"You seem to be confusing meth with pot. Completely unlike pot users, people on meth are inherently dangerous, and can act in unpredictable and violent ways."
Are you sure?
I heard the same thing about pot growing up. From the government. The worst effect of any drug was attributed to all of them equally. Except cocaine, which was glamorous. Until crack cocaine, when cocaine was the worst drug of all.
In retrospect, the reputation of the drugs often reflected the characteristics of the stereotyped user. Disco cocaine was good. Ghetto crack was bad. Beatnik pot was good. Anyone else that smoked it turned into ambition-less stoners.
Remember that New Jersey was partially under British control for most of the revolutionary war, with plenty of anti-independence sentiment. Washington crossed the Delaware from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, twice, to raid Trenton. He didn't have the support to stay either time.
The networks might be electrically connected. But the configuration and routing between sections is fixed. It's pretty much a static VPN configuration, which only lets subsystems communicate with designated peers. This is part of the bandwidth control and fault isolation as much as for security.
Much like the story that typing a certain sequence of numbers into an ATM will dispense free cash, it's not physically impossible. But it's an extraordinary claim that requires simultaneous investigation and skepticism.
We can be pretty certain that the city will leap in with a generous settlement offer when the officer is denied immunity for part of their actions. They'll do it to preserve the power to extra-judically punish, and they'll do to keep the police union happy.
As for the phrase "professional journalist", I read that as a reinforcement that this was unambiguously a non-participant, not that the right to record was limited to professionals. The police acted egregiously. They didn't act relying on a precedent that happened to be inapplicable or outdated. They acted knowingly illegally.
This actually strengthens the case for non-professional photographers. It shows that the police aren't falling on the wrong side of a judgement call, they are willing to act illegally with any photography.
I would be reassured to learn that it was only to hide charges from their spouse.
Some parts of the government require you to charge expenses only to their approved credit card. As mentioned above, paying for the charges was entirely your own responsibility. You didn't get reimbursed unless you submitted a documented expense report and had it approved.
The obvious reason for this was that you couldn't get a benefit from using a 'cash back' or travel points card. A less obvious reason was that you would have a credit card. You couldn't use a poor credit rating, and thus no credit card, as an reason to submit anonymous cash receipts.
This lawyer defines 'ethics' as "did the check clear?"
What happens if the person posting is not a sorority member? And is not bound by the legally-binding secrecy agreement? Have they been advised that they might be suing over a "trade secret" that has long since ceased being a secret? How many boyfriends have been told the "secret" over time? It only takes one on the stand to eviscerate their case.
Voelker (Prenda's attorney for the appeal) did a good job with a tough case.
He "didn't know" much about the cases or companies involved, avoiding any discussion about the facts. Except for the details that helped his clients. He let mistaken assumptions stand rather than correct them (Hansmeier was deposed, not Lutz) rather than reveal he knew anything.
He asked for the world (vacating the judgement), with a compromise of a remand while vacating the sanction. Even offering a remand with criminal contempt on the table, while distancing himself from that request. ("They want their day in court"... "What my clients want, what I want is immaterial").
"$500 worth of Bondo and paint on 10-year old truck "..
The tow was probably 5x that amount.
The story I read suggested that the driver was killed in the cab, with the entire cab shot up. That's a medical waste clean-up before a body shop would accept it. Or even a scrap yard.
"..still 1000 times the speed of a 300 baud modem"
I had a Racal-Vadic triple modem in the mid-1980s that did 1200 baud.
That was three decades ago. I can now easily buy a device that can compute a million times faster. You can't really compare anything with what existed back then.
More to the point, 20 years ago I was paying $10 per month for 56K dial-up service, and ISPs were rushing to get into the profitable business. 15 years ago I could get a $20 DSL line that was 20x faster. That was effectively the same price, since it included a dedicated copper pair.
Hmmm, I don't think that the case against Apple, Amazon and B&N is quite so simply dismissed.
This book is "self-published", which really means that it is being sold anonymously. Effectively these companies are the publishers, the only identified business entities. They are promoting the book, and collecting money from the sale.
They have a good chance of being dismissed from the case as it progresses and the facts are established, but at this point they are the proper parties to sue.
I'm surprised that this is an issue. It has already been decided. The point of copyright is to grant a limited-time monopoly on reproducing a specific artistic work. It is not a backdoor into controlling some other market. It was clearly decided for video game cartridges, then decided again for printer cartridges.
The ruling were not about cartridges. They were about the principle of mis-using copyright in attempt to get an exclusive right to sell some other product. Call you thing a 'pod' doesn't change the principle. Nor does calling it a 'filament'.
