Interesting, I think it's a good thing to see people at least trying to avoid the clichés of starting up in silicon valley or NYC. Even the US for that matter, it's only gonna help the world economy if people say "hey, I can make the best of things right here" instead of thinking they NEED to be a US based startup company
I don't understand why people feel the need to saturate the bay area to compete for generally sub-par living conditions and only slightly above average pay. Everytime I ask someone why they are living and working there - they answer something along the lines of "to get rich and move out of here" this type of mentality is why the bay is the suicide capital of the world, unfortunately.
Yeah iTunes is long past it's prime, Vinyl or CD is really the only way to collect music now I suppose. I would discredit CD a bit due to quality of mp3, but whose to say you cant buy a collection of FLAC CDs
I hate how Silicon Valley culture makes it seem like they are all for freedom of information and how the big bad government is censoring and surveilling things from a bunch of innocent hackers (startup guys) when in reality if given the opportunity this crowd does the EXACT same thing. I have limited respect for either party
People are still asking the question? The story is obvious. He didn't pay his taxes since '08, he needed an excuse, he can't move original coins. End of story. It ain't him
Yeah I kinda figured from the URL that this was a less-than-reputable source. But a lot of the other comments bring up a good point, I don't think this is "labeling someone as a criminal by any means" but it is giving them a new type of leverage to identify what "probable cause" means in a digital crime case.
It's very similar to having marijuana in the car - the police need 2 signs to get a warrant (usually red eyes and odor) in this case you'd have to give them 2 signs you were conducting some sort of illegal activity using something like TOR and they'd have a warrant. But what they would be able to do with that warrant is largely subject to each individual case - encryption making it increasingly difficult for them to do their job in some.
I'm amazed to think that in only a short number of years the work that has been done at Apple R&D in the US might have to go off shore because of our own government...
Not to knock "Google X" but they seem to be extremely wishy washy when it comes to picking a direction. (Glass, robotics, curing aging) they really don't seem to have the "skate to where the puck is going to be" mentality at least from the outside looking in. Apple is struggling here too, but only very recently has this come to the attention of media and shareholders.
Oh boy, I wish I could get Serious Sam on my Android phone. I've got a PSX emulator and that keeps me pretty happy, but this would complete everything!
Here's the thing on this - I think this will be ultimately what happens too. Apple will likely proceed to build future iPhones with extreme privacy in mind and eventually reach a point where they have a product they have prepared that once it reaches consumer hands, it has few if any backdoors (yes even current iPhones do to some extent) once the device 'pairs' with their identity and they consciously encrypt it using open source standards - it's on the consumer to comply with any government warrants, not the manufacturer. (also it wouldnt hurt if they dreamt up something a little less err 'logical' than a 4-6 digit passcode as a fallback that can be brute forced with enough attempts) I don't doubt apple will spend a lot of money, time, and resources fighting this over the next few years and will probably be muscled into opening the San Bernardino shooter's phone along with any currently available iPhones.
Well one thing to keep in mind is that some American States alone are the same size in terms of population of some of these entire countries being praised for having better education systems than the US. Sure we can learn from some of the small nuances of their systems, but infrastructurally we are in a much different situation than most of these examples (Finland/Japan)
There's just something I love about adafruit. Probably the design of the site and it's ease of use. Then the selection of products is just phenomenal! Keep up the great work, Limor - good to see someone like you getting much deserved recognition :)
I think if drugs themselves were legalized, non-violent drug offenders pardoned, and then former drug trafficking cartels treated legally as terrorist organizations - we would get somewhere. I really have no problem tight packing prisons if it's full of violent thugs. The only problem is how this could potentially affect the second amendment - because the war on drugs would no longer be on unarmed drug users, it would be solely on violence. Using an umbrella term like terrorism to encompass the actions of cartel gang members could potentially lead to further racial divides. It's tough. But legalize pot please, ha!
This marks a very interesting time in my opinion. We have corporations with more money with governments making (or at least attempting to make) certain social decisions once reserved for only public sector government officials. If Apple is successful here, it will usher in a new era of what a private company can do.
When I see things like this, it makes me really think to the root of who we are as people and how depression plays into our role as human beings. I often wish it was possible to provide a genetic "vaccine" to depression in early embryonic stages of human development. If there was some way to encourage growth of 5-HTT alleles (longer alleles equal less prone to depression) we could see people born seemingly "immune" to this state of being.
Zuckerberg seems to be a bit of a fair weathered fan for privacy. Facebook has traditionally been very if not entirely compliant with providing government agencies with data. Due to a couple occurances with my personal use of Facebook, I have found that it is quite likely that they even do extracurricular surveillance as well. Just my opinion
Yeah end to end encryption I believe wasn't introduced until iOS 7 - this would mean that prior to that the device, while still locked - could be vulnerable to potential exploits allowing someone to grab at least some data that may be unencrypted from the phones storage
I don't think Bill Gates has much of a clue about what the world needs, he's very hypocritical. He lives a very consumptive 1% lifestyle (nothing wrong with that in my eyes - he earned it) but yet he turns around and preaches that everyone needs to change. Start with the man in the mirror bub.
Elon Musk is a bit better than him since he doesn't preach - but I would agree with Gates that he's a little gung ho on space travel. I honestly don't think it is humanity's place to leave earth, we are fish in water. Whatever comes after us (speaking in terms of evolution) will be the alpha in terms of space travel.
The only person I know who did this diet ended up staying 350 pounds with persisting respitory issues. (Obviously present before the diet) he sat on me the other day and just about crushed my rib cage. But I'm still at a cool 135 lbs just eating whatever I want (which is surprisingly almost entirely organic foods) I'm here to tell you, Paleo probably doesn't do shit besides stroke your fucking ego into thinking you're a caveman or some dumbass shit.