When you invade a neighboring country, a couple things happen: a) people start violently resisting the occupation and b) your other neighbors suddenly hate you and make a military move against you.
One country's terrorist, is another country's patriot.
This is why they can even look around in the car. From the Findlaw link above...
It is not lawful for the police in undertaking a warrantless search of an automobile to extend the search to the passengers therein. 70 But because passengers in an automobile have no reasonable expectation of privacy in the interior area of the car, a warrantless search of the glove compartment and the spaces under the seats, which turned up evidence implicating the passengers, invaded no Fourth Amendment interest of the passengers. 71
They don't even need permission, as the Supremes ruled that there's no expectation of privacy in the interior of the car.
That's not the case of a computer.
In this case, this is exactly what happened. The intent is to search further than what is available in the public domain, worse, without a warrant, even.
I care. I usually respond to criticism by improving my software. But come on, don't you think it's getting ridiculous when people take this for granted and demand that you work for them for free?
As a graphics designer, and an illustrator for 30 years, I'm so used to critiques that even if I did work for free, it's even expected (part and parcel of the trade). Most of the time I find, especially online, when folks do criticize it's because they can't really explain what they want to convey. Overall, most who do complain do want whatever you're doing to improve, though (and sometimes you get a critique that really does help with more than suggesting XYZ -- and that's worth going through a dogpile).
In the past 7 years, GNOME has done its best to address exactly that kind of criticism. Almost every single feature is scrutinized with usability in mind. GNOME has been removing more and more configuration options from the user interface in order to make things easier for the average user. In fact, they've done so much their best that the technical audiance, i.e. Slashdot/OSNews/Reddit, is constantly flaming them for removing config options. Yet this same audience is flaming them for not being usable.
Know your audience, as a product rarely pleases both techs and non-techs.
Furthermore, the problem with GNOME/KDE and any other *nix interface isn't the interface itself, it's the OS that it's trying to be a frontend for, which is very non-friendly to non-techs. If it's non-friendly for new users, there won't be a ground swell of acceptance for the program. Until that OS (and any other that may come on the horizon), and it's third party app programmers and designers truly understand this, the majority will regarded such items as "experimental". They have little time to deal with bugs and 1001 options (that's why they pay for folks to fix and maintain it for them).
Do you have to be an antisemite to disagree with the politics of Israel?
Unfortunately, that's what it comes down to: as the excuse is it's some "hate crime" to disagree with Zionism, as Zionism "is the state of Israel" (or whatever excuse to keep this 1000 year war alive).
So if you post something about how Zionists even treat fellow Jews - http://web.israelinsider.com/views/3998.htm -- that's a crime against their identity and State, and = anti-semite to them.
Frankly, I don't care about the label, because it's crazier to justify wanton killing for killing sake.
No, no... They can just ask. It is not illegal to ask and be granted. (It probably should be but it isn't.) The librarian violated no laws. The F.B.I. agents violated no laws.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Carry a hammer to work. And in some work environments, a literal flamethrower.;)
But seriously, the best anyone can do in a situation where management thinks only XYZ, is to be persistent with suggestions (e.g., explain thoroughly why ABC works better, and in a way the business side can understand it better [business logic and the programming logic clashes too often, as each tries to defend it's turf]. Success comes from breaking down barriers where both get benefits). The squeaky wheel is what gets fixed, and heard to get fixed.
I just hope that software development doesn't go the route gaming is in now, where the reverse is playing out -- design is more important than function. It's the extremes that needs to be avoided, not that function or design are more important.
Yet it's not for US taxpayers to pay for Israel's existence. Israel isn't the USA, it's it's own country and needs to pay for it's own upkeep -- not keep asking US citizens to pay it for them, either with politics, let alone arms.
If Israel ever wants to be regarded as a sovereign nation, it has to operate under it's own auspices and the rules every nation has to abeit too, not rely on a parent to do everything for them (and the same with any country, thinking the US taxpayer can literally pay for their way).
The US has to do what's in the best interest for the US, afterall.
The issue is how design takes a back seat to only function. Function is critical (no one likes crashes), but if a program runs swell but the end user is left with an interface as friendly as the man pages...ah, the projects hurts more than it helps.
