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zeus423 said:

I guess Flash will be gone in a flash. Too bad it's taken way too long for that flash to occur.

It's only happening now because Flash can't do 4K video, and can't do 8K ever. Adobe has already renamed Flash to Animate in their CC suite.

The actual specs for Flash allow for a 16K canvas, but the 32-bit plugins can't do 8K because there is not enough memory to render something, You lose too much precision when you blow up a 400x300 flash video to 1080p, but you also create large tweening artifacts when you blow it up to 4K. Where at 400x300 an object might move 30 pixels, but at 4K it now has to move nearly 300 pixels, and doesn't have the sub-pixel precision to make it smooth.

Adobe screwed up everyone by making Flash a "video player", had it never been a video player, the flash plugin would have remained an animation tool, at might have remained a relevant animation format (eg instead of gif.) The time for flash to end was 2006 (when the PS3/Wii/Xbox360 were released) and it's only still around because advertisements push video ads through it.

levi said:

I'm long Apple. That said, not looking forward to this call one bit. 

Same. I'm not worried about the stock price tanking (it's only where it is right now due to Brexit fallout) and could easily have gone in the other direction. That's what happens when political disturbances impact a multinational company. It's stock gets hammered if it sells into any of those countries, because "uh oh, slowdown" or "uh oh affordability" I don't seriously think it will affect affordability. People want the iPhone because it's the iPhone. All the other devices out there are disposable and only very very recent high end Android devices even come within yelling distance of iPhone features and build quality. I've never heard of anyone switching from an iPhone except to appease their family who bought non-iPhones on some family deal so they can use whatever gee-whiz feature. My family is all like that, they all have prepaid android or feature phones.

Soli said:

elijahg said:

So it was the kernel cache that was unencrypted rather than the kernel itself? That's vastly different to previous reports.

As I understand it, the kernel is unencrypted—which isn't a big deal for security since their XNU kernel has been open source since the beginning, even if only when pulled from Darwin, not  a shipping OS on their devices—but their mention of the kernel cache being unencrypted is because that's the only part of the kernel that could potentially contain sensitive user data. This confirms that the cache doesn't.

To be more specific, Two things have to be unencrypted for a computer to operate:
a) The Kernel (not necessarily the drivers)
b) The root/boot file system (sometimes launched from a ramdisk like on Linux)

The bootloader will still only run a signed kernel. So that's why the "danger" doesn't exist.

douglas bailey said:

Excellent.

Once this is widespread, people should feel more confident to leave their credit cards at home as they can use a cash withdrawal as a backup plan to standard Apple Pay-ments.

In Canada, the solution is simply to have two credit cards. Debit cards in Canada are processed as Interac transactions, while some banks that offer VISA cards also support VISA debit. So doing this in Canada likely will happen, but to be honest, the only places that you ever need cash at all are some food trucks that don't have a Square reader.

I can not recall the last time I needed to use cash in Canada.

jungmark said:

I don't think Apple should pick sides no matter how disastrous a Trump presidency would be. 

Trump picked a side for Apple when he said to boycott Apple. Enough said.

It's also not a big deal either. If Trump wins, he's gong to face a steep uphill battle to push any of his agenda because he alienates everyone from every side. If he wins, it might be the first time in history that congress absolutely tries to veto the president's executive orders (2/3rds majority) frequently, because Trump is exactly that kind of person who would destroy America first before "making it great" , because that is how he runs a business, straight into the ground while he makes off with all the assets before impact.

Voting Trump in, would be like voting for Putin in Russia. He's popular for some reasons, and all the criminals are running the government.