You're a little late to this party. Bitcoin has been around for years and they haven't done anything about it. The fact that most of the network is outside of the US means they can't do shit about it. Outlawing it will not stop people from using it.
Wallet encryption has been the single biggest point of contention with Bitcoin to date. Just because the guy mentioned wallet encryption and then the next release has it doesn't mean it's him. The bitcoin forums are full of people who have lost their bitcoins because their wallets weren't protected and people have been screaming for this for a long time.
Fox showed the episodes out of order. They wanted to start the series off with an action-packed episode. Morons. So if you actually watched the episode that Fox aired first, you were left scratching your head.
"Let people argue about whether tasers are lethal or not. Let them argue about whether that was too much force or not. But don't try to change the terminology to make it sound worse."
I couldn't agree with you more, except Taser International is doing just that by suing people that associate Taser with anyones death. Saying someone was shot with a Taser is correct. Just like you would say shot with a crossbow, stungun, paintball or nerf gun.
Interesting. When I was just out of High School in 1986 or so my friends and I were in to paintball. We would shoot each other in our neighborhood. We never shot at anyone else or cars, just us. No one paid us any mind and we didn't bother anyone else.
Today paintball guns are considered firearms.
There is a massive marketing and legal effort behind the Taser brand to make sure the public does not associate it with lethal force. This is part of the reason that they people are 'tased' and not 'shot with a taser'.
The Internet is full of stories where bad things happen to good people. In your example the cop was being a cop. Being a cop means you take on a certain amount of risk.
The cop in the above video didn't even announce his presence or give a warning. He tased a guy in the face. Again without warning. He had no way of knowing what was happening and his life wasn't in immediate danger, nor were the lives of the other people.
He walked up to the guy, he didn't run. There was no sense of urgency in his actions.
"and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause"
I read that to say that if someone is suspected of doing something illegal, and if there is sufficient probable cause, then a warrant can be obtained for whatever purpose.
In other words, if there is probable cause then they should be able to get a warrant pretty easily. While I think these devices have a use, I wonder what they are doing with the data they collect. Are they used for a given phone number to track it? Or are they just collecting data and sifting? If the latter is true what are they doing with all the other location data? If they are retaining it then I can see why people are up in arms over this.
Also, when a cell phone connects to it, does that mean that the cell phone is unable to make and receive calls because it's not an actual cell tower?
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It makes much more sense if watched in order.
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I couldn't agree with you more, except Taser International is doing just that by suing people that associate Taser with anyones death. Saying someone was shot with a Taser is correct. Just like you would say shot with a crossbow, stungun, paintball or nerf gun.
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Today paintball guns are considered firearms.
There is a massive marketing and legal effort behind the Taser brand to make sure the public does not associate it with lethal force. This is part of the reason that they people are 'tased' and not 'shot with a taser'.
http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2008/05/02/20080502taser0503.html
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The cop in the above video didn't even announce his presence or give a warning. He tased a guy in the face. Again without warning. He had no way of knowing what was happening and his life wasn't in immediate danger, nor were the lives of the other people.
He walked up to the guy, he didn't run. There was no sense of urgency in his actions.
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I read that to say that if someone is suspected of doing something illegal, and if there is sufficient probable cause, then a warrant can be obtained for whatever purpose.
In other words, if there is probable cause then they should be able to get a warrant pretty easily. While I think these devices have a use, I wonder what they are doing with the data they collect. Are they used for a given phone number to track it? Or are they just collecting data and sifting? If the latter is true what are they doing with all the other location data? If they are retaining it then I can see why people are up in arms over this.
Also, when a cell phone connects to it, does that mean that the cell phone is unable to make and receive calls because it's not an actual cell tower?
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