Amazon yanks encryption from Fire devices

> In this Scylla-or-Charybdis case, Tom's Guide cannot provide any strong recommendations between the two options. Instead, if you don't own a Fire product yet, don't buy one unless this problem gets sorted out. If you do own one, contact Amazon as soon as possible, and let it know that removing encryption is not acceptable for a system that may contain sensitive materials.

> At present, Amazon Fire users have but two options, and they are both, in terms of security, terrible. The first is to do as Amazon suggests, and not accept the Fire OS 5 update if you want to keep encryption. [...] The other is to accept the update and lose the ability to encrypt files.

Chances are not bad that Amazon has been hit with a government order similar to what Apple received.

...or how extended partitions can cause headaches when repartitioning a disk.

BIG GOD LOVE HUG!

SpaceX, everybody! youtube.com/watch?v=sIkPP2LM8DU

Oh oh oh they launching?

launched

Dammit im late

landing attempt is coming.

You should have told me like 10 minutes ago :-(

sorry :(

I'll be more on the ball next time.

If this landing works I'm totally going to start believing this Christian god obsessed chick on Youtube

lol huh?

I've managed to watch them scrub the landing like five times, but still missed the actual launch -_-

maybe that's what it took. We needed you to not be watching. :P

It's usually the other way round

The only SpaceX launch I've ever streamed live was also the only ever successful landing they did

I've watched several of them, but that was my favorite.

Coincidence? Or GOD'S WORK?!

Lol camera cut out :-/

That looked like a failure.

See? This is what happens when I don't live stream the launch

Not sure what happened yet

How the hell did they land stage 1 on land last time...

but it didn't look good.

on land seems a lot easier.

Big badda-boom is what happened I suspect

it's not moving around, and up and down, on water

True, but the target size isn't any bigger.

but land is sitting still.

Yeah but apart from the legs collapsing, most of the failures have been them missing the barge not the barge wobbling a little bit

Though they did once land right in the middle of the barge and then fall over anyway

They've hit the barge, just not straight.

They kept hitting it, just at an angle, or coming in too fast, etc...

But judging by the flight path display, there's no way it could have come round to land on land with this launch path

So it must have launched from somewhere else or with a completely different ascent profile

It was from the same place.

Maybe a very different ascent profile then.

Similar idea as this, but on land.

It actually landed very close to where it launched.

Why do they keep sending them sidways to the drone ship then, unless it isn't actually capable of returning to the launch site on this ascent profile?

@qasdfdsaq The launch didn't have enough fuel to get back to where it launched.

Yes that's implied, but the question is what was different about that one particular launch that meant it did have enough fuel

I dunno. Probably where it was going.

The one that landed was a launch to resupply the ISS. This one was a communications satellite.

So, this one probably went to geostationary orbit.

The ISS is at LEO, of course.

Huh, I thought the one that went to resupply the ISS blew up

Hm... maybe you're right.

Let me look. :P

I have just been restarted! This happens daily automatically, or when my owner restarts me. Ready for commands.

Oh, no. The successful one launched comm satellites.

I dunno, then. :P

Yeah I thought the one I watched had something to do with lots of small comms satellites

I'm sure smarter people at SEx.SE have a better idea.

@qasdfdsaq Yeah, 11 of them.

I wonder if there's a list of all their launches with ascent paths and delta-v budgets and what not

Or whether that's all confidential shit

Then again it's not hard for amateur enthusiasts to track these things

I'm sure a lot of the info you want is available.

So I just need to find the equivalent of flightradar24 for SpaceX launches

Pop over to The Pod Bay chat. Lots of SpaceX enthusiasts there right now.

Heh, found it. Didn't know this place existed

It's where I spend most of my time on SE.