And I got the impression when I was interviewing around that [employee cell phone] was pretty much standard.... Then again, the coverage in Norway is a little bit better than the US.
Light blue is fixed connections, dark blue are cell phones. Note that we have 4.8 million people but 5.1 million cell phone subscriptions so we have more than 100% cell phone coverage + another 2 million fixed connections. What isn't shown is that 500k of these are VoIP, so only about 1.5 million traditional landlines. Most companies I work with have a fixed phone as well, but everyone has a cell phone - I have just the cell phone. Right now I think many companies and homes are using the existing grid but wouldn't invest in a new one, so I imagine it's slowly dying off.
The only reason it doesn't die off quick is that everyone wants broadband, be it dsl, cable or fiber. Throwing in phone service basically costs them nothing on top of that. I could have it for next to nothing along with my TV/internet package by cable, for example. It's just that it has no value for me whatsoever...
a party full of drunken horny half naked cheerleaders, when suddenly all the hot ones disappear, and the fugly ones turn into whores. Seriously, if we can't get whore-based analogies right
Maybe I've looked at the wrong teams, but the lesser half of a druken horny half named cheerleading team turning into whores still sounds pretty good to me...
Games are pretty much the easiest way to be "successful". In FPS games you're Rambo, in RPGs you're a hero, in RTS/TBS a mastermind, take your pick. If you fail at life in general, you can always play games as long as you got ramen noodles and 15$/month for WoW. And the longer it's been since you've done something, the harder it gets. If you haven't exercised in a while and you're in bad shape, starting up is hell. So you keep getting fatter, you lose self-confidence and start retracting from social life or at least the real world part where people see you. Then that becomes a reason for not doing hygiene or decent clothes and it all keeps getting longer and longer from being successful. Or any one of a million other variations of coming into such an evil circle.
It's exactly the same way in reverse. People with a good body will dress in "look at me" clothes. Or they'll exercise to fit the clothes, particularly for the summer season. They'll keep getting attention and positive feedback that keeps them self-confident and continue to enjoy social life and keep it up. Maybe those failing out should have gotten some more honest feedback to see the warning signs in time, but it's hard even with friends. Most of the time people are just allowed to fade out because drawing attention to it might just make it all more embarrassing and cause an even quicker withdrawal. I think many of the gaming addicts aren't that addicted to the game as such, but they've cut off every other bridge out.
That depends entirely on context. The local town newspaper could probably get away with calling many more a "public figure" in the community than the New York Times. People that have put themselves in the spotlight rather than being dragged into a public role have a weaker case. Pretty much anyone in the entertainment industry trying to catch exposure end up a public figure pretty quick, which probably applies for a model. Probably not by just walking down a catwalk or appearing in an ad, but once you start doing interviews and so on then sure.
This isn't a fucking "privacy" issue, asshats. Nothing in privacy assures you the right to say whatever you want without anyone knowing it was you who said it. Privacy is a state of being concealed from view. Privacy is the ability to do what you want in your own home, where no one but you and those in your home can see or know it happened. When you go online and say something for everyone in the world to hear, you are no longer private. You are on the internet. The expectation that you should be able to hide who you are on the internet is foolish. Get over your entitlement, fuckwads.
You deserve a +2, Double Irony mod just for making that comment as AC and for throwing insults while you're at it. If I go to a doctor and tell about my medical issues, he might write me a sick notice for work. That I'm on sick leave is pretty much public, but the details of my issue is private. If I post on a forum where I can register with just a pseudonym, my posts are public but my identity is private. If information is being shared beyond the parties I have agreed to or could reasonably expect would be informed, then my privacy is being violated.
That said, I don't think anyone's entitled to remain anonymous after a court has found reasonable grounds for a criminal or civil lawsuit. It'd be very weird if anonymity were to function as some form of legal immunity, just like a search warrant is a pretty clear violation of privacy it's necessary to have a functioning justice system. P.S. I don't know about "should", but I'll settle for "can" and I don't mean my slashdot nick...
Maybe I'm just not young enough anymore, but I don't agree. I'm fairly indifferent about privacy when it comes to telling people where I've been, what I'm doing or where I'm going because for most of the time it's of absolutely no interest to anyone but the friends and family even if I shout it to the world. Now if I had a stalker or crazy ex-wife or whatever else that would make it matter, it's completely different. Then I need to shut out those people, but I'd still consider it their wrongdoing that I need those access controls. Bugger off and leave my life in peace.
