Puerto Rico: government by divine right of Congress. American imperialism at its "best." Just because federal laws may be favorable to doing Activity X in Puerto Rico today doesn't mean it'll be that way tomorrow, and there's little San Juan can do about it
Well, for one thing they could vote to become a state. Of course, that would mean they'd have to start paying federal income taxes and would lose a lot of their exemptions. Or they could vote to become independent. Of course, they'd lose a lot of federal aid, defense, citizenship rights, etc.
They have repeatedly vote against those options in favor of the status quo. Which has some problems, but has benefits as well--and it's certainly not the case that the people of Puerto Rico can't vote to change it. They just don't.
they're taxing your use of a newly acquired item once it's safely in your posession inside your state Except that's not true. Or it's discriminatory. You get charged use tax only on out of state purchases.
If it were really a tax on USE, you'd have to pay it on things you bought in-state as well. In reality, it is a sales tax on out-of-state purchases, just named a use tax to be legally deceptive.
Does this mean they got TCP/IP running on a Turing Machine?
Yeah, but it had a 2-day ping time. This was mostly due to tape spinning.
"Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum possible RTT. I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP to talk to the University of Mars."--Linus Torvalds, net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c kernel source code comment
I tried. It doesn't work at all in my browser (Mozilla 1.7.3, FC2). I keep fairly up to date with my browser, but I'm not about to chase down the newest Java version or flash plugin for every random web page. If it doesn't work I'll use something that does.
Linking against a GPL library (e.g. cygwin) requires the result to be GPL'd.
An LGPL'd library (e.g. libc) can be used by non GPL'd software so long as you provide the ability to upgrade the LGPL'd library (dynamically linking satisfies this condition, as does providing object files and a link script).
Both of the above assume that copyright actually applies (if, e.g., your work isn't legally a derived work of the GPL'd or LGPL'd code then things are rather different).
Flagrant, organized, and large scale willful copyrignt infringement
Just a historical note...
In many coutries, if a local translation wasn't made in a reasonable time frame (reasonable varying from country to country) then anyone was allowed to make a translation. As soon as the foreign copyright holder decided to make a local translation, the unauthorized translator had to stop making new copies of their translated version.
The Berne convention banned this exception in Article 8: "Authors of literary and artistic works protected by this Convention shall enjoy the exclusive right of making and of authorizing the translation of their works throughout the term of protection of their rights in the original works."
Howard Dean was endorsed many times by the NRA when running for various offices, and often spoke against additional federal gun control measures. He was definitely "at the national level" (and may be the next DNC chairman).
Zell Miller, too.
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Let's face it, except for the Super NES days, Nintendo is largely irrelavent
Are you kidding? NES was far more dominant than the SNES. I'd argue that N64 was more important, too. When you think Nintendo, Super Mario Bros, Legend of Zelda, Mario Kart, and Goldeneye have got to come to mind as some of the top titles. I can't think of a single SNES title that had the same social impact (or expanded the console market in the same way), and SNES had the misfortune of coming out at the same time Sonic came out for the Sega.
I'm with you, but not as strongly. Unfortunately, the PS2 is really starting to get long in the tooth... As for Microsoft, they may be trying to push forward a *little* bit early, but console history shows it's about time to introduce the new generation for early adopters.
I disagree on both counts. Of course, I went from Atari 2600 (1979ish) -> Nintendo NES (1988ish) -> PS2 (2002), so my cycle might be a little longer than most.
But in terms of the games that are actually coming out, the last year's offerings are dramatically better for the PS2 than those 2 years ago. And within titles we're still seeing great enhancements. San Andreas is a massive advance over Vice City, SSX3 blows Tricky out of the water, etc.
So I don't think PS2 is anywhere near EOL with respect to new, better titles.
Even if you're not using version control (which is pretty much inexcusable, it's almost indispensable for working on private projects at home--with more than one developer it's mandatory, IMO) you should be doing nightly backups. Hopefully he's learned that.
If there were a version control system that didn't take a million years to set up, configure, and didn't fuck the files (don't get me started...), I'd use it.
That's the major redeeming facet of cvs.
Do this once: CVSROOT=~/cvs # Put in your.bashrc mkdir -p ~/cvs/CVSROOT
(replace ~/cvs with some other directory in both of the above if you want to--for multiple developers, probably make it somewhere more public and give permissions to a group they're all in).
