jkirsteins's comments

Different franchises have different brand promises.

McDonald’s can maybe change its menu, and close at odd hours. They can’t, however, have their Big Macs taste different in Paris, London, or Riga. Nor can they remove the Big Mac from the menu outright, and serve only vegetarian spring rolls. That’s their brand promise, and they will not compromise on this.

If 7/11 has “we’re always open” as their brand promise, they will not compromise on it, even though they might be willing to meet owners halfway on other issues.

It’s not a great situation, especially for the poor guy pulling near-useless all-nighters. It seems understandable, though, why it’s happening.

> we're handing keys to a certain platform vendor

Swift is open source

See: Milo Yiannopoulos. Arguably he became a lot less prominent after he got banned. It is easy to be exposed to tweets and ideas by someone you don’t follow, yet not necessarily the rebuttals of those ideas.

See: ICOs. They come with their own set of problems.

The implied better alternative is to allow saving, instead of opening, so users can scan the files themselves.

Regarding your second point, there is a database for sharing data between users. https://developer.apple.com/documentation/cloudkit/ckcontain...

Why is GDAX inaccessible to most people in the EU?

> Who campaign and are elected on issues totally unrelated

Should politicians refuse to do anything that was not in their campaign leaflets?

> For example if I walked around in my office among 20 ...

Try it out.

In my opinion, this is a very unlikely hypothetical. I'm from a country that is not a member of the ESA - never met a person yet that doesn't know what it is, or stands for.

Rosetta in particular caused a lot of excitement, it was on the news a lot, people were following ESA and the lander's accounts on Twitter etc.

Can anybody elaborate on the idea that for RSA <=2048 is potentially unsafe? Is it true? It seems that even 1024 bit keys haven't been factored yet, much less 2048, so why use anything else currently?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSA_Factoring_Challenge#The_...

Do you have a link documenting that Google Authenticator (or Symantec) uses it?

Life in most places has improved dramatically - literacy, healthcare and life expectancy, human rights, access to food... Nearly nobody is living lives that are "fundamentally as bad as they were 40 years ago".

There are literally millions of people worldwide, who are healthy, or married, or well nourished, or spending more time with their families, for whom it could not have been possible 40 years ago. I don't think that warrants a flippant, self-righteous attitude.

> Apple does exactly zero things for me and still wants 30%

It gives you access to its customers. That's not a bad deal for many.

It should. Content blocking extensions are compatible with A7+, and the SE model has A9.

iPhone 5s and newer have a Secure Enclave, which limits brute force-ability and can not be changed via a software update (there is a belief, though undocumented, that any firmware patches would also wipe the stored keys). Apple could not help the FBI to get into these phones.

The phone in question, however, is an iPhone 5c, which does not have a Secure Enclave.

> I think it would be hard in practice to allow root access but limit it

This is largely solved, I think, by the current system. People who know/want/understand the risks, can have a rooted phone. But it is not trivial for the average layperson.

Is there any point in applying last-minute with just an idea? Or focus on building something presentable, and then apply in the next batch?