longfang

apple ][ said:

Hit 'em ever harder is my opinion. We're not playing hardball yet, merely softball.

The IP rights is one of the most important issues and of course the US should not budge a single inch on it.

Who wants to agree to a deal where you agree to allow the other party to continue to steal from you?

Whatever tariffs China introduced recently, let's double that and hit 'em again.

Small items like cases or chargers are not a big deal in my opinion. If the average consumer has to pay a little bit more for a few accessories, then it's worth it, because the long term goal is much more important than anything that will happen in the short term.

lkrupp said:

georgie01 said:

The depressing thing about this is not whether law enforcement can insist someone unlock their phone with biometrics, but rather that the spirit of the 5th amendment is not on the mind of anyone who supports forced unlocking with biometrics. If a passcode is protected then biometrics, just another version of a passcode, should be protected. It’s taking advantage of a ‘loophole’ that exists simply because those responsible for the 5th amendment had no way to anticipate biometrics.

This kind of approach to law, however well meaning the supporters may be, is what is eroding our country—the arrogance that we know better than our founders while we’re standing on the success they built... not realising that things are different now only because we’ve been slowly abandoning what they built in the name of ‘progress’.

Oh get over yourself. “Eroding our country...” God that’s melodramatic nonsense. It’s no different than the police asking you to open your safe. If they have search a warrant and you refuse, they drill it open. Or they cut the padlock off your storage locker if you refuse to give them the key. Or they ask you to open your door, you refuse, and they use a battering ram to gain entrance. How often do we see on television law enforcement agents hauling off computers, file cabinets, hard drives after serving a search warrant.You refuse to unlock your phone and they open it with your fingerprint. In fact what’s “eroding our country” is that the law has not caught up with technology yet and criminals are hiding behind archaic concepts of self incrimination. You are not testifying against yourself when you comply with a warrant. We need more judges to understand this, not fewer.