I built my own home automation service with open sourced software. Sadly its now illegal to break the DRM on these devices else everyone could do this.
I believe it is REASONABLE for the public to know about stingray cell traps, I believe its reasonable for the public to know about the NSA tracking us without needing to have people risk their lives and imprisonment for showing us. I believe cops need to wear functioning body cameras and dash cams and its reasonable that if they magically never have one working they should be fired for breaking it.
But then again, reasonable is in the eye of the beholder.
We have the GOP of No unwilling to do their duty until they get Trump in the high chair. I have a feeling if they follow through they will be sorry they did.
Trump is what the last 6 years of Tea party games and GOP fear mongering has done to the masses. They set this up thinking one of their own controllable crazies would win, instead they got someone who can talk pretty to get those who were conned into thinking the whole world is our enemy to follow him. I for see Trump outsourcing his cabinet to Mexico or China so that he can make America outsourcing great again.
/endrant
And yes, I am a Bernie supporter that does not live off the government but know what Socialism is and how it works.
"If this email manages to reach Bret Stevens, it will likely be sneered/groused at before being discarded as the imperious communications of a meddling motormouth representing an entity far too concerned about the rights of all Americans, especially the guilty, drug-dealing ones."
Lets forget a moment who the FBI is and give them the benefit of the doubt and pretend that they also lived in a cave and were born just 5 minutes ago. Weather they plan for it to be a precedent or not, it will become one as the iron has barely warmed up, we see they are already chomping at the bit to do it with more cases.
There will be several TSA certified A+ computer techs being paid minimum wage who will take your laptop apart and identify each part. They will then put the laptop back together. if its missing a screw or chip here or there, thats not the TSA's problem.
My brother-inlaw, about 23 years ago, got arrested while drunk for a charge that carried a 20 year sentence. The defender said they had to take the plea deal of 15 years unless they could come up with 20k to pay for their defense. This was a public defender.
When I worked for a state agency, we had to store Server email backups to the state archives on a daily basis. All email was stored off site and could not be destroyed for 50 years. (they edited the hard copy rules for all business transactions to cover email). I am surprised New York does not have the same requirements.
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But then again, reasonable is in the eye of the beholder.
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This is why we can't have nice things....
Trump is what the last 6 years of Tea party games and GOP fear mongering has done to the masses. They set this up thinking one of their own controllable crazies would win, instead they got someone who can talk pretty to get those who were conned into thinking the whole world is our enemy to follow him.
I for see Trump outsourcing his cabinet to Mexico or China so that he can make America outsourcing great again.
/endrant
And yes, I am a Bernie supporter that does not live off the government but know what Socialism is and how it works.
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Not that it matters....
Lets apply this to FOIA requests? Half a million dollars? Really?
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Or possibly shoot the messenger
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Re: Think of the Mouse, Disney employees.
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Weather they plan for it to be a precedent or not, it will become one as the iron has barely warmed up, we see they are already chomping at the bit to do it with more cases.
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Sign them up for Comcast as their ISP...
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