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This has actually happened multiple times. Neighbor looks at CP using your open wifi, FBI raids YOUR house and ousts YOUR family from your home.

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/04/fbi-child-porn-raid-a-strong-argument-for-locking-down-wifi-networks.ars

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/28039374/detail.html

Well I live just outside Boston, so I just forwarded this article to all the contacts I could find at the various local & national news organizations including:

newstip@globe.com
newsdesk@necn.com
iteam@wbztv.com
http://www.myfoxboston.com/generic/about_us/contact_us/news_tip
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/newscenter5/index.html

etc.

I'm not sure if there is a list. it's apparently common in florida. My company does not allow smoking on the premises and 5 years ago would not hire new smokers if they were dumb enough to admit it (or smelled of smoke I guess).

It's common enough tho...

http://digg.com/news/lifestyle/Employees_getting_fired_for_smoking_or_being_obese
http://www.answerbag.com/q_view/42755
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/10/28/60minutes/main990617.shtml
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/9959391/detail.html
http://businessshrink.biz/psychologyofbusiness/2007/09/27/employees-fired-and-fined-for-smoking-obesity-and-blood-test-results/

Just google "fired for smoking".

MWRA Water Main Break Triggers State Of Emergency

"Failure to boil water rapidly for at least one minute could cause serious illness," [Governor] Patrick said, explaining that the Massachusetts Water Resources Authority's backup water supplies were coming directly out of reservoirs.

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/23337764/detail.html

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/23446391/detail.html
Roads have been closed and homes evacuated after beaver dam breaks.

Certainly all those thoughts are legitimately expressed in the United States, even though many of these shows occur at times when young children would be expected to listen. We assume that these are just words, and hearing that gay people should be punished, or that Lutheran doctors might deserve to be murdered are just words and will not effect them. This is the same logic we use to support the distribution of other content that reasonable people might find objectionable. Of course merely being objectionable does not make it subject to regulation. We may not agree that shooting police in a video games is acceptable, or verbally promoting the murder of large groups of people based on superficial characteristics, or limited opposition speech, but that does not mean we can regulate it

Of course Germany has a history of hate speech escalating to mass murder, so they have different tolerance to such entertainment

WTF? The main bitch about government healthcare is that taxpayers will be forced to subsidize bad health choices...so you are pointing to an article that shows that isn't the case? Congratulations for not making sense AND once again making nonsense claims about the government. The government only started looking at that trick after private insurance and private employers started doing it!

Here we have multiple private insurance companies and private employeers charging smokers more. That is right...multiple instances of the little "government boogeyman" story you linked...the story is about a TREND not a single incident like your story. How stupid of you to think that private industry isn't already doing it. Oh and in both cases they are paying extra, not being forced. But for shits and giggles since you want to play... How about reading this about an employee was fired for smoking by a private company. After all, private companies trying to increase their bottom line don't want to pay the insurance premiums of smokers and obese people...so just fire them instead!

Yes, because buying things over the phone or in store will never result in a breach.

Oh, wait...

Those three stood out in my mind since we were affected by all of them. There are others, I'm sure. In the first two cases, our credit card information was compromised despite the fact that we shopped in-store and not online. In the third case, our information was compromised at the processor level, so it really didn't matter where we shopped. Face it, no matter where you shop, your information is in the hands of other companies and can/will get compromised. The only way to prevent this is to only shop using cash. (Something that is becoming an impossibility more and more.)

After they're done gutting FISA, they'll "reward" the media giants with tiered WWW pricing and the banning of "evil" protocols - just watch.

Signing Statements:

http://www.coherentbabble.com/signingstatements/TOCindex.htm

On December 20, 2007, President Bush signed routine postal legislation. In a "Signing Statement", the President claims Executive Power to search the mail of U.S. citizens inside the United States without a warrant, in direct contradiction of the bill he had just signed.

January 4, 08 Story:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003508676_mail04.html

House Dems Near Surrender on Bush Spying:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-melber/house-dems-near-surrender_b_89726.html#postComment

Washington Politicians Are Gutting America Like A Fish:

http://whitehouser.com/politics/bush-fascism-failed-democracy/

Bush Legacy Already Established - Helen Thomas:

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/helenthomas/15358518/detail.html

Nancy Pelosi:

http://www.house.gov/pelosi/

email:

americanvoices@mail.house.gov

(415) 556-4862

District Office - 450 Golden Gate Ave. - 14th Floor - San Francisco, CA 94102

Greetings:

I left you a voice message earlier.

There is an article at The Huffington Post:

House Dems Near Surrender on Bush Spying:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ari-melber/house-dems-near-surrender_b_89726.html#postComment

If you read the comments, I think you might just begin to understand the movement that is starting to happen. I think all the Democrats you lead in the House should read this.
It's of things to come.
We have had it.
Democrats, and even a lot of Republicans are starting to wake up to the major damage done by this President, to our Constitution and our Freedom, and of the empty promises you, Nancy, made to those of us that put you there to represent us.
This Congress, lead by you, will be held responsible for idly standing by, and of recent, participating in the dismantling of our laws and accepted practices and replacing them with "mere precedent" and outright disregard for the rules of law, the ones we go to prison for, the same ones others are exempt from.
You and the Democratic Party will hear from us, we have, as a group, a starting list of 12 in the Democratic Party that will not be returning, as they are to be voted out.
The Republicans, double.

