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It took two and half years to make PoE and year to make both parts of WM. So if they moved to do preproduction for PoE2 in December then it release date would be way off, even day when they talk about it publicly if they don't seek crowd sourced (partial) funding for it.
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I have no idea what this word is. Waltersobchakeit The German term for when a person makes up a random German-sounding word out of nowhere and people believe it anyway. A: Hey guys, I've made a new German word: Waltersobchakeit! It means "You're not wrong, you're just an ****." B: Ich bin sicher, dass das ein Charakter von "The Big Lebowski" ist, Dummkoph.
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An Open Letter to Trump Voters from His Top Strategist-Turned-Defector
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You need just one Snowden in your organization and lots of your well guarded secrets will be seen by most of the world or possibly only highest bidder. Also I would guess that it is actually some vulnerability in Apple's hardware that has made it possible to read phone's cryptographic key from devices memory in some point and bypass the data encryption.
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I would say that my government, police, military or other security agencies don't need access to said devices to prevent terrorist attacks. Access to those devices may make it easier to prevent said attacks or find people that are responsible of said attacks, but as long as those devices aren't used to actually do those attacks, it is safety say that officials don't need access to them to prevent said attacks. But in countries where speaking against your government can lead to arrest or even death penalty it is absolutely necessary to offer people ability talk with each other so that government can't intervene on that communication, if we want to spread our western values around globe. Also more and more personal information about people are in their devices and in digital services, which also means that people are more vulnerable against hacks and other information thefts that security of said devices and services has become more important than it has ever been. So in end it comes to question which security is more important to people. EDIT: It is question like what automatically driving car should decide if it needs to decide between maneuver that saves people inside car and maneuver that saves more people but who aren't in the car and same time risking lives of those inside the car. These are questions where there aren't easy answers and people's preferences change depending on which they find more likely to touch themselves in day they answer the question.
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I would say that they come from so called "good place". They just want to have access to devices in ways that let them to get information from them that they need to solve crimes in fast and easy way, they don't necessary think what risks come with things they want and what they mean globally. FBI has asked backdoors, skeleton keys, etc. things for same reasons in past.
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I would guess that Apple works like MS and patch things only when they become public knowledge, because they don't really care about security of their customers they just want look that they care. Thats also not true, I use to work at Microsoft and I can promise you Microsoft does care about security and creating patches to fix security holes in there products If there software gets hacked it undermines the credibility of there products and thats something no software company wants I used to work them also and I can promise they don't care EDIT: Not give so negative picture. Operating systems and computers themselves are so complex and continuously evolving things that even after 14 years of patching there will be security vulnerabilities in them more than anybody can patch. So companies usually focus only to patch those things that become public knowledge as they have highest change to cause damage. But vulnerabilities that need extensive patching and are deemed to be difficult to exploit are often left without patch for long time in sometimes company may have know of some vulnerability for several years and they have not done anything to patch it, because its determined to be waste of money.
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How do they patch what they don't know? Or are you saying that Apple has been aware of this vulnerability the whole time and just never bothered patching it out? Company that has over 50 billion dollar cash in their bank account can buy that security company (and with it they also gain information about said vulnerability) if they can find said vulnerability in any other way No, Apple is not sure how the FBI found this information out They will do there investigations but it will be difficult if the FBI doesn't tell them how especially since the FBI has the actual device Also Elerond this is not about money...not at all There are people who do support the FBI and believe what Apple did was wrong, these people would also work in the software security industry and would happily help the FBI crack the Apple device because they believe this is an issue of state security...and they wouldn't be interested in selling there technology to Apple or helping Apple undermine the FBI They aren't motivated by money but follow a greater calling...the security of the USA Our tech news reports all say that it was security company from Israel, that FBI contracted to hack the phone. Also lots of technology, software, law and USA analysts believe that there was bigger game behind all of this where FBI tried to use public support from terrorist strike to get precedent that would allow them to force tech companies to break their own security systems.
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I would guess that Apple works like MS and patch things only when they become public knowledge, because they don't really care about security of their customers they just want look that they care.
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How do they patch what they don't know? Or are you saying that Apple has been aware of this vulnerability the whole time and just never bothered patching it out? Company that has over 50 billion dollars cash in their bank account can buy that security company (and with it they also gain information about said vulnerability) if they can find said vulnerability in any other way
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Paranoia is sexier, but alternatively, the FBI needs that capability and doesn't want Apple to patch it out. But that isn't reason that FBI give why they don't give information to Apple (according to BruceVC)., but something that sounds just pure pettiness. In reality not telling what was the vulnerability that security company in Israel found out don't prevent Apple to patch it out, it just gives said security company and companies like it ability to sell that information to parties that most likely don't have as pure motivations as FBI (or maybe they actually have purer motivations than FBI but not necessary motivations that are towards common good).
