Islamists are responsible for about 5% of terror attacks in the US and 2% in Europe.
Really? Who's doing the other 98%?
I'm curious where he got those numbers, and of course there's always the fudge of who decides what qualifies as terror, but you merely have to turn on the evening news to see who's killing who in the USA.
Of course, if a genuine psycho or other non-Jihadist murderer goes on a rampage you might only hear it mentioned once (if at all), whereas they'll talk about Jihadist killings for months.
Probably the most perversely funny thing I've ever seen on television news was a decade or more ago when two sects of Buddhist monks were fighting over possession of a temple on a street corner. The streets were full of bald men in robes going at it with quarterstaffs.
(I half expected to see Jackie Chan come crawling out of the side of the crowd.)
Can anyone explain to me why Islam is considered a religion of peace?
Because for most Muslims it is.
Most of the terror in the world today is committed by Muslims.
Perhaps so. However, a rational mind blames those that are responsible, not the whole culture they come from.
Also, note that Muslims haven't been keeping pace on mass killings in the USA lately.
They control many totalitarian states that are particularly abysmal with respect to human rights.
Quite so. Utterly inexcusable.
Also utterly inexcusable that the west are in bed with so may of them - or even established them. And "loaned" them prisoners during the Bush administration. (And after?)
See also: Latin Amerca.
Why are there so many apologists for Islam?
Probably because there are so many people like you spreading irrational islamophobia.
There's much outrage when a Christian-owned bakery refuses to cater for an LGBT wedding but there's silence when Muslims commit acts of violence against nonbelievers.
Silence? Pull your head out.
Why is Islam given a free pass when they do far worse things? Islam is far more repressive than Christianity, but somehow this is tolerated. Why?
where we have strong security that nobody but the good guys can break.
Your government communications and data stores are secure, approved business communications and data stores are secure, but everything else can be decrypted on demand.
Wonder when non-IT businesses are going to realize they have a dog in this fight.
ABC is reporting that "the owner reset the password" on the iCloud account, apparently referring to the San Bernadino authorities as "the owner".
This purportedly prevents backing it up to the iCloud, though I don't understand the relevance of that. If someone can get in, won't they be able to see whatever they want?
Moreover, I thought the issue was that Apple was being asked to update the firmware so that the authorities could make endless attempts to guess the password without locking it up, which again leaves me wondering about the relevance of not being able to back it up to the cloud.
Is Apple just blowing smoke? Or am I just too ignorant of the technical issues?
The link doesn't say *who* changed the password. Maybe it was the people that have the phone, or the NSA or the Russian Mafia, one of the killer's buddies. We need to wait for more information, assuming there is any.
FWIW, an A/C posted below that it was from a military IP address, but I'm holding out for a more reliable source.
I'm also curious to know how Apple can tell that a phone's password has been changed.
From what the public has been told, it sounds like they were planning a terrorist attack and executed it ahead of schedule at the "postal" target after an argument at the Christmas party.
It looks to me like Democrats/progressives/liberals are sitting pretty. The Republicans are down one Justice - let's call a spade a spade here - so as long as the seat remains empty the other side is that much better off. And ISTM that there's not much prospect that the next president will be Republican, and the Democrats may pick up a few Senate seats as well. So the smart Republicans may be well advised to get the best deal they can get now rather than putting it off. But the reactionary caucus will ensure that that doesn't happen.
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She already confirmed she didn't send any classified material, so it's just a witch hunt.
Correction: According to news sources, some of it was retroactively classified.
Also according to some sources, the same thing happened with Colin Powell and Condeleza Rice, with no outcry.
What they needed to d0x was his birth certificate in long form. I'm not certain Trump is from this planet.
Of course not. If he wasn't a lizardman, he wouldn't be allowed to run for president.
(being in Canada, there aren't a lot of places that take it)
What's Canada got to do with it?
Really? Who's doing the other 98%?
I'm curious where he got those numbers, and of course there's always the fudge of who decides what qualifies as terror, but you merely have to turn on the evening news to see who's killing who in the USA.
Of course, if a genuine psycho or other non-Jihadist murderer goes on a rampage you might only hear it mentioned once (if at all), whereas they'll talk about Jihadist killings for months.
And that's from our "liberal" corporate media.