Exactly the same applies if there's a government stalker. I don't want to keep my life a secret because they got some orwellian control freak vision, it's something I could do in response but I'd rather fight for a government that didn't do that sort of thing. The whole reasoning that "if you don't want the government to know, you must make it impossible" is sad and not consistent with reality. If you followed me into a grocery store you'd know what kind of tooth paste I use, but if I knew anyone cared I'd do my best not to reveal it for the hell of it.
The fact that people can blog and twitter so freely about their life is a good sign, it's a sign they feel confident in their ability to live their life openly and still without undue government interference. Maybe that's because the people are naive and don't realize how the government manipulates them, but that's a bit too simplistic. I mean you can say the same about free speech, maybe the dissidents are just being naive and really put on the death list for when the revolution comes but I'd say people openly criticizing the government is a much better sign than people too afraid to say a thing.
What, you mean up from 2 users? Haven't we already learned by the Linux-on-a-toaster stories that you really don't get hardware so underpowered that this makes sense? Unless you're making millions of these for a microcontroller. It's cool, it's nerdy but it wouldn't in any sense be useful unless it got picked up by someone big. And I don't even see cell phone companies being interested, as they're trying to play the iPhone computer-in-a-phone game now.
Embedded today is more a form factor, user expectation thing than an actual difference in computers. Put up one application in fullscreen with no taskbar directly from boot and you have an appliance. Beyond that it's pretty much what you could find in a PC, seriously there are phones out there which are way better in every respect than the full-size PCs I used to have. If they came with a breakout box for video/audio/network/usb etc. you'd probably have an acceptable computer.
"When karmic is released, hardy and jaunty users can upgrade directly. Intrepid users must go via jaunty." would probably also sound rather insane to everyone outside *buntu/Linux. Oh well, at least it's not downgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows 7, that's only like 1993 versions behind. Actually, I think I'm starting to understand why people think IT people are from outer space...
Why do you think they spend all those MILLIONs of dollars on Mojave and the silly SienField commercials? They actually THOUGHT it was PUBLIC perception problem, not a technical one.
Apart from all the other nonsense, have you ever seen a company go out and say "our product is shit"? Not even if the flies prefer it over fresh cow dung. The real internal thinking might just as well be "damn, what a clusterfsck but let's make the best of it", unless you got inside sources. That certainly must be the case with ME...
Well, doh. At least they weren't screwed as bad as Windows ME (sept. 2000) vs Windows XP (oct. 2001). Or for that matter Windows 2000 for business customers, though 2000 wasn't a pretty good deal in itself. For those of you that don't see the pattern, they've taken a page from the theatrical/extended DVD market. Offer the theatrical first for those that really can't wait, then the exteneded version a little later as the "ultimate" version that you'd want going forward. If only HTML5 video can take over and flash video die a quick death, I'll be perfectly happy on another OS though...
Meh, that "proof" is as useless as ever. Enterprise customers are always, always slow and they try to minimize every possible upgrade they must make. But when push comes to shove they'll take the smallest bump possible, which will be Windows. The business case for an upgrade is almost always negative, for whatever small gains the OS gives there's the cost of software, hardware, updating any and all guides and training, administration procedures, scripting etc. which makes it basically a "dentist project". Nobody wants to go but if you don't it'll only get worse and the toothache in the long run cost you more than going. But with the "not on this quarter" mentality nothing gets replaced until it really has to. I expect most enterprise customers to finish their upgrades around a year or two before XPs end-of-life, no sooner.
True, but I would argue that Ebonics is a more valid and complete language/dialect, being that it arose naturally.
I guess it's nonsense to call anything spoken by real people invalid or incomplete, but Tolkien was just crazy about languages. He spoke many, knew more and was highly interested in their structure. He just as much created the books around the language as the other way around, at least Sindarin for the elves. What he created is probably as natural as any real language, perhaps even more since it's shaped around one man's linguistic vision and not centuries of collected oddities that crop up.
If it works, it's not really a hole in the license as it all relies on the first sale doctrine. The only way to patch that would be to prohibit normal resale and only permit resale complying with the source requirements. It should be pretty easy to test.
1. Person A makes some copyrighted code 2. Person A distributes to B under GPL 3. Person B modifies work and creates widgets with modified binary 4. Person B sell them to C, complying with the GPL 5. Person C sells copies to D under first sale doctrine 6. Person D is denied source from C since resale doesn't use any of the exclusive rights of the copyright holder, B because they have no contractual relationship and A because he hasn't got the modified source. 7. Profit for B and C?
