Last I checked, the cops didn't take cash, debit or charge cards the second the infraction occured.
In Wisconsin, they'll take all three, and if you don't pay up on the spot, they will arrest you and bring you in for booking. You do however, still have the option of contesting it in court. If you win, they will refund the money.
They justified this law on the grounds that it costs too much to mail notices to people who skip out on their tickets.
The DMCA aside, couldn't someone make a scriptable DVD player, then distribute a script that would simply play the Phantom Edit version? Complete with voice-overs?
If something like this is important enough, there'll be an OpenZeroKnowledge from the OpenBSD project soon enough. ZeroKnowledge are digging their own graves by this silly move.
Zero Knowledge makes their money by providing a service. They maintain servers and internet links which anonymize clients. They could give away their software and still provide the same service. I think ZeroKnowledge's move to drop Linux support will simply result in an open source Linux client for ZeroKnowledge's system.
This wasn't a "liberals +1" vote, people. That's what's sad...liberals used to be able to be counted on for such things but now I can't even trust them to guard us against the police.
Minnesota v. Carter (1998) - Minnesota case where a police officer peered through a crack in the curtains at the defendent's house. In a 6-3 ruling the Supreme Court ruled that you do not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in your own home, with the curtains closed, if you have a guest who is not staying overnight. Dissenting were, Stevens, Ginsburg, and Souter.
Bennis v. Michigan (1996) - A 5-4 ruling in which the Supreme Court said it is okay for the police to seize property 1/2 owned by an innocent person, and to auction that property off without compensating the innocent person. Dissenting were, Stevens, Souter, Breyer, and Kennedy.
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In Wisconsin, they'll take all three, and if you don't pay up on the spot, they will arrest you and bring you in for booking. You do however, still have the option of contesting it in court. If you win, they will refund the money.
They justified this law on the grounds that it costs too much to mail notices to people who skip out on their tickets.
The DMCA aside, couldn't someone make a scriptable DVD player, then distribute a script that would simply play the Phantom Edit version? Complete with voice-overs?
Zero Knowledge makes their money by providing a service. They maintain servers and internet links which anonymize clients. They could give away their software and still provide the same service. I think ZeroKnowledge's move to drop Linux support will simply result in an open source Linux client for ZeroKnowledge's system.
It was a 5-4 ruling with the following lineup:
So you see, three liberals voted against the search, while one voted for it. You can read the ruling at Cornell's Legal Information Institute.
Consider some other rulings: