Look at the cases where (often not-so-smart) defendants have been locked in an interrogation room for hours, being questioned over and over again - and often, intentionally or not, being fed information about the crime - until they're ready to admit, to paraphrase Nice Guy Eddie, that they started the Chicago Fire? I can think of a couple of death row cases like that right off the top of my head.
Maybe not so much the remote lock/unlock feature, but to be able to start it without actually inserting the key? A carjacker can push someone into their car as the door is opened and start it without fumbling for a key. Depending on the behavior of the car when the key becomes too far away, it can shut down during operation - dangerous - or be immobilized at its next destination (think a couple arrive at home, keyholder enters home and driver goes to run an errand).
You're right, all police interaction isn't an arrest, and it all wouldn't be suitable for public observation. But that an interaction is an arrest, or an interview, or a baby delivery, isn't what makes something subject or not subject to public recording. IANAL but the biggest factor in an event being classified that way is where it occurs. Do you lose your expectation of privacy in your home if circumstances arise that permit police to enter without your permission? I don't know. I assume there's more of one in an office than outside in the street - maybe depending if the office is a place of business open to the public. I don't know. Or in a car - do you have an expectation of privacy in a car?
Whether or not you think it's wrong that arrests are public record - they are. They are regardless of the arrestee's innocence or guilt. So no, that's not a good reason to not allow public access to things that are publicly accessible.
I agree that some police departments have proven to be unfixably corrupt. They are in a small minority, though. To think that a new federal agency would either have the authority to regulate state and local police departments (they don't) or that it would be effective (it wouldn't) would be a mistake.
One of the links (the "in Indiana" one) points to a datacenter installation in a former mall The other one ("in Maryland") does in fact describe a former anchor store of a still-working malll turned into a datacenter. They apparently (http://www.marleystation.com/directory) still have at least a Macy's and a J.C.Penney's.
They're called anchor stores because (more so than the other, smaller retail) they serve as a draw. If a particular shopping center is in really bad shape or circling the drain, then sure, it might be one of those very few.
Considering my past experience as a seventeen-year-old, I was a bad driver because I acted like a seventeen-year-old, not because I was new to driving.
Then you should also agree with raising the driving age to 22, and taking away driving privileges of those over 60. Either of these would save many more lives.
I think you're just being argumentative for the sake of being argumentative. First, I didn't describe a specific right, only "the rights of the individual". In my country, at least, there are several such recognized rights.
And if I were being specifc about privacy rights re: smartphones, there are still individual rights. See "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures...", etc.
We're not "err[ing] on the side of the criminal". We support the rights of the individual and (most of us) dismiss or at least skeptical of the suggestion that we need to give those up to make it easier for law enforcement.
Back to which phones are "safe" - I don't want to mention specific sites or products but they're easy to find, along with what data on what phones they're able to access. Some phones seem harder to access than others. Recent iPhones seem strong (unless, as described in the article, Apple assists).
Blackberry is not the device to go with to keep data from LEO. While the network traffic between device RIM BES is encrypted, data on the device is easily accessed. If you search for forensic products available to law enforcement and others, you'll see that hardware exists that can - in the field - pull emails, SMS, etc from most or all BB models.
They increase the surface area, but depending on their shape increase the volume of water that would also need to be warmed if the glass and therefore its contents were also to be.
By the time there's any condensate to wipe off the glass, hasn't the damage (i.e. heat from condensation) already been done? That's what warms the glass and its contents, not the water remaining on the side. So wiping it off won't prevent the warming.
I clicked the link already angry at what I expected to find - a story about an ignorant, probably racist bureaucrat ruining a smart kid's life for no good reason.
But as someone who (as a kid) did more than my share of disruptive, loud, messy things, I can tell you that even before 9/11 and IEDs and "zero tolerance" doing this in a school bathroom would have resulted in punishment. This wasn't a classroom experiment - no teachers were aware of it - and, like it or not, Drano (or an equivalent toilet cleaner) is a pretty harsh chemical.
This won't be a popular post, but I don't think the story lives up to the headline.
I couldn't tell from your "the ones that think that the united stats is the land of the free" if you were counting yourself among them. It sounds like you were. And I know what "iteration" means. It doesn't make sense the way you used it - no need to "iterate" through each member of a group to point out a distinction from that group.
Who modded this "insightbful"? Neither party is financially (you probably meant "fiscally") responsible. Whether you agree with it or not, confiscating more of my income and further restricting what firearms I can purchase both i"interfere with [my] personal life"
I only spoke of the entire pie. The press is calling the sequestration$84B in budget cuts, and it is not. It is $100M in increases.
But regarding some of those "little pieces":
The talk of shutting down airport towers came from an FAA with 2013 *post-recission* budget increases for operations, facilities & equipment, and research & engineerong. Getting rid of food inspectors and subsequent articles warning of food shortages came from an FDA with 2013 (again, *post-recission*) budget increases.
This story is no different. Cutting the Blue Angels saves $28 million in a defense budget of $660 billion - a defense budget that grew 8% annually between 2000 and 2011 and whose *discretionary* (yes, I do know the difference) budget fo the next ten years is still on auto-pilot to grow almost 2% per year, though our adventures in Iraq and (hopefully) Afghanistan are drawing to a close.
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Look at the cases where (often not-so-smart) defendants have been locked in an interrogation room for hours, being questioned over and over again - and often, intentionally or not, being fed information about the crime - until they're ready to admit, to paraphrase Nice Guy Eddie, that they started the Chicago Fire? I can think of a couple of death row cases like that right off the top of my head.
