Last I heard, any member of the public has a right to record a police officer's activity while he's on the job. The courts have repeatedly affirmed it to the point where police interference can cost them their qualified immunity.
His employer has the right too. I think it's a really bad idea because you're more than dangerously close to "if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide."
As it turns out, neither does any police officer. They may do it from time to time, just as burglars may break in to your house from time to time, but they don't have the right.
Do you believe it would be wise to give your typical call center employee a gun, a squad car and instructions to arrest lawbreakers?
Call centers offer dehumanizing jobs that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. The last thing in the world I want is for someone who has grown used to that environment, someone who considers it an acceptable form human interaction, to be in charge of whether or not you or I go to jail.
If you have any sense, you don't want that either.
We're all human beings. None of us are 100% faultless 100% of the time and with the exception of folks with an exhibitionist fetish none of us particularly enjoy being surveilled,
You're equating a constantly-overwriting black box that keeps around last two minutes of talk before a crash with continuous recording and long term storage of everything a police officer says, retrievable at his employers' pleasure.
I'm sorry. Truly. One of my friends has worked call centers his entire career. It's a horrible, dehumanizing job. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
And I don't know about you, but I don't want the kind of people who would tolerate dehumanizing working conditions long term to run around with guns and squad cars. Like any worker, expect a policeman to treat you in every bit as dreadful a manner as his employer treats him.
I'm not a police officer and I have the ability to rob you of your constitutional rights any time I feel like it. I'm allowed to carry a gun too, and have the authority to invoke a citizens' arrest.
If I violate your rights and you can prove it, I'll go to jail afterwards. If they wouldn't, that's a problem with the prosecutors and court system, not a problem with the police force.
I'm leery of reducing a job as important as police officer to call-center working conditions. If you know anything about call centers, you should be too.
The surveillance state is all about protecting people from falsehood and wrongdoing. What differentiates the surveillance state from actual protection? An off switch.
As I read these responses, I'm forced to wonder: would any of the posters tolerate having every spoken word recorded by The Boss throughout their shift? Even one of you?
I understand the history here, the past bad deeds from members of this particular police force,. Nevertheless, these voice recorders sound to me like an outrageous invasion of the person of officers who individually have been accused of and found guilty of nothing at all.
It's the law, stupid. Netflix owns the DVDs it buys (first sale doctrine) and can rent them if it feels like it. Except where the publisher gives them a better deal to not own the DVDs, but then they can obviously rent them out too.
if "safety yellow" were indeed "generic," it still wouldn't be registrable.
That's my point. The whoosh you heard may have been it sailing over your head. The color yellow on any kind of electrical equipment should not have been a registrable mark.
The PTO likely erred in granting registration. A decent lawyer can gently make that point to fluke's counsel while agreeing to change the colors on future product orders in exchange for fluke advising the govees that they've examined the situation and are satisfied that there is no infringement.
Which should promptly end the impound. For a lot less money than $30k.
OLPC's goal was to induce the creation of computers affordable in the third-world and usable in an environment where basic utilities are not available. At the time, a bottom-end new computer cost around $500.
Today we have a tablet and netbook industry which churns out the cheap components that such computers need at a high economy of scale. Micro Center has a bottom-end android tablet on sale for $50.
Things may not have worked out as OLPC expected or in a way that left OLPC with any importance as an organization, but their goal was surely achieved.
If they haven't talked to an intellectual property lawyer yet, they should do so immediately. Safety yellow on an electrical testing device is incredibly generic.
Also: except for the brief brain-fart, the AC's comment about failing to understand the interstate commerce clause was correct. A company's headquarters location has no bearing on whether a particular transaction is interstate commerce and thus immune to state oversight. Moreover, similar topics come up in this forum often enough to justify a certain level of disgust with folks who still can't spot the difference. Applying the pejorative "moron" to mosb1000 was not entirely without foundation.