There's more to programming than just making sure it does A and doesn't do B. It's also about workflow, and how end users actually use the product for their benefit (end users will surprise programmers in how creative they are with their programs!). If a project team is more into function and "we'll get back to the UI and all later", that project dropped the ball. Userability isn't just some catch word, it's about how the many can best use a product, with the greatest ease and productivity -- not spending hours trying to figure how the interface works, let alone reading man pages that are spotty in the details to even understand the product.
Federal government can't just barge in and take things, even from a state government. Separation of power is there to curb exactly these transgressions. Doesn't matter what the excuse is, if the Feds want something they have to produce a valid warrant.
If citizens keep buying the line that the "government is doing this for your own good", the citizens are going to be screwed by the same government starving for more power, and won't stop until they literally own you.
When will any of the computer companies understand: what isn't said is just as bad, as what is said?
Hello, Marketing and PR 101??
The very folks who know about security flaws, won't get much more insight in the "how and what", as they already did the probing to find out. But the general public can learn how a company really treats this aspect in their organization. End users r-e-a-l-l-y need to know that such companies do understand that security flaws aren't something to put on the backburner to fix, but to fix them ASAP. Too many wait to release them in the next patch (which could take months to roll out).
Then companies wonder why their slick marketing and PR doesn't help their sales? The sales won't come if a company is so arrogant to protect it's very users from it's own product!
That is what the State always says. Hitler said the same to Germans, "it's for the Fatherland's security and yours". The USSR did the same with it's citizens, letting them live under the boot of the KGB. Now will Israel repeat history, and pick the M.O. of either? I hope not, because citizens don't need the State spying on them, as that tells the citizens they're not trusted. A very ominous sign, and one best avoided from any government -- once the government loses trust in it's citizens, that when they'll abuse their power for themselves.
Not only do they constantly bombard you with pleas to upgrade to their paid service, but they are supposed to delete your account if you don't check it every 3 weeks.
Thanks for reminding why I gave up on Hushmail years ago. Was using it back in '99, and had to wait more than 3 weeks to repair a computer (motherboard died). If the email can't sit in the inbox for 6 weeks, folks really don't have to worry about encryption, they need to worry about even having any email to read!
But again, this all shows services that claim to provide security, often have backdoors that can circumvent exactly what they claim is locked down. For the paranoid and near paranoid, it's not a comforting thought. Glad the computer saved me from all this hassle...good, computer, good!
The government these days is pretty thoroughly in the back pockets of the corporate world. Expecting them to do anything to defend you against their buddies is like expecting the corporations not to sell your personal info if it will make them a quick buck.
That's why we're all in the situation in the first place. Corporate and Government need each other, and feed off each other, which each vying for more power. Every day some right that was so fought before to keep, is relinquished to be part of the herd (e.g., "everyone else is doing or doing it so often, who cares?"). It's no wonder workplaces resemble pastures, complete with mud pies.:/
That article hit it on the head. There's 1001 programmers in the world, who are excellent coders and whip through the strings like a first chair, but there's very few project designers in freeware. They concentrate so much of function (which, yes, is critical!), but forget about ergonomics and userability (especially *how* end users can and will use their product, and ways to cut out excessive keystrokes or right clicks). The end users winds up getting a proggie that can function well, but such a chore to operate (or even painful, if it not ergonomically friendly). As we more and more get "connected" to computing, it's no longer just being on a keyboard or using a mouse an hour or two a day. Now it's more like 8+ hrs. Programmers need to consider the impact of their software, and beyond how it functions itself, but the whole project. That's where product design is so crucial, and something not just best left up to management to figure.
A society that doesn't, or refuses to learn from history, is doomed to repeat it. In this case, Israel is doing exactly what the Nazis did prior to WWII: documenting "real" Germans from Jews, and State threats (e.g., communists; socialists; and about any other 'ist).
Today, Israel -- the State -- is watching it's own in the pretense of security.
Security won't come from the State in that situation, it'll come when both sides realize they're humans, and humans need peace and understanding to go anywhere.
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When you invade a neighboring country, a couple things happen: a) people start violently resisting the occupation and b) your other neighbors suddenly hate you and make a military move against you.
