officers could have removed the battery without opening the phone
Well, until evidence such as LSD tabs or a hit-list falls out of the battery compartment. If there's no warrant and it's not in plain view, it's an illegal search. Full stop.
If you're going to bring a bomb to school in TX, make sure that it looks like some professionally made football equipment, not like a tinkerer's project. Because this is TX where football goes unquestioned (unlike all that sciency-math-inventor stuff).
Given that all other communications seemed to occur by secure couriered flash-drives, that browsing porn (or any other sort of images) via flash-drive would be pretty tedious.
Osama: [browsing aforementioned gay Mexican midget porn] Amir, I request to see this image but with his leather jacket removed Amir: Yes, sir. [3 months transpire] Amir: Here, sir, is the next image in the series. He has removed the leather jacket. Osama: Mmm. That naughty fellow. Just how I like it. Now, Amir, fetch me the next image in the sequence. The one without the leather chaps… Amir: «sighs» Yes, sir. [3 more months transpire] Amir:Sir, your… Osama: [rips flash drive from Amir's hand and runs to private section of cave]
Phew, thank goodness that the use of SSNs is limited to the designated purpose, not as some nation-wide identifier used for any and all other purposes. Oh, wait. Crap.
Am I missing that content? Decoding it as base64 and passing it to file(1) identifies as "SysEx File -" which I've never heard of and The Great Google doesn't give much detail on.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Transportation Security Administration announces its recent partnership with the Roman Catholic Church. Beginning in time for the Christmas travel season, the Vatican will supply additional staff to perform pat-down searches and monitor the full-body scanners.
A small but vocal minority of fliers have expressed concern regarding the program. TSA spokesman Dick Tickle dismisses the opposition as an aggrieved minority, stating that the financial savings and increased security benefit taxpayers and travellers alike.
"My co-workers and I are uncomfortable with the intimate nature of the pat-down searches required for those who opt out of the full-body scannings," notes TSA agent Willie G. Roper. "The priests don't seem to object, the people trust them, and they reportedly bring years of experience with them."
Father John Geoghan eagerly looks forward to helping secure America's transportation network. "I've seen the images produced by the backscatter/millimeter-wave systems, and there's no hiding anything."
Given the expected success of the new program, Tickle hints that the agency plans to extend its subcontracting relationships, starting with state correctional institutions. "A number of parolees and work-release prisoners have a difficult time finding jobs because of their record. In some cases, their names will appear on the sex-offender registry for the rest of their life. We offer them hope at reintegrating into society while making travel safer."
I didn't realize that law schools still taught the “sorry, I can't hear you, my fingers are in my ears, LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA-LA!” technique of representation.
First, I never figured I'd see such readily obvious comparisons between The Weather Channel and MTV. MTV used to actually show music around the clock, but is now mostly filler fluff with no music. The Weather Channel used to actually show weather around the clock, but is now mostly filler fluff with no weather.
Second, this is the same Weather Channel that, on multiple occasions, has given an up-to-the-minute forecast of 0% chance of precipitation for my rather small Zip code when I can see a deluge outside. No love lost for those weather witches.
In the case of advertising-supported sites, I'd lean strongly toward the thresholding criteria.
I'm not sure I'd exempt non-profits categorically. For those that are above the aforementioned threshold or are below the threshold and receive federal funds, they should meet accessibility criteria. I would exempt those that are below the threshold and don't receive federal funds (though would still assert that making a non-profit's site accessible is a wise move for multiple reasons).
Generally website visitors are the customers. However, there are edge cases
a site is there to lure visitors' eyeballs to the advertising purchased by the actual customers. I'm somewhat up in the air on this variety, but would posit that ① it would be in the best interest of the site to ensure the widest possible audience, and ② if it's just advertising, there's less harm in (in)accessibility. I do find grey areas where the site provides a useful service in exchange for eyeballs to advertise to (e.g., Facebook, Gmail, etc)
See my “Bakeries and websites" conversation above. “Quite apart from unintended consequences, additional legal complications that discourage young religious bakers from going into baked-good-making, and arguments about the free market and freedom of [expression or religion], that phrase is just weird in this context.” When minority groups are shut out of a business, the government needs to apply measures equally: whether allowing websites and businesses such as bakeries the option to discriminate (the leaning of my libertarian side), or requiring websites and business to treat visitors equally (the leaning of my Christian side, contrary to popular media brouhaha on the matter).
