In order for them to get a search warrant, the FBI must present ample causation to a judge. Checks-and-balances are supposed to help prevent fishing expeditions.
BZZZT! Wrong answer, thank you for playing.
If you haven't been paying attention, Congress has been essentially eliminating most of those checks and balances for some time now. And we've been letting them do it to us. If you don't believe me, look CLOSELY at the PATRIOT Act. Don't need probable cause for warrant or even the warrant for a search and siezure if they label you as a terrorist. The law allows the FBI that privilege, in violation of the Fourth Ammendment- and they've been using it. The law also gives the FBI the right to arrest you and treat you as a foriegn national if you're labeled a terrorist- no due process or anything inconvienient like that. And they've used those features too.
Anyone that thinks that the checks and balances are currently being acknoleged as being anything much more than toilet paper is sadly deluded.
It'll be 5-15 years at minimum before that man sees ANYTHING they siezed from his place of residence. Innocent or guilty doesn't matter in that case- that's just how long they get around to returning things to be returned. It all sounds like they were on a fishing expidition or out to send somebody a message- both of which are not allowed by the Fourth Ammendment in the first place.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
Unless they had probable cause, they can't be issued a warrant in the first place. A fishing expidition doesn't constitute probable cause. Either they truely suspect him of the alleged crime and have some proof thereof to lead them to believe this is the case- or they don't. Sounds like they don't, to me. Having a warrant doesn't mean much these days- with PATRIOT, etc. they're really, really dangerous documents that are given out more on a whim in this day and age...
If you're in shock, you might not be thinking. Also worth mentioning is that you might not want to be around anyway- the agents are going to take things from your property and since they're armed, are you going to try to stop them from taking something NOT covered by the Warrant? I, personally, wouldn't want to be about unless I had to be- the stress of seeing them take my stuff and me being absolutely POWERLESS to prevent any of it would drive me physically ill.
You're sure as hell not going to see something like this get presented by news outlets. Not sensational and it's just some geeks getting busted for hacking, afterall... Never mind that while due process might have been done, it may still be an unreasonable search and siezure of his property by virtue of the fact that they had little real worth to go on and used PATRIOT or something similar to rush a warrant through the courts. Since I don't know the whole story, I'm not going to venture a guess either way- but to ask me to think of it as fiction just because it's a blog is a bit much as well.
Is it reasonable to sieze everything (including things not on the list, if his story's true...) in sight on a mere suspicion? Sounds like unreasonable search and siezure to me. Considering that the Hungry programmers aren't the ones that were off and bragging about it, I have a very big suspicion that we're seeing another Steve Jackson Games debacle playing before our eyes. While I'm going to give the Feds some benefit of doubt- it's not a lot, as they're not all lilly-white pure followers of what the law states, including the Constitution and they've been guilty of some rather heinous acts themselves in the relatively recent past.
The person making the statement that the apps can filter anything doesn't realize the sheer volume of fingerprints, etc. that the app has to keep track of.
Nice try- better than most, actually... But it still doesn't resolve the real problem which is that most of what the labels are selling is crap and grotesquely overpriced at that. People swapping all of that music is more a response to that than anything else.
Both are cross-platform IDE's that allow you to change out compilers, do class browsing and analysis, etc. One is a mix of C/C++ code and Tcl/Tk code, the other is based on Java.
In actuality... Anyone considering the use of most of the RTOS choices out there are typically looking at one of the following CPUs:
x86 PPC ARM MIPS Coldfire DragonBall
The goof-ball stuff usually ends up using the roll-your-own stuff and is not typically used in most contexts because you have to find silicon, find tools to begin with (since it's custom, there's no standard tools- uh, gee whiz, what do you know, you have to build tools, just like he said...), and you have to certify the operation of the damn thing.
It's simpler and easier to use an off the shelf part from one of the usual suspects than to use something else.
Now, having said this, you've got choices, depending on what you want to do because you've got standard tools and standard operating system choices...