One country's terrorist, is another country's patriot.
It is not lawful for the police in undertaking a warrantless search of an automobile to extend the search to the passengers therein. 70 But because passengers in an automobile have no reasonable expectation of privacy in the interior area of the car, a warrantless search of the glove compartment and the spaces under the seats, which turned up evidence implicating the passengers, invaded no Fourth Amendment interest of the passengers. 71
They don't even need permission, as the Supremes ruled that there's no expectation of privacy in the interior of the car. That's not the case of a computer. In this case, this is exactly what happened. The intent is to search further than what is available in the public domain, worse, without a warrant, even.
I care. I usually respond to criticism by improving my software. But come on, don't you think it's getting ridiculous when people take this for granted and demand that you work for them for free?
As a graphics designer, and an illustrator for 30 years, I'm so used to critiques that even if I did work for free, it's even expected (part and parcel of the trade). Most of the time I find, especially online, when folks do criticize it's because they can't really explain what they want to convey. Overall, most who do complain do want whatever you're doing to improve, though (and sometimes you get a critique that really does help with more than suggesting XYZ -- and that's worth going through a dogpile).
It balances itself in the end.
The 4th just means the government can't FORCE you to cooperate.
Actually, it means much more...
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/amendment04/03.html#1
In the past 7 years, GNOME has done its best to address exactly that kind of criticism. Almost every single feature is scrutinized with usability in mind. GNOME has been removing more and more configuration options from the user interface in order to make things easier for the average user. In fact, they've done so much their best that the technical audiance, i.e. Slashdot/OSNews/Reddit, is constantly flaming them for removing config options. Yet this same audience is flaming them for not being usable.
Know your audience, as a product rarely pleases both techs and non-techs.
Furthermore, the problem with GNOME/KDE and any other *nix interface isn't the interface itself, it's the OS that it's trying to be a frontend for, which is very non-friendly to non-techs. If it's non-friendly for new users, there won't be a ground swell of acceptance for the program. Until that OS (and any other that may come on the horizon), and it's third party app programmers and designers truly understand this, the majority will regarded such items as "experimental". They have little time to deal with bugs and 1001 options (that's why they pay for folks to fix and maintain it for them).
The librarian can think anything s/he thinks, but the State has to abeit by the Constitution.
Do you have to be an antisemite to disagree with the politics of Israel?
Unfortunately, that's what it comes down to: as the excuse is it's some "hate crime" to disagree with Zionism, as Zionism "is the state of Israel" (or whatever excuse to keep this 1000 year war alive).
So if you post something about how Zionists even treat fellow Jews - http://web.israelinsider.com/views/3998.htm -- that's a crime against their identity and State, and = anti-semite to them.
Frankly, I don't care about the label, because it's crazier to justify wanton killing for killing sake.
Nope, it's called history. Repeating the same follies of history, is a tragedy.
No, no... They can just ask. It is not illegal to ask and be granted. (It probably should be but it isn't.) The librarian violated no laws. The F.B.I. agents violated no laws.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Yep, the FBI violated the 4th Amendment.
Carry a hammer to work. And in some work environments, a literal flamethrower. ;)
But seriously, the best anyone can do in a situation where management thinks only XYZ, is to be persistent with suggestions (e.g., explain thoroughly why ABC works better, and in a way the business side can understand it better [business logic and the programming logic clashes too often, as each tries to defend it's turf]. Success comes from breaking down barriers where both get benefits). The squeaky wheel is what gets fixed, and heard to get fixed.
I just hope that software development doesn't go the route gaming is in now, where the reverse is playing out -- design is more important than function. It's the extremes that needs to be avoided, not that function or design are more important.
Yet it's not for US taxpayers to pay for Israel's existence. Israel isn't the USA, it's it's own country and needs to pay for it's own upkeep -- not keep asking US citizens to pay it for them, either with politics, let alone arms.
If Israel ever wants to be regarded as a sovereign nation, it has to operate under it's own auspices and the rules every nation has to abeit too, not rely on a parent to do everything for them (and the same with any country, thinking the US taxpayer can literally pay for their way).
The US has to do what's in the best interest for the US, afterall.