See also my thread about minimum thresholds—an individual “young [person]” or small Mom & Pop business wouldn't be subject to such regulations until they met a minimum size/income, keeping them fairly “reasonable demands”.
So a dwarf wearing platform shoes… (this conversation took a weird turn)
Yes, there are limitations permitted because of health/safety issues (a ride may have only been tested with certain weight/height ranges and exceeding those may leave a ride unsafe), or because requirements of a position (an employee may be required to visually discern defects in a product's coloration, excluding the blind). That doesn't mean that reasonable accommodations can't be made for the majority of businesses.
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Well, until evidence such as LSD tabs or a hit-list falls out of the battery compartment. If there's no warrant and it's not in plain view, it's an illegal search. Full stop.
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Rearranging deck chairs
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640k should be enough for anybody
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The moral of this story...
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Protecting…
Yeah, just try "protecting" an officer like that and see how well it goes down.
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Is there any way…
On the post: CIA Refuses To Release Osama's Porn Collection Information To Bro Who Submitted FOIA For It
Re: porn
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Thank goodness…
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Re: Photoshop
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Re: Renaming
That isn't stealing, it's "undercompensated resource reallocation".
That isn't murder, it's "problem solving".
I'm sure we can come up with lots more on both sides of the governmental divide.
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Re: Sic Transit Gloria Mundi
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Re: Back to Spiderman?
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Re: Search Engines
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While I posted this a while back…
A small but vocal minority of fliers have expressed concern regarding the program. TSA spokesman Dick Tickle dismisses the opposition as an aggrieved minority, stating that the financial savings and increased security benefit taxpayers and travellers alike.
"My co-workers and I are uncomfortable with the intimate nature of the pat-down searches required for those who opt out of the full-body scannings," notes TSA agent Willie G. Roper. "The priests don't seem to object, the people trust them, and they reportedly bring years of experience with them."
Father John Geoghan eagerly looks forward to helping secure America's transportation network. "I've seen the images produced by the backscatter/millimeter-wave systems, and there's no hiding anything."
Given the expected success of the new program, Tickle hints that the agency plans to extend its subcontracting relationships, starting with state correctional institutions. "A number of parolees and work-release prisoners have a difficult time finding jobs because of their record. In some cases, their names will appear on the sex-offender registry for the rest of their life. We offer them hope at reintegrating into society while making travel safer."
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Ah, that technique
On the post: Weather Channel Tackles Criticism For Airing Too Much Fluff, With New Ads Attacking Competitors For Airing Too Much Fluff
Sorta amazed it's still a thing
Second, this is the same Weather Channel that, on multiple occasions, has given an up-to-the-minute forecast of 0% chance of precipitation for my rather small Zip code when I can see a deluge outside. No love lost for those weather witches.
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Re: Bakeries and websites
I'm not sure I'd exempt non-profits categorically. For those that are above the aforementioned threshold or are below the threshold and receive federal funds, they should meet accessibility criteria. I would exempt those that are below the threshold and don't receive federal funds (though would still assert that making a non-profit's site accessible is a wise move for multiple reasons).
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Re: Bakeries and websites
Generally website visitors are the customers. However, there are edge cases
And if a website has no visitors, that's the “if a tree falls in the forest and nobody is around to hear it, does it make a sound” sort of question.
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Re: But wait, it gets worse
See also my thread about minimum thresholds—an individual “young [person]” or small Mom & Pop business wouldn't be subject to such regulations until they met a minimum size/income, keeping them fairly “reasonable demands”.
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Re: Bakeries and websites
Yes, there are limitations permitted because of health/safety issues (a ride may have only been tested with certain weight/height ranges and exceeding those may leave a ride unsafe), or because requirements of a position (an employee may be required to visually discern defects in a product's coloration, excluding the blind). That doesn't mean that reasonable accommodations can't be made for the majority of businesses.
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