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Comment Re:Cludge fix? (Score 3, Insightful) 187

They don't need to patch every possible exploit, only ones that allow privilege escalation.

Well, if you give them a list of exploits that these tools use, I'll bet they will be more than happy to fix them.

if a product, like GrayKey and Cellebrite is released, then it is imperative that Apple reverse-engineer it to fix bugs they exploit.

And to do that they need to get their hands on one of them first, and GrayKey/Cellebrite are doing everything they can to prevent that.

Comment Re:Ahh, sanded jeans. (Score 1) 237

Depends entirely on the circumstances.

Take skin tan for example. It used to be that a fair skin was high-status and a tanned skin was low-status, back when poor people got a tan by working outside all day and the rich people stayed inside.

Then it turned around, now the poor people spend inside all day working. while the rich people can afford nice holidays where they can get tanned, so no being tanned is high-status and fair skin is low-status.

So a worn out 4WD *could* be high-status because it indicates you have lots of free time to go out and explore nature in that car.

Comment Re:Embarrassing (Score 1) 98

With Android being open, both manufacturers and carriers are free to do as they please.

No they aren't, not in reality.

Android phones without Play Services aren't very useful and to get Play Services you have to abide by Google's rules. They should have made regular updates (pushed directly by Google) a requirement to get Play Services on your phone.

Also, don't Android apps run in a VM, and wasn't one of the biggest advantages of using a VM that apps can be OS and platform agnostic ? So why doesn't Google just update the VM/runtime to the latest API version regardless of the underlying OS version ? That would solve a majority of the fragmentation issues.

Comment Re:iOS users are more conditioned to upgrade (Score 5, Insightful) 133

iPhone users (...) are conditioned to upgrade their devices.

You know that on iOS, unlike Android, you can update to the latest OS version without buying a new phone, right ?

The adoption numbers are a result of updates actually being available to consumers, not lack of willingness to update on the part of Android users.

Comment Re: Fully agree (Score 1) 296

programming skills are useful for whatever field the student goes into. Either making models in physics or economy, creating art or managing office supplies in spreadsheets.

What about chicken catchers, how is programming useful to them ? And in case you wonder what a chicken catcher does, it's someone who catches chickens for a living (basically, their job is to drive to a different farm each day, go into a barn full of chickens and put them in cages for transport to a butcher). I know a guy who does that, I'd love to see you teach him programming. Note that this guy is not mentally handicapped by any definition; let's just say he's not very good at abstract thinking.

What about the people who work in the bread factory around the corner from where I live. There are guys who've been working there for 30+ years and all they do is prepare shipments of bread for supermarkets. Cart 1 for supermarket A, 20 loafs of white bread, 30 of full grain, etc. on to Cart 2, 15 loafs of ... you get the idea. What use is programming to them ?

Hell, I know people who actually have a BsC from a 4 year CS program who can't code to save their lives. And these are college educated people who actually had programming courses as part of their BsC. They could kind-of do the assignments in the course but only as long as the assignments looked similar enough to the material studied in class. They didn't actually understand what was going on, they were merely monkeys who knew how to repeat a trick. Most of them went on to some 2 year follow-up management program.

Hell, I've interviewed job applicants with supposedly 10 years of programming experience who I wouldn't let near a compiler.

Comment Re:No way to win. (Score 4, Funny) 277

Of course there is a way to win.

We want to subscribe to one service and get all content, we don't need (or want) that content to be exclusive to that service.

So the solution is simple, forbid exclusivity and require content creators to provide their content to all services under identical terms. Then you have multiple services to choose from and all services can offer all content (if they want).

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