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  1. Re:100 mile border on Court: 4th Amendment Applies At Border, Password Protected Files Not Suspicious · · Score: 1

    The extended border region doesn't obviate the need for reasonable suspicion. It is only in ports of entry that suspicion is not required to justify search.

  2. Re:Irrelevant jurisdiction? on Court: 4th Amendment Applies At Border, Password Protected Files Not Suspicious · · Score: 2

    Nope.

    The decision of this court is binding on all the lower courts in its district. It covers pretty much the western 1/5 of the United States as the 9th is the largest district (at one time it even covered part of China). It's possible courts in other districts will use it as precedence as well unless a different circuit court rules the opposite way.

    Conflicting appellate rulings are one of ways to trigger Supreme Court interest.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Precedent#Type_of_precedent

  3. Re:A sudden attack of reason on Obama Administration Supports Journalist Arrested For Recording Cops · · Score: 1

    The states still have the right to declare martial law and occasionally do so. The last was after Katrina in New Orleans.

    After the 1906 earthquake 200 looters were shot or hung from lamp posts by the California National Guard.

  4. Contact address on City Councilman: Email Tax Could Discourage Spam, Fund Post Office Functions · · Score: 1

    Here is the email address of Berkeley City Councilman Gordon Wozniak

    gwozniak@cityofberkeley.info

    You know what to do.

  5. Re:Same DOJ That on US Attorney General Defends Handling of Aaron Swartz Case · · Score: 1

    Sorry there are plenty of non-cheap forgeries floating around, being passed off as real. To ignore this is idiotic.

    And of course there are some examples of things like fake pharmaceuticals that have led to death of their victims.

    http://www.cnn.com/2012/07/17/health/living-well/falsified-medicine-bate

    So no, it is not a benign problem.

  6. Re:"There Are Few Better Ways?" on In Wake of Poor Reviews, Amazon Yanks SimCity Download · · Score: 1

    Most likely they got lucky and logged in.

  7. Re:Amazon is deleting poor reviews ... on In Wake of Poor Reviews, Amazon Yanks SimCity Download · · Score: 2

    Eh? I see 1039 one star reviews.

  8. Re:Texas on Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location · · Score: 1

    You can't use the Internet to find the answer to this?

    I'm certainly not going to do your research for you.

  9. Re:Texas on Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location · · Score: 1

    >"Victory or Death!" may sound silly to you, but the saying came from Texas just prior to March 6, 1863.

    You are kidding, right? This is FAR older.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victory_or_death

    By the way, I grew up in Bedford Mass, where a copy of this flag:

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedford_Flag

    hung in the entrance to the high school.

    So much for education in Texas.

  10. Re:Texas on Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location · · Score: 1

    Putting your money into a personal savings account in lieu of buying health insurance is an absolutely foolish thing to do. The main benefit of health insurance is covering catastrophic illnesses.

    For example my neighbor is recovering from kidney cancer. He is on his 2nd million of medical bills. Fortunately he is covered. Otherwise he would have lost everything.

  11. Re:Texas on Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location · · Score: 1

    Sorry, illegal immigrants aren't counted in these statistics.

  12. Re:Texas on Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location · · Score: 1

    It's A definition, not THE definition. What you cited says:

    1: capacity to endure pain or hardship : endurance, fortitude, stamina
    2a : sympathy or indulgence for beliefs or practices differing from or conflicting with one's own
    2b : the act of allowing something : toleration

    2a is clearly the applicable use here.

  13. Re:and yet they're so far out there on patents on Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location · · Score: 1

    Big on personal liberty except they lead the nation in executions and they have the largest prison population in the US.

    Big on personal liberty except for roadside body cavity searches.

    http://freedomoutpost.com/2012/12/personal-liberty-violation-roadside-body-cavity-search-in-texas/

    Then of course there is the little empire of Sheriff Joseph M. Arpaio.

  14. Re:Texas on Texas Bills Would Bar Warrantless Snooping On Phone Location · · Score: 1, Informative

    Your message, and the way it disparages the 'left' is in itself a refutation of the idea that Texas is tolerant.