VxWorks QNX Lynx pSOS RTEMS eCos Linux
Of the aforementioned, the licensing on the last three are very attractive and depending on what you're trying to do, you really want to use them instead of the others.
The article from the author in question is guilty of lying by omission of key facts in the embedded systems industry. He's right about all of it. But what he doesn't tell you is that for most everything done, you're either not using an OS and using something like a PIC, Z8, or Z80 or you're using a more robust CPU with an OS and much more memory- something that Linux, RTEMS, and eCos do well with on most counts for embedded systems. IF you know what you're doing in the first place- you have do design your code for read-only conditions, etc. in the first place and most of Linux is happy fine with it. I know, I DO embedded Linux stuff. Real time? Don't need it all that often- most embedded devices just need memory and resource management, they don't need rate monotonic scheduling of tasks, etc. Real time is actually bandied about far more than is really, really needed- and worse yet, it's more defined by the box you draw around things. Throw enough CPU and memory Muscle at something and even Desktop or Server NT can be "real time" for the purposes of the definition.
All one need do to own an AK-47 (The fully automatic submachine gun model, not to be confused with the AKM-47, the semi-automatic only assault style rifle that is merely missing the selector mechanism but requires some good gunsmithing work to add it...) is to apply for a class 3 weapons permit. Unfortunately, doing this means they know that you've got the weapons in question because each one that falls under class 3 designation has to be registered with the ATF.
Now, owning an AKM-47 is rather easy (there's quite a few left about but the prices are a little bit high from the "assault" weapons "ban"...) and considering that if you're really good, you can fire nearly as fast as the full-auto mode and place your shots more accurately.
"Socialization is socialization bud. If they're gonna leave you for someone, it doesn't matter how they meet them."
Just wanted to repeat that profound statement- far, far too many people do horrible things to each other in the name of "jealousy" or "protecting the one they love"...
I was one of the people arranging social events via Chrysalis, one of Dallas' premier bulletin board systems in the days before the Internet took over.
...unless you're hopelessly addicted to the Internet, like many people are with the Boob-tube, the one hour is less likely to translate into two, three, and so forth. With TV, people tend to veg-out and keep watching and watching and watching.
The main people working on eCos got laid off in Red Hat's small downsizing in 2002. The work you see is from the community and the company founded by the people that got laid off.
The Open Source license that Red Hat used for eCos isn't the GPL nor is it compatible with the same.
With the FSF recieving ownership of the Copyrights on the code in question, you can bet your bottom dollar that it will be relicensed under the GPL or LGPL the moment that the ownership changes hands.
Ah, I'd always thought it was against their competitors. The thinking still applies though- anyone that thinks those plus numbers are a clock speed are ignorant or foolish. They're model numbers more than anything else.
Companies should properly and accurately represent what is in a device (it is required by law, you know...) and nothing less. Representing that there is a 9200 in the laptop, when in fact, there is a 9000 in the device is illegal as it's a misrepresentation of what is in the machine. It's called False and Misleading advertising and NO company should be allowed ANY slack on this one.
If the company advertised that it's a 9200, then there had better BE a 9200 in the machine in question, even if it wouldn't be any better on the laptop than the 9000. Anything else is False and Misleading advertising and is illegal. Companies ending up doing this, even by accident, have been on the end of class-action suits in the past (and legitimately so- it IS against the law...) and have ended up either upgrading people, handing out rebates, etc. as a result.
In reality, AMD is not representing the 2200+ as anything other than a CPU that performs comparably to thier competitor's chip running at 2.2GHz. In no way is their product literature representing anything otherwise.
This is in contrast to what is apparently going on here with the Radeons in the laptops. They're claiming that they're 9200's, when in fact, they're 9000's. Different to different isn't bogus- same to same is and the 9000 to the 9200 is same basic product with enhancements.
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BZZZT! Wrong answer, thank you for playing.
