The U.S said that it may no longer need Apple's help to break into an iPhone that belonged to the shooter in San Bernardino, Ca. This led the judge to postpone the court hearing. The F.B.I are temporarily avoiding the issue. This has been a battle between a powerful nation in the world and a powerful company in the world. The government now possibly has a third party with a way into the phone and open new boundaries in the case.    However the article doesn't include any information on how they might be able to access the phone. This is good for the F.B.I because they will be able access all the information that is on the phone without the help of Apple. This is bad for Apple because their consumers privacy and their first amendment rights could be threatened.    Regardless of what happens with this case it could pose a bigger threat to US citizens in the future. Even though this could help the F.B.I with the case it would also allow the government to access all iPhones with ease in the future. If this case goes on then eventually congress would have to get involved.   The F.B.I is exploring all their options to find a better way into the phone. They are getting the argument from a document called the All Writs Act. The lawyers from the F.B.I are using the writs act which says that it is a order for them to give over the information on how to get into the phone. This act is very vague because it doesn't say if they are allowed to access all of the iPhones instead of one.    The government might be able to access the phone through the third party and postpone the case. Yet Apple still has kept same position, that is to keep the consumers' information private. Despite the third party the case still remains a big deal for Apple, The government, and all consumers.    

Revision of Old Blog Post
Literary Essay


http://16btimoner.blogspot.com/2015/10/have-you-ever-wondered-what-it-would-be.html


Have you ever wondered what it would be like to see the future? In the book Numbers by Rachel Ward, the main character, Jem, can see the date of when people die. She has seen the number of when people will die for as long as she remembers. When she is fifteen, Jem meets a boy named spider. The two are accused of bombing the London Eye, a big ferris wheel. Spider and Jem run away together and fall in love. The only problem is that Jem can see the date of Spider's death, which is very soon. On the date of when Spider is supposed to die, Jem is overcome with sadness. She thinks that if she is dead that the numbers, the dates when people will die, won't exist. Instead of her jumping off the church roof and dying, Spider slips off the wall and sadly falls to his death. The author conveys the idea that seeing the future isn't always a good thing.

 In the beginning of the story Jem can see the numbers but she doesn't know what they mean. The author shows her in a stroller reading out the numbers she sees in the people that pass. Then she sees her mother's number "and all the time, as we we sat there eye to eye her number was there, stamped inside of my skull:10102001". She soon learns what it meant, "four years later, I watched a man in a scruffy suit write it down on a piece of paper: Date of Death:10.10.2001." This shows us that her ability is connected to her mother's death, which is a terrible loss in her life.


 She sees the date of when the love of her life Spider, will die. She is so sad because Spider doesn't know that he is going to die soon, but Jem can't tell him because it isn't right. After they are accused of the bombing, they run away. At first Jem and Spider get away at first, but then Spider is caught.
When Jem and Spider are finally reunited it is the date that Spider is suppose to die. Jem thinks that
if she doesn't exist then the numbers won't exist and Spider won't die. Jem is going to jump off the top of the church, but Spider stops her, after they talk and she has calmed down, "he spun 'round to face me, ready to jump down. Our eyes met, and we held each other's gaze; my warmth and love for him reflected right back to me. It was going to be alright. And then his foot slipped on the we stone and his balance was gone."


   Jem becomes pregnant with spider's baby. When she has the baby boy, she can not see the numbers any more, she is very relieved. Jem's foster mother Karen dies of illness, she had known that she was going to die on that day. At the very end of the story Adam's teacher calls Jem in for a conference.
The teacher talks about a drawing Adam made. "Above the head of the taller figure, arching over like a rainbow, was some writing I think you meant to write mommy, didn't you, Adam? No miss, I told you. It's not her name. It's her number. It's Mommy's special number." This is a big twist to the happy ending. Jem must be super upset at that moment.


   The author does an excellent job overall making the case that seeing the future is problematic. The only problem is that she causes too many people die very young. Most of the major characters die very young. While this makes the book even more dramatic and sad, it is unnecessary. Even if the most of the characters lived long lives, she could still make the point that it is a burden. When someone is blamed for a catastrophic event they will do questionable things. What Spider and Jem are blamed for the London eye, they do something questionable things. When they ran away it was arguable that they should go to the cops and say that it was not them. After Spider dies I think that Jem takes some guilt for it. Reading this book makes the reader glad that they can't see the future.