This is a gross violation of the 4th Amendment right to be secure in our papers and effects. Worse our computational devices are more intimate and part of us that mere paper could ever be. As they become ever more extensions of our brain forcing access may fairly be compared to directly wiring your brain to testify against you. Enough with these petty tyrants!

Why shouldn't what is "trending" be a strictly statistical and or machine learning data driven result with no humans gumming up the works?

A great deal of effort has been put into destroying any real understanding of freedom and of capitalism it both their own education and the education of their parents. Our "leaders" certainly don't act in accordance with any kind of free markets or much freedom anywhere. They don't act in accordance with our supposed "western values" either. So it would be absolutely shocking if the majority had anything nice to say about capitalism in any form.

By their own laws the people they seek to "help" them are not "hackers" but "crackers" who would normally pursued and locked up by that same FBI. Don't tehy have NSA assets to use? No, because even the NSA cannot blatantly circumvent what Congress has ruled over and over regarding mandatory back doors. No, they are looking for criminals because they are engaging in crime and in circumvention of he will of the people. They must be treated as law breakers.

Government has succeeded in destroying so much of what was special about America. We used to often here "it's a free country" and people really meant it. We used to believe that the world was open to any who wished to apply themselves and they could expect equal treatment from a government designed to protect their right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness - a government whose sole function was to protect the freedom of the people, not to rule over us.

Yeah it wasn't perfect. Yeah it didn't cover some people well if at all for a long time. But it was based on something radically different than almost any government before. And that difference made a huge difference in the economic realm as well when freedom extended as free trade - voluntary marketplace interactions only.

Bit by bit the people have forgotten freedom. Bit by bit those with a very different vision whether the State rules the people and a person is subservient to the state has taken over. And it has hurt economically as well. There are over 400,000 regulations on the books. The amount of red tape on business is ridiculous. The amount of limiting of choice of what can be offered for sale or purchased is extreme and growing. The State eats 40% of wealth and more as it has us $19 trillion in debt and at least $100 trillion more in hock for unfunded liabilities.

So don't pretend that the rich did it or some unknown malady has befallen us. Look to government and to the people forgetting freedom and what this country is supposed to be about.

They are in violation of DMCA anti-circumevntion and other computer crime law. Turn the instruments they use against the people back upon them. They are also violating Rico.

How will it be any more powerful than at most an IRC bot? OK, in principle you could message an app that would send messages back and possibly to other apps. So you could have an OO message fest. Is that what they have in mind?

The tech industry is the liveblood of the area. If they want substantial money to leave the city then they are asking for a lot of unintended consequences. Who do they think pays for most of the costs of various services and safety nets?

No one has a right to live in any particular place if they can't afford it. When there is high demand and limited housing the price i going to go up. This is not in the least unjust.

What do they think the 4th Amendment is about? Oh, I forgot, they could care less as withness the NSA actions and what is still allowed. Encrypt and encrypt deep regardless of what these un-American clowns say and regardless of what companies like Apple do or do not do. It is your right to be secure in your papers and effects including your digital effects.

I actually like google+, especially its new look, better than FB. And the people generally seem a bit more civil and into exchanging information and opinions with less flaming.

I have really powerful GPUs on my Linux desktop. Why doesn't OR support that? I think they are just making lame excuses for bloated inefficient software.

The jobs do not belong to whomever currently fills them. They are not property. There is no reason in a global economy they must be filled with US talent. Some people seem to be confused about the employer employee relationship The employee is selling services on a time basis that the employer needs at a mutually agreed upon price. The employer is no more obligated, nor should they be, to continue an employment agreement where the received benefits are at a greater price than they can find elsewhere than they are obligated to "buy American" in computers and other things that they need to run their business regardless of whether as good or better at a better price is available. Whether you think it is "nice" or not is irrelevant.

You get no where being a "freedom fighter" in China. You either kowtow to Chinese internet laws or you don't do business in China. Period. So this is irrelevant nonsense trying to cast aspersions on the principled and important stance Apple is taking in the US. Don't try this crap again.

How many milligrams in a cup? At what strength?

I really need this. I have a very difficult time knowing what is sarcasm and what isn't online. Hell, I even have a problem with this face to face.