2. The "we'll have to help the customer fix it if it fails to build" argument is so completely wrong that I don't understand how the idiots could even manage to come up with it. Back in reality, the GPL says exactly the opposite: that it disclaims any warranty, merchantability, fitness of purpose, etc.
But the one thing they can't disclaim is that the source might or might not match the binary. Technically they don't need to help but if the user then brings out the torches and pitchforks and start yelling "GPL violation" and claims it's some broken source snapshot not matching the binary it could get annoying. I've never heard of it happen in practice with a serious company, but if you read the GPL with lawyer eyes it's a possibility. If the lawyer from a CYA perspective then requires you to keep all compiler versions, compile flags, library sources etc. necessary to prove that you have delivered the corresponding source I can understand how that's a lot of overhead.
The whole argument that kernel modules must be GPL is seriously flawed. A kernel module is just another application that the OS can run, albeit by a different API at a different security level.
Any #include also defines an interface but then the GPL would be rather useless, or calling a function in machine code if includes don't apply. Nor would it be anything like the fairly broad understanding of derivate works found outside software, like say a book where the author has rights to a coffee mug with the character. If you consider a driver more like a custom library for that hardware, it certainly sounds like it's a derviative such as other applications using libraries. There's a reason they put in a clause to exclude "the major components of the operating system on which the executable runs", or it's very possible that the viral nature of copyright law would require there's GPL all the way down.
Oh, sure. How could you have Judgment Day without a bunch of lawyers present?
Since you got one jokster being lawmaker, police, judge, jury and executioner (well actually he outsourced that downstairs), good luck doing anything useful.
Not the commercial copyright, but all non-commercial use is to be made legal from day one. That's pretty close to abolishing copyright for the masses, with the exception of a few moral rights. It'd make 99% of all file sharing legal, except those sharing really nasty stuff covered by other laws.
The reason for keeping some commercial copyright is simple - if you make money, the original author/artist/whatever should make money. Otherwise for example cinemas could earn money showing movies without paying those that made it anything. As reforms go, it's as big as they come.
Under the craptastic EUCD it's probably illegal in Europe too. But at worst it'll be like with the complete w32codec pack (straight out 18th century copyright infringement) and many other things, you must add a special repo and install them yourself.
I'm waiting for the EMI of movie studios... first to say "let's just put it up for sale on iTunes worldwide, no DRM". And realize that it really doesn't make a difference. The music industry loved fighting windmills, but they came around and eventually dropped both CD copy protection and downloadable copy protection. I think the movie industry eventually will too. They'll just have to come to terms with AACS, BD+ and HDCP not working out either first. That'll still take a while...
Not saying that you're wrong either, but look at it the other way - since when has people been able to make unbreakable containers and unbreakable communication? Yes, encoding it in various ways date at least a few thousand years back but then you could always find en/decoding rings, code books, in more recent times like Engima you could find en/decryption machines and so on.
Borders and customs in practise don't exist for digital information. I could "smuggle" an image through every country in the world over ssh and noone would be any wiser. You have to admit that without the RIP, the police are worse off than they were in the days of letters and POTS and locks made of steel. Things have become literally very binary, either it's too easy or impossible.
If they're aware or assume that you have an encrypted system, then yes. What's the odds of that really? It's pretty much impossible to find out from the outside. Are they going to covertly sneak into your house to figure that out, and see if they need to do covert surveillance? Yeah, right. In about 99.9% of the cases they'll come in with a normal warrant, and then you're already tipped off. If you know the police is onto you, then this just won't work. Either you stop, or you rig some kind of tripwire system to tell you it's been tampered with. Halting an intruder is hard, detecting that there's been an intruder not so much.
If you want a SSD wiped, best to use the manufacturer's low level format tools. There's literally gigabytes of extra space that might not be erased. If you wanted something kept safe it's generally better to keep it encrypted from the start anyway. I'm guessing forensic firms will do well on recovering from SSDs...
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And I got the impression when I was interviewing around that [employee cell phone] was pretty much standard.... Then again, the coverage in Norway is a little bit better than the US.
