If he bent those holes tangentially instead of axially, he could put that sucker on the end of his drill and then he’d really be cooking with fire... er... cutting the cheese?

Ew.

ditto. I was rocking an 8-year-old Macbook Pro until last year. Worked completely fine, and was zippy on Yosemite. Sadly, it just stopped working one day - I think the graphics card crept off the mobo. Point is - 8 years was >2x the lifespan of the similarly priced toshiba laptop I had before that.

That’s what I do... I have a SATA switch on the front of my box that lets me kill power to any of my SATA devices. Depending on which is on at boot, I can select my OS, and my data/archive drives are hot-swappable. Also, the less my drives are running, the longer they (should) last.

Someone please help me out here.

I’m all on Apple’s side here, and am glad they’re taking a stand, but I do have to wonder - is there no physical/hardware vector available to recover the data? E.g., can Apple not copy the encrypted data onto a host machine, and attempt to decrypt it virtually? Yeah, it’s a pain-in-the-butt, and requires specific,…

LOL after reading some of these comments, I realize that a LOT of people should take some basic courses on risk management.

Apple needs to keep it in-house. If it’s running on any kind of computer outside of their control, you can modify it to behave how you want - e.g. spoof the s/n, spoof the apple auth. server, etc. Best case - they make a black box they can give to LEAs, and LEAs respect it. Great in theory, very hard in practice to…

Of course. It’s in our [the taxpayers]’s best interests to catch and prosecute bad guys. It’s also in our best interests to protect our own privacy and maintain a balance of powers in government. Budgetary restrictions/limits are one way of balancing said power. If the agency whom I fund deems it necessary to…

True. I think that companies should assist government investigations into criminal matters when they can, but it should be burdensome enough to happen only as the exception.

YES. The best method I could see is if the govt. agency is forced to compensate Apple financially for the time/work spent on unlocking a device. Also, there would have to be a valid warrant for Apple to proceed.

Good grief. Close to 100% should agree that Apple cooperate with the FBI if they can. 0% should wish that Apple builds a backdoor into their iOS. These are 2 different issues.

When I go to movies, I tend not to notice the race of the actors. A black stormtrooper?? ZOMG! Didn’t even cross my mind until I saw some article online about it.

Weird. Come to think of it, I don’t personally know anyone who’s siding with the FBI... YMMV indeed.

This definitely isn’t a 50/50 party-line issue. I know NO republicans or conservatives personally that are on the FBI’s side on this, and I live in Texas.

I’ve had an iPhone since July 2008. I’ve been teetering on changing things up, and this phone looks pretty sweet. Can anyone out there give me an unbiased recommendation? If I get one, should I root? Should I put stock Marshmallow on it? (I’ve jailbroken all of my phones for this tweak or that, and I’ve run into the…

I had a 70 degree Christmas, saw a tornado the day after, then snow the day after that. North/Central Texas. x_x

I’m glad apple didn’t cave this morning. I think I would be fine if apple had the tools in-house to do this, and complied w/ these anti-terrorism cases on a case-by-case basis. So yeah, you go off the deep end and the FBI ends up w/ your phone, they can send it to Apple for analysis, otherwise,on the global scale, FBI…

Yeah, we’re stealing energy from the environment, but even just 1 small storm produce many orders of magnitude more energy than we’re inhibiting by building these structures. I’d be concerned if we built them higher and higher, but as far as how high they are currently, they effectively only increase the ground-layer…

/s not needed. It does. (Anything built further from earth’s CG than where the materials originated increases the planet’s moment, slightly decreasing the rotation.)