If that was the only argument, how would the following be different?

The reason you can refrain from [unlocking with your finger] is because the 5th Amendment protects you against self-incrimination, and the very act of [unlocking with your finger] may in itself be incriminating, since it demonstrates that you have an awareness and knowledge of the device and the means to unlock it. Which is to say, while the police may have the authority (when authorized by a proper warrant) to search your phone, they do not have the authority to compel you to give up your own rights by [unlocking with your finger].

You had me believing your first paragraph. Then I got to the second. Richilieu was never demoted to bishop!

Not having access to immediate credit is less useful than having access to that credit. It is probably a poor financial decision to USE credit at 15%, but having a credit card with a 15% APR is better than having NO access to immediate credit at any rate.

If you currently are speding x$ per month by way of a debit card, you could spend the exact same amount each month on a credit card, and at the end of the month pay off that credit card with the money from the bank, thereby gaining the (admiditaly minimal) intrest for having that money in the bank. Many credit cards also supply extended warantees, theft protection, travel insurance and other benifits, including points/miles/credits/cash rewards. Each of these features is available from credit cards with no fees.

It should be noted however, that carring a balance at 15% will quickly swamp the small financial gains listed above. If you cannot pay off your credit cards each month, they are best avoided.

PC Financial and other online banks have much better fees (typically zero for this type of thing). Most credit unions are also pretty good. The FInancial Consumer Agency seems to have a tool to investigate every type of account from every institution out there: http://www.fcac-acfc.gc.ca/Eng...

I suspect however that if FDTI fakes did make it into your supply chain, you would much prefer any FDTI software updates to toss up a "we won't work with this device" message rather than making the device not work with any software. I don't know that I would continue to use a supplier with this type of business practice if there were any viable alternatives.

The most "efficient" method in terms of customers served per unit time is multiple lines, one behind each register - then there is minimal downtime between customers and the numbers served are maximized, however it has the major disadvantage of not minimizing the time spent in line by each customer - the unlucky ones pick a slow attendant who managed to get all of the slow patrons with special situations that need extra time to serve. The one line feeding separate servers is most fair as everyone goes through the same line and nobody gets stuck waiting for the slow server or stuck behind the slow patrons while being passed by the lucky patrons who got the faster lines. However, the one line has the disadvantage of causing a delay for everyone for each customer as the customer walks to the checkout from the front of the single line. This can be substantive: if the walk is ten seconds and the line is 60 people long, this is 600 seconds, or ten extra minutes you would be standing in line compared to if the walk was instantaneous. The way around this is to have a long line feeding to short lines (even only one patron deep) at each checkout. Yes, people stuck behind a problem patron can sometimes wait a bit longer than they might like, but on average they tend to be better off. I have seen this type of thing work well at customs checkpoints at airports, where there is someone in authority telling people where to go. The difficulty of course is that any of these single line->multiple checkers work well without mechnisms to keep them working - either a machine or a person telling the next in line where to go and ideally watching the whole system to work around individual slowdowns and special cases. It is not very self-organizing.

I don't think that anything beyond the "deepdarkseceret.com" is going to to Apple, but I suppose if you are worried about anyone knowing what your email address is, then yeah, it might be a concern. Someone posted a link to an RFC of some sort that detailed how mail server settings should be published that could make this type of system unneccessary - too bad that is not more widely implemented.

We just watched Empire "uncut" last week http://www.starwarsuncut.com/ but I don' tthink there were any biplane scenes. It was fun.

Summer temperatures up north can still get pretty warm. Bettles AK (on the arctic circle) has high temperates in the summer of at least the low 90s occasionally, and this is warm enough that compined with a sealed car and lots of sun can certainly push the car temperatures up pretty high. Summer days can be very long too.

If my phone and Apple's server already have a pre-shared encryption key, how are you going to implement a MITH attack? (or should that be "an MITM attack"? I suppose it depends if you read it as "em-eye-tee-em" or "Man In The Middle".) You can certainly drop the connection, but I don't see how you could read or spoof it.

Untill you knew how long it took her, were you happy with the quality of the cleaning and the price you were paying? If so, try not be be bothered by her "profit margin". If not, renegotiate the fee, or find someone else to do the job.

With all that said, are you paying her a "living wage"? For Alameda County, California that comes out to something like $24/hour for a single adult supporting one child or at least $11.50/hour to support just the working adult.

http://livingwage.mit.edu/

Of course people working jobs like house cleaning or computer consulting cannot typically get billable hours for 40 hours per week due to scheduling difficulties and travel time, so the hourly rate needs to be higher to account for that, or as your cleaner may attest, the "billing time" might be longer than the "working time". Other ways of offsetting this it to impose time minimums (at least two hours per job) or charge for travel time or distance. Considering that the IRS has a standard car expense of $0.56/mile, if someone is driving 60 mph they are generating an expense of $33.60/hour. Granted, the IRS is very generous on this expense calculation, but the actual expense for most people is probably close to at least half of that.

http://www.irs.gov/2014-Standa...

There are very few people getting rich cleaning houses.

That's funny.

I'm not so sure - most email providers provide all this information on their web pages anyway. Unless you are suggesting that Apple's mail client is waiting for people to manually set up some email and then sending that information to Apple for use by future users, I don't see any problem for Apple to notice that they are getting lots of requests for email accounts at "someplace.com" and then someone at Apple looking up setup info for someplace.com and pushing that data out to users as needed.

While this type of "auto-setup" is extermely useful (especially on iOS where typing stuff and cut/past and switching between the settings and the web-browser are less than ideal), I do wish it was a bit easier to get straight to the "manual" configuration dialogues. For times when I know that the auto-setup is going to do it in a way I do not want, I usually start by entering a bad domain which does not return a useful result and that lets me do the setup completely manually.

Didn't Niven write a bunch of Green Lantern stuff?

http://www.graspingforthewind....

Find a password "safe" format that is well documented and widely supported, memorize a good long passphrase for that safe, and deploy it on some cloud service somewhere like DropBox, then each of your devices can access the safe, and you have a variety of software to manage the data. Schneier's "Password Safe" format seems like a good choice:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

http://passwordsafe.sourceforg...

Even if it does not work with everything you might want it too, a password manager can make for much better security and convenience for large chunks of one's online life, at the expense of having a single point of failure I guess.