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timothy
uary 29, 2016 @07:40PM
from the at-the-right-time dept.
The Washington Post reports that Apple has prevailed for the moment in its fight with the FBI over the agency's demand that Apple help them break the security of an iPhone — but not in the California case about the phone belonging to San Bernadino shooter Syed Rizwan Farook -- that more famous case, as we mentioned the other day, is of course not the only case with a phone the FBI would like to peek into. New York federal judge James Orenstein scoffs in his 50-page decision at government arguments that Apple should be compelled to produce a software solution that would give them full access to content of the phone belonging to a drug dealer's phone.
[Orenstein] found that the All Writs Act does not apply in instances where Congress had the opportunity but failed to create an authority for the government to get the type of help it was seeking, such as having firms ensure they have a way to obtain data from encrypted phones.
He also found that ordering Apple to help the government by extracting data from the iPhone- which belonged to a drug dealer --would place an unreasonable burden on the company....
He also expressed concern about conferring too much authority in the government. "Nothing in the government's arguments suggests any principled limit on how far a court may go in requiring a person or company to violate the most deeply-rooted values to provide assistance to the government the court deems necessary," he said.
Whether the same logic will prevail in California is yet unclear; the New York decision is not binding on any other court.
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byfrancium de neobie
tober 18, 2013 @08:53PM
(#45171663)
Attached to: Tech's Highest-Paid Engineers Are At Juniper
Well, I'd rather save $2k - $3k every month and have housemates. That's $36k per year of extra cash for Christ's sake. You roll that into Tesla in the beginning of this year and now it's $150k (okay you'd need to be quite lucky to do this); or you roll that into BitCoins whenever there's a panic; or you just save it up and wait for the next market crash. But as you can see.. if you save and invest that, it becomes Porsche or even Ferrari money pretty quickly.
... and... that's still not enough for a good house :(
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byfrancium de neobie
tober 18, 2013 @06:47PM
(#45170971)
Attached to: Tech's Highest-Paid Engineers Are At Juniper
If you're a fresh grad or a young person making good salary, you can always rent a single family house and share it with a few teammates. I've been doing this for 2 years now and rent expenditure has been pretty low for me.
The real problem though.. is even if you make $200k+ per year here, it's still difficult to buy a house in a decent school district.
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byfrancium de neobie
September 18, 2013 @07:44PM
(#44889693)
Attached to: Tesla Working On Autonomous Cars: Musk Wants Teslas With Auto-Pilot
If you're driving for fun.. you should go to a track.
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byfrancium de neobie
December 08, 2012 @02:31AM
(#42223669)
Attached to: Python Creator Guido van Rossum Leaves Google For Dropbox
The language works. The libraries work. The programmers like it. And there exist a fairly big set of products and services built from it that are successful as well.
That, is what matters in the end. By your own logic, languages like C shouldn't have existed at all.
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byfrancium de neobie
cember 03, 2012 @06:33AM
(#42167379)
Attached to: No More "Asperger's Syndrome"
If a person with AS, who knows he has AS, doesn't find his AS attribute negatively affect his progression in life...
Then, there's little reason for him to regard it as a disorder.
It doesn't matter what you think of him, you are not him. You can only make educated guesses, at best.
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byfrancium de neobie
vember 25, 2012 @07:47PM
(#42090029)
Attached to: Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve
Correction: It should be 0.1 billion, or 100 million discrete units, for each BitCoin. Anyway, it's enough granularity for most practical purposes.
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byfrancium de neobie
vember 25, 2012 @07:35PM
(#42089959)
Attached to: Bitcoin Mining Reward About To Halve
A BitCoin can be divided up into 8 decimal digits. So one BitCoin contains 1 billion discrete units that can be used for transactions.
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Posted
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samzenpus
vember 11, 2012 @12:11PM
from the come-together dept.
An anonymous reader writes "HTC and Apple have reached a global settlement that includes the dismissal of all current lawsuits and a ten-year license agreement. The license extends to current and future patents held by both parties. The terms of the settlement are confidential. From the article: '"HTC is pleased to have resolved its dispute with Apple, so HTC can focus on innovation instead of litigation," Peter Chou, HTC's chief executive, said in a statement.
Tim Cook, Apple's chief executive, also expressed relief in a statement. "We will continue to stay laser focused on product innovation," he said.'"
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byfrancium de neobie
November 07, 2012 @12:06AM
(#41903687)
Attached to: Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook?
An offer of a few million dollars is quite common for just talent acquisition. It's extremely unfair for the rest of the world, but it's also no biggie.
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byfrancium de neobie
ovember 06, 2012 @01:46PM
(#41896691)
Attached to: Should a Teenage Entrepreneur Sell Out To Facebook?
There's a lot of trash talk in startup circles (the, I work 120 hours per week and everyone in my team is a rockstar, kind. or, I'm sure my company will be worth 10x more than Facebook, kind. etc.) - but in the end of the day, $million dollar offers don't occur every day considering how many people are looking for exactly what you're being offered. I once had a $2M offer for my startup when business was good, but as soon as business went south for various reasons, everything is gone. I don't regret it too much - I got a nice job in a different company after my startup folded - but I'm not a millionaire now.
Yes, I'm sure you think your company will be worth $10B+ in a 5 years down the road right now - everybody does. And I can bet a big part of that perception is caused by the VCs and other entrepreneurs you talked to. Let me give you a clear answer to that as someone who has-been: even considering you're someone extraordinary, that's extremely unlikely. I don't mean to break your spirit, but you need a lot more than just being smart, hard working and charismatic to do that.
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Posted
by
samzenpus
ne 22, 2012 @02:05AM
from the keep-your-litigation-to-yourself dept.
sl4shd0rk writes "Federal Judge Richard Posner seems to be a man who gets the screwed up patent system in the U.S. As Apple pressed for more injunctions against Motorola regarding alleged patent infringement, Judge Posner has stressed the two companies should just 'get along' and pay each other royalties. A jury trial set to start last week was cancelled when Posner ruled that neither side could prove damages, and grilled Apple's legal team saying an injunction against Motorola would be 'contrary to the public interest.' Furthermore, as Apple tried to plead its injunction case concerning four patents, Posner called the U.S. patent system 'chaos' and said an order barring the sale of Motorola phones could have 'catastrophic effects.'"
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byfrancium de neobie
ay 15, 2012 @01:16AM
(#40002621)
Attached to: Solyndra's High-tech Plant To Be Sold
The total default rate is 3.6%, out of an expected 12% - that's better than expected, and that's what matters. If you want to be shocked by big numbers you need to look elsewhere. On a national level a measly $0.5B is nothing.
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byfrancium de neobie
March 10, 2012 @07:28PM
(#39315155)
Attached to: <em>Battleheart</em> Developer Drops Android As 'Unsustainable'
I see. I suppose you must be selling your application profitably on every single platform - from toasters, TVs to smart phones and desktops, with hundreds of millions of devices in the field, then? If it's that easy, what's your ranking in the Forbes list?
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byfrancium de neobie
January 04, 2012 @09:17PM
(#38591794)
Attached to: Linux 3.2 Has Been Released
There's no fsck.. So unless you're 100% sure your Linux machine never crashes and your power supply is never interrupted - don't.
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