The issue is how design takes a back seat to only function. Function is critical (no one likes crashes), but if a program runs swell but the end user is left with an interface as friendly as the man pages...ah, the projects hurts more than it helps.
There's more to programming than just making sure it does A and doesn't do B. It's also about workflow, and how end users actually use the product for their benefit (end users will surprise programmers in how creative they are with their programs!). If a project team is more into function and "we'll get back to the UI and all later", that project dropped the ball. Userability isn't just some catch word, it's about how the many can best use a product, with the greatest ease and productivity -- not spending hours trying to figure how the interface works, let alone reading man pages that are spotty in the details to even understand the product.
...with a librarian there? Thus, the seizure??
Federal government can't just barge in and take things, even from a state government. Separation of power is there to curb exactly these transgressions. Doesn't matter what the excuse is, if the Feds want something they have to produce a valid warrant.
If citizens keep buying the line that the "government is doing this for your own good", the citizens are going to be screwed by the same government starving for more power, and won't stop until they literally own you.
When will any of the computer companies understand: what isn't said is just as bad, as what is said?
Hello, Marketing and PR 101??
The very folks who know about security flaws, won't get much more insight in the "how and what", as they already did the probing to find out. But the general public can learn how a company really treats this aspect in their organization. End users r-e-a-l-l-y need to know that such companies do understand that security flaws aren't something to put on the backburner to fix, but to fix them ASAP. Too many wait to release them in the next patch (which could take months to roll out).
Then companies wonder why their slick marketing and PR doesn't help their sales? The sales won't come if a company is so arrogant to protect it's very users from it's own product!
That is what the State always says. Hitler said the same to Germans, "it's for the Fatherland's security and yours". The USSR did the same with it's citizens, letting them live under the boot of the KGB. Now will Israel repeat history, and pick the M.O. of either? I hope not, because citizens don't need the State spying on them, as that tells the citizens they're not trusted. A very ominous sign, and one best avoided from any government -- once the government loses trust in it's citizens, that when they'll abuse their power for themselves.
Not only do they constantly bombard you with pleas to upgrade to their paid service, but they are supposed to delete your account if you don't check it every 3 weeks.
Thanks for reminding why I gave up on Hushmail years ago. Was using it back in '99, and had to wait more than 3 weeks to repair a computer (motherboard died). If the email can't sit in the inbox for 6 weeks, folks really don't have to worry about encryption, they need to worry about even having any email to read!
But again, this all shows services that claim to provide security, often have backdoors that can circumvent exactly what they claim is locked down. For the paranoid and near paranoid, it's not a comforting thought. Glad the computer saved me from all this hassle...good, computer, good!
The government these days is pretty thoroughly in the back pockets of the corporate world. Expecting them to do anything to defend you against their buddies is like expecting the corporations not to sell your personal info if it will make them a quick buck.
That's why we're all in the situation in the first place. Corporate and Government need each other, and feed off each other, which each vying for more power. Every day some right that was so fought before to keep, is relinquished to be part of the herd (e.g., "everyone else is doing or doing it so often, who cares?"). It's no wonder workplaces resemble pastures, complete with mud pies. :/
That article hit it on the head. There's 1001 programmers in the world, who are excellent coders and whip through the strings like a first chair, but there's very few project designers in freeware. They concentrate so much of function (which, yes, is critical!), but forget about ergonomics and userability (especially *how* end users can and will use their product, and ways to cut out excessive keystrokes or right clicks). The end users winds up getting a proggie that can function well, but such a chore to operate (or even painful, if it not ergonomically friendly). As we more and more get "connected" to computing, it's no longer just being on a keyboard or using a mouse an hour or two a day. Now it's more like 8+ hrs. Programmers need to consider the impact of their software, and beyond how it functions itself, but the whole project. That's where product design is so crucial, and something not just best left up to management to figure.
A society that doesn't, or refuses to learn from history, is doomed to repeat it. In this case, Israel is doing exactly what the Nazis did prior to WWII: documenting "real" Germans from Jews, and State threats (e.g., communists; socialists; and about any other 'ist). Today, Israel -- the State -- is watching it's own in the pretense of security. Security won't come from the State in that situation, it'll come when both sides realize they're humans, and humans need peace and understanding to go anywhere.