You're absolutely right. I hate seeing this kind of sexist statement. Saying that a white person, or a straight person could fulfill the same role better would be taken very poorly.
I've worked for and with men, women, people of various ethnic origins, and sexualities. Some are good. Some are bad. My sample set is far from representative of humanity as a whole. If anyone else believes their sample set is better than mine, you've had way too many jobs.
The some best supervisors and managers I've worked with have had extensive leadership experience. Some have had little, but had a natural talent.
I find that having a good leader as a boss is better than working for a rock or wet sponge.
Taking a position or maintaining that the workplace is better because the leadership role is filled by a member of a particular group is detrimental to both the employee, and respect for the leaders position.
I'd be willing to bet that it was something turned on, because they needed to lighten the load on the servers. IT could have been a front end caching machine, or on the web server itself in code. In either case, it clearly wasn't tested as well as it should have been.
You *can* cache authenticated pages. Really, the/my_account (your example) only needs to be generated once a year. If that happens to be the main page to view from, you'll keep ending up back on it, to go to other pages. Generating it once is a whole lot more efficient than generating it 15 to 30 times. You'd have to get a bit creative with how you ensure no user can look at another users results. For example, if you happened to save the page as/cache/my_account_[userid].tmp, that's all fine and dandy, unless the code forgets to actually populate [userid].:)
So may ways to screw this up, and they all should have been caught in testing.
Really, I don't know. I'd be willing to bet someone over at NASA has pondered it though.
The A/C reply is probably right. I'd think of it like pressurized system. At sea level (14.7psi) a BP of 120/80, that's 2.32psi over 1.55psi.
And this is where I get a headache. Your blood pressure rises as the external pressure drops. Your body responds to the lower amounts of available oxygen. Very likely such an event would increase your blood pressure and pulse rate. That is "Oh shit, I just cut myself through my space suit!"
In both the veins and arteries, there is pressure. If you were to slice either open, one side of the wound would have pressure, and the other would have less, by direction of flow. Water in the blood no longer contained in the circulatory system would boil. I'd believe that the remaining non-water materials in the blood would help seal up capillaries, as well as them collapsing.
If you were in such a situation, you most likely wouldn't have to worry about the bleeding for very long. Other issues would be more pressing, like transfer of oxygen to the tissues in the affected area. Assuming your space suit was segmented, you may just suffer tissue damage to that part of your body. If that part happens to be your head or torso, well, no one hears you scream in space.
I was just reading about a 1971 Soyuz flight, where they suffered pressure loss when the capsule separated for reentry. There was a valve that they could shut. Viktor Patsayev realized what the problem was. He had about 60 seconds to get out of his seat, and close a valve. He survived for about 30 seconds, and got the valve closed half way. The whole crew died. The capsule landed normally (automatically). The recovery crew found them sleeping peacefully. Well, dead, but appeared to be sleeping.
There is a bunch of excellent information out there on the subject. NASA and the DoD have had several incidents happen over the years. The ones providing the most data on survival have been test chambers, where they were testing pressure suits.
Basically, you will most likely pass out in 10 to 30 seconds, from hypoxia. Your blood doesn't boil, due to the pressure contained within your circulatory system.
What *does* boil is any surface with fluids on it. That includes your eyes, sinuses, and lungs.
Gasses in your blood do out gas through your lungs. The same mechanism that adds oxygen to the blood under normal pressures, allow it to be released under low pressure. Normal atmospheric pressure is essential to the lungs transferring oxygen to the blood.
So just because you have oxygen in your blood to start with, it won't stay in you for very long.
After about 2 to 3 minutes, you will have passed a terminal point where resumption of a habitable air pressure, and oxygen can't help you.
As I recall, there were individuals who reached the 2 minute point, and successfully recovered.
Well, the charges change with the degree of force, and other factors.
A pick pocket won't have made any physical threat. Ideally, they would have the job started and finished before the mark knew what was happening.
From the article, there appears to be a physical threat, destruction of private property, and disturbing the peace. In cases like this, pick a side, they're both probably just as guilty of some of those charges and more.
Taking someone's phone and tossing it? IMHO, that should be a misdemeanor at best in any jurisdiction. iPhone, Android, Blackberry, or whatever. The only way I could imagine it being expensive enough to consider a felony would be if it were some elusive prototype.
