying "Don't forget about me guys!"

It's like Verizon vs ATT on pay-per-view side and Sprint in it's own ring waiting for T-Mobile to arrive on PBS.

It's pretty easy to guess which is going to get the bigger numbers in terms of revenue.

Comment Re:Does anyone remember Amadou Dialo? (Score 1) 207

So your solution to lawful violence is... lawless violence?

I'm sorry, but assaulting a cop tends not to be a good way to avoid getting shot... just as Michael Brown.

Resisting arrest... even over the allegation of selling untaxed cigarettes is not a good way to avoid being held on the with multiple bodies attempting to restrain you... just ask Eric Garner.

Waving and aiming what looks like a real gun around in a park, then reaching for your waist when police come to the scene is not going to getting shot... just ask Tamir Rice.

Now, when the cop sticks his hands inside of the vehicle and gets it caught in the steering wheel, and fearing that the driver is going to drive away shoots the driver... that's a great way to get yourself charged with murder... just ask Richard Combs.

Why do you assume that the job of a solider or cop is to die?

Patton would also disagree:“The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.”

Comment Re:I'm not handing a cop my phone for any reason (Score 1) 207

Even with a physical drivers license, they always try to grab your entire wallet before you can pull out the driver license from it.

Always? I've never had that experience, they have always waited for me to collect and hand over the requested items... granted I've not been pulled over that many times.

If true, I'd suggest finding a lawyer filing a report (and perhaps a lawsuit) about such incidences as their unwarranted entry into your vehicle would constitute trespass, taking your wallet from you would be theft, and any examination of the inside contents that are not in clear view without your permission would be an unlawful search (assuming there are no other circumstances that warranted such actions).

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