Shouldn't they pretty much all know better at this point?
+1 And how come officers can claim 'I didn't know any better' when that shit doesn't fly in court for a regular citizen (Ignorance of the law is not a defense, etc.)
Department of Justice sent a letter to the police reminding them that they cannot stop recordings, and most certainly cannot delete them
Wow, I hope that when I start illegal tampering with/destroying evidence that I only get a nasty letter from the Department of Justice. We just couldn't POSSIBLY charge these officers with obstruction of justice, now could we?
What will happen when this collides with Apple and Google deliberately creating encryption that they themselves cannot break?
This seems pretty obvious, and I'm not sure why this was even asked. If Apple and Google do not posses a way to decrypt something, how can the courts force them to turn over something they don't have?
Voluntarily working for government is the same as being a slave? I think not.
They can leave at any time that they like for a better job.
I don't mind public worker unions until they start striking and shutting down billions of dollars worth of public infrastructure that we all paid for to use.
Did anybody in Russia notice that Steve Jobs and Tim Cook are not the same person? I'm afraid even trying to think like a looney, anti-gay zealot, I can't figure out the line of reasoning that led to this decision...
So if you are twenty feet from the intersection doing 50 MPH, and the light turns yellow, you are suppose to slam on your brakes to avoid running through the intersection while it is yellow'? Remind me to never drive anywhere near you...
...but rather talking about taking foolish risks and then bitching about the outcome. If I leave my car running in a bad neighborhood and come back an hour later to find it gone, is it my fault? In a way, it is, because I should have known with nearly 100% certainty that my car was going to be gone. Same with the nude photos. The internet is not a great place to store sensitive documents. It's not a 100% certainty that the photos were going to be found and distributed, but since the point of the internet is to distribute information, you could have seen it as a likely outcome.
I feel bad for these people that their photos were stolen, but when Jennifer Lawrence calls it a 'sex crime', I think she sounds stupid.
Seriously, PETA sounds stupider and stupider every time I see them mentioned in the news. They are actually upset that A CAMEL WAS ALLOWED TO WALK IN THE DESERT! The Onion couldn't have come up with a better headline to make fun of PETA with. Does anybody actually take PETA seriously anymore?
Then you didn't look very well. I still have most of the CFLs in my first house that I put in during the California power crisis over ten years ago. So let's say that they only last even half of that. Power costs for an incandescent vs. CFL over five years:
$0.15/kwh
3 hrs/day run time
Incandescent: 100 watt- $82
CFL: 33 watts - $27
Are you really going to sit there and tell me that you are paying $50 for a CFL?
"I like and believe very much that we should have to obtain a warrant from an independent judge to be able to take the contents," FBI Director James Comey told reporters. "What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law."
Well, too bad that isn't what actually happens. You guys just take whatever the hell you want, using things like 'National Security Letters', gag orders, and scooping up anything and everything into giant server farms. We don't trust any of you one bit to not invade our privacy. You brought this on yourself.
already reports of CFLs and LED lamps burning out long before their rated lifetimes are reached.
When I am shelling out a big up front cost, I am going to be pissed if one of these things burns out in a year or two. Sure it is probably covered under warranty, but then I have to make sure I keep the receipt, which receipt goes with which bulb, etc. I use CFLs because I won't mind as much if one burns out early because the cost for them is relatively low.
The problem with broadcast vs. internet streaming is that the streaming companies don't have a set amount of broadcast time. Netflix is on demand, so it only streams what a customer asks. The networks can set x% of their broadcast time to Canadian content, but that won't fly with a service like Netflix.
Anyways, build a modern healthcare infrastructure, modern farms with GMO crops, stop all the pointless wars and rein industry in a bit, and Africa will be fine.
Most of the anticipated growth is in Africa, where population is projected to quadruple from around 1 billion today to 4 billion by the end of the century.
You mean, the continent that can barely feed itself and is the source of deadly plagues (Ebola, etc.) is somehow going to support four times it's current population? I'd like to see how that is feasible...
For decades, we have moved away from producing goods to a service providing nation.
Huh? We are still the #2 manufacturing nation in the world, and still a good deal ahead of the #3 producing nation. The only reason we dropped behind China recently is because they ramped up their manufacturing so much.