Disclaimer: IANAL and everything varies by jurisdiction. Consult with a local attorney for appropriate local information.
Kittinger did several flights of this sort. Manhigh I and Excelsior I, II, III. There may have been others. I'm not that well versed on old USAF projects.
As I recall from interviews I've read regarding the 1st flight, Kittinger was flying blind for a good bit of the ascent. His visor frosted over, so he couldn't see anything, including his altimeter. On the 3rd flight, his right glove leaked, causing his hand to swell. There was no permanent injury from that though.
While not mentioned in the summary, it's in the story that Kittinger is consulting on Baumgartner's jumps. He's also been planning it for a while. Here's a 2010 story on it.
As far as I know, there were no failed attempts of this sort. Well, not that resulted in the person not surviving, despite the blurb at the end of the summary. Well, it fails twice in that Kettinger did break the speed of sound.
Right, but that assumes you can get *to* them. To be able to get to identifying numbers, you have to have a legal way *to* them. To get a search warrant for someone's car or home, there have to be probable cause, which is a discernible belief that a crime is being or has been committed. It's the law, or at least in the United States. To execute such a search, a search warrant is required.
There are only a few exceptions.
* Evidence of the crime is visible without violating the search and seizure laws.
Example: A police officer knocks on your door, and you answer. In plain view from the front door are drugs and drug paraphernalia. The officer now has probable cause to enter without a warrant.
Another example: A police officer sees a joint in the ashtray of a car, in clear view from outside of the vehicle. A crime (possession of contraband) is being committed.
* A private location is used during the commission of a currently pursued crime.
Example: You rob a bank. You run from the cops. You make it all the way to your home, go inside and lock the door. They can use any means necessary to pursue you, including forcing the door open.
What is *not* a viable example is...
You are driving in your car. A police officer stops you, and his gut instinct says you may have drugs, guns, or stolen iPads in the trunk. There is not discernible probable cause. Driving or having a car is not probable cause for a warrant-less search. He can *ask* you to search your car. You *can* waive your rights, so he can search your car. Anything found in the car that may be related to a crime can now be probable cause for an arrest.
To extend this last one, if you have hand tools in your car (screwdriver, hammer, pry bar, etc), they *could* be used in the commission of a crime, and you *could* be arrested for possessing them. As with many things, the difference between a hammer being used for criminal activity, an a hammer used to put nails into wood is completely up to how it's used. If a hammer was used in a recent crime, it *could* be possible that you would be arrested, and charged in that crime. It's doubtful if you'll be convicted, but stranger things have happened.
Never, unless you have extremely good reason to, waive your rights.
So, no, it is not reasonable for the police to demand access to your vehicle to verify the identifying information.... and, IANAL. Check with your local council for laws applicable in your jurisdiction.
It falls under "unreasonable search and seizure". A police officer can't say "open the trunk of your car, remove the ipad, and demonstrate to me that you can unlock it and use it." That's stopped dead at "open the trunk of your car."
It's funny, when it goes the other way, people scream about their rights and the government overstepping their bounds.
"What?", you may ask...
If/when the TSA, DHS, federal, or local police say "unlock your laptop so we can inspect it", that's the evil government trying to gain access to your private stuff.
During a traffic stop, or any interaction with the police where your vehicle is present, when they ask you to give them access to your vehicle, you can say "no". For them to demand access, they *have* to have probable cause. That probable cause isn't "because I have this app that says so."
Probable cause is... There is an eye witness will testify that he took the stolen property. That an eye witness will testify that that he saw the stolen property placed in the trunk of the car. If the contraband is visible through the windows of the vehicle, that does constitute probable cause. Part of a gun sticking out from under the seat.. A joint sitting in the ashtray. The smell of drugs from outside of the vehicle without breaking privacy laws including illegal search and seizure. Upon such evidence, they can obtain a search warrant, and go farther.
As it stands, there is no one to testify that the suspect stole the property, and placed it in the trunk of that car. The only thing that says so is an app of some origin. Is there case law which says that such evidence is admissible in court?
I could write up an app, and put up a web site that says "My stolen iPad is at these coordinates". Sounds like a nice way to screw with people. At very least, if such data was accepted as evidence, I could get someone's device seized, and them arrested for at least a night.
