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Can you plug your iPhone into a couple of 30" monitors, and use it as a workstation?
It's not clear that this is thermally possible.
Sure it is, just use an external CPU in the docking station.
Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S
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#192Now that we have to consider the iPhones to be backdoored by the NSA, I wonder whether I really want to give them my fingerprint together with the rest of my data. I'm also not so sure whether a fingerprint can't still be easily faked (like it was possible on that Mythbusters episode for example). Personally, I think I'd rather stay with my passcode. Did you btw know that you can turn off "simple passcode" and then u…
Urgh. When do we get to the point where I can read HN without a snarky NSA comment being voted to the top?
"Everyone let's ignore current events and treat this announcement in a bubble"
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#193Earlier quoted context omitted.
and that's why Nokia posted this: https://twitter.com/nokia_uk/status/377483408043036672/photo...
Ads of multicolored devices featuring content that matches the enclosure? Who would've thunk it? http://cl.ly/image/1U3i2F2v2r43
Those are all just staged for ads (unless you think you can't listen to the Beatles Red Album on a blue nano and vice versa) except for the latest one, which came out after the Nokia devices.
I'm sure someone did it before (I seem to recall IE5 letting you change the interface to match the early iMac colours) but your comment (and a quick glance at the linked image) is misleading as it stands.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac#Inter...
Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S
#194Now that we have to consider the iPhones to be backdoored by the NSA, I wonder whether I really want to give them my fingerprint together with the rest of my data. I'm also not so sure whether a fingerprint can't still be easily faked (like it was possible on that Mythbusters episode for example). Personally, I think I'd rather stay with my passcode. Did you btw know that you can turn off "simple passcode" and then u…
Apple specifically stated that your fingerprint is stored and encrypted only on the A7 chip, and not iCloud or anywhere else. It's mentioned in the video as well: http://www.apple.com/iphone-5s/videos/#video-touch
>Apple specifically stated that your fingerprint is stored and encrypted only on the A7 chip, and Apple couldn't legally tell us anything different.
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Yes. And how exactly do we check this? Why is it that we can still trust Apple? For all we know, the data gets sent directly to the NSA or, if it doesn't, there might be some secret backdoor that will make the device send the data at a later point. The last round of leaks was specifically talking about backdoors with all bigger US companies in order to circumvent encryption. That's what I means by "we have to conside…
I'm pretty sure, when they jailbreak it the truth will come out. And I doubt Apple would take the risk for lying about that.
Which is also when we can start hacking it for fun and profit.
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Not on Hacker News. On Hacker News your press conference should alternate new feature paragraphs with apologies. "We have a new fingerprint sensor! But, you probably don't want to use it because privacy crazies online think Apple is a front for the NSA." "We're moving to a 64-bit architecture! But, geeks with low reading comprehension think it's not that useful because we have tiny RAM, so you should just ignore this…
The Lumia 1020 will be hard to beat for the title of "best mobile phone camera ever created".
Not that hard apparently.
http://www.tbreak.ae/features/camera-comparison-nokia-lumia-...
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Urgh. When do we get to the point where I can read HN without a snarky NSA comment being voted to the top?
Probably when the NSA stops illegally spying on the citizens it is supposed to serve.
We take for gospel that the NSA is spying on everyone in the world via every hardware device that has been created in the USA because of a few powerpoint slides. Interesting.
Re: Apple Unveils The iPhone 5S
#198I'm sad it seems most likely the 5S will be fingerprint OR pin/passphrase to unlock. I can imagine situations at borders or in interactions with police where compelling a fingerprint swipe is physically easier than compelling a passphrase entry, and I think it is also legally easier to compel later. The ideal would be a 4-8 digit numeric PIN with strong "10 tries and it dies" plus fingerprint, and as a backup, a full…
Yeah just fingerprint means someone could use your finger to unlock the phone while you're asleep in a cell / drugged / restrained / knocked out.
/ in the morgue
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I'm just playing Devil's Advocate here, but if in fact the NSA required copies of all fingerprints, I doubt Apple would be allowed to publicize it.
Nor would they bother explicitly highlighting that it's kept local...
But that's exactly what they want you to think.
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They'll grow back eventually. So cutting off is the only option.
I don't have fingerprints. A large part of the world population doesn't have readable prints. What now? People on blood thinners, elderly people, Asians, women all have less distinctive prints. I don't have prints due to psoriasis. Fingerprints are a horrible biometric.
Saying that fingerprints are a bad biometric because some people can't use them is like saying escalators are a bad idea because some people can't use them.
They might be a bad biometric but it's not because they aren't universally available to everyone.