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Light blue is fixed connections, dark blue are cell phones. Note that we have 4.8 million people but 5.1 million cell phone subscriptions so we have more than 100% cell phone coverage + another 2 million fixed connections. What isn't shown is that 500k of these are VoIP, so only about 1.5 million traditional landlines. Most companies I work with have a fixed phone as well, but everyone has a cell phone - I have just the cell phone. Right now I think many companies and homes are using the existing grid but wouldn't invest in a new one, so I imagine it's slowly dying off.
The only reason it doesn't die off quick is that everyone wants broadband, be it dsl, cable or fiber. Throwing in phone service basically costs them nothing on top of that. I could have it for next to nothing along with my TV/internet package by cable, for example. It's just that it has no value for me whatsoever...
a party full of drunken horny half naked cheerleaders, when suddenly all the hot ones disappear, and the fugly ones turn into whores. Seriously, if we can't get whore-based analogies right
Maybe I've looked at the wrong teams, but the lesser half of a druken horny half named cheerleading team turning into whores still sounds pretty good to me...
Games are pretty much the easiest way to be "successful". In FPS games you're Rambo, in RPGs you're a hero, in RTS/TBS a mastermind, take your pick. If you fail at life in general, you can always play games as long as you got ramen noodles and 15$/month for WoW. And the longer it's been since you've done something, the harder it gets. If you haven't exercised in a while and you're in bad shape, starting up is hell. So you keep getting fatter, you lose self-confidence and start retracting from social life or at least the real world part where people see you. Then that becomes a reason for not doing hygiene or decent clothes and it all keeps getting longer and longer from being successful. Or any one of a million other variations of coming into such an evil circle.
It's exactly the same way in reverse. People with a good body will dress in "look at me" clothes. Or they'll exercise to fit the clothes, particularly for the summer season. They'll keep getting attention and positive feedback that keeps them self-confident and continue to enjoy social life and keep it up. Maybe those failing out should have gotten some more honest feedback to see the warning signs in time, but it's hard even with friends. Most of the time people are just allowed to fade out because drawing attention to it might just make it all more embarrassing and cause an even quicker withdrawal. I think many of the gaming addicts aren't that addicted to the game as such, but they've cut off every other bridge out.
That depends entirely on context. The local town newspaper could probably get away with calling many more a "public figure" in the community than the New York Times. People that have put themselves in the spotlight rather than being dragged into a public role have a weaker case. Pretty much anyone in the entertainment industry trying to catch exposure end up a public figure pretty quick, which probably applies for a model. Probably not by just walking down a catwalk or appearing in an ad, but once you start doing interviews and so on then sure.
This isn't a fucking "privacy" issue, asshats. Nothing in privacy assures you the right to say whatever you want without anyone knowing it was you who said it. Privacy is a state of being concealed from view. Privacy is the ability to do what you want in your own home, where no one but you and those in your home can see or know it happened. When you go online and say something for everyone in the world to hear, you are no longer private. You are on the internet. The expectation that you should be able to hide who you are on the internet is foolish. Get over your entitlement, fuckwads.
You deserve a +2, Double Irony mod just for making that comment as AC and for throwing insults while you're at it. If I go to a doctor and tell about my medical issues, he might write me a sick notice for work. That I'm on sick leave is pretty much public, but the details of my issue is private. If I post on a forum where I can register with just a pseudonym, my posts are public but my identity is private. If information is being shared beyond the parties I have agreed to or could reasonably expect would be informed, then my privacy is being violated.
That said, I don't think anyone's entitled to remain anonymous after a court has found reasonable grounds for a criminal or civil lawsuit. It'd be very weird if anonymity were to function as some form of legal immunity, just like a search warrant is a pretty clear violation of privacy it's necessary to have a functioning justice system. P.S. I don't know about "should", but I'll settle for "can" and I don't mean my slashdot nick...
Maybe I'm just not young enough anymore, but I don't agree. I'm fairly indifferent about privacy when it comes to telling people where I've been, what I'm doing or where I'm going because for most of the time it's of absolutely no interest to anyone but the friends and family even if I shout it to the world. Now if I had a stalker or crazy ex-wife or whatever else that would make it matter, it's completely different. Then I need to shut out those people, but I'd still consider it their wrongdoing that I need those access controls. Bugger off and leave my life in peace.
Exactly the same applies if there's a government stalker. I don't want to keep my life a secret because they got some orwellian control freak vision, it's something I could do in response but I'd rather fight for a government that didn't do that sort of thing. The whole reasoning that "if you don't want the government to know, you must make it impossible" is sad and not consistent with reality. If you followed me into a grocery store you'd know what kind of tooth paste I use, but if I knew anyone cared I'd do my best not to reveal it for the hell of it.