If I were the DA, or whatever the Dutch version of it is, I wouldn't take some guy's word on the results of an app that he installed, as solid evidence for anything. Here, it would be thrown out of court on an improper search and seizure. It doesn't matter if it is or isn't stolen.
It's kind of like cops kicking in the door of a suspected meth lab, just because they think there might be something going on. They just can't do it. We have laws for a reason, and they *are* for your protection. Would you like your front door kicked in twice a week because the cops thing there *might* be something illegal in the house? That's all the evidence that's been provided. "might". Not "is". No conclusive proof of anything.
I know I'm putting this in the context of the United States, just as the majority of people reading this are.
You have to consider what the other possibilities are.
I see a guy put an iPad in the trunk of his car. I call the police and say that my iPad was stolen, and describe the car and the license place number. So what do they do? Arrest the guy with the iPad, and let you walk with it?
Your evidence is shaky at best. So you put some tracking software on his device? You fabricated some evidence? It's not unreasonable to believe that you may spend a few minutes fabricating evidence to steal a $500 toy.
If it were something like a stolen car, you'd have a better chance with it, because the car is registered with the state. If you've identified him, file a civil charge against him.
We had an incident in California, where a friends store was shot up in the middle of the night. We compiled video evidence from the surveillance cameras. He circled the building once before shooting out the front windows. There were distinguishing marks on the vehicle. A couple store employees recognized the vehicle, and identified who the owner was. We went to the guys house, and I shot video of the distinguishing marks on the vehicle and license plate number. I wrote an affidavit stating the evidence discovered, the purpose of making the video of the vehicle, when and where the videos were made, and other details that I personally knew and discovered.
We provided the videos and affidavit to the police. It got stuck in a pile and ignored. It took about 2 weeks, and multiple calls from the owner of the store to finally get a detective to look at it. When he did review it, he thanked us for handing him the case on a silver platter.
They cross referenced it with other cases, and found the same caliber weapon was used in other incidents in that area, on the same night.
With this evidence, they got a search warrant for the guys vehicle and house. When they arrived, he told them everything. He was drunk, and pissed off, so he shot at businesses that he thought had wronged him. He told them where to find the gun, which was under the seat of his vehicle.
Video evidence of the crime. Identification of the person involved, and vehicle involved, with a few affidavits stating the facts. That's evidence.
If I just said "Hey, my iPad is in the trunk of his car, go arrest him" isn't evidence. Sure, they could ask him. What's he going to say? "No, that's my iPad." It falls into "unreasonable search and seizure" if they search his car anyways.
Consider the opposite.
I know you have an iPad. So I call the police and say you stole my iPad, because I can show the IP belongs to the same provider that yours does, or the GPS signal was last seen in the vicinity of your house. You'd be very upset to have the police knocking on your door, demanding to search the premises for a stolen iPad, and even more so if they seized *your* iPad with some schmuck saying "nope, that's mine".
Shhh. People prefer to believe in the evils of the government. If they can't point at real government things, they'll start making up conspiracies to hate. It's the Illuminati shadow government, and the reptilian overlords planning to destroy all humanity, or at least the lower classes.
They'll always overlook pesky little things like CERT (Community Emergency Response Team). You, me, or virtually anyone, can get training, and volunteer to be available in the event of an emergency. And that's not guards at some death camp. That's trained first responders who can and will be dispatched in case of an emergency.
If for nothing else, the training is excellent to receive. It can make a life or death difference to those around you.
I really need to get some refresher training. It's been a while.
I worked for a place that provided unlimited service. Unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth. We had some specific restrictions to what could be served. They had to use our payment system, and provide content related to that system. The majority of the users did this perfectly. In exchange for complying to our restrictions, they had "free unlimited" hosting. We never took money from the client. We took an agreed upon percentage of sales via our payment system. It worked out very well for everyone.
The real limits were what the machines could sustain. At the time, we were using 100Mb/s switches with GigE uplinks. Using TEQL, we bound two NICs together and could provide about 150Mb/s on a single machine. After that, we started running into memory and CPU capacity issues if they were serving lots of small files. Space was limited by what we could install in them.
