This is crazy. like all the lollypop stickers of the recent 5 centuries, all for free and with no liability at all. God, how long have I waited for this moment?

It's always the same faults, over and over and over and over again.

Oh for sure! Running any of the jailbreaks for iPhones has mostly meant installing a huge heap of packages from Gwd Only Knows Where

Useful for having a run-time environment to study an application from you do plan to use on an uncompromised device, perhaps for reusing older hardware for some other non security critical use case, but no frigging way would I consider using a jailbroken phone as my actual phone, with real contacts and access to real data and accounts I care about on it.

This is a case where regulation KILLED.

Basically this a was thing that was essentially marketed to wealthy tourists. It WAS done under a regulatory environment, and so those people had far more trust in it than they should have. I bet had they been forced to drag the thing out to international waters and do some sketchy bitcoin transaction to pay or whatever they would not have found takers!

Regulation of this kind of stuff simply does not work. What regulator has any experience inspecting a deep sea sub? - None.. What engineer could draft what appropriate safety standards are for something like this? - None at least not without completely stifling innovation.

Yes we know from the post incident analysis corners were cut compromised materials were used and engineers and officers on the project should have know better, but that is negligence and it is why we have torts.

Modern rail roading is a good example, we have a lot of regulation. Mostly it works, but there are still the occasional accidents. Pretty much every rule in the book has one or more corpses behind it, it isn't like someone say down and just wrote out the FRA's inspection schedule, we learned the hard way the inspection frequencies required to catch certain problems before they turn into dead bodies -> then -> we said ok everybody is going to do that.

Honestly the DOT (US or CANs) should have exactly one regulation covering something like this, something akin a product safety label that says, "the safety of traveling aboard a device of this class is not well understood, proceed at your peril"

I am fan of owning your own device so I generally consider a positive thing when this stuff happens, provide the exploit path requires physical device access that inst possible to do superstitiously, IE tether then thing and put it in DFU mode, with the full restart that implies, vs pairing some bluetooth thing or something and exploiting the running OS.

Yeah I get it it means it isnt secure to travel with it - fair argument.

This though is almost cruel to release. Most of the affected devices are old enough Apple will probably just move up their end of support plans for them. Probably harms more people trying to save a buck and hang on to old kit, than helps people who might like to play with it without the lock down..

I remember reading somewhere that Apple kind of foresaw this coming and purchased extra memory so they wouldn't have to raise prices as long as possible.

It looks like they've reached the end of their extra supply.

You can refit every drone to make it a weapon, and there's nothing what CCP fears more - besides old age.

That timeframe is ridiculous. There's no reason why the courts can't operate more efficiently than they do other than that the lawyers and judges have no incentive to move things along.

Tell us you don't know how courts operate without telling us you don't know how courts operate.

The parties have to file the appropriate paperwork and there are specified timeframes when they have to be done. For example, the plaintiff files to start the case, the defendant generally has 20 - 30 days to respond. Then the plaintiff has additional days to respond to the defendant's response. And so on. This doesn't even take into consideration the discovery process. Just getting to the point to start a trial can take up to a year with all the back and forth filings, motions, and so on. In many cases, one or both parties will wait until the last moment to file just under the last possible filing date to drag things out.

Then the court has to schedule the case in between all the other cases they're dealing with. The parties may be ready to go to trial on April 1st, but if the first available slot in the court's docket isn't until June 1st, guess when the trial starts.

Archlinux developer and d00fus are synonymous, no wonder they are helpless and disoriented right now.

I have updates turned off. Every time I open Fx after a shut down, it harasses me. Then, about a minute later, it does it again. Throughout the day it harasses me.

If I tell it never to install updates unless I choose to, don't harass me.

It used to be like that until a year or so ago. Check the box, never be harassed. Now it's incessant.

Have they removed the incessent harassment notifying you there is an update?

There used to be a time when you checked a box, you were never harassed. Clear, simple, and useful.

I guess that's no longer possible.

The ObamaPhone was started by Bush.

Not sure what you're looking at. I am interested in the subject because I have a lot teachers public and private school in the family.

Most of what I see out there suggests to me there is essentially no correlation between changes in per-pupil spend and outcomes. If you go back to the 70s, you can't go much further back because you don't have a lot of comparable standardized test results before then, and stop pre-pandemic, what you see nationally anyway is educational outcomes are very flat even while (inflation adjusted) per-pupil spend jumped.

When you dig down to individual states, and/or mega districts (LA, etc) you mostly see that again outcomes stay pretty flat even in periods, even when major reforms (big increases in spend or cuts were made) even as you scroll forward a decade or on the outcome side to account for student experience.

From what I can see within a very wide-band of education spending, there is little impact on outcomes. Critics will find all sorts of exceptions but as I said in my previous post usually they end up being outliers to begin with. Sure you increased spending and scores did go up but it was in place where they were well below the curve to start with. Or people will say see see they spent even more money and scores dropped, but you look into and it was a place that was previously over performing, suggesting other factors probably are in play.

Yeah honestly British and American literature were some of my favorite subjects in high school because we got read things like Jane Eyre, Emma, Frankenstein, Gatsby, Huck Fin, Red Badge of Courage, etc.

All of those are great because the language is pretty accessible even for a contemporary audience and you can absolutely immerse yourself in any of them. Never felt like work..