You have woken the sleeping giant that is the American people, and you all will be hearing from us and a growing number of voters across this country, that oddly enough depends on a manipulated election system we've all grown wise to.

A few weeks ago, we had thought you all had come to your senses by standing up to Mr. Bush and his group, but evidently, it was fake. We had, at one time thought that maybe you were waiting for the proper time to act. But you've decided which side you're on.
You all have failed to uphold your oaths.
We/I, have lost faith, so we shall act, and we will organize, and we will win.
Last chance has already past, and you all blew it to a lame duck President, no less.

SURRENDER DOROTHY

http://www.littlestuffedbull.com/images/comics/surrenderdot.jpg

Correction: Actually, they're keeping us from seeing the long string of flag-draped coffins streaming home...

- That summary is superb. The editors are douchebags.

Local news story on arrest here

Peter Berdovsky, 27, of Arlington, was arrested Wednesday night and charged under a new statute that makes it a crime to place, transfer or possess a hoax device that results in panic. He was also charged with one count of disorderly conduct.

Video of the stunt is available here - (Direct link to 27mb Quicktime file) Please save file locally before playing ;-)

One of the articles I read said:
'Officials said it contained an electronic circuit board with some components that were "consistent with an improvised explosive device,"'

Okay, now, come on. These are really large circuit boards with a whole lot of LEDs soldered on to them. Nothing more, unless there are some other really messed up packages out there that haven't been reported on. Those officials sound like they have features consistent with smart police officers, in that they breathe and eat, but the similarities probably end there.

The first description of this idea - although not as a handheld- seems to have been made in 1934, where ' In his 1934 story The Lost Language, writer David H. Keller describes a device that is actually able to make speech from printed text--the sound-transposing machine.'

Maybe in another decade they'll conclude that meditation is a good way to relieve stress.

Funny. I've seen two or three stories on meditation in the newspaper and on TV in the last week. Now this.

The power of Om.

Study: Meditation May Help Ease Hypertension.

Study: Meditation Encourages Health, Happiness.

Maybe in another decade they'll conclude that meditation is a good way to relieve stress.

Funny. I've seen two or three stories on meditation in the newspaper and on TV in the last week. Now this.

The power of Om.

Study: Meditation May Help Ease Hypertension.

Study: Meditation Encourages Health, Happiness.

since booby-trapping of any kind is illegal in almost every state:

Although the implementation as shown is an illegal booby-trap, that need not be the case. A little software work could add a feature for a human operator (security guard in a central location) to watch the video and nominate specific targets for shooting. (Probably if they had already disregarded intercom commands to back away from the door).

Configurations like that would render it just another firearm operated by a human who holds the liability for unjustified shootings. Or, to make it even safer, load it up with indelible paintballs to mark suspects for later apprehension. (Not pepper, though, that's too lethal!)

I used to work for a company that did some engine controls for the military, navy ships mostly. Their specs and test procedures were incredible. The equipment wasn't the most current technology, but they wanted to make SURE the control we built for their ships worked, no matter the cost.

Of course. You don't want your latest & greatest warship steaming out of port on its maiden voyage going *putt* *putt* *putt* [or even worse, not steaming out of port on its maiden voyage at all.]

Actually, it seems like more often than not governments are willing to spend lots of money, especially on things like technology. Now, if it's a new road or school building they are going to be as cheap as possible.

You've got that right.

I used to work for a company that did some engine controls for the military, navy ships mostly. Their specs and test procedures were incredible. The equipment wasn't the most current technology, but they wanted to make SURE the control we built for their ships worked, no matter the cost.

Of course. You don't want your latest & greatest warship steaming out of port on its maiden voyage going *putt* *putt* *putt* [or even worse, not steaming out of port on its maiden voyage at all.]

Actually, it seems like more often than not governments are willing to spend lots of money, especially on things like technology. Now, if it's a new road or school building they are going to be as cheap as possible.

You've got that right.

They need someone who can distance himself from the mudslinging...
Yeah, 'cos Republicans never sling mud, or take the low road. Oh, wait, never mind.
http://www.thebostonchannel.com/entertainment/4186 094/detail.html

If the state was able to eliminate spending completely on software, the state IT department's budget would be considerably lessened. In a bureaucracy like the Mass State government, the larger your budget, the more power you have. So when faced with the option of suddenly cutting their budget requirements by a large amount, of course the suits jumped at an offer that allowed them to maintain the prestige of spending massive amounts.