So, on machines that had 250GB drives (the largest at the time), you couldn't store 1TB of data. You couldn't serve up more than 150Mb/s. We had the occasional legitimate user (within the restrictions mentioned earlier) that we'd have to work with to serve their purposes. Data would be split between servers, and they could get multiple servers just for them. Still, we had bandwidth limitations of multiple GigE circuits. Our own main site used up the majority of that bandwidth, and was always our reason for expanding.
I do hosting for friends and family. I moved over to a 25Mb/s CDR, and a decent amount of storage. For them, it's unlimited, at very reasonable prices. I'm done with hosting for the masses. Too many customers make for too many problems. I really don't want the pleasure of someone setting up a streaming porn site on my equipment, saturating my bandwidth, and then demanding to know why "unlimited" isn't really unlimited. I'm happier servicing a couple dozen customers with a few hundred sites. The don't get the headaches of wondering if they'll exceed their GB/month transfers and get hit with overage. I don't have the headaches of random people around the world complaining, doing chargebacks, or suing, because they want the world on a silver platter for $12.95/mo. That, and I like actually knowing my customers. It makes them much happier too. We can sit down over a beer and talk about stuff which sometimes includes their hosting.:)
Do you shop at Walmart? Best Buy? Amazon? McDonalds?
Walmart is the worst. They can (and do) move into a town, undercut all the mom and pop stores, and then adjust their pricing to what the market will support. Employees are paid less than the competition. If Walmart has a department for it, that's an area that competing stores will die. The first that I noticed, and knew competition failing because of, was toy stores. Then bicycle shops. Mom and pop food markets were served with their death blow when Walmart started their "super Walmart" with full grocery stores in them.
Between Walmart and Best Buy, they killed Circuit City, and every small electronics store. Electronics repair shops went by the wayside. Who wants to spend $200+ to have your old TV repaired, when you can get a bigger newer one for the same price.
Amazon has done a beautiful job killing book stores. There are a few somewhat surviving chains, but not many. My aunt owns a small book store. She almost breaks even on the sale of used paperbacks at 25% to 50% cover price. That is, she pays the rent and power bill, and keeps one phone line on. As they expanded, they have been hitting other conventional stores.
But McDonalds? They've spent decades selling economy food stuffs at prices lower than restaurants can sell at. They even undercut competitive chains. The $0.39 hamburger has a $0.19 profit margin for them. Mom and pop restaurants would have to sell at a $1 loss (or more). And you'll notice, the $0.39 hamburger is long gone. Why? Because they can sell it for $1.00 now and stay competitive. They bought premium locations, and sell something resembling food quickly. Most locations, you can be in and out in just a couple minutes. Mom and pop burger shack? Go in, sit down, wait while they cook the burger, and then eat it. McD streamlined the process, so you don't have to dedicate more than a few minutes of your day to meals.
For all of them, they allow their "competition" to survive to some degree, to avoid monopolies. Their competition is driven so far down in profit, that they can fail at any moment. All it takes is running a special.
So, American companies are no nicer about screwing with the economy than foreign corporations. They do no differently than China did with the rare earth elements. The competition *could* have stayed in business. They just recognized that they didn't have a sufficient profit margin to do so.
You see that as evil. Most see it as proper application of the free market. We see this all the time. Companies sell *under* cost, to bring in sales. For places like retail stores, they'll sell particular items at a loss, to make a higher profit on others. Look at places like Best Buy. They'll sell some electronics at or under cost, but sell you cables for 1000% over cost.
In the case of China's application, they did it perfectly. Lower the sale cost so others can't complete and close up shop. Once that has happened, you can set your price to whatever you'd like. Limiting exports makes anything you do export more valuable, demanding even higher prices.
The WTO, EU, US, and Japan can complain all the want. I can't imagine any of those governments would bend over backwards to provide any resources or commodities at the prices China would want. For example, China could demand that the US sell military weapons and goods. The US will refuse to provide them. Filing a complaint with the WTO or anyone else won't make it happen. It would be responded to with a laugh and the diplomatic phrasing "Fuck China."
There is a way to fix it. It's called negotiations. I want rare earth elements. They want something. Come to the table willing to trade, and it will happen. Crying about not getting what you want without making any concessions is futile.
