Hooray! More kneejerk legislation by people who quite evidently have far too much time on their hands. If Burnham is worried about what his kids might encounter online, there are such things as net filtering services to take care of this for him, though I suppose it is a little too much to hope for that the witless dingbats infesting the current Labour government could ever be aware of such things.
Sure, Foxit is fine as far as it goes, but it runs slower than Adobe Reader on my PC. Plus Adobe lets me save as text, where Foxit expects me to pay for that functionality.
Actually, I already did something very similar. I run a specialized hobby forum which was absolutely plagued by spammers signing up so I installed KittenAuth - but instead of animals used images and questions specific to our hobby... all of which are totally incomprehensible to the average person without some Googling. And the spammers just disappeared; never had any since. I guess if it's going to take an unwanted visitor more than twenty seconds or so to get access they're just not going to bother.
Nope, a computer tech is a private individual, and private searches are not subject to constitutional restrictions. The 4th Amendment "is wholly inapplicable to a search or seizure, even an unreasonable one, effected by a private individual not acting as an agent of the Government or with the participation or knowledge of any governmental official." Also, "evidence discovered by private search is admissible in a criminal trial and is not subject to the Exclusionary Rule".
You can Google the precedents for yourself.
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Hooray! More kneejerk legislation by people who quite evidently have far too much time on their hands. If Burnham is worried about what his kids might encounter online, there are such things as net filtering services to take care of this for him, though I suppose it is a little too much to hope for that the witless dingbats infesting the current Labour government could ever be aware of such things.
Sure, Foxit is fine as far as it goes, but it runs slower than Adobe Reader on my PC. Plus Adobe lets me save as text, where Foxit expects me to pay for that functionality.
Actually, I already did something very similar. I run a specialized hobby forum which was absolutely plagued by spammers signing up so I installed KittenAuth - but instead of animals used images and questions specific to our hobby... all of which are totally incomprehensible to the average person without some Googling. And the spammers just disappeared; never had any since. I guess if it's going to take an unwanted visitor more than twenty seconds or so to get access they're just not going to bother.
Doesn't Foxconn make the mobos for the Mac Mini? You'd think they'd have some experience of non-MS operating systems.
Nope, a computer tech is a private individual, and private searches are not subject to constitutional restrictions. The 4th Amendment "is wholly inapplicable to a search or seizure, even an unreasonable one, effected by a private individual not acting as an agent of the Government or with the participation or knowledge of any governmental official." Also, "evidence discovered by private search is admissible in a criminal trial and is not subject to the Exclusionary Rule". You can Google the precedents for yourself.