The fact that people can blog and twitter so freely about their life is a good sign, it's a sign they feel confident in their ability to live their life openly and still without undue government interference. Maybe that's because the people are naive and don't realize how the government manipulates them, but that's a bit too simplistic. I mean you can say the same about free speech, maybe the dissidents are just being naive and really put on the death list for when the revolution comes but I'd say people openly criticizing the government is a much better sign than people too afraid to say a thing.
What, you mean up from 2 users? Haven't we already learned by the Linux-on-a-toaster stories that you really don't get hardware so underpowered that this makes sense? Unless you're making millions of these for a microcontroller. It's cool, it's nerdy but it wouldn't in any sense be useful unless it got picked up by someone big. And I don't even see cell phone companies being interested, as they're trying to play the iPhone computer-in-a-phone game now.
Embedded today is more a form factor, user expectation thing than an actual difference in computers. Put up one application in fullscreen with no taskbar directly from boot and you have an appliance. Beyond that it's pretty much what you could find in a PC, seriously there are phones out there which are way better in every respect than the full-size PCs I used to have. If they came with a breakout box for video/audio/network/usb etc. you'd probably have an acceptable computer.
"When karmic is released, hardy and jaunty users can upgrade directly. Intrepid users must go via jaunty." would probably also sound rather insane to everyone outside *buntu/Linux. Oh well, at least it's not downgrading from Windows 2000 to Windows 7, that's only like 1993 versions behind. Actually, I think I'm starting to understand why people think IT people are from outer space...
Why do you think they spend all those MILLIONs of dollars on Mojave and the silly SienField commercials? They actually THOUGHT it was PUBLIC perception problem, not a technical one.
Apart from all the other nonsense, have you ever seen a company go out and say "our product is shit"? Not even if the flies prefer it over fresh cow dung. The real internal thinking might just as well be "damn, what a clusterfsck but let's make the best of it", unless you got inside sources. That certainly must be the case with ME...
I have become a c# developer over the last 20 minutes, and I am now as proficient in that as I was in C/C++
Like:
10 PRINT "HELLO WORLD!"
20 GOTO 10
Wait, no that's BASIC. But now you're equally proficient in three languages :)
Well, doh. At least they weren't screwed as bad as Windows ME (sept. 2000) vs Windows XP (oct. 2001). Or for that matter Windows 2000 for business customers, though 2000 wasn't a pretty good deal in itself. For those of you that don't see the pattern, they've taken a page from the theatrical/extended DVD market. Offer the theatrical first for those that really can't wait, then the exteneded version a little later as the "ultimate" version that you'd want going forward. If only HTML5 video can take over and flash video die a quick death, I'll be perfectly happy on another OS though...
Meh, that "proof" is as useless as ever. Enterprise customers are always, always slow and they try to minimize every possible upgrade they must make. But when push comes to shove they'll take the smallest bump possible, which will be Windows. The business case for an upgrade is almost always negative, for whatever small gains the OS gives there's the cost of software, hardware, updating any and all guides and training, administration procedures, scripting etc. which makes it basically a "dentist project". Nobody wants to go but if you don't it'll only get worse and the toothache in the long run cost you more than going. But with the "not on this quarter" mentality nothing gets replaced until it really has to. I expect most enterprise customers to finish their upgrades around a year or two before XPs end-of-life, no sooner.
True, but I would argue that Ebonics is a more valid and complete language/dialect, being that it arose naturally.
I guess it's nonsense to call anything spoken by real people invalid or incomplete, but Tolkien was just crazy about languages. He spoke many, knew more and was highly interested in their structure. He just as much created the books around the language as the other way around, at least Sindarin for the elves. What he created is probably as natural as any real language, perhaps even more since it's shaped around one man's linguistic vision and not centuries of collected oddities that crop up.
it's no surprise that the city with the highest level was Washington DC, where up to 95% of bills gathered there tested positive.
I always suspected the politicians were on crack, I guess now we have proof...
If it works, it's not really a hole in the license as it all relies on the first sale doctrine. The only way to patch that would be to prohibit normal resale and only permit resale complying with the source requirements. It should be pretty easy to test.
