Non-IT News Thread

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Terminally ill boy dies in Santa's arms
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/38293294

It got dusty in here or something, holy shit

Yeah, I'm near tears at my desk just reading it. How huge and difficult a task for both Mr Schmitt-Matzen and the family...

DustinB3403

In other news, man spends $1Million (stolen) on Game of War.

scottalanmiller

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@MattSpeller said in Non-IT News Thread:

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Terminally ill boy dies in Santa's arms
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/38293294

It got dusty in here or something, holy shit

Yeah, I'm near tears at my desk just reading it. How huge and difficult a task for both Mr Schmitt-Matzen and the family...

I know, I was so sad reading that.

scottalanmiller

Alan Thicke of Growing Pains and who JUST had Fuller House Season 2 come out this weekend with him guesting, died today of a heart attack at age 69.

http://www.tmz.com/2016/12/13/alan-thicke-dead/

scottalanmiller

Youtube Video

scottalanmiller

Florida court says iPhone passcode must be revealed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38303977

dafyre

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Florida court says iPhone passcode must be revealed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38303977

I will wipe my phone and go to jail before I give anybody my pass code or PIN to my phone.

Dashrender

@scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

Florida court says iPhone passcode must be revealed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-38303977

I agree the EFF - the appeals judge got that wrong - how is a digital combination ANY different from a physical combination? They are both just a sequence of numbers used to unlock something.

Dashrender

Even more -

Judge Black referred to a famous Supreme Court case, Doe v US 1988, in which Justice John Paul Stevens wrote that a defendant could be made to surrender a key to a strongbox containing incriminating documents but they could not "be compelled to reveal the combination to his wall safe".

I'm not sure how you are compelling someone to give up a key, unless it's on their person. But if it's the location of that key - how are they compelling that without violating the 5th amendment?

scottalanmiller

I'm sure that this will go up the chain.

scottalanmiller

Austrian MPs vote to seize Hitler's birthplace house
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38324959

scottalanmiller

US boy buried alive under tonnes of snow
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38320674