Do this to put a project in cvs: cd my_source_dir cvs import my_source_dir MY_REPOSITORY MY_RELEASE
and then check it out somewhere to edit it under source control:
cd ~/src cvs checkout my_source_dir (Do some stuff) vim my_source_dir/somefile.c vim my_source_dir/someotherfile.c cd my_source_dir make./test_project (Commit those changes) cvs commit (Add a new file and test) vim newfile.c vim Makefile make./test_project cvs add newfile.c cvs commit
To access from a remote machine (if you have an ssh daemon running), on the remote machine just set the environment variables: CVS_RSH=ssh CVS_ROOT=username@my.host name.com:/home/username/c vs
and then just use cvs checkout/commit/etc as usual.
It just makes no sense that the letters would have been arranged as QWERTYUIOP rather than ABCDEFGHIJ, unless there was a reason for it. And the reason that's given, that it was to keep frequent letter combinations from jamming the hammers checks out.
Yes, nobody denies that reason. However, the primary way to keep the hammers from jamming was to make sure that you alternated which hand was used for adjacent letters. And it turns out that alternating hands speeds up typing speed.
Really, for all the hype about how the vowels and commonly used letters are on the home row, the primary reason that DVORAK keyboards are fast is that putting all the vowels on one hand causes you to alternate hands a lot--which is the same reason that QWERTY is fast as well.
conspicuous religious symbols does not belong in state schools because allowing them is an implicit acceptance of religious expression in a setting that is otherwise explicitly protected from it
Schools in the United States are not protected from religion. The school cannot promote any religion (which means, among other things, that the teachers may not express their particular religious beliefs), but the students most certainly may express their religious beliefs.
As I said, the POINT of the first amendment religion clause is to protect the individual's right to excercise their religion--the only reason to stop the state from endorsing religion is to protect the individual practitioners of other religions. Banning religious displays by individuals would run absolutely counter to that goal.
then what about other religious practices, such as organized prayer - as long as it is done by the students and not the teachers?
It is allowed, so long as it is not sanctioned or endorsed by the school. For instance, a student selected to speak at graduation cannot pray during that speech, since their speech is endorsed by the school. But the school cannot prohibit students from praying during lunchtime or on the playground (singly or in groups). However, even something like allowing use of a classroom has been found to be endorsement--so the school can't allow students to run a bible session in one of their classrooms after school or similar.
It's just against school rules in French state schools. School uniforms are hardly unusual.
But in the US, most school uniform codes (at public schools) have exemptions for religious garb. Many of those that don't have been successfully challenged. The state has an obligation to provide education without abrogating your religious beliefs. As one court put it, "the student cannot be made to choose between their religion and their education." Not only is there the first ammendment to consider, but also the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993.
(Just last week the Chattanooga, TN district settled with a student rather than go to court, allowing her to wear a head scarf which they had previously said violated the school dress code.)
And there have been numerous cases where even non-religious garb is protected as free speech--for instance, the Dearborn, Michigan case where a student (Bretton Barber) was allowed to wear an anti-war shirt depicting President Bush with an "International Terrorist" caption after the school tried to ban it. Or the Allen, TX case where Jennifer Boccia was allowed to wear a black armband to protest the schools new dress code and search policies (settled out of court with a declaration by the school that Boccia's suspension for wearing a black armband as a symbol of protest violated rights guaranteed to her under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution).
See: Aaron Ganues v. McIver Elementary School Tinker v. DesMoines Independent School District
I'm sure everyone understands that if one permits head scarves to be banned today, then banning nude statues is really only one election away
The banning of religious expression from state schools arises from the same enlightenment policy of separation of church and state as is expressed in the US constitution
Really? That's odd, because it's almost completely opposite from the US policy.
The US policy is that the state cannot endorse any religion; the school could not have a moment for prayer, or put up a cross, etc.
But the major reason for this is to protect the individuals' right to excercise religion without state interference.
IOW, wearing head scarves is exactly the sort of thing the US policy is designed to protect. There have been numerous instances where a school dress code that banned the scarves was challenged and the code overturned, citing seperation of church and state as the reason that students must be allowed to wear them. Indeed, the Chattanooga, TN district made such an allowance last week after consulting legal counsel.