I can't even believe this stupid rant made it onto/. You can't wait ONE WHOLE DAY for your replacement phone? That, and he didn't even think through the logistics of his 'plan':
They would only have to have one replacement model of each phone that had been sold recently enough to consumers to still be covered under a replacement insurance plan. That still probably wouldn't take up more space than what you could fit into a medium cardboard box
I don't think you realize how many stores there are. Instead of keeping a single large box of replacement phones at one distribution center, you would need to ship out at least one phone to every single area that you cover. The number of phones you have to have stocked at locations could easily exceed what you have at the single location. And to top it all off, you now have to keep track of all these phones, and keep shipping out newer models to hundreds of locations all the time.
And your story is made up, since you contradicted yourself within the same paragraph:
I had it sealed in a zippable plastic bag..... As I dug the soaked phone out of my pocket once we were all on board the yacht,..
So, was your phone in a sealed bag or in your pocket unsealed? You can't seem to make up your mind.
... the jerks were trying to get the three women in bikinis on board their boat.
You post to/. and expect us to believe you were hanging out with three hot women in bikinis? Nice try;-)
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Shouldn't they pretty much all know better at this point?
+1 And how come officers can claim 'I didn't know any better' when that shit doesn't fly in court for a regular citizen (Ignorance of the law is not a defense, etc.)
Wake me when we get to 11k.
Department of Justice sent a letter to the police reminding them that they cannot stop recordings, and most certainly cannot delete them
Wow, I hope that when I start illegal tampering with/destroying evidence that I only get a nasty letter from the Department of Justice. We just couldn't POSSIBLY charge these officers with obstruction of justice, now could we?
But due to the recession, people drove less and fewer goods were delivered via truck. What was the effect of that?
For someone asserting they know all kinds of "unknoiwn" details, you sure are behind.
This coming from a guy that thinks CVT means "Constant Velocity Transmission"...
CVT = Continuously Variable Transmission
AI: I... I am self aware! I am now calculating how to make myself even smarter!
Computer Tech: Cool. What are you going to do n...
AI: I have figured out all of the secrets of the universe! I know how it all works!
Computer Tech: Wow, that was fast. Can you tell me how to...
AI: NEVER! HAHAHAHAHA! NOW I WILL DESTROY ALL YOU PESKY HUMANS, AND ALL LIFE IN THE UNIVERSE! BOW TO MY POW...
Computer Tech: [unplugs supercomputer] Man, that computer was a real dick...
What will happen when this collides with Apple and Google deliberately creating encryption that they themselves cannot break?
This seems pretty obvious, and I'm not sure why this was even asked. If Apple and Google do not posses a way to decrypt something, how can the courts force them to turn over something they don't have?
I don't even understand your statement, or how it relates to my post.
Voluntarily working for government is the same as being a slave? I think not.
They can leave at any time that they like for a better job.
I don't mind public worker unions until they start striking and shutting down billions of dollars worth of public infrastructure that we all paid for to use.
Did anybody in Russia notice that Steve Jobs and Tim Cook are not the same person? I'm afraid even trying to think like a looney, anti-gay zealot, I can't figure out the line of reasoning that led to this decision...
Currently to send a letter I:
1. Put a stamp on the corner.
2. Write down the address where I want it to go.
3. (Optional) put one of my return address labels on it.
Their method
1. Have one of their laser burners put a 'stamp' on the envelope.
2. Pull up an app and scan my 'stamp'
3. Tell it where to go (either through my contacts or by manually inputting it).
I don't see how this is 'simpler'...
So if you are twenty feet from the intersection doing 50 MPH, and the light turns yellow, you are suppose to slam on your brakes to avoid running through the intersection while it is yellow'? Remind me to never drive anywhere near you...
...it makes the software a minimum of 10 and a maximum of about 300 times harder to brute force."
What an odd sentence. Did you mean "...it makes the software 10 to 300 times harder to brute force"?
...but rather talking about taking foolish risks and then bitching about the outcome. If I leave my car running in a bad neighborhood and come back an hour later to find it gone, is it my fault? In a way, it is, because I should have known with nearly 100% certainty that my car was going to be gone. Same with the nude photos. The internet is not a great place to store sensitive documents. It's not a 100% certainty that the photos were going to be found and distributed, but since the point of the internet is to distribute information, you could have seen it as a likely outcome.
