Oh yes the ARE recording secretly. He was taping you from the minute the guy pulled over, and his first words to the suspect were NOT "To ensure your satisfaction, this traffic-stop will be monitored". Patrol cars never seem to have prominent signs warning of video cameras inside.
The legal reason for that is that the wiretapping statute only applies to audio recordings, not video, so the police and the department stores can take all the pictures of you they want.
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The lack of Turing Completeness is actually an important feature for XML's suitablility as a _data_ exchange format. If any web page (or other piece of data) could be delivered in the form of a program that your system must execute before displaying, there is no way to tell if the file is correct and within the limitations of your hardware besides just going ahead and trying it!
If a format allows for TOO much flexibility, then its impossible for software to reason about correctly. And one of the motivations of XML is it'll allow agents/scripts to do work with remote data without the user's intervention.
There has to be a distinction between data and executable code- see what happened to MS Outlook?
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Oh yes the ARE recording secretly. He was taping you from the minute the guy pulled over, and his first words to the suspect were NOT "To ensure your satisfaction, this traffic-stop will be monitored". Patrol cars never seem to have prominent signs warning of video cameras inside.
The legal reason for that is that the wiretapping statute only applies to audio recordings, not video, so the police and the department stores can take all the pictures of you they want.
If a format allows for TOO much flexibility, then its impossible for software to reason about correctly. And one of the motivations of XML is it'll allow agents/scripts to do work with remote data without the user's intervention.
There has to be a distinction between data and executable code- see what happened to MS Outlook?