If you haven't been paying attention, Congress has been essentially eliminating most of those checks and balances for some time now. And we've been letting them do it to us. If you don't believe me, look CLOSELY at the PATRIOT Act. Don't need probable cause for warrant or even the warrant for a search and siezure if they label you as a terrorist. The law allows the FBI that privilege, in violation of the Fourth Ammendment- and they've been using it. The law also gives the FBI the right to arrest you and treat you as a foriegn national if you're labeled a terrorist- no due process or anything inconvienient like that. And they've used those features too.
Anyone that thinks that the checks and balances are currently being acknoleged as being anything much more than toilet paper is sadly deluded.
What then?
Suck it up? That's about all you can do.
It'll be 5-15 years at minimum before that man sees ANYTHING they siezed from his place of residence. Innocent or guilty doesn't matter in that case- that's just how long they get around to returning things to be returned. It all sounds like they were on a fishing expidition or out to send somebody a message- both of which are not allowed by the Fourth Ammendment in the first place.
Unless they had probable cause, they can't be issued a warrant in the first place. A fishing expidition doesn't constitute probable cause. Either they truely suspect him of the alleged crime and have some proof thereof to lead them to believe this is the case- or they don't. Sounds like they don't, to me. Having a warrant doesn't mean much these days- with PATRIOT, etc. they're really, really dangerous documents that are given out more on a whim in this day and age...
If you're in shock, you might not be thinking. Also worth mentioning is that you might not want to be around anyway- the agents are going to take things from your property and since they're armed, are you going to try to stop them from taking something NOT covered by the Warrant? I, personally, wouldn't want to be about unless I had to be- the stress of seeing them take my stuff and me being absolutely POWERLESS to prevent any of it would drive me physically ill.
You're sure as hell not going to see something like this get presented by news outlets. Not sensational and it's just some geeks getting busted for hacking, afterall... Never mind that while due process might have been done, it may still be an unreasonable search and siezure of his property by virtue of the fact that they had little real worth to go on and used PATRIOT or something similar to rush a warrant through the courts. Since I don't know the whole story, I'm not going to venture a guess either way- but to ask me to think of it as fiction just because it's a blog is a bit much as well.
Is it really working?
Is it reasonable to sieze everything (including things not on the list, if his story's true...) in sight on a mere suspicion? Sounds like unreasonable search and siezure to me. Considering that the Hungry programmers aren't the ones that were off and bragging about it, I have a very big suspicion that we're seeing another Steve Jackson Games debacle playing before our eyes. While I'm going to give the Feds some benefit of doubt- it's not a lot, as they're not all lilly-white pure followers of what the law states, including the Constitution and they've been guilty of some rather heinous acts themselves in the relatively recent past.
The person making the statement that the apps can filter anything doesn't realize the sheer volume of fingerprints, etc. that the app has to keep track of.
Nice try- better than most, actually... But it still doesn't resolve the real problem which is that most of what the labels are selling is crap and grotesquely overpriced at that. People swapping all of that music is more a response to that than anything else.
...citing copyright infringement on his site, then yeah, I can see that they might have been a bit confused...
Ooops... Should have previewed...
Here's the link to Eclipse.
Source Navigator or Eclipse a try?
Both are cross-platform IDE's that allow you to change out compilers, do class browsing and analysis, etc. One is a mix of C/C++ code and Tcl/Tk code, the other is based on Java.
Realtime performance acutally means having very specific and guaranteed worst-case interrupt servicing and task scheduling that is fast as well.
Draw a big enough box around the problem and even stock Windows can be "real time".
In actuality... Anyone considering the use of most of the RTOS choices out there are typically looking at one of the following CPUs:
x86
PPC
ARM
MIPS
Coldfire
DragonBall
The goof-ball stuff usually ends up using the roll-your-own stuff and is not typically used in most contexts because you have to find silicon, find tools to begin with (since it's custom, there's no standard tools- uh, gee whiz, what do you know, you have to build tools, just like he said...), and you have to certify the operation of the damn thing.
It's simpler and easier to use an off the shelf part from one of the usual suspects than to use something else.