The phrase "rogue agents" doesn't really capture what happened. They were active criminals, with inside knowledge of the investigation and strong financial incentive to manipulate Silk Road and bitcoins.
Their activity should have caused a re-investigation of the whole case, or at least a thorough impartial judicial review that goes well beyond a normal criminal case.
I've stayed at Motel 6 multiple times, and the rooms were fine. It's not the top of my list, but not the bottom either.
The most recent hotel I stayed at was not a Motel 6. It was clearly serving the "hourly trade". I needed a basic room for sleeping and a parking lot with good security, so my requirements apparently overlapped with theirs. Not a surprise.. it has happened before.
Lower priced hotels are far more likely to get that reputation. The people using the rooms aren't going to be using a pool, exercise room, club room, free happy hour drinks, business center, airport shuttle, concierge or all of those other amenities that justify paying much more for the room.
Silicon valley will help DHS search for a solution. All that it takes is money and they'll find plenty of companies willing to search.
Most of them will be either branches of traditional "beltway bandits", and small companies that are quickly bought up by the same. The only innovation will be in how creatively the proposals are written.
Because dealing with the government requires a specialized approach. One that doesn't put progress above correctly submitting paperwork and fulfilling contract requirements precisely.
What they won't get is easy access to the largest companies -- the ones they want to influence. It's fine for a company like RSA to get a bad reputation for putting backdoors into their products. It would be a disaster for Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo!, etc.
I agree that truly coerced consent is rarely present in a traffic stop.
If the police officer starts to hand back my license, but then withdraws it and asks to search my car, is my consent voluntary? What if a warning turns into a ticket when I refuse?
I'm not saying that consent is never present in police interactions. "A convict just escaped. May we search your shed?" But a traffic stop is rarely that type of situation. Even a positive interaction, "Just wanted to let you know your taillight is out.." quickly turns negative when followed by "may we search your car?"
As for claiming it's not a fishing expedition because drugs were eventually found, that doesn't necessarily follow. There are likely dozens of coerced searches that don't turn up anything for every one that does. There isn't motivation, or even standing, to complain about those.
I didn't know that "Google bankrolled the bogus SOPA protest".
I didn't want SOPA. None of my friends that knew about the issues wanted SOPA. It appeared that only a few big companies wanted it.
No element of the SOPA protest appeared to be bogus. It was genuine, wide-spread grass-roots concern. In stark contrast to the manufactured pro-SOPA lobbying.
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Are you sure?
I heard the same thing about pot growing up. From the government. The worst effect of any drug was attributed to all of them equally. Except cocaine, which was glamorous. Until crack cocaine, when cocaine was the worst drug of all.
In retrospect, the reputation of the drugs often reflected the characteristics of the stereotyped user. Disco cocaine was good. Ghetto crack was bad. Beatnik pot was good. Anyone else that smoked it turned into ambition-less stoners.
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http://www.thelogofactory.com/logo_blog/index.php/sigh-logo-design-splog/
On the post: FBI Investigating Chris Roberts For Hacking Flight WiFi, Taking Control Of Engines
Airbus is known to use an Avionics version of Ethernet: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avionics_Full-Duplex_Switched_Etherneth
The networks might be electrically connected. But the configuration and routing between sections is fixed. It's pretty much a static VPN configuration, which only lets subsystems communicate with designated peers. This is part of the bandwidth control and fault isolation as much as for security.
Much like the story that typing a certain sequence of numbers into an ATM will dispense free cash, it's not physically impossible. But it's an extraordinary claim that requires simultaneous investigation and skepticism.
On the post: New York District Court Denies Immunity To NYPD Officers Who Arrested A Citizen For Filming Them
As for the phrase "professional journalist", I read that as a reinforcement that this was unambiguously a non-participant, not that the right to record was limited to professionals. The police acted egregiously. They didn't act relying on a precedent that happened to be inapplicable or outdated. They acted knowingly illegally.
This actually strengthens the case for non-professional photographers. It shows that the police aren't falling on the wrong side of a judgement call, they are willing to act illegally with any photography.
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Some parts of the government require you to charge expenses only to their approved credit card. As mentioned above, paying for the charges was entirely your own responsibility. You didn't get reimbursed unless you submitted a documented expense report and had it approved.
The obvious reason for this was that you couldn't get a benefit from using a 'cash back' or travel points card. A less obvious reason was that you would have a credit card. You couldn't use a poor credit rating, and thus no credit card, as an reason to submit anonymous cash receipts.
On the post: Keurig CEO Sort Of (But Not Really) Apologizes For Company's Ridiculous Foray Into Obnoxious Coffee DRM
If that was an actual concern of the engineers, the trivial solution is to make certain that the pod containment was sufficient to avoid the problem.
