Oh yes, sounds very simple. After all, governors are totally immune to pressure from corporations. I'm sure my state governor - the terminator - will be all over this. Will yours?
To get there, you need an act of Congress, whose members are highly susceptible to lobbying by corporations. This has to be addressed by the Supreme Court, the same body who screwed this up a century ago. Thanks to Obama's recent appointment to the Court, this question is actually being raised, and there's at least one other Justice inclined to agree with her. Of course, they're still in the minority but it's unclear how the rest of them think, and even a strong minority opinion on this issue could be helpful in eventual change on this very important question.
Of course it stings people; this is a war technology and it flies in the face of diplomacy and peace. We should be able to listen to our Beatles records in our VW bugs rather than collecting new weapons like a scarab collects shit. This ticks me off!
In the investigation they even found some Dell outlets were selling computers to pimps and prostitutes, even after they explained that they were going to use the computers to keep track of illegal alien prostitutes.
They only use it as needed in brief bursts. I'm sure there's probably some "training" they make the users of the device go through, just like the training they do for the Taser.
Yeah they're not as useful anymore but in the early 70s these were great for crowd control at protests; hippies would just plop down in them and light up a doobie and forget what they were protesting about. Now, if they could get this sound cannon to blast Pink Floyd....
Yes, certainly that's precisely what one would think if one made no attempt whatsoever to research the event or the movement beyond asking a third party for a hearsay opinion on slashdot. And why would you? it's not like there's any information available on the internet or anything.
Seems to me all college classrooms these days come standard with dedicated pc, projector, document cam, and other goodies.
*All* college classrooms? Where do you teach? Here on earth, where I teach, we're lucky if the room we're teaching in has a projector that we can plug our own laptops into. Dedicated PC? That would be great... I've occasionally seen a nonfunctional or barely functional old lab computer in the classroom that I have to move out of the way so I can plug my laptop into the VGA slot; I guess that's technically a dedicated PC but it hardly does anyone any good. And a document cam? Damn! Does an overhead projector count?
I don't think so, and I don't think a court would think so. This sort of behavior raises a lot of questions about the search, as many have already pointed out in this discussion. I fully expect the search to be invalidated as a result.
From the article: "Though it will be turned on by default for Windows 7 and Vista users, they will be able to toggle between the old and new interface by holding the Alt key." No need for a separate branch.
Well according to that interpretation of the term "used", we need to wait until the actual trial before it is possible for it to be "used" by the defense attorney. But I think talking to the press about why this search was illegal is certainly a "use" of this information.
I'm not saying the officers shouldn't be reprimanded to acting unprofessionally but this should in no way affect a judge's decision as how to punch the criminals.
Just read the article (the actual article rather than the linked blog); this is already being used by the defense attorney to claim the whole search should be invalidated:
Not just inappropriate, but Tampa defense attorney Rick Escobar would argue the moment detectives turned on that video game and effectively seized it, they turned the search warrant into an illegal search.
"I've never seen anything like this," Escobar said after he viewed some of the video. Escobar does not represent Difalco and has no connection to the case.
"All the citizens are thinking, 'Wait a minute, we are paying these people to go out and protect us and here they are playing bowling on our time,' " he said.
"The real question here is have they seized property that wasn't described in the search warrant?" Escobar asked. "Clearly if they're using it, they've seized it and for totally improper purposes, because it's for entertainment. Investigations are not for entertainment."
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Oh yes, sounds very simple. After all, governors are totally immune to pressure from corporations. I'm sure my state governor - the terminator - will be all over this. Will yours?
Revoke its corporate charter.
To get there, you need an act of Congress, whose members are highly susceptible to lobbying by corporations. This has to be addressed by the Supreme Court, the same body who screwed this up a century ago. Thanks to Obama's recent appointment to the Court, this question is actually being raised, and there's at least one other Justice inclined to agree with her. Of course, they're still in the minority but it's unclear how the rest of them think, and even a strong minority opinion on this issue could be helpful in eventual change on this very important question.
Well, yeah, the beetles still move pretty damn slow.
Of course it stings people; this is a war technology and it flies in the face of diplomacy and peace. We should be able to listen to our Beatles records in our VW bugs rather than collecting new weapons like a scarab collects shit. This ticks me off!
Oh yeah. The future's so bright, I gotta wear shades!!!
because the iPhone is made with all that extra smug!!
Sent from my iPhone
Well, according to their CoreLocation information that I got via their iPhones using this iSeeYou app I developed, they're at 38.174104,-85.765784.
I have mod points for this comment but I can't find the "+1, Recursive" option?
In the investigation they even found some Dell outlets were selling computers to pimps and prostitutes, even after they explained that they were going to use the computers to keep track of illegal alien prostitutes.
They only use it as needed in brief bursts. I'm sure there's probably some "training" they make the users of the device go through, just like the training they do for the Taser.
Therefore just like the Taser, this weapon will never be abused.
Yeah they're not as useful anymore but in the early 70s these were great for crowd control at protests; hippies would just plop down in them and light up a doobie and forget what they were protesting about. Now, if they could get this sound cannon to blast Pink Floyd ....
Yes, certainly that's precisely what one would think if one made no attempt whatsoever to research the event or the movement beyond asking a third party for a hearsay opinion on slashdot. And why would you? it's not like there's any information available on the internet or anything.
Also note: If you understand statistics you would _never_ use the phrase 'statistically impossible'
So you would say "unpossible" then?
Agreed. Who is this Math guy anyway? Perhaps it's Math who faked the results, and Pollster is beyond reproach!
Seems to me all college classrooms these days come standard with dedicated pc, projector, document cam, and other goodies.
*All* college classrooms? Where do you teach? Here on earth, where I teach, we're lucky if the room we're teaching in has a projector that we can plug our own laptops into. Dedicated PC? That would be great ... I've occasionally seen a nonfunctional or barely functional old lab computer in the classroom that I have to move out of the way so I can plug my laptop into the VGA slot; I guess that's technically a dedicated PC but it hardly does anyone any good. And a document cam? Damn! Does an overhead projector count?
I don't think so, and I don't think a court would think so. This sort of behavior raises a lot of questions about the search, as many have already pointed out in this discussion. I fully expect the search to be invalidated as a result.
D'oh! Got it. I need to brush up on my reading comprehension skills...
Oh the outcry is there, alright, it's just that most Martians can't hear it over the stereos in their SUVs!
From the article: "Though it will be turned on by default for Windows 7 and Vista users, they will be able to toggle between the old and new interface by holding the Alt key." No need for a separate branch.
No, wait, I mean that other thing -- lame!
Well according to that interpretation of the term "used", we need to wait until the actual trial before it is possible for it to be "used" by the defense attorney. But I think talking to the press about why this search was illegal is certainly a "use" of this information.
I'm not saying the officers shouldn't be reprimanded to acting unprofessionally but this should in no way affect a judge's decision as how to punch the criminals.
The fourth amendment requires otherwise.
It's Wii this time. Next time it will be something more serious.
Guitar Hero?
Just read the article (the actual article rather than the linked blog); this is already being used by the defense attorney to claim the whole search should be invalidated: