Comment Re: It IS a big deal (Score 1) 222
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Seriously, don't use iOS for anything requiring real security.
I hate those FTFY posts, but in this case I believe it's called for: Don't use a phone of any kind for anything requiring real security.
I'll see that, and raise it to the more effective method of "Don't keep sensitive information anywhere but your brain."
The protection they rely on is holding the device like they should. If it's taken the PIN will be trivially bypassed anyway. Now I feel like an idiot for replying to what probably amounts to a troll, but you never know.
Exactly!
That's why I don't store extensive Contact information in my phone (that's what my personal protein-based storage is for), and ZERO really juicy information. My Apple ID is stored somewhere in the phone, but not my very non-trivial password.
That way, if my phone is lost and compromised, or simply compromised, all the data-thief gets is... wait for it... a PHONE.
BTW, this is also why I don't participate in any of the voluntary data-gathering that is disguised as "social networking". It's bad enough that I have a gmail account; but I don't use that for anything anyone would be able to gain any more interesting information about me than could be gleaned by looking at my grocery-store receipts. And it's bad enough that the last 4 digits of my debit card appears on them...
Bottom line: Stop trusting others' coding and/or algorithmic prowess for your security! Security begins by not storing stuff in places other than your brain. If someone wants to kidnap me and get out the fingernail-pullers, they can have any information they want, and in short order. But absent that, unless someone successfully does a fairly-complicated (I would imagine) MITM attack between my bank's secure website and me, there's little of REAL value that could be gained by examining any of my online data, or by stealing my phone, tablet, work laptop, or home computers. They simply don't HAVE the information. My brain does.
Has my method occasionally caused me inconvenience? You bet! But security and convenience are pretty much mutually exclusive concepts, anyway, right?
I'm told that if you can figure out the magical document number, our own government will sell you a booklet explaining how to produce ethanol from waste with a solar still...
This page is pretty helpful in that regard.
I'm told that if you can figure out the magical document number, our own government will sell you a booklet explaining how to produce ethanol from waste with a solar still...
This page is pretty helpful in that regard.
13 inc MBRP are having same issue and so are the new iMacs. Not looking good.
Well, on the 15 inch rMBP, the new version of the LG display, p/n LP154WT1-SJA2, (the "2"at the end being the all-important difference), dose NOT seem to exhibit IR; so, I would imagine that similar fixes for the 13 MBP and the iMacs are either in the pipe, or already on store shelves.
Having said all that, I'm not particularly proud of the way Apple has handled this; but I suspect that the Contract Manufacturer, (presumably Foxconn) has a measure of blame in how long this has taken to resolve. That's because CMs tend to but stuff in bulk, and are loathe to throw away "perfectly-good" components, rather than just burning through the old stuff...
LCDs have lazy pixels. OLEDs, however, have burn-in as well.
That's a BIG 10-4!!!
One recent product design I was working on was an industrial motor controller/drive.For the design refresh, I desperately wanted to switch out the venerable 7-seg LED display with a nice graphical OLED display. Had a nice long-life (75 k hrs.) amber monochrome OLED display picked out, was nice and bright, cost was reasonable, display fit in the package, things were looking good...
Unfortunately, these displays typically would be showing a static image for LOOOOONG periods of time. OLEDS had a big time problem with burn-in, and the usual workaround (walk the displayed image slowly around in a small grid of pixels) was simply an attempt to smear the damage over a wider area.
The LCD vendors, however, produced displays that exhibited NO burn-in (but were deemed unsuitable by management, because they weren't nice, lambertian light sources, like LEDs). But I digress...
You're confused. It wasn't the $199 Wing Wang Wong China Special that had problems working with Linux. It was the Retina Macbook.
http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=apple_mbpr_linux&num=1
I think you have that backwards. It was the Linux devs. that had the onus of providing compatibility; not Apple.
Coupled with several nasty doses of IL-2 (which does bad things to you)
No doubt!
That's scary stuff!!! How did they avoid you going into Septic Shock after INTENTIONALLY INJECTING Interleukin-2. especially after your immune system was "rebooted"?
But however they did it, congrats!
I tell them to turn to the study of mathematics, for it is only there that they might escape the lusts of the flesh. -- Thomas Mann, "The Magic Mountain"