Peoria police officers will testify Oct. 8 to explain why they looked under Elliott’s pillow and in a closet in his room, where police said they found the drugs in a gift bag.
How is the contents of a gift bag in the roommates' closet within the scope of the search warrant? Did the Peoria police think he was hiding a copy of the internet in there?
Any chance the picture is of the DA's sister/daughter/wife? (Assuming those are three separate people.) Or of the DA himself, or some random politician? Is this actually an attempt to punish the dumpster divers, or to punish the photographer? Be interesting to see how this turns out.
Under the patchwork of systems used throughout the various government agencies, it is entirely conceivable that her e-mail was stored on her pc (i.e. deleted from server upon download). What I haven't seen mentioned is that most, if not all, government computers are on a network backup system(general filesystem backup, not specific to e-mail). So unless she specifically excluded her e-mail files from the backup (which is bordering on premeditated murder of a file) the e-mail should still exist on the filesystem backup. So some questions this raises are:
Have they looked beyond the e-mail server for these files?
Was it her pc that they are claiming crashed?
What other files were lost is this terribly convenient crash?
After this crash, what efforts were made at recovery of the data on the server/pc?
> Just the idea that this is unauthorized access is a big problem, because it's not unauthorized.
Did the owners of the apartment authorize him to connect? If not, then it is clearly an unauthorized connection. Analogy: If I leave my hose connected in my yard, is it ok for my neighbor to drag it into their house to fill their fish tank? Almost every house has electric plugs somewhere on the outside- is it acceptable for anyone to roll up and plug in to them? Clearly not. Just because it's there doesn't mean it's there for anyone to use. These are obvious cases of unauthorized use.
Now I don't think that means a felony was committed (IANAL so I'm not sure how theft of services statutes would apply) but I don't see how you can make the claim that it was an authorized connection. Open WiFi may allow such a connection, but that is different from someone authorizing a connection.
At first I was surprised they didn't just release the list with the license plate data 'redacted', i.e. just a list of time and location data. Then I realized that it's probably the time and location data that they're trying to hide, not the license plate data. That info will tell where they have been driving the cars with the ALPRs installed. If they've been circling one neighborhood repeatedly, and/or completely ignoring other areas, that might raise questions they don't want to answer. Any misuse of the system would possibly be revealed. These excuses of 'confidentiality' and 'under investigation' are just typical CYA BS.
Imagine if he had taken a photo of the library from outside- that would be like copying every book in the collection! Not to mention the souls of the patrons and librarians, and whatever is left of the soul of whoever handles their Twitter account.
And if they had a dvd/video collection- I shudder to think of the punishment...
There's an indeterminate timeline for this transition. The actual transition may occur far enough in the future for Rep. Bono to change her mind on this several more times.
I think this is the first step of their long term plan to produce their own version of the Nutrimatic Drinks Dispenser from HHGTTG. There are parallels- having had "coffee" in England, I think I know where the inspiration for the sludge served up by this machine comes from. Adding DRM will allow them to prepare the sludge optimally, with the highest performance and safety possible.
To me the most surprising part of this is that MSNBC was actually covering real news like the NSA story in the first place. That they would cut away from real news to cover that tripe- no surprise at all.
I'm taking a different approach. I will develop a game called "Candy Crush" where the player must line up three or more similarly colored strippers named Candy.
In reference to where strippers are often found, and because this will be the best game ever, I will name my company "BarKing".
As few people would confuse strippers with sugar-based confections, there is little cause for a trademark complaint.
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How is the contents of a gift bag in the roommates' closet within the scope of the search warrant? Did the Peoria police think he was hiding a copy of the internet in there?
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Re: Three guesses
It always pays to be nice. I hope that as he walked away from the TSA muppets that he at least thanked them for letting him off the plane first.
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Re: Re: Re: What have they done? Other than wasting tax dollars, nothing.
I thought that was their goal.
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Just give them plenty of food and video games, and they won't want or be able to get off the couch and cause trouble.
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If this is the type of thing they teach, he might be better off.
Why not keep him home? I'm guessing the school gets funded by student-days, so if he stays home the school loses money.
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Cue Pharma Company Executive to start adopting children from third world countries...
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Maybe it's personal?
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Have they looked beyond the e-mail server for these files?
Was it her pc that they are claiming crashed?
What other files were lost is this terribly convenient crash?
After this crash, what efforts were made at recovery of the data on the server/pc?
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Well, clearly not an authorized connection
Did the owners of the apartment authorize him to connect? If not, then it is clearly an unauthorized connection. Analogy: If I leave my hose connected in my yard, is it ok for my neighbor to drag it into their house to fill their fish tank? Almost every house has electric plugs somewhere on the outside- is it acceptable for anyone to roll up and plug in to them? Clearly not. Just because it's there doesn't mean it's there for anyone to use. These are obvious cases of unauthorized use.
Now I don't think that means a felony was committed (IANAL so I'm not sure how theft of services statutes would apply) but I don't see how you can make the claim that it was an authorized connection. Open WiFi may allow such a connection, but that is different from someone authorizing a connection.
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Re: Banquet
The worst part of this is that what we're eating now was previously eaten by the NSA.
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Sometimes NTIS works quickly
"Recommendation for Relocation of Recent GAO Reports to Site Adjacent to GAO Posterior"
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Re: Kill Big Govt "Because"
Please don't just say 'Because.'
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Metadata coming back to bite them?
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Could have done worse...
And if they had a dvd/video collection- I shudder to think of the punishment...
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Indeterminate timeline
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Re: Re: selective-prosecution fodder
Because the next day every prosecutor would be behind bars.
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Keurig's long term plan
So looking forward to this...
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What's really shocking
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Wrong attack vector
In reference to where strippers are often found, and because this will be the best game ever, I will name my company "BarKing".
As few people would confuse strippers with sugar-based confections, there is little cause for a trademark complaint.
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