Is that a good trade? Potentially being able to recover a lost phone versus Apple (and whomever can subpoena it) knowing where you are all the time?
Carnegie Mellon student robbed, uses iPhone to track down culprits
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#22Hey. This is me.
Weird that this came up again; this happened in August and there was a really crazy media frenzy at the time which mostly died down (although I do get a few random emails time to time).
And yeah, I do work for The Tartan.
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#23Why are the culprits in the story referred to as "actors"?
That's what cops called them when this whole thing happened and that's why I used that specific word.
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
How is not implying guilt nice? I've seen the same concept in calling criminals 'suspects', but when you've just seen someone shoot someone else (for example), not implying guilt shouldn't be taken into consideration.
Then you say you saw A shoot B. What you don't say is that A is a murderer. (Note: I really despise the use of the word "actors" in the article, though. It's less wordy than "alleged theives" or whatever, but it could also have been omitted entirely. "The two actors" ---> "The two" etc.)
Why? A is a murderer.
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#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
Then you say you saw A shoot B. What you don't say is that A is a murderer. (Note: I really despise the use of the word "actors" in the article, though. It's less wordy than "alleged theives" or whatever, but it could also have been omitted entirely. "The two actors" ---> "The two" etc.)
Why ? A is a murderer.
How do you know? A could be mentally ill, and thus innocent. A could be an undercover officer, or shooting in self defence against a threat you didn't see. And so on.
You can say "in my opinion, A is a murderer" -- but the only time you should be making a statement of fact on A's guilt is after it has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt.
To do otherwise is to dishonestly masquerade your opinion as fact and to expose yourself to a nice fat libel lawsuit along the way.