Of course, the right to religious freedom isn't absolute--e.g. the Muslim woman in Florida who wanted to wear her burka in a driver's license picture lost her case. The courts ruled that the state interest (public safety among other issues) in identifying drivers outweighed the religious interest in the case.
Hot air at a given pressure is less dense than cold air. It has a slightly lower refractive index. Around (and especially above) a hot surface, there will be convection currents and mixing of hot and cold air. What this gives you is a volume of air in which the index of refraction is constantly changing both in space and time.
Feynman has a good explanation of the mirage effect in chapter 2 of QED.
especially when listening to music on hi-quality speakers a la Bose
Bose is doesn't make high-quality speakers, they make expensive speakers that don't perform nearly as well as alternatives (for instance, the Acoustimass satellites use crappy paper cones that perform poorly in the upper frequencies). A $300 pair of B&W DM302's will thrash anything Bose makes soundly for sound quality. Also investigate Hale, Thiel, or Paradigm. If you really want to spend thousands, spend it on Magnepan (Magneplanar 1.6Q) or Vandersteen (2ce signature) or the higher end speakers from the companies I already mentioned. But those DM302's are good enough to be highly rated by places like Stereophile magazine and they're an incredible deal.
If you really want a bunch of little satellite speakers, Energy makes a much better sounding (and somewhat cheaper) system like that. I hear from people I trust that Tannoy makes an incredible one as well, but I haven't heard it.
Unless your doing some form of audio editing or "production" recording, is lossless really worth the extra size compared to a 192kbps Ogg or MP3? I usually have more problems with static from the stupid 3.5mm jack than a lossy format.
Well, I store all my new rips as flac. Disk is cheap, the time it takes to rip all my albums is not. I just encode to ogg for my player, but if I need mp3 (or another bitrate) or something else I can regenerate it without having to rip all over again or do a double-lossy compression.
No sorry. YOU CAN refuse a search of your vehicle (at least speaking from Alaska law here)
Alaska law cannot trump federal law. A federal officer investigating a federal crime (e.g. drug possession) can search your vehicle without a warrant; only "articulable and reasonable suspicion" is required. (the search must still be reasonable).
(As an aside, I would be genuinely surprised if Alaska limited its own officers in this way--I think it's more likely that you're misinterpreting the law. Terms like "in plain view" often don't mean what a rational English speaker thinks they should mean--the courts have often held that, for instance, things under the passenger seat are "in plain view").
If you are in the back seat of his car tho, he is in no danger of you grabbing a weapon from your car, he cannot search it without a warrant
Absolutely wrong. Custodial search is well-established following an arrest, and indeed extends the scope of what may be searched to include closed containers. See, for instance, NEW YORK v. BELTON, 453 U.S. 454 (1981) "lawful custodial arrest creates a situation justifying the contemporaneous warrantless search of the arrestee and of the immediately surrounding area. Not only may the police search the passenger compartment of the car in such circumstances, they may also examine the contents of any containers found in the passenger compartment. And such a container may be searched whether it is open or closed, since the justification for the search is not that the arrestee has no privacy interest in the container but that the lawful custodial arrest justifies the infringement of any privacy interest the arrestee may have."
There is a long line of Supreme Court cases establishing the legality of warrantless vehicle searches, beginning with CARROLL v. U.S., 267 U.S. 132 (1925) which has been broadened by a number of decisions since then.
See:
CARROLL v. U.S., 267 U.S. 132 (1925)
RAKAS v. ILLINOIS, 439 U.S. 128 (1978)
CALIFORNIA v. ACEVEDO, 500 U.S. 565 (1991) and: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/am endment04/03.html#4
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Puerto Rico: government by divine right of Congress. American imperialism at its "best." Just because federal laws may be favorable to doing Activity X in Puerto Rico today doesn't mean it'll be that way tomorrow, and there's little San Juan can do about it
Well, for one thing they could vote to become a state. Of course, that would mean they'd have to start paying federal income taxes and would lose a lot of their exemptions. Or they could vote to become independent. Of course, they'd lose a lot of federal aid, defense, citizenship rights, etc.
