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JFC_PA said:

tallest skil said:

foggyhill said:

That's the advantage of using face id or touch id, you don't need to put those silly short passwords for convenience sake.

Except you’re required by law to use your fingerprint or face to unlock your device under penalty of felony. A passcode has to be hacked like this. Also, cops can’t beat you up and use a part of your unconscious body to type in a passcode if they wanted to abuse the law. There’s no advantage, legal or otherwise.

Fingerprint or face? Only in response to an appropriate warrant. 

Or probable cause.  If an officer stops you and smells alcohol on your breath, or sees something "suspicious" (real or imagined, the judge will believe him, not you) in your car, that constitutes probable cause to search you and your car at that point in time, without a warrant.  If your phone is in your possession, or in the possession of a passenger, or in your car, it's included in the search, and if you have it secured only with your fingerprint or face, you are legally required to unlock it.

JonInAtl said:

In the long run, I believe that Apple and HomeKit have lost the battle in home automation.

Like VHS vs Betamax- while Beta was a superior product offering, it lost to VHS due to VHS starting out making two smart moves.
1. A 2 hour movie would fit on a VHS tape, initially Beta held less.
2. Onerous licensing to use the Beta format.

Actually, a case could be made that the major reason VHS won was because porn decided to use VHS.  Not the only reason, of course, and for reasons that relate to both of the reasons you gave, but without that impetus, Betamax might still have won.

Mike Wuerthele said:

ivanh said:

“SMALL NUMBER”?  800+ is a small number? Up to 4th Feb 2018, there were over 800 iPhone X users complaining.  

Compared to 20+ million phones, 1000 users is 0.05 percent of all iPhone X users.

So, yes, that's a small number. It is perilously close to insignificant, as failures go, in fact.

I make that to be 0.005 percent.  Which, I think, crosses the line into actual insignificance.

Soli said:

urahara said:

It was said many times already.
Crimanls will always find the way to keep secrets. Especially because there are many encryption tools on the market.
But us, law abiding citizens, will be left without any easily accessable privacy protection. We just don't take enough time to be interested in it. And we get burned.
But goverment wants to control us.
F.. them.

If you outlaw encryption then only outlaws will have encryption.

That's the way they want it.  Because then they can prosecute those "outlaws" simply for having encryption, even if they've done nothing wrong.

It's like that law in, I think, Ohio, that makes it illegal to have a secret compartment in your car, even if you don't have anything illegal in the car.  Even if you don't know about it, it's a crime to even have one.

They want us all to be criminals, so they can hold punishment over our heads.  All.  The.  Time.

Rayz2016 said:

feudalist said:

I like this analogy and I will take it little further. So, if it happens that manufacturer used special bolts only accesible in manufacturer aproved service stations, of course without any warranty whatsoever but you will loose warranty for car if you make change in nearest garage, and they are prone to sudden loss of pressure unrelated to use/abuse before they are fully worn-out, what would be your expectation about longevity?

Then I would say you’re driving a Toyota Prius because those are the conditions of their warranties.

How do I know? 

I drive one and I’ve actually read the warranty.

If I take it back to the dealership (and if I take it anywhere other than a proper Toyota garage then the warranty is cancelled), I cannot tell them that the battery has failed “and it’s not related to use and abuse” and expect them to take my word for it. They will examine the car to see exactly what I have been doing with it. 

In the United States, voiding or cancelling the automobile manufacturer's warranty for having someone besides the Toyota dealer do the maintenance is illegal.  So I presume that you don't live in the U.S.

Now, if you have the work done elsewhere, and "elsewhere" screws it up, the manufacturer's warranty doesn't apply to that repair, but it doesn't void the entire warranty.