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PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

new iPad Air may be called iPad Pro (mini?) and have keyboard + pen support

interesting, they will probably keep iPad Air 2 and mini around as iPad OG

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/25/ipad-air-3-branded-ipad-pro

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triple sulk
Sep 17, 2014



iPads Pro mini

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

triple sulk posted:

iPads Pro mini

Johns Rhy-Davie

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

wasn't there a congressional committee report on wire-tapping and NSA snooping that found zero cases where it stopped terrorism and debunked all the cases where they lied and said it did prevent an attack?

and another one on terrorism that said the same thing?

and here they are asking for even more power. you're really dumb to support that.

triple sulk posted:

iPads Pro mini

actually having "pro" and "mini" in the name would be really stupid. it will be iPad Pro (in 9 and 12 inch varieties)

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

kwinkles posted:

they've already said they have hundreds of phones they want to do this with, so calling it "limited in scope" is lol.

and they'll still need a warrant for each one. if you're mad that judges are giving out warrants to the fbi, that's cool, but it is limited in scope, to individual phones they have a warrant for

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.
drat these activist judges, enabling federal law enforcement to investigate crime!

poty
Jun 21, 2008

虹はどこで終わるのですか? あなたの魂の中で、または地平線で?

PleasureKevin posted:

new iPad Air may be called iPad Pro (mini?) and have keyboard + pen support

interesting, they will probably keep iPad Air 2 and mini around as iPad OG

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/25/ipad-air-3-branded-ipad-pro

buying this

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN

PleasureKevin posted:

new iPad Air may be called iPad Pro (mini?) and have keyboard + pen support

interesting, they will probably keep iPad Air 2 and mini around as iPad OG

http://www.macrumors.com/2016/02/25/ipad-air-3-branded-ipad-pro

more skus

more skus for the sku god

sure the ipad mini and maxi were failures, but we need more skus, dammit!

PleasureKevin
Jan 2, 2011

I'm sure Ives is losing sleep over whether whether the iPad Pro should still come in gold

The Puppet Master
Apr 9, 2005

Would you fuck me? I'd fuck me. I'd fuck me hard.



it is still a tablet no matter what you call it

theflyingexecutive
Apr 22, 2007

new iPhone commercial pronounces gif correctly

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4

theflyingexecutive posted:

new iPhone commercial pronounces gif correctly

post the ad, dude!

cremnob
Jun 30, 2010

this case is as good as imagined it would be. im getting a rock hard boner reading apple's filing

(USER WAS PUT ON PROBATION FOR THIS POST)

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison
goog, fb, twatter filing amici on apple's side here so at least they're not going gently into that good night

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

uncurable mlady posted:

goog, fb, twatter filing amici on apple's side

lol. someone in the other thread got real salty at me after i said this would happen

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

infernal machines posted:

lol. someone in the other thread got real salty at me after i said this would happen

why did they get salty? it seems like a patently obvious thing that would happen. post-snowden, a lot of US tech companies are legitimately worried about appearing to be beholden to the US gov't over their international customers (which, under the law, they pretty much are) and this is a perfect PR battle for them. i suspect that without Snowden, this current battle wouldn't be happening in public or at all

Smythe
Oct 12, 2003

no meds = f4

uncurable mlady posted:

goog, fb, twatter filing amici on apple's side here so at least they're not going gently into that good night

cant wait for the fucktards to get pwned by the big dogs in the Hoover Haus

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison
yeah, you can't fight city hall. it's not like waiting on congress to swoop in is gonna do anything either, they'll just wait for presidente trump to sign the personal encryption ban of 2017 because are freedumbs

infernal machines
Oct 11, 2012

we monitor many frequencies. we listen always. came a voice, out of the babel of tongues, speaking to us. it played us a mighty dub.

uncurable mlady posted:

why did they get salty? it seems like a patently obvious thing that would happen. post-snowden, a lot of US tech companies are legitimately worried about appearing to be beholden to the US gov't over their international customers (which, under the law, they pretty much are) and this is a perfect PR battle for them. i suspect that without Snowden, this current battle wouldn't be happening in public or at all

hosed if i know

the train has sailed on the whole "not appearing beholden to the us government" thing though. even before the snowden leaks the govt had asserted its authority to access data on any server operating in the us. snowden just showed that the nsa was doing it all the time, everywhere without any kind of authorization

the privacy angle makes for good pr, but the real reason everyone's signing on is to avoid having to write and maintain custom software for law enforcement at their own expense. every one of these companies has already rolled over and provided government agencies access to customer data on request, and they'll continue to do so as long as it doesn't cost them anything

kitten emergency
Jan 13, 2008

get meow this wack-ass crystal prison

infernal machines posted:

hosed if i know

the train has sailed on the whole "not appearing beholden to the us government" thing though. even before the snowden leaks the govt had asserted its authority to access data on any server operating in the us. snowden just showed that the nsa was doing it all the time, everywhere without any kind of authorization

the privacy angle makes for good pr, but the real reason everyone's signing on is to avoid having to write and maintain custom software for law enforcement at their own expense. every one of these companies has already rolled over and provided government agencies access to customer data on request, and they'll continue to do so as long as it doesn't cost them anything

well, cost them anything more than they're already paying. all i really know about is the telcos for sure, but the cops/feds sure weren't paying the salaries of the team that responded to law enforcement requests.

