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Re: dexprs post# 72108

Friday, 02/12/2016 2:27:45 PM

Friday, February 12, 2016 2:27:45 PM

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Software can't recover from errors like humans can.


http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/feb/12/setting-the-date-to-1-january-1970-will-brick-your-iphone-ipad-or-ipod-touch

Setting the date to January 1, 1970 kills any Apple device permanantly.

Date bug will prevent 64-bit iOS devices from booting up, rendering them inoperable even through fail-safe restore methods using iTunes

Apple used this date as zero, and none of the processes can operate with a zero or negative date, and they forgot to include a data-input test to eliminate this problem.

They'll download a fix for this, but you can see the potential software has for failure.

We've run out of other people's Social Security taxes needed to subsidize our low income tax rates.

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