They have repeatedly vote against those options in favor of the status quo. Which has some problems, but has benefits as well--and it's certainly not the case that the people of Puerto Rico can't vote to change it. They just don't.
they're taxing your use of a newly acquired item once it's safely in your posession inside your state
Except that's not true. Or it's discriminatory. You get charged use tax only on out of state purchases.
If it were really a tax on USE, you'd have to pay it on things you bought in-state as well. In reality, it is a sales tax on out-of-state purchases, just named a use tax to be legally deceptive.
Yes, the US has one of the lowest total tax rates of all industrial nations when you add up all the various taxes.
Yeah, but it had a 2-day ping time. This was mostly due to tape spinning.
"Note that 120 sec is defined in the protocol as the maximum possible RTT. I guess we'll have to use something other than TCP to talk to the University of Mars."--Linus Torvalds, net/ipv4/tcp_timer.c kernel source code comment
Yawn. You've obviously not seen map24 then?
I tried. It doesn't work at all in my browser (Mozilla 1.7.3, FC2). I keep fairly up to date with my browser, but I'm not about to chase down the newest Java version or flash plugin for every random web page. If it doesn't work I'll use something that does.
Linking against a GPL library (e.g. cygwin) requires the result to be GPL'd.
An LGPL'd library (e.g. libc) can be used by non GPL'd software so long as you provide the ability to upgrade the LGPL'd library (dynamically linking satisfies this condition, as does providing object files and a link script).
Both of the above assume that copyright actually applies (if, e.g., your work isn't legally a derived work of the GPL'd or LGPL'd code then things are rather different).
Unfortunately he still supports an Assualt Weapons ban (where an assault weapon is described as a rifle with a pistol grip)
He did lobby to have a number of weapons removed from the banned list (including a number of shotguns).
But I'm curious now, are there any others?
Yes. Try googling for "pro-gun democrats" or similar. Many governors and congressmen from rural states fit the category.
It's not an issue I follow much, but I remember Volkmer (from MO) and Geren (TX) were very much pro-gun. So was Harry Reid (NV).
Flagrant, organized, and large scale willful copyrignt infringement
Just a historical note...
In many coutries, if a local translation wasn't made in a reasonable time frame (reasonable varying from country to country) then anyone was allowed to make a translation. As soon as the foreign copyright holder decided to make a local translation, the unauthorized translator had to stop making new copies of their translated version.
The Berne convention banned this exception in Article 8:
"Authors of literary and artistic works protected by this Convention shall enjoy the exclusive right of making and of authorizing the translation of their works throughout the term of protection of their rights in the original works."
Just off the top of my head...
Howard Dean was endorsed many times by the NRA when running for various offices, and often spoke against additional federal gun control measures. He was definitely "at the national level" (and may be the next DNC chairman).
Zell Miller, too.
Let's face it, except for the Super NES days, Nintendo is largely irrelavent
Are you kidding? NES was far more dominant than the SNES. I'd argue that N64 was more important, too. When you think Nintendo, Super Mario Bros, Legend of Zelda, Mario Kart, and Goldeneye have got to come to mind as some of the top titles. I can't think of a single SNES title that had the same social impact (or expanded the console market in the same way), and SNES had the misfortune of coming out at the same time Sonic came out for the Sega.
I'm with you, but not as strongly. Unfortunately, the PS2 is really starting to get long in the tooth...
As for Microsoft, they may be trying to push forward a *little* bit early, but console history shows it's about time to introduce the new generation for early adopters.
I disagree on both counts. Of course, I went from Atari 2600 (1979ish) -> Nintendo NES (1988ish) -> PS2 (2002), so my cycle might be a little longer than most.
But in terms of the games that are actually coming out, the last year's offerings are dramatically better for the PS2 than those 2 years ago. And within titles we're still seeing great enhancements. San Andreas is a massive advance over Vice City, SSX3 blows Tricky out of the water, etc.
So I don't think PS2 is anywhere near EOL with respect to new, better titles.
It's no cube. It's not even square. They should have called it the GameRectangularSolid
Or the GameRectangularParallelepiped.
Or I suppose that GameCuboid would be acceptable...
Ugh.
Even if you're not using version control (which is pretty much inexcusable, it's almost indispensable for working on private projects at home--with more than one developer it's mandatory, IMO) you should be doing nightly backups. Hopefully he's learned that.
If there were a version control system that didn't take a million years to set up, configure, and didn't fuck the files (don't get me started...), I'd use it.
