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nolamacguy said:

apple ][ said:

It was terrorism, Islamic terrorism to be precise. They were ISIS supporters and they were dirty terrorists. I am sorry if you have a problem with reality and facts. 

http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/05/us/san-bernardino-shooting/

nope. work place violence isn't terrorism -- unless all those white Christian postal workers were also terrorists, in which case we've changed the definition of what the word means. 

The actors' intent makes the difference. The location of the action has less to do with the purpose of the act.

Postal workers going nonlinear at the office because of personal conflicts with co-workers is "workplace violence".

A county employee and his wife shooting up an office party, having declared their allegiance to a terrorist organization, after weeks or months of prior planning driven by the goals of said terrorist organization is terrorism.

stevewhite said:

They're all Democrats, of course, and all are of the belief that government would never, ever, ever misuse private information. Unless the person of interest is a political opponent, particularly a Rethuglican, in which case it's all groovy.

No, a few of them [California legislators] are Republicans, too.

All of the ones on the wrong side of this issue are, however, unregenerate statists.

rogifan_new said:

Why is Apple doing interviews with Univison?  They need Spanish speaking people to file an amicus brief with the court?

Because they're probably the largest group of non-english speaking customers in the U.S.?

tzeshan said:

Without zooming, there is no point spending $500 on such thing. 

Yeah, it makes no sense to use, say, a Leica rangefinder camera. Or any of the innumerable fixed-lens cameras that were used over more than a century to make historic, memorable images.

It's clearly not a camera for every conceivable subject, but it's not useless either.

bobcat4424 said:

The FBI is not even asking for access to the phone.  They only want Apple to force a backup because they already have access to the cloud backups.  Apple can do this by simply pushing a phone-specific update to the OS that forces an immediate and full backup. 

Well, the FBI already queered that possibility by letting San Bernardino County change the AppleID password. You can't force an update on a locked phone if the password has been changed, but not updated on the phone by the user.