Stymie
Jan 9, 2001

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
basically it's shaping up that silicon valley is trying to jump start the dystopian cyberpunk future where corporations are sovereign entities with their own armies and such

we won't even have cool computers to plug directly into our brains, just bent hugephones in every pocket and keyboard covers with every tablet

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE
Aug 1, 2004

whoa, what just happened here?







College Slice

Stymie posted:

basically it's shaping up that silicon valley is trying to jump start the dystopian cyberpunk future where corporations are sovereign entities with their own armies and such

we won't even have cool computers to plug directly into our brains, just bent hugephones in every pocket and keyboard covers with every tablet

Quoting a right person

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

Stymie posted:

basically it's shaping up that silicon valley is trying to jump start the dystopian cyberpunk future where corporations are sovereign entities with their own armies and such

we won't even have cool computers to plug directly into our brains, just bent hugephones in every pocket and keyboard covers with every tablet

Good

Larry Parrish
Jul 9, 2012

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS
I think your honestly too stupid to live if Snowden revealed anything surprising or unknown to you. Hasn't no-warrant data collection/surveillance been allowed since the Patriot Act. All I know is it was an extremely common rumor for like 20 years now and everyone with two brain cells to rub together (read: not terrorists or child pornographers) has been just assuming it would eventually happen if it wasn't already.

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

epic

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Larry Parrish posted:

I think your honestly too stupid to live if Snowden revealed anything surprising or unknown to you. Hasn't no-warrant data collection/surveillance been allowed since the Patriot Act. All I know is it was an extremely common rumor for like 20 years now and everyone with two brain cells to rub together (read: not terrorists or child pornographers) has been just assuming it would eventually happen if it wasn't already.

this is a smug rear end in a top hat thing to say. its like saying "I knew bruce willis was dead the whole time", but not saying so until after the movie ended

Stux
Nov 17, 2006

terrorists are extremely unintelligent but also they are a credible threat to national security and keep out smarting intelligence services

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
im sure if america stopped trying so hard to keep them out, they'd probably just get bored suicide bombing etc

Necc0
Jun 30, 2005

by exmarx
Broken Cake

echinopsis posted:

this is a smug rear end in a top hat thing to say. its like saying "I knew bruce willis was dead the whole time", but not saying so until after the movie ended

not really. we saw the massive data centers that the NSA was building and knew what that probably meant. Snowden just confirmed it for us & gave us the details

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE
Aug 1, 2004

whoa, what just happened here?







College Slice
turned out white people who voted for that poo poo were really surprised they'd also be used on white people

computer parts
Nov 18, 2010

PLEASE CLAP

Stux posted:

terrorists are extremely unintelligent but also they are a credible threat to national security and keep out smarting intelligence services

it's the same way that insurgents are outgunned by the us military but still beat them all the time

broken clock opsec posted:

turned out white people who voted for that poo poo were really surprised they'd also be used on white people

that's really the crux of the issue

like if snowden leaked that these programs were in use but were only used on minorities (not even muslims exclusively), virtually no one would care

maniacdevnull
Apr 18, 2007

FOUR CUBIC FRAMES
DISPROVES SOFT G GOD
YOU ARE EDUCATED STUPID

Necc0 posted:

not really. we saw the massive data centers that the NSA was building and knew what that probably meant. Snowden just confirmed it for us & gave us the details

Yah but before Snowden people could play it off as some men in black conspiracy nut job cranks. Snowden provided proof that it was actually real.

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE
Aug 1, 2004

whoa, what just happened here?







College Slice

broken clock opsec posted:


nah they'd rather vote on straight lines based on tax rates and then work 24/7 towards a technofeudal world completely devoid of democracy

FMguru
Sep 10, 2003

peed on;
sexually

broken clock opsec posted:

turned out white people who voted for that poo poo were really surprised they'd also be used on white people
see also: white dudes bellyaching about tsa security screenings

VAGENDA OF MANOCIDE
Aug 1, 2004

whoa, what just happened here?







College Slice

FMguru posted:

see also: white dudes bellyaching about tsa security screenings

reminder that rand paul literally said he wasn't brown enough to deserve getting screened

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy

Necc0 posted:

not really. we saw the massive data centers that the NSA was building and knew what that probably meant. Snowden just confirmed it for us & gave us the details

well we cna't go back in time and ask people "is the country spying on everyone" to be sure but a lot of those people would have said you were paranoid, that they only use it for specific circumstances not blanket surveillence

Fabricated
Apr 9, 2007

Living the Dream
the government doesn't need nor should it have the right to just break into anything it wants for any reason at any time and be able to force people to accommodate it

i'm perfectly willing to die in a terrorist attack they failed to prevent if these tools are kept from them because they can't be trusted to use them right

Juul-Whip
Mar 10, 2008

Necc0 posted:

not really. we saw the massive data centers that the NSA was building and knew what that probably meant. Snowden just confirmed it for us & gave us the details
also the many instances of it being used for non-terrorism related stuff. e.g. analysts/agents spying on ex-lovers or conducting industrial espionage, or spying on foreign officials to give the US a better negotiating position. but it's all fine because the evil terrorists you see

echinopsis
Apr 13, 2004

by Fluffdaddy
rememebr that tom,e tje NSA dude as caught jerking off to what he thought was his parents neighbour, but he had rememebred the street address wrrong and it was actualy his own mother he was jackin it to?

its fun to stay in the N---SA

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Michael Transactions
Nov 11, 2013

theres no way this is a thing

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