A portion of the A7 that has to be accessible to the OS for login attempts. A firmware update or OS update might allow that user data to be uploaded eventually. Not to say that Apple would do that, just that it could be possible.

If it has network connectivity sure. If your phone is stolen and removed from any networks you could potentially break into the phone and have an unlimited amount of time to access the data. The best security feature Apple had on the ipad was delays between incorrect login attempts leading to eventual wiping of the data. I wonder if an incorrect finger scan will result in the same delay and wipe or if it's disabled in case of accidental miss entries.

I'm curious to see if someone can easily circumvent the fingerprint scanner with traditional methods.

If best buy advertised as "Buy the whole 5th season for 22 bucks" yeah it's best buys fault. They didn't advertise correctly. The problem with apple isn't that they sold half the season it's that they sold the full season and then it was broken up and you only got the first half. It's a bait and switch they should get a refund or the second half which they thought they were paying for in the first place.

If AMC screwed apple then apple could turn around and sue their pants off for damages to them caused by this. Though I doubt that they would, considering they can just take the hit for the cost of lawyer fees and keep their contract with AMC. Apple might not be directly at fault but you have to go after the person who screwed you and Apple screwed it's customers either intentionally or unintentionally.

No one won the cold war, the USSR folded. No one ever wins a war you just lose less. I guess if winning is getting to stick around then you might win but I think that hardly should count. I'm starting to feel like someone is closing the lid on a pressure cooker and about to turn it on.

This seems to be good news for everyone. BT gets to can a part of their business that is already made redundant by an owned property. They can allocate those resources somewhere else. The other telecom gets an increase of around 1000 subscribers increasing revenue for them. For some reason the crazy individuals who were paying more for the same service are now being informed that they should pay this other company less for the same service. The only people who lose are the ones who were technicians working directly on the dialup infrastructure. Hopefully they were doing both and keep their jobs.

Bad choice in metaphors really. Assembly would be more akin to making a 3D model out of clay and presenting it instead of doing it in software and printing it off on a 3D printer. You end up with the same result, one is easier to do, but one has a more human feel to the fine details of the finished product. Curves are put on the clay were only a tangle mess of excess plastic is on the printed version. In the end both do their job, ones highly more efficient with no excess the other easy to reproduce and build tangents off of.

Keys in the right phone in the left. I have yet to scratch my phone I'm still rocking out the original galaxy S... It's time to upgrade but at least I'll get a newer version of Gorilla Glass.

A few months ago I read a book called Silo off of amazon it was directly through amazon with no physical counterpart I believe the physical version came out not long ago because it was doing so well. I think the author kept the digital distribution rights. I agree it can be done.

These industries are changing and if they don't change along with it they will eventually be left in the dust.
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There was one post master who claimed to have been charged upward of 30 pounds in theft. There were others with large sums as well that went missing. If they believe there was a bug in the software and got together I'm sure they could find the bug, clear their name and seek restitution for what they had to pay back. If enough of them got together and bought even a couple guys I'm sure they would be better off financially as well as having their names cleared, keeping their houses and contracts.

That's options 1.

Option 2 is to have someone start a business that analyses specific problems with the postmasters. They can look at the code and even go over policies and procedures with the post masters. Charge a licensing fee for the extra support that you offer, have it be an unbiased third party.

With the amount of money at risk to being lost and the number of sub-post masters that they were talking about in the article it wouldn't even have to be a large amount of money from each sub-post master to sustain someone specifically to look at the code for them.

You talk about communism but I don't think the moment you start working together it's communism nor is it a bad thing. This isn't 1950's U.S. this is 2013 UK.

I'm not saying they should be open source or not, they could give access to the code to a third party company so that they could trouble shoot it anyways with NDA and all that jazz. In the end the story here is that these folks are apparently being screwed by the post office and they have no recourse to prove it. The same thing could happen to anyone using closed sourced software to do accounting or other sensitive work. One bug could land people in jail and your are shit out of luck to prove it was a bug. Not having the option to hire someone to look at the code is scary in that aspect.

I'm hoping you are a troll but you probably don't even know who Jeri Ellsworth is. It is worth noting SHE is very very smart and quite brilliant and quite well known in the hardware hacker community. Jeri was working on some interesting hardware over at valve but I think with the way that the Oculus Rift was advancing Gabe was most likely looking to head in another direction from her tech. I think it was pretty awesome that he signed off on Jeri taking the hardware she was working on with her when she left I don't know of many companies that would knowingly do that. It also indicates that the hardware she was working on was of no interest to Valve any longer and was most likely the reason she was let go.

The worlds becoming a global economy and I have no problems paying someone over seas. I have no hard feelings over it morally, they are people too and they deserve jobs. That is if they are properly compensated and working conditions for that person are fine. If you build a good working relationship with someone and they provide good services and people on both sides are happy then it shouldn't matter. Yes that money could go to someone from your country and they could very well distribute that money back into your economy but as the worlds economies become more and more tied to each other does that really matter so much?

What's the point anyways wall street can go and fuck up the local economy in the U.S. and not bat an eye even if everyone put their money back into the local economy.

While people are calling him a hero in regards to leaking the NSA documents, I don't think anyone believes that he's a saint. You want your hero's to wear capes and be morally rightouse the rest of us would settle for someone doing the right thing once in awhile. Your point may not be flawed but it's entirely to critical.

In my opinion DRM will never work period let me put that out there to start.

Now, I'm not sure why you think these other issues you presented are any less of an issue on any other platform. You could rewrite firefox now for windows and do the same thing your describing.

DRM could very well eventually make it into HTML5 (http://newsbreaks.infotoday.com/Digest/The-Electronic-Frontier-Foundation-Objects-to-WC-HTML-Standards-90321.asp) it's been discussed to no end all over the place. It's a damned if you do damned if you don't situation. On one end you'll have people clamoring for it and if it's not there making plugins possibly multiple ones with no standardization. including it in HTML5 would at least standardize it somewhat and allow one product to be patched for security holes. The other token is, is it HTML5's job to do that standardization and include it? Probably not but if they don't you could end up with a mess of plugins like netflix has. If they do include DRM you will more likely see it implemented in firefox and chrome and have it work on linux. If netflix adopts that standard for DRM then you could very well see netflix on linux.

I don't see how having netflix on an opensource browser on an opensource OS is different than having it in an opensource browser on a closed system. The OS is most likely not going to be your limiting factor in attacking the DRM in HTML5 because it's going to be written to be able to be used on things from windows, OSX, iOS, android, chromeOS and so forth Linux isn't out of the question.

Fair enough.

My point was more to the fact that by the time netflix drops silverlight XP will most likely be past it's EOL. At that point I don't think people should expect it to be supported. My previous post came across as more harsh than I was expecting now that I reread it with fresh eyes. Sorry if I offended you or the original poster.

They won't they will require you to download it just like most other plugins you get for FF. That's how it should be at least. I'm not sure what chrome will do. I would hope they would have it as a download, while I would probably install it at home I wouldn't want extra stuff shoved in from a fresh install.