beltsbear

Ok. Great. I have purchased very few Intel products outside of Macs. The Atom was the one I purchased most often, to make small low power servers. I guess I will be switching to ARM servers instead.

One of those guys is an idiot.  Yes, he is right about the problems Tesla is having with quality and how inexcusable that is on a $90,000 car.  But being against software updates for a car?  Tesla really is a winner here, adding amazing new features to cars remotely including improving the performance of existing cars.  If I had a car that started at 0-60 in 5 seconds and it improved to 4 seconds with a software update I would be quite happy.  And adding a feature to 'summon' the car from a garage automatically?  AMAZING!

rob53 said:

Why are you saying Apple's parts come from a "parts bin"? This term is used for antiquated parts, usually from garbage PCs, but never from Apple products. Using this term, then saying it's also using parts from the iPhone 6s makes it sound like the 6s is also using old parts. Just because Apple is using some parts from the 5s doesn't mean those parts aren't any good. I see the iPhone SE as a smaller 6s, not a reloaded 5s. Give it its due instead of making fun of it.

In the auto biz it is not.  When Ford uses the engine of the Mustang in the Ranger or the HVAC controls of one SUV in another vehicle the auto magazines refer to it as reaching into the 'Ford parts bin'.  It is not a negative connotation unless the part itself is dated.  In the case of the A9, certainly not a bad thing to pull that from the 'parts bin'.

Maybe get a few contacts out of a phone vs make millions of phones unsafe and foreign products more appealing.  If it works out like the cloud fiasco we can drive another 100 billion out of the US economy.  Which makes the USA stronger, having 100 billion dollars of economic activity or maybe a few bits of information that can probably be gathered elsewhere?

suddenly newton said:

It sounds like Apple is being asked to install software that prevents the built-in code that auto-deletes/destroys the phone's content when too many bad password are attempted (brute force attack).

In other words, it will give the FBI an unlimited  number of password retries.

To paraphrase Mission Impossible:
"This phone will self-destruct in 5 seconds."

Apple can sort of do this with specialized tools.  The phone memory can be imaged.  Then a new phone with the same serial numbers and other parameters can run that copy and do a few tries.  It would be labor intensive but the limited retries can be gotten around by extreme measures.