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Well - the court can order Apple to try - but they can't force them to succeed.
But reality is that apple (MS, and the others that chimed in on their side) are full of cr@p. Apple's milking this for the free publicity and feigning they care about the user's privacy. They've been violating that to a massive degree. MS: invading Windows 10 systems at will - installing whatever they wish.
It's a major crock to get that free publicity they've been getting. Much like Donald Trump's outrageous remarks and all the free airtime that gets him. Maybe he's apple's inspiration?!!
Apple knows full well that they're showing 'proof of concept' will not change the fact that cracking the phones has been an ongoing project since the day of its inception. And wasn't that 10-try deal put in to make stealing their phones pointless?
Whist I's at it, government 'officials' throughout the world are joining the ban-encryption bandwagon. What a hopelessly ignorant bunch of morons (on a good day).
I'm about to leave KSS status, so I'll quit.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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Won't happen.
There are some pretty damn good coders writing keyloggers, trojans, popups, blah de blah...
All this effort, all this skill, for this? | CommitStrip[^]
There are always people who don't care what it's used for - regardless of the industry or profession.
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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It's a nice thought however when you get this sort of dynamic, where a group of people stand up and oppose something - invariably you will find that the execs will identify the people they want to keep and make them lucrative offers to keep them.
What then happens is that the people who were kept, through being lured back by money, are soon replaced with new people who are much less likely to question the authority of the execs.
A lot of people have a price for which they would be willing to concede some of their freedom/integrity.
The only question to ask is as an individual, when you decide to make a stand on a point of principle, how much would someone have to pay you in order for you to stand down?
“That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.”
― Christopher Hitchens
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Wouldn't work; there's always someone in the field that would accept the job.
Bastard Programmer from Hell
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
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Well, if you're living in a field any job looks good!
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Recently I've had two thread replies fail to show up in the thread at the time of posting.
They were, I presume, flagged as potential spam and sent to a moderator for approval.
Here is the latest example:
The Lounge - CodeProject[^]
I can't find any FAQs that indicate what the spam detector is looking for. Keywords? Length? ...
This isn't a big deal. I'm merely curious. TIA for any insights.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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MikeTheFid wrote: I can't find any FAQs that indicate what the spam detector is looking for. Keywords? Length? ...
And you won't. If you could, the spammers would read it, and tailor their posts accordingly.
Apart from anything else, it's not a static list of rules. It's something like a Bayesian filter, which learns and adapts based on previous spam reports.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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For stuff the filters deem suspicious, yes, there is a moderation queue that posts end up in.
Not everything ends up in it though.
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I approved that one from the moderation queue. I could not see what it was that got the spam filter excited, but it was obviously not spam. It may be a couple of keywords somewhere in the message, or your signature.
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Richard MacCutchan wrote: I could not see what it was that got the spam filter excited
Really?
Quote: Do what you love, and you never have to work a day in your life!
Now where have I seen sentences like that one before?
I am not a number. I am a ... no, wait!
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Ctrl+V works on a console window!
Finally. How many freaking version of Windows did we have to go through for that to happen?
(Maybe it worked on W8 too, but I skipped that abortion.)
Marc
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Well, at this rate, by the time we get to Windows 20 (I expect some more skipped versions) they'll have finally brought the system up to the level of DOS.
Not too shabby.
Well, actually, yes, it is.
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits." - Albert Einstein | "As far as we know, our computer has never had an undetected error." - Weisert | "If you are searching for perfection in others, then you seek disappointment. If you are seek perfection in yourself, then you will find failure." - Balboos HaGadol Mar 2010 |
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What, DOS with it's wonderful clipboard support?
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Don't forget the "brick wall" learning curve, and sooooooo helpful manual!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Does that author not know about "QuickEdit Mode" and copy/paste simply with the right-click? Why does he go through such convoluted convulsions? I've never heard of anyone doing that.
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You still had to remove the extra line-breaks and spacing, though. The Ctrl+C support is much nicer.
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Not always; pretty infrequently actually in my experience. Granted I have my window set full size with 270 characters across.
And why use the mouse to select and then switch to keys to copy/paste?
Of course, I remember having to use only keys for select/copy/paste on a VT420 (if I recall correctly) -- no mouse. That was still an improvement over earlier termini though.
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Marc Clifton wrote: Maybe it worked on W8 too, but I skipped that abortion.
W9 was an abortion. W8 was a bastard.
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That's a great achievement indeed. Hopefully they will take care also of the remaining 98% stuff in order to get a proper console environment.
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In every version of Windows going back to XP (don't know about prior versions) you can move the mouse cursor over the DOS window with text in the clipboard, right-click and select Paste and it inserts the text at the current command line cursor position.
I do admit though that I too wondered why a simple ctrl-v didn't work.
Cheers,
Mike Fidler
"I intend to live forever - so far, so good." Steven Wright
"I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met." Also Steven Wright
"I'm addicted to placebos. I could quit, but it wouldn't matter." Steven Wright yet again.
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MikeTheFid wrote: you can move the mouse cursor over the DOS window
Yeah, which requires moving the mouse, right-clicking, and selecting paste, when a "don't take your hands off the keyboard, Ctrl+V" is so much easier.
Marc
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Also ctrl-Enter is back for entering full screen (gone since XP).
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Thanks, that's useful to know as it will eliminate all those cd commands. I did notice that it can be made full screen now which is nice.
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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