Probably the most perversely funny thing I've ever seen on television news was a decade or more ago when two sects of Buddhist monks were fighting over possession of a temple on a street corner. The streets were full of bald men in robes going at it with quarterstaffs.
(I half expected to see Jackie Chan come crawling out of the side of the crowd.)
Can anyone explain to me why Islam is considered a religion of peace?
Because for most Muslims it is.
Most of the terror in the world today is committed by Muslims.
Perhaps so. However, a rational mind blames those that are responsible, not the whole culture they come from.
Also, note that Muslims haven't been keeping pace on mass killings in the USA lately.
They control many totalitarian states that are particularly abysmal with respect to human rights.
Quite so. Utterly inexcusable.
Also utterly inexcusable that the west are in bed with so may of them - or even established them. And "loaned" them prisoners during the Bush administration. (And after?)
See also: Latin Amerca.
Why are there so many apologists for Islam?
Probably because there are so many people like you spreading irrational islamophobia.
There's much outrage when a Christian-owned bakery refuses to cater for an LGBT wedding but there's silence when Muslims commit acts of violence against nonbelievers.
Silence? Pull your head out.
Why is Islam given a free pass when they do far worse things? Islam is far more repressive than Christianity, but somehow this is tolerated. Why?
Tolerated? Please pull your head out.
Your troll score is: 2/10.
Didn't we have this same headline for the F-22, back in the day?
The reward of a thing well done is to have done it. -- Emerson
Maybe the phone entraps a balrog that will get free and kill us all if the phone is unlocked.
Or two balrogs. Best let sleeping dogs lie.
where we have strong security that nobody but the good guys can break.
Your government communications and data stores are secure, approved business communications and data stores are secure, but everything else can be decrypted on demand.
Wonder when non-IT businesses are going to realize they have a dog in this fight.
In mathematics, "almost all" means "all, except for a finite number".
Does it always mean that, or almost always mean that?
Now, where does it say the moon landings were filmed?
how much of this is just an attempt by the FBI to convince everybody that they don't already have a quantum computer that will break anything?
ABC is reporting that "the owner reset the password" on the iCloud account, apparently referring to the San Bernadino authorities as "the owner".
This purportedly prevents backing it up to the iCloud, though I don't understand the relevance of that. If someone can get in, won't they be able to see whatever they want?
Moreover, I thought the issue was that Apple was being asked to update the firmware so that the authorities could make endless attempts to guess the password without locking it up, which again leaves me wondering about the relevance of not being able to back it up to the cloud.
Is Apple just blowing smoke? Or am I just too ignorant of the technical issues?
The link doesn't say *who* changed the password. Maybe it was the people that have the phone, or the NSA or the Russian Mafia, one of the killer's buddies. We need to wait for more information, assuming there is any.
FWIW, an A/C posted below that it was from a military IP address, but I'm holding out for a more reliable source.
I'm also curious to know how Apple can tell that a phone's password has been changed.
Anytime a court issues a subpoena its a compulsion for some individual or organization to produce evidence (or show up and testify).
As best I can puzzle out, Apple is just resisting the order in hopes that a higher court will support them.
From what the public has been told, it sounds like they were planning a terrorist attack and executed it ahead of schedule at the "postal" target after an argument at the Christmas party.
Yeah, but it takes a Master Troll to troll both sides at once.
D. Trump, the first Troll President?
No, the Constitution clearly states that only Lizard People can be presidents.
It looks to me like Democrats/progressives/liberals are sitting pretty. The Republicans are down one Justice - let's call a spade a spade here - so as long as the seat remains empty the other side is that much better off. And ISTM that there's not much prospect that the next president will be Republican, and the Democrats may pick up a few Senate seats as well. So the smart Republicans may be well advised to get the best deal they can get now rather than putting it off. But the reactionary caucus will ensure that that doesn't happen.
I saw that movie too.
A new way to deal with your rejected papers.
Microsoft is trying to 'innovate' another revolution it missed.
People running 7 and 8.1 can avoid the updates that add the spying to them, but since it's baked into Win10
Part of the operating system now, like IE?
For W7, I'm trying unchecking "give me recommended updates the same way I recieve important updates" in the Windows Update settings.
If I get W10 next week we'll know that that didn't work.