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Fun fact, the person who stole the sim probably worked for the carrier, or used someone who worked at the carrier that they either knew or had leverage over. You already have to verify your identity to the carrier if you want to make changes to your account, and while you might be able social-engineer your way past it, but I would be shocked if someone like Jack Dorsey didn't have a password associated with his account that is required to make changes. Saying the carrier needs to be sure before making changes is useless if the person at the carrier is circumventing it. Plus they already do it.

Joke's on them, it was 4,000.

China tends to create absolute garbage for the chinese market. Huawei's reputation outside of china has taken a massive hit, even though they were considered industry leaders this time last year, so that's not helping. Add to that the fact that they seemingly pumped this out in about 4 months and skepticism is warranted.

I'm pretty sure he's just referring to the fact that if someone can push an ota update and you have something like iMessage that has encryption keys on the device, there's nothing stopping a company from pushing an update out that compromises your security. End to end isn't compromised, it's potentially compromised. Smartphones are the schrodinger's cat of security because while they're considered "secure" right now, they could be blown wide open via automatic update any second. Telegram is encrypted end-to-end, but if you have automatic updates on, there's nothing from stopping the developer or rogue actors (or states, like russia) from pushing an update out that uploads all of the encryption keys to their servers and decrypts everyone's messages. Automatic updates are fundamentally insecure because they can instantly compromise your security. If you want true security, go with open source and review (or wait for reviews) of all code changes that happen in the apps you use, and you want a distro that either doesn't have an os ota system or allows you to disable it. Also, there is potential for baseband attacks because we're all at the mercy of telecoms and no one runs custom firmware or opensource code on their baseband processor so who knows what vulnerabilities lie there.

Genetically modified foods are already in the food supply, thats why you see that "GMO free" logo on things. Its also why some company can sue a farmer for patent infringement by growing crops from last years seeds/harvest.

God, I hope so. I guess I can always go with my fallback of dolphin trainer if this whole web developer thing stops panning out.

fighting it gives it attention and validity, its the streisand effect. And Julian Assange lives in the UK but was still a tool of the kremlin's propaganda wing. what's your point?

""Magnitsky act: behind the scenes" where Bill Browder allegedly laundered his corporate holdings for tax fraud through various handicapped people, and eventually gangsters who were conveniently murdered."

Look, I'm not saying that's a bullshit documentary, but that's literally the kind of smear campaign Putin would execute to try to get talks of the magnitsky act thrown out. I wouldn't take any of that information as factual.

The difference here is that the 30% cut is on everything digital sold through apple's payment system - including in app purchases. Amazon has removed in-app purchases from it's kindle and comixology apps because they'd owe a 30% cut to apple. Make whatever justifications for the app store purchases you want, it's the digital content from other stores (video, music, books, etc) that will bring about the anti-trust issues. Add to that the fact that apple is the only one restricting users to their app marketplace and you have the recipe for an antitrust lawsuit. Microsoft got hit with antitrust because they included internet explorer by default, how apple has only allowed one source for applications for ten years and never been challenged on it I will never know.

This is a really weird device. The mac mini has long been used as a home theater pc of the apple ecosystem, due to it's formfactor and being the one apple device that didn't come with its own 20 inch screen or 3 foot tall tower. Apple tv, for all it's shortcomings, has sort of supplanted that and you're much better off sticking that under your tv and running your plex server somewhere else. So now we have a mac mini which is too expensive to be a home theater pc or to be stuck in a closet serving media, and is comparably priced with macs that have actual screens. So its like good for someone who for some reason doesn't want to carry a macbook around but wants a semi-portable workstation? or someone who wants an iMac with a bigger screen? It's not useful as a mac mini, and it's pretty redundant thanks to every use case being covered by an existing mac. Who is this device for? Who is buying this over a macbook or imac?

GM stands for Gold Master I believe. Apple's concern therefore isn't that the device isn't out yet, it's that it's not finalized, and they don't want an app update to say that it supports something which isn't finalized yet because it could change tomorrow (even if that's unlikely).

I believe the correct response to that is "sandwiched between two burly gay men I met on grindr".

I saw an ad for something like that a while ago, but realized that you couldn't sell an ipad for $0.56 if you weren't getting the full retail plus a margin from somewhere. Thankfully I never got into it.

So basically it was inevitable that everyone who was hired would be fired by your robot?

republicans are not a protected class, twitter can ban them if they like. It's not remotely illegal.