Well, no, it isn't. Iridium data channels don't have the capacity for that. RUDICS data streams take a long time to establish (on the order of a minute), move only a couple hundred bytes per second and drop frequently under good conditions. SBD shots are more likely to work, but you can only deliver a 2000 byte packet once every minute or two.
I don't know which one the advertiser's device uses but either way it's only enough for periodic snapshots of the data not a continuous send.
Do you have Onstar service for your car? Same difference. Most people choose not to buy it. The device is only present in new vehicles because Onstar pays manufacturers to include it.
Yeah, it really costs $100k. Custom Iridium devices of this character aren't terribly expensive, on the order of $500k to $1M to design and $5k-$10k each to manufacture in small quantities. The rest is the cost of putting it on the plane, maintaining it and paying for satellite service.
Iridium is an LEO satellite constellation. You only send the radio signal a few hundred miles, you you can basically point an antenna generically at the sky and talk. It doesn't require the kind of complex engineering that talking to a geostationary satellite from a moving vehicle would.
The report didn't say, but a device of this nature is most likely what was on he air france flight, sending in the maintenance reports.
Nevertheless, $100k is a lot of money. Would the passengers have been willing to pay more for the tickets so that their loved ones would have a slightly better idea where they crashed? Probably not.
Not really. Linux inherently does everything UAC does and more. SELinux tries goes beyond that.
Instead of just needing permission to make changes to your computer, SELinux requires a process that you gave permission to make a change to your computer get permission again to make a different kind of change to your computer (and again and again and again).
As reported, it also forbids executable stacks. Ordinary Linux only requires programs which use executable stacks to declare themselves. The vast majority of programs don't need to, so they're protected against stack overflows.
A stack overflow in a single-user game running with ordinary account permissions is, quite frankly, not a security issue.
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Well I WOULD like to see a few more people prosecuted for perjury. Not just cops.
Last I heard, any member of the public has a right to record a police officer's activity while he's on the job. The courts have repeatedly affirmed it to the point where police interference can cost them their qualified immunity.
His employer has the right too. I think it's a really bad idea because you're more than dangerously close to "if you're not doing anything wrong, you have nothing to hide."
As it turns out, neither does any police officer. They may do it from time to time, just as burglars may break in to your house from time to time, but they don't have the right.
Do you believe it would be wise to give your typical call center employee a gun, a squad car and instructions to arrest lawbreakers?
Call centers offer dehumanizing jobs that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. The last thing in the world I want is for someone who has grown used to that environment, someone who considers it an acceptable form human interaction, to be in charge of whether or not you or I go to jail.
If you have any sense, you don't want that either.
We're all human beings. None of us are 100% faultless 100% of the time and with the exception of folks with an exhibitionist fetish none of us particularly enjoy being surveilled,
You're equating a constantly-overwriting black box that keeps around last two minutes of talk before a crash with continuous recording and long term storage of everything a police officer says, retrievable at his employers' pleasure.
You accuse me of logical fallacy? Really?
I'm sorry. Truly. One of my friends has worked call centers his entire career. It's a horrible, dehumanizing job. I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
And I don't know about you, but I don't want the kind of people who would tolerate dehumanizing working conditions long term to run around with guns and squad cars. Like any worker, expect a policeman to treat you in every bit as dreadful a manner as his employer treats him.
I'm not a police officer and I have the ability to rob you of your constitutional rights any time I feel like it. I'm allowed to carry a gun too, and have the authority to invoke a citizens' arrest.
If I violate your rights and you can prove it, I'll go to jail afterwards. If they wouldn't, that's a problem with the prosecutors and court system, not a problem with the police force.
I'm leery of reducing a job as important as police officer to call-center working conditions. If you know anything about call centers, you should be too.
1) Lots of people do already. For instance, call center employees.
There are reasons call center ranks below garbage collection on the list of desirable jobs. This is one of them.
I understand your point though: you wouldn't tolerate that sort of treatment but the other guy should have to. He's different!
More precisely: control of the off switch and who has it.
I see what you did there.
The surveillance state is all about protecting people from falsehood and wrongdoing. What differentiates the surveillance state from actual protection? An off switch.