Pretty sure I've been in cars that don't have a keyed ignition, and I know for a fact that some newer Ducati motorcycles don't
Not all of them have actual keys.
Maybe not so much the remote lock/unlock feature, but to be able to start it without actually inserting the key? A carjacker can push someone into their car as the door is opened and start it without fumbling for a key. Depending on the behavior of the car when the key becomes too far away, it can shut down during operation - dangerous - or be immobilized at its next destination (think a couple arrive at home, keyholder enters home and driver goes to run an errand).
You're right, all police interaction isn't an arrest, and it all wouldn't be suitable for public observation. But that an interaction is an arrest, or an interview, or a baby delivery, isn't what makes something subject or not subject to public recording. IANAL but the biggest factor in an event being classified that way is where it occurs. Do you lose your expectation of privacy in your home if circumstances arise that permit police to enter without your permission? I don't know. I assume there's more of one in an office than outside in the street - maybe depending if the office is a place of business open to the public. I don't know. Or in a car - do you have an expectation of privacy in a car?
Whether or not you think it's wrong that arrests are public record - they are. They are regardless of the arrestee's innocence or guilt. So no, that's not a good reason to not allow public access to things that are publicly accessible.
I agree that some police departments have proven to be unfixably corrupt. They are in a small minority, though. To think that a new federal agency would either have the authority to regulate state and local police departments (they don't) or that it would be effective (it wouldn't) would be a mistake.
One of the links (the "in Indiana" one) points to a datacenter installation in a former mall The other one ("in Maryland") does in fact describe a former anchor store of a still-working malll turned into a datacenter. They apparently (http://www.marleystation.com/directory) still have at least a Macy's and a J.C.Penney's.
They're called anchor stores because (more so than the other, smaller retail) they serve as a draw. If a particular shopping center is in really bad shape or circling the drain, then sure, it might be one of those very few.
... or malls that have closed completely. But very few mall management firms would sign off on turning one of their anchor stores into a datacenter.
That should be modded waaay up.
Considering my past experience as a seventeen-year-old, I was a bad driver because I acted like a seventeen-year-old, not because I was new to driving.
Then you should also agree with raising the driving age to 22, and taking away driving privileges of those over 60. Either of these would save many more lives.
(sorry) re-reading it, I missed your obvious and clear point that there's no legal right against a warranted search.
I think you're just being argumentative for the sake of being argumentative. First, I didn't describe a specific right, only "the rights of the individual". In my country, at least, there are several such recognized rights.
And if I were being specifc about privacy rights re: smartphones, there are still individual rights. See "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures ...", etc.
We're not "err[ing] on the side of the criminal". We support the rights of the individual and (most of us) dismiss or at least skeptical of the suggestion that we need to give those up to make it easier for law enforcement.
Back to which phones are "safe" - I don't want to mention specific sites or products but they're easy to find, along with what data on what phones they're able to access. Some phones seem harder to access than others. Recent iPhones seem strong (unless, as described in the article, Apple assists).
Blackberry is not the device to go with to keep data from LEO. While the network traffic between device RIM BES is encrypted, data on the device is easily accessed. If you search for forensic products available to law enforcement and others, you'll see that hardware exists that can - in the field - pull emails, SMS, etc from most or all BB models.
When you're trying to be snarky and dismissive, you might want to enable your spell checker.
They increase the surface area, but depending on their shape increase the volume of water that would also need to be warmed if the glass and therefore its contents were also to be.
By the time there's any condensate to wipe off the glass, hasn't the damage (i.e. heat from condensation) already been done? That's what warms the glass and its contents, not the water remaining on the side. So wiping it off won't prevent the warming.
I clicked the link already angry at what I expected to find - a story about an ignorant, probably racist bureaucrat ruining a smart kid's life for no good reason.
But as someone who (as a kid) did more than my share of disruptive, loud, messy things, I can tell you that even before 9/11 and IEDs and "zero tolerance" doing this in a school bathroom would have resulted in punishment. This wasn't a classroom experiment - no teachers were aware of it - and, like it or not, Drano (or an equivalent toilet cleaner) is a pretty harsh chemical.
This won't be a popular post, but I don't think the story lives up to the headline.
I couldn't tell from your "the ones that think that the united stats is the land of the free" if you were counting yourself among them. It sounds like you were. And I know what "iteration" means. It doesn't make sense the way you used it - no need to "iterate" through each member of a group to point out a distinction from that group.
Do *you* really think we're "the home of the free"? And WTF is "iteration of category" supposed to mean?
Who modded this "insightbful"? Neither party is financially (you probably meant "fiscally") responsible. Whether you agree with it or not, confiscating more of my income and further restricting what firearms I can purchase both i"interfere with [my] personal life"
oops.
http://triblive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_720838.html
http://www.irs.gov/irm/part5/irm_05-017-013.html
I only spoke of the entire pie. The press is calling the sequestration$84B in budget cuts, and it is not. It is $100M in increases.
But regarding some of those "little pieces":
The talk of shutting down airport towers came from an FAA with 2013 *post-recission* budget increases for operations, facilities & equipment, and research & engineerong. Getting rid of food inspectors and subsequent articles warning of food shortages came from an FDA with 2013 (again, *post-recission*) budget increases.
This story is no different. Cutting the Blue Angels saves $28 million in a defense budget of $660 billion - a defense budget that grew 8% annually between 2000 and 2011 and whose *discretionary* (yes, I do know the difference) budget fo the next ten years is still on auto-pilot to grow almost 2% per year, though our adventures in Iraq and (hopefully) Afghanistan are drawing to a close.