This has the smell of PR BS. And the CEO's statement sounds like "I'm sorry.. that I got caught."
On the post: Phi Sigma Sigma Sorority Sues Member For Revealing Secret Handshake On Penny Arcade Forum
What happens if the person posting is not a sorority member? And is not bound by the legally-binding secrecy agreement? Have they been advised that they might be suing over a "trade secret" that has long since ceased being a secret? How many boyfriends have been told the "secret" over time? It only takes one on the stand to eviscerate their case.
On the post: Team Prenda Has A Very Bad Day In Court... And You Can Watch It All
He "didn't know" much about the cases or companies involved, avoiding any discussion about the facts. Except for the details that helped his clients. He let mistaken assumptions stand rather than correct them (Hansmeier was deposed, not Lutz) rather than reveal he knew anything.
He asked for the world (vacating the judgement), with a compromise of a remand while vacating the sanction. Even offering a remand with criminal contempt on the table, while distancing himself from that request. ("They want their day in court"... "What my clients want, what I want is immaterial").
On the post: Who Pays When The DEA Destroys Your Vehicle And Kills Your Employee During A Botched Sting? Hint: Not The DEA
The tow was probably 5x that amount.
The story I read suggested that the driver was killed in the cab, with the entire cab shot up. That's a medical waste clean-up before a body shop would accept it. Or even a scrap yard.
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I had a Racal-Vadic triple modem in the mid-1980s that did 1200 baud.
That was three decades ago. I can now easily buy a device that can compute a million times faster. You can't really compare anything with what existed back then.
More to the point, 20 years ago I was paying $10 per month for 56K dial-up service, and ISPs were rushing to get into the profitable business. 15 years ago I could get a $20 DSL line that was 20x faster. That was effectively the same price, since it included a dedicated copper pair.
On the post: A Gronking To Remember Is Immortalized In Lawsuit Against Apple/Amazon/Author
This book is "self-published", which really means that it is being sold anonymously. Effectively these companies are the publishers, the only identified business entities. They are promoting the book, and collecting money from the sale.
They have a good chance of being dismissed from the case as it progresses and the facts are established, but at this point they are the proper parties to sue.
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That totally works!
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The ruling were not about cartridges. They were about the principle of mis-using copyright in attempt to get an exclusive right to sell some other product. Call you thing a 'pod' doesn't change the principle. Nor does calling it a 'filament'.
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Their activity should have caused a re-investigation of the whole case, or at least a thorough impartial judicial review that goes well beyond a normal criminal case.
On the post: Motel Decides It Should Just Start Faxing All Guest Info To Local Police Every Night
The most recent hotel I stayed at was not a Motel 6. It was clearly serving the "hourly trade". I needed a basic room for sleeping and a parking lot with good security, so my requirements apparently overlapped with theirs. Not
a surprise.. it has happened before.
Lower priced hotels are far more likely to get that reputation. The people using the rooms aren't going to be using a pool, exercise room, club room, free happy hour drinks, business center, airport shuttle, concierge or all of those other amenities that justify paying much more for the room.
On the post: DHS Opening Office In Silicon Valley To More Efficiently Complain To Tech Companies About Encryption
Most of them will be either branches of traditional "beltway bandits", and small companies that are quickly bought up by the same. The only innovation will be in how creatively the proposals are written.
Because dealing with the government requires a specialized approach. One that doesn't put progress above correctly submitting paperwork and fulfilling contract requirements precisely.
What they won't get is easy access to the largest companies -- the ones they want to influence. It's fine for a company like RSA to get a bad reputation for putting backdoors into their products. It would be a disaster for Google, Facebook, Apple, Yahoo!, etc.
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On the post: Supreme Court Rules That A Traffic Stop Ends When The 'Objective' Is 'Complete,' Rather Than Whenever The Officer Feels It Is
If the police officer starts to hand back my license, but then withdraws it and asks to search my car, is my consent voluntary? What if a warning turns into a ticket when I refuse?
I'm not saying that consent is never present in police interactions. "A convict just escaped. May we search your shed?" But a traffic stop is rarely that type of situation. Even a positive interaction, "Just wanted to let you know your taillight is out.." quickly turns negative when followed by "may we search your car?"
As for claiming it's not a fishing expedition because drugs were eventually found, that doesn't necessarily follow. There are likely dozens of coerced searches that don't turn up anything for every one that does. There isn't motivation, or even standing, to complain about those.
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I didn't want SOPA. None of my friends that knew about the issues wanted SOPA. It appeared that only a few big companies wanted it.
No element of the SOPA protest appeared to be bogus. It was genuine, wide-spread grass-roots concern. In stark contrast to the manufactured pro-SOPA lobbying.
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