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Do you think the FBI should share with Apple how they did it? I don't think they should, I was watching an interview with an ex-FBI operative and he said the FBI won't reveal these details especially since he felt Apple had "sandbagged " the FBI and had refused to cooperate So FBI found vulnerability in security measures of device that is used by tens of million people but they don't want those to be fixed because they think Apple was not nice enough with them. Sounds like they really want to protect public from the criminals
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It is failure in our integration policy
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It isn't really backdoor, if they didn't use feature made by Apple or feature that somebody infiltrated in Apple's code to bypass Apple's security features. But most likely this just shows that Apple's products security wasn't in level FBI let people believe and they just seek precedent that would give them ability to force companies to break their security features when ever FBI deems it to be necessary.
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Kasich would have no chance in the general election. Trump is the GOP's only chance at a win. According to general election polls, he is their best change to lose. You also need to pay attention to energy. Nobody really wants Kasich. He'll get poor turnout. It'll be 2012 all over again if Kasich is the nominee. Besides, just wait till the anti-Trump media campaign shifts focus to Kasich. One should keep in mind that while Trump's been attacked nonstop by the MSM, Kasich has been largely left alone. That will change if Kasich becomes the nominee. But Kasich also don't have similar anti movement as Trump, and if Trump isn't in picture and Clinton wins democrat nomination, then prediction for general election turn out is low, which usually is favorable for GOP candidates. But if Trump is nominees then it is deemed that turn out will be high and there will be lots of people that vote against Trump regardless who democrat candidate is. Although Kasich's support in general election is more difficult to predict than other candidates as lots of people don't really believe that he can win the nomination so their answers in polls about him aren't necessary that well thought.
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Maybe this time they want prepare before they launch their KS, so that they don't need to improvise things out of thin air like last time
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Kasich would have no chance in the general election. Trump is the GOP's only chance at a win. According to general election polls, he is their best change to lose.
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Any magazine that allows their journalist to write against their editorial board gets bonus points in my eyes, regardless of issue in question.
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Can we have a Kickstarter for an Aurora - based RPG?
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People that I would guess to be women actually talk about games here, but other conversations don't seem to interest said people that much. So maybe their shared interest are just those games and for other things they just go elsewhere. And said individuals also seem to disappear soon after they lose interest to particular game that brought them here in first place. Same is also true for most men that come here because of games. So I would say that we are just bad when it comes to integration of new people in our society .
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I love the fact that a system error in the DMV is automatically attributed to "Somebody's rigging the system!" Also http://www.snopes.com/cuban-refugees-clinging-to-air-force-one/ Why would party affiliation be stored in the same database as driver information? I ask as a Canadian where political parties have their own member database rather than the government holding it. Down here, the DMV is basically your one stop shop for any form of registration. Either there or the Post Office, as both are the primary ways the government knows where you live and your primary form of interaction with the Government. For the most part the DMV is where most people register to vote so they have to have that info on file. And yes, the parties do have their own lists of people behind them, but for the most part the federal election commission goes by the DMV selections people make, rather than by what the parties say. Ahh, leadership races here are a party thing not a government thing. The parties organize the leadership elections rather than Elections Canada. I guess if the government organizes the election it makes sense to register your party affiliation with the government. Basically yeah. In both Britian and Canada, and most places with a Prime Minister, that Minister is selected by who wins the lower races. So at the national level the political machine is firmly entrenched, but reliant on who wins the local senatorial election. In America, I could vote for Steve "Can't get pregnant via rape" King locally, but Obama on the national level. But most places that have some sort parliamentary system have different systems for local elections and national elections. Which is why I can for example vote in local elections different party than when I vote in parliamentary elections or presidential elections. In other words: there are different representatives in local and national level and I directly give my vote for both of them
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Christian Easter is strange because it has never tied in calendar.
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Batman v. Superman was meh. Its story was uninteresting, Luthor was awful character from script to acting. Superman felt like side character without meat on bones. I liked Batman even though this incarnation breaks rules established by comics (but I am not reader of Batman comics so I didn't care) . This incarnation of Wonder Woman also felt nice but hard to say as she had quite little of screen time, it is hard to judge her appearance or acting as we see her so little. Establishment of other DC characters and dream scenes and other things that underlay future movies were even worse than in Marvel's movies. So it is watchable movie but I don't recommend seeing it if you don't like see that Affleck don't always suck being superhero. EDIT: Also Doomday felt just another CGI monster that destroys things around him/it without any reason but carnage.
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The Weird, Random, and Interesting things that Fit Nowhere Else Thread
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It is quite genius overflow sink hole for dam lake https://www.facebook.com/TheEclecticMind/videos/1197076930306030/ http://twistedsifter.com/videos/spillway-in-portugal-looks-like-portal-to-another-dimension/ http://www.viagensasolta.com/2016/01/a-pe-ate-ao-covao-dos-conchos-serra-da.html When it freezes it looks even stranger.