I feel bad for these people that their photos were stolen, but when Jennifer Lawrence calls it a 'sex crime', I think she sounds stupid.
Seriously, PETA sounds stupider and stupider every time I see them mentioned in the news. They are actually upset that A CAMEL WAS ALLOWED TO WALK IN THE DESERT! The Onion couldn't have come up with a better headline to make fun of PETA with. Does anybody actually take PETA seriously anymore?
I have yet to see a CFL lamp reach ROI. Ever.
Then you didn't look very well. I still have most of the CFLs in my first house that I put in during the California power crisis over ten years ago. So let's say that they only last even half of that. Power costs for an incandescent vs. CFL over five years:
$0.15/kwh
3 hrs/day run time
Incandescent: 100 watt- $82
CFL: 33 watts - $27
Are you really going to sit there and tell me that you are paying $50 for a CFL?
"I like and believe very much that we should have to obtain a warrant from an independent judge to be able to take the contents," FBI Director James Comey told reporters. "What concerns me about this is companies marketing something expressly to allow people to place themselves beyond the law."
Well, too bad that isn't what actually happens. You guys just take whatever the hell you want, using things like 'National Security Letters', gag orders, and scooping up anything and everything into giant server farms. We don't trust any of you one bit to not invade our privacy. You brought this on yourself.
already reports of CFLs and LED lamps burning out long before their rated lifetimes are reached.
When I am shelling out a big up front cost, I am going to be pissed if one of these things burns out in a year or two. Sure it is probably covered under warranty, but then I have to make sure I keep the receipt, which receipt goes with which bulb, etc. I use CFLs because I won't mind as much if one burns out early because the cost for them is relatively low.
Permits cost up to $1,500, says Forest Service spokesman Larry Chambers, and reporters who don't get a permit could face fines up to $1,000.
Hmmmm... should I pay the $1,500 up front, or risk the $1,000 fine? Decisions, decisions...
The problem here is that the CRTC can stop all payment via Canadian credit cards to Netflix
Really? A radio and TV communications commission can block legal credit card transactions?
The problem with broadcast vs. internet streaming is that the streaming companies don't have a set amount of broadcast time. Netflix is on demand, so it only streams what a customer asks. The networks can set x% of their broadcast time to Canadian content, but that won't fly with a service like Netflix.
Anyways, build a modern healthcare infrastructure, modern farms with GMO crops, stop all the pointless wars and rein industry in a bit, and Africa will be fine.
Are you running for Miss America?
Most of the anticipated growth is in Africa, where population is projected to quadruple from around 1 billion today to 4 billion by the end of the century.
You mean, the continent that can barely feed itself and is the source of deadly plagues (Ebola, etc.) is somehow going to support four times it's current population? I'd like to see how that is feasible...
For decades, we have moved away from producing goods to a service providing nation.
Huh? We are still the #2 manufacturing nation in the world, and still a good deal ahead of the #3 producing nation. The only reason we dropped behind China recently is because they ramped up their manufacturing so much.
I can't even believe this stupid rant made it onto /. You can't wait ONE WHOLE DAY for your replacement phone? That, and he didn't even think through the logistics of his 'plan':
They would only have to have one replacement model of each phone that had been sold recently enough to consumers to still be covered under a replacement insurance plan. That still probably wouldn't take up more space than what you could fit into a medium cardboard box
I don't think you realize how many stores there are. Instead of keeping a single large box of replacement phones at one distribution center, you would need to ship out at least one phone to every single area that you cover. The number of phones you have to have stocked at locations could easily exceed what you have at the single location. And to top it all off, you now have to keep track of all these phones, and keep shipping out newer models to hundreds of locations all the time.
And your story is made up, since you contradicted yourself within the same paragraph:
I had it sealed in a zippable plastic bag. .... As I dug the soaked phone out of my pocket once we were all on board the yacht,..
So, was your phone in a sealed bag or in your pocket unsealed? You can't seem to make up your mind.
... the jerks were trying to get the three women in bikinis on board their boat.
You post to /. and expect us to believe you were hanging out with three hot women in bikinis? Nice try ;-)