.bashrc
./test_project ./test_project
t name.com:/home/username/c vs
That's the major redeeming facet of cvs.
Do this once:
CVSROOT=~/cvs # Put in your
mkdir -p ~/cvs/CVSROOT
(replace ~/cvs with some other directory in both of the above if you want to--for multiple developers, probably make it somewhere more public and give permissions to a group they're all in).
Do this to put a project in cvs:
cd my_source_dir
cvs import my_source_dir MY_REPOSITORY MY_RELEASE
and then check it out somewhere to edit it under source control:
cd ~/src
cvs checkout my_source_dir
(Do some stuff)
vim my_source_dir/somefile.c
vim my_source_dir/someotherfile.c
cd my_source_dir
make
(Commit those changes)
cvs commit
(Add a new file and test)
vim newfile.c
vim Makefile
make
cvs add newfile.c
cvs commit
To access from a remote machine (if you have an ssh daemon running), on the remote machine just set the environment variables:
CVS_RSH=ssh
CVS_ROOT=username@my.hos
and then just use cvs checkout/commit/etc as usual.
It just makes no sense that the letters would have been arranged as QWERTYUIOP rather than ABCDEFGHIJ, unless there was a reason for it. And the reason that's given, that it was to keep frequent letter combinations from jamming the hammers checks out.
Yes, nobody denies that reason. However, the primary way to keep the hammers from jamming was to make sure that you alternated which hand was used for adjacent letters. And it turns out that alternating hands speeds up typing speed.
Really, for all the hype about how the vowels and commonly used letters are on the home row, the primary reason that DVORAK keyboards are fast is that putting all the vowels on one hand causes you to alternate hands a lot--which is the same reason that QWERTY is fast as well.
ctl-c? hold down control with left pinky
Does anyone not just use their palm to hold down ctrl? No reason to take your hand off the home row.
conspicuous religious symbols does not belong in state schools because allowing them is an implicit acceptance of religious expression in a setting that is otherwise explicitly protected from it
Schools in the United States are not protected from religion. The school cannot promote any religion (which means, among other things, that the teachers may not express their particular religious beliefs), but the students most certainly may express their religious beliefs.
As I said, the POINT of the first amendment religion clause is to protect the individual's right to excercise their religion--the only reason to stop the state from endorsing religion is to protect the individual practitioners of other religions. Banning religious displays by individuals would run absolutely counter to that goal.
then what about other religious practices, such as organized prayer - as long as it is done by the students and not the teachers?
It is allowed, so long as it is not sanctioned or endorsed by the school. For instance, a student selected to speak at graduation cannot pray during that speech, since their speech is endorsed by the school. But the school cannot prohibit students from praying during lunchtime or on the playground (singly or in groups). However, even something like allowing use of a classroom has been found to be endorsement--so the school can't allow students to run a bible session in one of their classrooms after school or similar.
It's just against school rules in French state schools. School uniforms are hardly unusual.
But in the US, most school uniform codes (at public schools) have exemptions for religious garb. Many of those that don't have been successfully challenged. The state has an obligation to provide education without abrogating your religious beliefs. As one court put it, "the student cannot be made to choose between their religion and their education." Not only is there the first ammendment to consider, but also the Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993.
(Just last week the Chattanooga, TN district settled with a student rather than go to court, allowing her to wear a head scarf which they had previously said violated the school dress code.)
And there have been numerous cases where even non-religious garb is protected as free speech--for instance, the Dearborn, Michigan case where a student (Bretton Barber) was allowed to wear an anti-war shirt depicting President Bush with an "International Terrorist" caption after the school tried to ban it. Or the Allen, TX case where Jennifer Boccia was allowed to wear a black armband to protest the schools new dress code and search policies (settled out of court with a declaration by the school that Boccia's suspension for wearing a black armband as a symbol of protest violated rights guaranteed to her under the First and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution).
See:
Aaron Ganues v. McIver Elementary School
Tinker v. DesMoines Independent School District
The banning of religious expression from state schools arises from the same enlightenment policy of separation of church and state as is expressed in the US constitution
Really? That's odd, because it's almost completely opposite from the US policy.
The US policy is that the state cannot endorse any religion; the school could not have a moment for prayer, or put up a cross, etc.