Don't like that? Go elsewhere. You mentioned Mountain Pass. They shut down in 2002 because of market prices. In 2007, China began export restrictions on rare earth elements. In 2010, China further restricted the exports. In late 2010 Molycorp (owner of the Mountain Pass mine) announced it would be reopening. Construction began in 2011, and will be completed this year.
So, when the price was down, Mountain Pass closed. Now that the price is up, they've reopened. That, sir, is how business works. If you want to open a business with virtually no profit margin, go for it. For professional businessmen, the go for where the profit is. When they're shipping again, I'd be willing to bet the pricing will be barely pennies under what the Chinese mines are charging.
Nah, it's not the talking. I talk more shit than facts. Those attempting to filter the difference will find a wealth of useless trivia and a lot of entertainment, or end up with a massive headache... and vile glassware is no where near as much fun as dry ice bullets.:)
2010, Angelina Mills, "LITTLE Angelina Mills had the RIGHT half of her brain ravaged by a rare condition... but thanks to miracle surgery she's LEFT with a great chance of a normal life. "
And "useful" translates to "people who have great insurance, and money to pay for transplants"?
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Wow. You're suggesting that anyone who has suffered a trauma which involves damage to any part of their brain doesn't deserve a chance to survive, because they'll be different? I'm sure there are quite a few people who disagree with you. That would start with neurosurgeons, neurologists, patients, friends, and family...
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You're absolutely right. I hate seeing this kind of sexist statement. Saying that a white person, or a straight person could fulfill the same role better would be taken very poorly.
I've worked for and with men, women, people of various ethnic origins, and sexualities. Some are good. Some are bad. My sample set is far from representative of humanity as a whole. If anyone else believes their sample set is better than mine, you've had way too many jobs.
The some best supervisors and managers I've worked with have had extensive leadership experience. Some have had little, but had a natural talent.
I find that having a good leader as a boss is better than working for a rock or wet sponge.
Taking a position or maintaining that the workplace is better because the leadership role is filled by a member of a particular group is detrimental to both the employee, and respect for the leaders position.
I'd be willing to bet that it was something turned on, because they needed to lighten the load on the servers. IT could have been a front end caching machine, or on the web server itself in code. In either case, it clearly wasn't tested as well as it should have been.
You *can* cache authenticated pages. Really, the /my_account (your example) only needs to be generated once a year. If that happens to be the main page to view from, you'll keep ending up back on it, to go to other pages. Generating it once is a whole lot more efficient than generating it 15 to 30 times. You'd have to get a bit creative with how you ensure no user can look at another users results. For example, if you happened to save the page as /cache/my_account_[userid].tmp, that's all fine and dandy, unless the code forgets to actually populate [userid]. :)
So may ways to screw this up, and they all should have been caught in testing.
Really, I don't know. I'd be willing to bet someone over at NASA has pondered it though.
The A/C reply is probably right. I'd think of it like pressurized system. At sea level (14.7psi) a BP of 120/80, that's 2.32psi over 1.55psi.
And this is where I get a headache. Your blood pressure rises as the external pressure drops. Your body responds to the lower amounts of available oxygen. Very likely such an event would increase your blood pressure and pulse rate. That is "Oh shit, I just cut myself through my space suit!"
In both the veins and arteries, there is pressure. If you were to slice either open, one side of the wound would have pressure, and the other would have less, by direction of flow. Water in the blood no longer contained in the circulatory system would boil. I'd believe that the remaining non-water materials in the blood would help seal up capillaries, as well as them collapsing.
If you were in such a situation, you most likely wouldn't have to worry about the bleeding for very long. Other issues would be more pressing, like transfer of oxygen to the tissues in the affected area. Assuming your space suit was segmented, you may just suffer tissue damage to that part of your body. If that part happens to be your head or torso, well, no one hears you scream in space.
I was just reading about a 1971 Soyuz flight, where they suffered pressure loss when the capsule separated for reentry. There was a valve that they could shut. Viktor Patsayev realized what the problem was. He had about 60 seconds to get out of his seat, and close a valve. He survived for about 30 seconds, and got the valve closed half way. The whole crew died. The capsule landed normally (automatically). The recovery crew found them sleeping peacefully. Well, dead, but appeared to be sleeping.
