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Because I can't reply to your "correction" of my English in the relevant thread anymore, I'm telling you here:

You don't know what fop means; you just typed into google and looked at the first dictionary definition to come up. Look it up better this time, and don't (pettily) correct people unless you actually know what you're talking about imo.

The notion that these companies are meaningfully suing each other over "trade secrets" as opposed to "government help" is rather laughable to me. Fuck Google and their attempted U.S.-sanctioned digital monopoly on Earth.

Because Intel is totally on our side.

Oh cool another round of "but they can't spy on the whole internet" from media stooges and their dumbass readership who haven't seen the pattern that's been going on for 20 fucking years now.

Attitudes that Lead to Mixing Problem Domains

How long is the one side of this thing going to talk past the other?

Yeah, so describe how you think the middle class is doing these days.

Heady fucking stuff, just wow.

I did upvote him, because your downvote deserves to be canceled because that is stupid.

Sounds good to me. Hollywood is a trash heap and every single person on Earth would be better off if it didn't exist.

Pulses and waves compounded in whole number ratios form periodic and stable, i.e. consonant, waveforms.

But oh yeah some people just play all random frequencies or like a dog. A dog can be music. It's such a huge mystery, music.

So people don't perform complex, goal-focused motor tasks without having a goal ahead of time after all.

Wow, philosophy people.

EDIT: Cry about it all you want. It won't change the fact that in 100 years people will look back and wonder if an entire academic discipline was afflicted with some form of literal mental retardation.

If I worked at Riot, I would go quit right now.

I have seen almost this exact same thing like a decade ago.

I feel like every 4 or 5 years, everyone gets together and celebrates terse writing like it's some new insight.

Oh cool, now NYT columnists are plagiarizing polyamorist marketing. That's so cool how we can engineer better sexual relationships than >250K years of biological and cultural evolution, and all it took was a little postmodern thinking.

When people at large start to notice that a given publication or platform -- reddit for instance -- has been compromised by certain left-wing ideologies, you will inevitably see a narrative about its behind-the-scenes/"subtle" sexism/discrimination in very short order.

It's becoming a very predictable trick. I can't imagine I'm the only one who sees this.

The real problem with Facebook and the News is that facebook is using human curators to assert, without challenge, what is "trending" with the other humans and then denying it.

i.e. The real problem with Facebook and the News is that facebook is fucking blatantly spreading propaganda by misrepresenting consensus and then lying about it.

Oh the poor struggling ecosystem of sanctimonious bloggers who have completely pissed on this idea of a "fifth estate" by collusively censoring all discussion of how they suck.

That will be soooo terrible if we set a precedent that "journalists" actually have to actually give a shit about the standards of their alleged profession.

That person's blog is pretty fantastic.

1) It's a backdoor because it's software, not a physical device like your example. They are not asking them to make a robot finger to push the buttons. It's not only more trivial to unlock the device, it's significantly more likely the software is copied and leaked into malicious hands.

If I wanted to get into my neighbors house, and I had some way to compel a construction crew to come install a new door in that house so I can walk through it, that would not mean houses now have back doors. That would be a very disingenuous way of putting it.

"But what if the software is copied" is the only argument that holds any weight, and I don't find it very convincing. If the "copyability" of sensitive software/data is such a huge concern, then we should probably start asking how we intend to survive as a species.

2) The outrage, in my opinion, is much more about your exact example -- that Apple is being compelled to develop this software themselves. That they are being legally required to weaken the value of their own product.

Perhaps, but that's not what Tim Cook is saying.

For what it's worth, I'm pretty technical, and all these arguments in Apple's favor seem a lot like arguments for why law enforcement is generally untrustworthy, warrants are meaningless, and everyone should resist every search under every circumstance because what will they ask for next?

Aside from the fact that's all probably actually true, that is not the case Cook is making. Cook is, in fact, trying to pretend like this represents a cryptographic back door, when it plainly absolutely does not.

So there's an encrypted blob. The way you input a password has nothing to do with that blob or the encryption that was used to create it.

The argument that this would be some kind of cryptographic back door seems a little specious to me, and I'm usually the biggest edgelord imaginable when it comes to decrying government surveillance.

If we were talking about a safe somewhere, and the government asked the safe manufacturer to create a physical device that makes it easier to open existing safes, that would not seem reasonable to me, but it also would be ludicrous to claim that represents a "back door." If that's a back door, then the back door already existed.

So in Apple's case, the government says "we need the data out of this device" and that's apparently a solvable problem. Can someone please remind me why it's so cut and dry for Apple to just say "no" and that's supposed to be OK?

I don't even get why we have IP addresses anymore. Just use DNS duh.

That would require them to hire HR and CR people who know something about software as opposed to constructing political narratives.

This seems like incredibly abstract, spurious reasoning to say that something which as been around for many years will never be viable ever again.

~ThAnKs ObAmA~

~/sArCaSm~

This is why I tend to buy the idea that Monster intentionally hides satanic themes in their branding.

I just really hope they honor their code of conduct while they're investigating this.

wait so which department is the FBI under and which department is the NSA under again?

... ah nevermind, I'm sure that doesn't mean anything.