But the major reason for this is to protect the individuals' right to excercise religion without state interference.
IOW, wearing head scarves is exactly the sort of thing the US policy is designed to protect. There have been numerous instances where a school dress code that banned the scarves was challenged and the code overturned, citing seperation of church and state as the reason that students must be allowed to wear them. Indeed, the Chattanooga, TN district made such an allowance last week after consulting legal counsel.
Of course, the right to religious freedom isn't absolute--e.g. the Muslim woman in Florida who wanted to wear her burka in a driver's license picture lost her case. The courts ruled that the state interest (public safety among other issues) in identifying drivers outweighed the religious interest in the case.
Hot air at a given pressure is less dense than cold air. It has a slightly lower refractive index. Around (and especially above) a hot surface, there will be convection currents and mixing of hot and cold air. What this gives you is a volume of air in which the index of refraction is constantly changing both in space and time.
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Feynman has a good explanation of the mirage effect in chapter 2 of QED.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/069
or http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnI
Ahh. Bose makes okay car speakers. JBL is worth checking out.
bang-olafson _are_ the shnitZ! Nobody else that I know of makes interesting art pieces that also function as average speakers.
especially when listening to music on hi-quality speakers a la Bose
Bose is doesn't make high-quality speakers, they make expensive speakers that don't perform nearly as well as alternatives (for instance, the Acoustimass satellites use crappy paper cones that perform poorly in the upper frequencies). A $300 pair of B&W DM302's will thrash anything Bose makes soundly for sound quality. Also investigate Hale, Thiel, or Paradigm. If you really want to spend thousands, spend it on Magnepan (Magneplanar 1.6Q) or Vandersteen (2ce signature) or the higher end speakers from the companies I already mentioned. But those DM302's are good enough to be highly rated by places like Stereophile magazine and they're an incredible deal.
If you really want a bunch of little satellite speakers, Energy makes a much better sounding (and somewhat cheaper) system like that. I hear from people I trust that Tannoy makes an incredible one as well, but I haven't heard it.
Unless your doing some form of audio editing or "production" recording, is lossless really worth the extra size compared to a 192kbps Ogg or MP3? I usually have more problems with static from the stupid 3.5mm jack than a lossy format.
Well, I store all my new rips as flac. Disk is cheap, the time it takes to rip all my albums is not. I just encode to ogg for my player, but if I need mp3 (or another bitrate) or something else I can regenerate it without having to rip all over again or do a double-lossy compression.
No sorry. YOU CAN refuse a search of your vehicle (at least speaking from Alaska law here)
m endment04/03.html#4
Alaska law cannot trump federal law. A federal officer investigating a federal crime (e.g. drug possession) can search your vehicle without a warrant; only "articulable and reasonable suspicion" is required. (the search must still be reasonable).
(As an aside, I would be genuinely surprised if Alaska limited its own officers in this way--I think it's more likely that you're misinterpreting the law. Terms like "in plain view" often don't mean what a rational English speaker thinks they should mean--the courts have often held that, for instance, things under the passenger seat are "in plain view").
If you are in the back seat of his car tho, he is in no danger of you grabbing a weapon from your car, he cannot search it without a warrant
Absolutely wrong. Custodial search is well-established following an arrest, and indeed extends the scope of what may be searched to include closed containers. See, for instance, NEW YORK v. BELTON, 453 U.S. 454 (1981) "lawful custodial arrest creates a situation justifying the contemporaneous warrantless search of the arrestee and of the immediately surrounding area. Not only may the police search the passenger compartment of the car in such circumstances, they may also examine the contents of any containers found in the passenger compartment. And such a container may be searched whether it is open or closed, since the justification for the search is not that the arrestee has no privacy interest in the container but that the lawful custodial arrest justifies the infringement of any privacy interest the arrestee may have."
There is a long line of Supreme Court cases establishing the legality of warrantless vehicle searches, beginning with CARROLL v. U.S., 267 U.S. 132 (1925) which has been broadened by a number of decisions since then.
See:
CARROLL v. U.S., 267 U.S. 132 (1925)
RAKAS v. ILLINOIS, 439 U.S. 128 (1978)
CALIFORNIA v. ACEVEDO, 500 U.S. 565 (1991)
and: http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/data/constitution/a