There is a bunch of excellent information out there on the subject. NASA and the DoD have had several incidents happen over the years. The ones providing the most data on survival have been test chambers, where they were testing pressure suits.
Basically, you will most likely pass out in 10 to 30 seconds, from hypoxia. Your blood doesn't boil, due to the pressure contained within your circulatory system.
What *does* boil is any surface with fluids on it. That includes your eyes, sinuses, and lungs.
Gasses in your blood do out gas through your lungs. The same mechanism that adds oxygen to the blood under normal pressures, allow it to be released under low pressure. Normal atmospheric pressure is essential to the lungs transferring oxygen to the blood.
So just because you have oxygen in your blood to start with, it won't stay in you for very long.
After about 2 to 3 minutes, you will have passed a terminal point where resumption of a habitable air pressure, and oxygen can't help you.
As I recall, there were individuals who reached the 2 minute point, and successfully recovered.
Sorry about that. I was writing, and reading, and missed pulling that reference out.
I had read before that he *had* exceeded the speed of sound, but I didn't find the supporting information on it.
Well, the charges change with the degree of force, and other factors.
A pick pocket won't have made any physical threat. Ideally, they would have the job started and finished before the mark knew what was happening.
From the article, there appears to be a physical threat, destruction of private property, and disturbing the peace. In cases like this, pick a side, they're both probably just as guilty of some of those charges and more.
Taking someone's phone and tossing it? IMHO, that should be a misdemeanor at best in any jurisdiction. iPhone, Android, Blackberry, or whatever. The only way I could imagine it being expensive enough to consider a felony would be if it were some elusive prototype.
Disclaimer: IANAL and everything varies by jurisdiction. Consult with a local attorney for appropriate local information.
Kittinger did several flights of this sort. Manhigh I and Excelsior I, II, III. There may have been others. I'm not that well versed on old USAF projects.
As I recall from interviews I've read regarding the 1st flight, Kittinger was flying blind for a good bit of the ascent. His visor frosted over, so he couldn't see anything, including his altimeter. On the 3rd flight, his right glove leaked, causing his hand to swell. There was no permanent injury from that though.
While not mentioned in the summary, it's in the story that Kittinger is consulting on Baumgartner's jumps. He's also been planning it for a while. Here's a 2010 story on it.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/faster-than-the-speed-of-sound-the-man-who-falls-to-earth-1877875.html
As far as I know, there were no failed attempts of this sort. Well, not that resulted in the person not surviving, despite the blurb at the end of the summary. Well, it fails twice in that Kettinger did break the speed of sound.
Aw shit. Now we have a new measurement unit, don't we. A library of congress of books, or an iPod of money or jobs..
Pesky little details like that are always ignored in such math.
Too late. The porn was made of it *LONG* before Rule 34 was created.
What the heck? I was expecting a Rick Roll, and you gave a link to a real explanation.
$8 billion or 75,000 jobs? Damn. :)
Watch out, the next time there is a vote on it, there may be 113% of the voters who approve joining the EU.
It wouldn't be the first time something like that has happened in history ... or even in the last month.
Right, but that assumes you can get *to* them. To be able to get to identifying numbers, you have to have a legal way *to* them. To get a search warrant for someone's car or home, there have to be probable cause, which is a discernible belief that a crime is being or has been committed. It's the law, or at least in the United States. To execute such a search, a search warrant is required.
There are only a few exceptions.
* Evidence of the crime is visible without violating the search and seizure laws.
Example: A police officer knocks on your door, and you answer. In plain view from the front door are drugs and drug paraphernalia. The officer now has probable cause to enter without a warrant.
Another example: A police officer sees a joint in the ashtray of a car, in clear view from outside of the vehicle. A crime (possession of contraband) is being committed.
* A private location is used during the commission of a currently pursued crime.
Example: You rob a bank. You run from the cops. You make it all the way to your home, go inside and lock the door. They can use any means necessary to pursue you, including forcing the door open.
What is *not* a viable example is...
You are driving in your car. A police officer stops you, and his gut instinct says you may have drugs, guns, or stolen iPads in the trunk. There is not discernible probable cause. Driving or having a car is not probable cause for a warrant-less search. He can *ask* you to search your car. You *can* waive your rights, so he can search your car. Anything found in the car that may be related to a crime can now be probable cause for an arrest.
