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Submission + - Five-Eyes nations to force backdoors in encryption (itnews.com.au) 1

Bismillah writes: Last week, officials from the Five-Eyes countries (US, Canada, UK, Australia and New Zealand) issued a statement saying tech providers will have to come up with a way to provide lawful access to encrypted data, or else. How tech companies do it is up to them, but they will have to do it. Plus, uploads of illicit content must be prevented. If it can't be prevented, providers have to take such content with all haste.

Comment Re:Refund please. (Score 1) 76

You don't have to install the microcode update ya galah.

I doubt anybody would have sympathy for you if you install the update knowing about the performance hit/reduced features and then cry "it doesn't work like it should!". That's not to say I don't think Intel are assholes, because I think they are.

Comment Re:wtf, /. (Score 2) 106

Seems to be only Fridays to stop people working on weekends, winding down from 20:00 to 19:00 over a few months. The TFA doesn't contain much more than TFS. I thought a 50 hour week was bad (for Aussie standards), I guess I'm not too bad off!

If a government steps in to say your working too hard there is likely to be an ulterior motive. What could it be?

Comment /* TODO: Insert Subject */ (Score 1) 155

This is not that different to the usual hiring process where you screen resumes and then do personal screening, ie interviews.

In this case it is the other way around. Of course a 10 second video isn't the same as a personal interview, but I wouldn't be surprised if 10 seconds is all a Manager needs to decide whether they want to hire you or not.

I rarely ever buy McDonalds but I applaud them for trying something new that appeals generally to younger people, who they seem to hire most.

If it works, great, if it doesn't, that's ok too.

Comment /* TODO: Add subject */ (Score 4, Insightful) 351

So how many children have been prosecuted for human trafficking in South Carolina? Is it a real problem there?

I was under the impression that human trafficking was usually adults preying upon other adults and children. I know I'm going out on a limb here, but perhaps this isn't about human trafficking at all?

Thanks for correcting my information South Carolina, I better keep up my guard when interacting with a child now, they could be a human trafficking kingpin and out to GET ME!!

Comment Re:SSD wear (Score 2) 478

Assuming that Apple has installed a moderately well produced SSD, shouldn't it outlast the rest of the laptop?

Not saying that soldering it in was a good idea, but it is hardly the component to die first. If it were a spinning metal drive, then yes, that would be stupid as it would probably fail first.

Just another way for third party repairs and self upgrades can be limited. I used to think the Apple "throw it away and get a new model next year" jokes were just jokes.

Comment Re:Down the rabbit hole (Score 2) 311

Any idea on who pays for the terminal upgrade, it wasn't mentioned in the article? If it is being forced on a business, then the credit card company should be sending them out free of charge (assuming that the terminal will be paid off with transaction fees). I'm guessing this is not the case.

Otherwise, why is there are problem rolling out new terminals?

Comment *TODO: Insert Subject* (Score 1) 79

Although it is unlikely that a hack will occur, hopefully J&J will look at security more thoroughly in the future. Obviously a person dying due to a faulty, or hacked insulin pump is less expensive than a recall and firmware update.

Maybe they could just post equipment in major cities that hack the new firmware onto the pumps! No recall, and probability of a hack goes down even further. What on earth could possibly go wrong?!

At least the quotes don't sound like they were written by a progressive, brand visionary, user centrist methodology PR company; they've admitted that there is a problem, and it wasn't spun to say it was in the best interest of the users (take note HP).

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