The iPhone X’s FaceID can be bypassed using “specially prepared printouts of photographs”! Gott in Himmel! Doesn’t this make the feature useless?
Oh, wait. Did I say “iPhone X FaceID”? I’m sorry. I meant “Windows Hello facial recognition”. My bad.
Archive for December 22nd, 2017
Urgent security news!
Friday, December 22nd, 2017Quickies from the legal beat.
Friday, December 22nd, 2017Some serious, some less so.
Former Michigan state trooper charged with second degree murder in the death of a 15-year-old boy. He was a passenger in another trooper’s vehicle: they chased after the kid, who was driving an ATV, and the trooper fired a Taser out the window.
(Hattip: Morlock Publishing on the Twitter. The Powers of the Earth is available in a Kindle edition, and would probably make a swell gift for the SF fan in your life. I already own a copy, but haven’t read it yet.)
Grandma got stopped by a state trooper,
Driving to Vermont for Christmas Eve.
People say “It’s just weed,”
But the state says “60 lbs is a felony.”
(Those lyrics probably need some work.)
It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas… (part III)
Friday, December 22nd, 2017Apropos of nothing in particular (no, really): the complete original Dragnet episode “The Big Little Jesus” is available on YouTube.
Obit watch: December 22, 2017.
Friday, December 22nd, 2017Legendary sportscaster Dick Enberg.
WP obit for Clifford Irving.
Jerry Yellin. Mr. Yellin and his wingman, Philip Schlamberg, flew what turned out to be the last combat mission over Japan on August 15, 1945. Mr. Schlamberg never came back.