Judge: US Can’t Force Apple To Provide Encrypted iPhone Data. NY Federal Judge Rules in favor of Apple. They still have to deal with the Federal Judge in Riverside County though. It looks like it’s time for the Supreme Court to get involved. Or, will the FBI get tricky and try to use the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) to get a rubber stamp?
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Apple says government lost access to shooter’s iPhone backup by changing passcode
Apple says government lost access to shooter’s iPhone backup by changing passcode. Looks like the FBI should hire someone who knows what they’re doing with Apple products.
UPDATE: We’re not sure whether to call this an update, correction or BS but here’s the latest:
The auto reset was executed by a county information technology employee, according to a federal official. Federal investigators only found out about the reset after it had occurred and that the county employee acted on his own, not on the orders of federal authorities, the source said.
Apple executives say the iPhone was in the possession of the government when iCloud password was reset. A federal official familiar with the investigation confirmed that federal investigators were indeed in possession of the phone when the reset occurred.
All we can say is yeah right, if you say so.
Smithsonian iPhone app makes it possible for you to morph into a Neaderthal
There truly is, apparently, an iPhone app for everything. Including from the Smithsonian Institution that lets you see what your Neaderthal ancestors may have looked like.
There truly is, apparently, an iPhone app for everything. Including this new one from the Smithsonian Institution that lets you see what your Neaderthal ancestors may have looked like.
The Christian Science Monitor has the ugly details of the Me-anderthal app:
First you upload a portrait of your face and line up the image with markers for the eyes, nose and mouth. Next, you choose which human species you’d like to become, including: Homo floresiensis who lived between 95,000 and 17,000 years ago; Homo neanderthalensis who lived 200,000 to 28,000 years ago; and Homo heidelbergensis who lived 700,000 to 200,000 years ago.
Expect your nose to inch up in size in the resulting MEanderthal image.
“Neandertal faces tend to have much bigger noses,” said Briana Pobiner, a paleoanthropologist at the Smithsonian Human Origins Program. “Big noses were good for humidifying and warming glacial, ice age air.”
It’s so easy a caveman could do it, so we ran a random photo through the Me-aderthal iPhone app just to see what would happen.
Good lord, those neanderthals were ugly.
Source: Science
There’s an app for that. Even if there shouldn’t be.
Pretty funny parody of the Apple iPhone commercials. And by the way, it’s not true that Megan Fox has a restraining order against the guys at IHateTheMedia.com. Not true at all.
Pretty funny parody of the Apple iPhone commercials.
And by the way, it’s not true that Megan Fox has a restraining order against the guys at IHateTheMedia.com. Not true at all.
Apple hangs up on iPhone app featuring Nancy Pelosi caricature
Apple’s leftwing politics have reared their ugly head again. The computer company has killed an iPhone app because it contained caricatures of Democrat Nancy Pelosi and other members of congress. Apple called the caricatures “objectionable.”
Apple’s leftwing politics have reared their ugly head again. The computer company has killed an iPhone app because it contained caricatures of Democrat Nancy Pelosi and other members of congress. Apple called the caricatures “objectionable.”
The iPhone app directory featured drawings of every member of Congress by freelance cartoonist Tom Richmond. The developer of the app believes his product was killed because Pelosi’s husband is a major Apple stockholder.
Fox News reports:
“Everyone’s talking about the health care bill and calling their congressman, but sometimes it’s hard to find their numbers,” Ray Griggs said. “We made an iPhone app that puts them a click or a phone call away, and links by GPS to find your congressman or senator’s contact information. We thought Congress wanted to hear from their constituents.”
Griggs noted that Apple has approved apps that simulate the sound of human flatulence, that let users make models out of human feces, and that create a bloody knife when the iPhone is shaken. There have also been controversial images of women’s breasts, and a notorious app that let the user quiet a crying baby by shaking it into silence, which was subsequently removed.
We have to agree with Griggs on this one. On the ten point objectionable scale, we’re pretty sure Pelosi falls somewhere between human flatulence and human feces.
Source: FoxNews.com