Now, having said this, you've got choices, depending on what you want to do because you've got standard tools and standard operating system choices...
VxWorks
QNX
Lynx
pSOS
RTEMS
eCos
Linux
Of the aforementioned, the licensing on the last three are very attractive and depending on what you're trying to do, you really want to use them instead of the others.
The article from the author in question is guilty of lying by omission of key facts in the embedded systems industry. He's right about all of it. But what he doesn't tell you is that for most everything done, you're either not using an OS and using something like a PIC, Z8, or Z80 or you're using a more robust CPU with an OS and much more memory- something that Linux, RTEMS, and eCos do well with on most counts for embedded systems. IF you know what you're doing in the first place- you have do design your code for read-only conditions, etc. in the first place and most of Linux is happy fine with it. I know, I DO embedded Linux stuff. Real time? Don't need it all that often- most embedded devices just need memory and resource management, they don't need rate monotonic scheduling of tasks, etc. Real time is actually bandied about far more than is really, really needed- and worse yet, it's more defined by the box you draw around things. Throw enough CPU and memory Muscle at something and even Desktop or Server NT can be "real time" for the purposes of the definition.
How does your ignition work?
All one need do to own an AK-47 (The fully automatic submachine gun model, not to be confused with the AKM-47, the semi-automatic only assault style rifle that is merely missing the selector mechanism but requires some good gunsmithing work to add it...) is to apply for a class 3 weapons permit. Unfortunately, doing this means they know that you've got the weapons in question because each one that falls under class 3 designation has to be registered with the ATF.
Now, owning an AKM-47 is rather easy (there's quite a few left about but the prices are a little bit high from the "assault" weapons "ban"...) and considering that if you're really good, you can fire nearly as fast as the full-auto mode and place your shots more accurately.
Just wanted to repeat that profound statement- far, far too many people do horrible things to each other in the name of "jealousy" or "protecting the one they love"...
I was one of the people arranging social events via Chrysalis, one of Dallas' premier bulletin board systems in the days before the Internet took over.
:-)
Met my wife that way...
...unless you're hopelessly addicted to the Internet, like many people are with the Boob-tube, the one hour is less likely to translate into two, three, and so forth. With TV, people tend to veg-out and keep watching and watching and watching.
The main people working on eCos got laid off in Red Hat's small downsizing in 2002. The work you see is from the community and the company founded by the people that got laid off.
The Open Source license that Red Hat used for eCos isn't the GPL nor is it compatible with the same.
With the FSF recieving ownership of the Copyrights on the code in question, you can bet your bottom dollar that it will be relicensed under the GPL or LGPL the moment that the ownership changes hands.
It was under a different Open Source license.
Ah, I'd always thought it was against their competitors. The thinking still applies though- anyone that thinks those plus numbers are a clock speed are ignorant or foolish. They're model numbers more than anything else.
It's EXACTLY what's going on, expressed in something that most everyone else would understand.
Companies should properly and accurately represent what is in a device (it is required by law, you know...) and nothing less. Representing that there is a 9200 in the laptop, when in fact, there is a 9000 in the device is illegal as it's a misrepresentation of what is in the machine. It's called False and Misleading advertising and NO company should be allowed ANY slack on this one.
If the company advertised that it's a 9200, then there had better BE a 9200 in the machine in question, even if it wouldn't be any better on the laptop than the 9000. Anything else is False and Misleading advertising and is illegal. Companies ending up doing this, even by accident, have been on the end of class-action suits in the past (and legitimately so- it IS against the law...) and have ended up either upgrading people, handing out rebates, etc. as a result.
In reality, AMD is not representing the 2200+ as anything other than a CPU that performs comparably to thier competitor's chip running at 2.2GHz. In no way is their product literature representing anything otherwise.
This is in contrast to what is apparently going on here with the Radeons in the laptops. They're claiming that they're 9200's, when in fact, they're 9000's. Different to different isn't bogus- same to same is and the 9000 to the 9200 is same basic product with enhancements.