1. Person A makes some copyrighted code
2. Person A distributes to B under GPL
3. Person B modifies work and creates widgets with modified binary
4. Person B sell them to C, complying with the GPL
5. Person C sells copies to D under first sale doctrine
6. Person D is denied source from C since resale doesn't use any of the exclusive rights of the copyright holder, B because they have no contractual relationship and A because he hasn't got the modified source.
7. Profit for B and C?
2. The "we'll have to help the customer fix it if it fails to build" argument is so completely wrong that I don't understand how the idiots could even manage to come up with it. Back in reality, the GPL says exactly the opposite: that it disclaims any warranty, merchantability, fitness of purpose, etc.
But the one thing they can't disclaim is that the source might or might not match the binary. Technically they don't need to help but if the user then brings out the torches and pitchforks and start yelling "GPL violation" and claims it's some broken source snapshot not matching the binary it could get annoying. I've never heard of it happen in practice with a serious company, but if you read the GPL with lawyer eyes it's a possibility. If the lawyer from a CYA perspective then requires you to keep all compiler versions, compile flags, library sources etc. necessary to prove that you have delivered the corresponding source I can understand how that's a lot of overhead.
The whole argument that kernel modules must be GPL is seriously flawed. A kernel module is just another application that the OS can run, albeit by a different API at a different security level.
Any #include also defines an interface but then the GPL would be rather useless, or calling a function in machine code if includes don't apply. Nor would it be anything like the fairly broad understanding of derivate works found outside software, like say a book where the author has rights to a coffee mug with the character. If you consider a driver more like a custom library for that hardware, it certainly sounds like it's a derviative such as other applications using libraries. There's a reason they put in a clause to exclude "the major components of the operating system on which the executable runs", or it's very possible that the viral nature of copyright law would require there's GPL all the way down.
Oh, sure. How could you have Judgment Day without a bunch of lawyers present?
Since you got one jokster being lawmaker, police, judge, jury and executioner (well actually he outsourced that downstairs), good luck doing anything useful.
Not the commercial copyright, but all non-commercial use is to be made legal from day one. That's pretty close to abolishing copyright for the masses, with the exception of a few moral rights. It'd make 99% of all file sharing legal, except those sharing really nasty stuff covered by other laws.
The reason for keeping some commercial copyright is simple - if you make money, the original author/artist/whatever should make money. Otherwise for example cinemas could earn money showing movies without paying those that made it anything. As reforms go, it's as big as they come.
Under the craptastic EUCD it's probably illegal in Europe too. But at worst it'll be like with the complete w32codec pack (straight out 18th century copyright infringement) and many other things, you must add a special repo and install them yourself.
I'm waiting for the EMI of movie studios... first to say "let's just put it up for sale on iTunes worldwide, no DRM". And realize that it really doesn't make a difference. The music industry loved fighting windmills, but they came around and eventually dropped both CD copy protection and downloadable copy protection. I think the movie industry eventually will too. They'll just have to come to terms with AACS, BD+ and HDCP not working out either first. That'll still take a while...
Not saying that you're wrong either, but look at it the other way - since when has people been able to make unbreakable containers and unbreakable communication? Yes, encoding it in various ways date at least a few thousand years back but then you could always find en/decoding rings, code books, in more recent times like Engima you could find en/decryption machines and so on.
Borders and customs in practise don't exist for digital information. I could "smuggle" an image through every country in the world over ssh and noone would be any wiser. You have to admit that without the RIP, the police are worse off than they were in the days of letters and POTS and locks made of steel. Things have become literally very binary, either it's too easy or impossible.
note: Yes, I'm joking here. But in some court rooms it might not be taken as a joke. I guess.
I think it falls into the "make a bomb joke in front of the TSA" class...
If they're aware or assume that you have an encrypted system, then yes. What's the odds of that really? It's pretty much impossible to find out from the outside. Are they going to covertly sneak into your house to figure that out, and see if they need to do covert surveillance? Yeah, right. In about 99.9% of the cases they'll come in with a normal warrant, and then you're already tipped off. If you know the police is onto you, then this just won't work. Either you stop, or you rig some kind of tripwire system to tell you it's been tampered with. Halting an intruder is hard, detecting that there's been an intruder not so much.
If you want a SSD wiped, best to use the manufacturer's low level format tools. There's literally gigabytes of extra space that might not be erased. If you wanted something kept safe it's generally better to keep it encrypted from the start anyway. I'm guessing forensic firms will do well on recovering from SSDs...