As I read these responses, I'm forced to wonder: would any of the posters tolerate having every spoken word recorded by The Boss throughout their shift? Even one of you?
I understand the history here, the past bad deeds from members of this particular police force,. Nevertheless, these voice recorders sound to me like an outrageous invasion of the person of officers who individually have been accused of and found guilty of nothing at all.
It's the law, stupid. Netflix owns the DVDs it buys (first sale doctrine) and can rent them if it feels like it. Except where the publisher gives them a better deal to not own the DVDs, but then they can obviously rent them out too.
if "safety yellow" were indeed "generic," it still wouldn't be registrable.
That's my point. The whoosh you heard may have been it sailing over your head. The color yellow on any kind of electrical equipment should not have been a registrable mark.
The PTO likely erred in granting registration. A decent lawyer can gently make that point to fluke's counsel while agreeing to change the colors on future product orders in exchange for fluke advising the govees that they've examined the situation and are satisfied that there is no infringement.
Which should promptly end the impound. For a lot less money than $30k.
OLPC's goal was to induce the creation of computers affordable in the third-world and usable in an environment where basic utilities are not available. At the time, a bottom-end new computer cost around $500.
Today we have a tablet and netbook industry which churns out the cheap components that such computers need at a high economy of scale. Micro Center has a bottom-end android tablet on sale for $50.
Things may not have worked out as OLPC expected or in a way that left OLPC with any importance as an organization, but their goal was surely achieved.
If they haven't talked to an intellectual property lawyer yet, they should do so immediately. Safety yellow on an electrical testing device is incredibly generic.
My point was: I agree with your point.
Also: except for the brief brain-fart, the AC's comment about failing to understand the interstate commerce clause was correct. A company's headquarters location has no bearing on whether a particular transaction is interstate commerce and thus immune to state oversight. Moreover, similar topics come up in this forum often enough to justify a certain level of disgust with folks who still can't spot the difference. Applying the pejorative "moron" to mosb1000 was not entirely without foundation.
Well, no, it isn't. Iridium data channels don't have the capacity for that. RUDICS data streams take a long time to establish (on the order of a minute), move only a couple hundred bytes per second and drop frequently under good conditions. SBD shots are more likely to work, but you can only deliver a 2000 byte packet once every minute or two.
I don't know which one the advertiser's device uses but either way it's only enough for periodic snapshots of the data not a continuous send.
Do you have Onstar service for your car? Same difference. Most people choose not to buy it. The device is only present in new vehicles because Onstar pays manufacturers to include it.
I'm pretty sure he meant to say "the interstate" rather than "in their state." What on earth did you think he meant to say?
Yeah, it really costs $100k. Custom Iridium devices of this character aren't terribly expensive, on the order of $500k to $1M to design and $5k-$10k each to manufacture in small quantities. The rest is the cost of putting it on the plane, maintaining it and paying for satellite service.
Iridium is an LEO satellite constellation. You only send the radio signal a few hundred miles, you you can basically point an antenna generically at the sky and talk. It doesn't require the kind of complex engineering that talking to a geostationary satellite from a moving vehicle would.
The report didn't say, but a device of this nature is most likely what was on he air france flight, sending in the maintenance reports.
Nevertheless, $100k is a lot of money. Would the passengers have been willing to pay more for the tickets so that their loved ones would have a slightly better idea where they crashed? Probably not.
That's what it exists for: getting money for school activities.
Not really. Linux inherently does everything UAC does and more. SELinux tries goes beyond that.
Instead of just needing permission to make changes to your computer, SELinux requires a process that you gave permission to make a change to your computer get permission again to make a different kind of change to your computer (and again and again and again).
As reported, it also forbids executable stacks. Ordinary Linux only requires programs which use executable stacks to declare themselves. The vast majority of programs don't need to, so they're protected against stack overflows.
A stack overflow in a single-user game running with ordinary account permissions is, quite frankly, not a security issue.
Have you looked at whether a faulty interaction with DNSSEC could be at fault?