Man was drunk, driving way to fast through a suburb, killed 2 young women. 30 years in prison.
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/03/air_bag_bl ack_box_nails/

Similar situation as the Canadian. Man was speeding, ran into another car. 4 years.
http://www.lowcountrynow.com/stories/032003/LOCbla ckbox.shtml

Firstly, we aren't talking about the government tracking its own equipment. These are independent contractors who supply their own plows.

Secondly, the contract dispute was about many things -- it's a negotiation. According to this news story,

In exchange for carrying GPS-equipped phones, drivers have won concessions in pay and minimal hours and the retention of the voucher pay system.

It was a negotiating position.

It seems like, aside from the continual updates thing, a nicer idea would be to have a PalmOS or WinCE version that would be updated either at sync time or, hardware allowing, continually via wi-fi, modem, or Bluetooth circuitry. Better still, if your PDA had GPS abilities, then getting current traffic info (and, why not, weather as well) for your current location would be even better. By going to a traditional PDA, you lose the real-time updates that the dedicated device seems to provide, but you also lose one more gadget to have to carry around (or, I suppose, just leave in your glovebox), and you also gain a good deal of flexibility.

I think the most interesting thing about this application is the excellent data representation of in the WA-DOT map. I'd like to see this traffic map style replace some of the other, clumsier traffic sites that I'm used to, with their breakdown of a region in arbitrary ways ("well, my route takes me from this section, across part of that one, and ends up at this third one..."), under-descriptive icons, pages of text ("wait, where the hell is Frontage Road? OH, the so-and-so landmark on interstate $foo..."), useless webcams that are greyed by smog and blocked by obstacles, and maps that don't attempt to tell you anything at all. Compare this to the WA-DOT's system, which tell you conditions between each exit, attempts to explain data holes ("no data" / "no equipment"), and even provides archives of maps at earlier times ("what the hell was going on last Thursday?"). Nice!

But I don't think I want a device dedicated to receiving that information.

Especially one targeted only at Seattle... :-)

why do I have to pay for Disney, ESPN, and that crap to get Sci-Fi channel?

You don't. Federal law says that you can use Tier Buy-Through to get certain channels without having to get the whole platform. More Info [Warning! PDF!]

Because if the RIAA placed the file on the network, then it wasn't illegal for the guy to download it.

We can be sure that a detective working for the RIAA engaged in transfers over a P2P network to discover this infringement. We don't know if he was uploading or downloading- but whatever direction the transfer took place in, somebody might argue that "one of the parties was working for the copyright hold and thus authorized to copy the material, therefore the whole transaction was legal".

Yes, that sounds like a clever defense. I considered it myself.

However no reasonable judge will allow this. It is much to easy to show that the downloader had zero expectation that the person sending him the file was an agent of the copyright holder. (In a similar but more extreme situation, a man was just arrested for hiring a federal agent to kill his wife. Even though he wasn't really hiring a murderer, he thought so, and that's what matters)

Furthermore, even if that particular violation is thrown out of court as some kind of entrapment (which won't happen for several reasons), the RIAA represents thousands of musicians. A search of his computer after arrest will undoubtably turn up other files that were gotten from different sources, and he can be tried on those. He may be threatened with thousands of counts of copyright violation, each one a potention 6+ month sentence.

It's only piracy if you obtain your copy from an illegitimate source,

To be technically and legally correct, it's only "piracy" if you seize it from a ship by force. Piracy, after all, is a violent crime committed on or near the ocean.

Besides, "A Diamond is Forever" is a DeBeers marketing sloagan created in the 1920s, not some ancient piece of wisdom.

...which was featured in /. a little bit ago here. br>
The original article is quite a good read about the diamond industry and how *not pricy* actual diamonds really are. The true price seems to be paid in marketing, inflated costs, monopoly of the industry, and exploitation of indiginous people. Hell, you can make diamonds from the ashes of your dead greatgrandmother!

Okay, no R/C plane near the White House. Preprogrammed flight route, with GPS in case the winds change. Launch it and leave.

Once they got the plane, they'd tear it apart and find clues about who you are. A single fingerprint would probably do it, or maybe a serial number somewhere.

And they'd come and haul you off into a secret jail and violate your constitutional rights, trying to see if you're a terrorist or not. And even if you're not, they may just label you as one anyways, and use that as a pretext to ban/restrict all R/C planes nationwide, in the name of `National Security'.

You're obviously about as smart as this kid. Underestimating how seriously the Secret Service take their job is NOT wise.

Next on NewsCenter 5ive: Natalie Jacobson conducts a hard-hitting one-on-one interview with the Ghost of Frank Sinatra, while Tony Soprano puts a hit on Dick Albert for misforecasting a nor'easter while making bad jokes.

Next on NewsCenter 5ive: Natalie Jacobson conducts a hard-hitting one-on-one interview with the Ghost of Frank Sinatra, while Tony Soprano puts a hit on Dick Albert for misforecasting a nor'easter while making bad jokes.

8x8 may still be a good idea, but relieving yourself from all that water is just as important.

8x8 may still be a good idea, but relieving yourself from all that water is just as important.

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