    As far as Texas being successful, the fact that its citizens have the highest percentage of minimum wage jobs in the country puts that under great question.

    The fact that Texas is tied for last place in the percentage of its children with health care insurance and is fourth in the nation in child poverty again brings into question as to whether it is 'successful'.

    The decisions on things like teaching evolution in Texas schools call into question the process by which it is governed. The fact that Texas ranks 50th among the states in percentage of citizens over 25 with a high school diploma illustrates the impact of these decisions.

  15. Re:Charm school? Really? on MIT's Charm School For Geeks Turns 20 · · Score: 1

    There is no real reason for this except to improve one's ability to keep a job and a woman.

  16. Re:Not long for this administration on US Attorney General Defends Handling of Aaron Swartz Case · · Score: 1

    Election and popularity poll results provide evidence that your idea is baloney.

  17. Re:Same DOJ That on US Attorney General Defends Handling of Aaron Swartz Case · · Score: 1, Insightful

    > This is the same DOJ that...spends thousands going after ... illegal 'copycap' handbags and sports paraphernalia, etc.

    So what the heck is wrong with going after this sort of stuff? Trademark infringement is seriously bad news. Ask anyone who has gotten fake merchandise thinking it was genuine.

  18. Re:Camping/Hiking on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Summer Before Ph.D. Program? · · Score: 1

    1. Mexico isn't in Central America.

    2. The murder rates in Mexico and Central America are far higher than in the US.

    3. I've been there. They don't look like the US.

    4. There aren't as many guns there.

    So your statements are pretty much 100% in error.

  19. Re:Camping/Hiking on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Summer Before Ph.D. Program? · · Score: 1

    America is a large place. There is plenty to do here, and if he's like most students he's going to need his money.

  20. Re:It's never too late... on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Summer Before Ph.D. Program? · · Score: 1

    He's attending a liberal arts college. He didn't say he was a liberal arts major.

    Such places often have science curricula and grant science degrees.

    Here is an example of such:

    http://www.bates.edu/biology/

  21. Last Hurrah on Ask Slashdot: Advice For Summer Before Ph.D. Program? · · Score: 1

    Really, the only thing to do that makes sense is to spend your time enjoying yourself in the most hedonistic way possible.

    Once your classes start you will be working 16 hour days 7 days a week until your dissertation is accepted.

    And then if you choose an academic life it will start all over again until you get tenure.

    This is your last chance for what could be more than a decade. Make the most of it.

  22. Re:Possible scenario on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 1

    States have the power to institute martial law. The last incident of this was post Katrina.

    Previous cases like the SF earthquake and 1900 Galveston earthquake involved summary execution of hundreds of looters - shoot on sight authorizations.

  23. Re:Aircraft have killed US citizens on US soil bef on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 1

    The article you linked to described privately hired aircraft, not government aircraft being used to kill US citizens. Of course it being Wikipedia it may not be a definitive description.

    This site, presumably pro-union describes it that way as well.

    http://www.apwu.org/laborhistory/10-4_blairmountain/10-4_blairmountain.htm

    Regardless of what is being said I don't see a problem with the President authorizing use of force to kill a US citizen if the citizen is actively resisting law enforcement with his own weaponry. Drones or whatever the means doesn't signify much to me.

    The problem is the idea of an Afghanistan style take out. That is too much like a summary execution without due process.

    To me that would be grounds for impeachment and possible other legal action.

  24. Re:US soil or not, what's the difference? on Rand Paul Launches a Filibuster Against Drone Strikes On US Soil · · Score: 1

    The difference is the 5th Amendment of the Constitution of the United States.

  25. The Consumer Wins on Microsoft Restores Transfer Rights To Office 2013 · · Score: 1

    Who would have guessed?

    So now I might take advantage of the 2013 upgrade offer that came with my Office 2012 Student and Home pack I bought recently.

    This makes me hate MS less. Still ticked off about when they bought Bungie though.