To extend this last one, if you have hand tools in your car (screwdriver, hammer, pry bar, etc), they *could* be used in the commission of a crime, and you *could* be arrested for possessing them. As with many things, the difference between a hammer being used for criminal activity, an a hammer used to put nails into wood is completely up to how it's used. If a hammer was used in a recent crime, it *could* be possible that you would be arrested, and charged in that crime. It's doubtful if you'll be convicted, but stranger things have happened.
Never, unless you have extremely good reason to, waive your rights.
So, no, it is not reasonable for the police to demand access to your vehicle to verify the identifying information. ... and, IANAL. Check with your local council for laws applicable in your jurisdiction.
It falls under "unreasonable search and seizure". A police officer can't say "open the trunk of your car, remove the ipad, and demonstrate to me that you can unlock it and use it." That's stopped dead at "open the trunk of your car."
It's funny, when it goes the other way, people scream about their rights and the government overstepping their bounds.
"What?", you may ask...
If/when the TSA, DHS, federal, or local police say "unlock your laptop so we can inspect it", that's the evil government trying to gain access to your private stuff.
During a traffic stop, or any interaction with the police where your vehicle is present, when they ask you to give them access to your vehicle, you can say "no". For them to demand access, they *have* to have probable cause. That probable cause isn't "because I have this app that says so."
Probable cause is ... There is an eye witness will testify that he took the stolen property. That an eye witness will testify that that he saw the stolen property placed in the trunk of the car. If the contraband is visible through the windows of the vehicle, that does constitute probable cause. Part of a gun sticking out from under the seat.. A joint sitting in the ashtray. The smell of drugs from outside of the vehicle without breaking privacy laws including illegal search and seizure. Upon such evidence, they can obtain a search warrant, and go farther.
As it stands, there is no one to testify that the suspect stole the property, and placed it in the trunk of that car. The only thing that says so is an app of some origin. Is there case law which says that such evidence is admissible in court?
I could write up an app, and put up a web site that says "My stolen iPad is at these coordinates". Sounds like a nice way to screw with people. At very least, if such data was accepted as evidence, I could get someone's device seized, and them arrested for at least a night.
If I were the DA, or whatever the Dutch version of it is, I wouldn't take some guy's word on the results of an app that he installed, as solid evidence for anything. Here, it would be thrown out of court on an improper search and seizure. It doesn't matter if it is or isn't stolen.
It's kind of like cops kicking in the door of a suspected meth lab, just because they think there might be something going on. They just can't do it. We have laws for a reason, and they *are* for your protection. Would you like your front door kicked in twice a week because the cops thing there *might* be something illegal in the house? That's all the evidence that's been provided. "might". Not "is". No conclusive proof of anything.
I know I'm putting this in the context of the United States, just as the majority of people reading this are.
You have to consider what the other possibilities are.
I see a guy put an iPad in the trunk of his car. I call the police and say that my iPad was stolen, and describe the car and the license place number. So what do they do? Arrest the guy with the iPad, and let you walk with it?
Your evidence is shaky at best. So you put some tracking software on his device? You fabricated some evidence? It's not unreasonable to believe that you may spend a few minutes fabricating evidence to steal a $500 toy.
If it were something like a stolen car, you'd have a better chance with it, because the car is registered with the state. If you've identified him, file a civil charge against him.
We had an incident in California, where a friends store was shot up in the middle of the night. We compiled video evidence from the surveillance cameras. He circled the building once before shooting out the front windows. There were distinguishing marks on the vehicle. A couple store employees recognized the vehicle, and identified who the owner was. We went to the guys house, and I shot video of the distinguishing marks on the vehicle and license plate number. I wrote an affidavit stating the evidence discovered, the purpose of making the video of the vehicle, when and where the videos were made, and other details that I personally knew and discovered.
We provided the videos and affidavit to the police. It got stuck in a pile and ignored. It took about 2 weeks, and multiple calls from the owner of the store to finally get a detective to look at it. When he did review it, he thanked us for handing him the case on a silver platter.
They cross referenced it with other cases, and found the same caliber weapon was used in other incidents in that area, on the same night.
With this evidence, they got a search warrant for the guys vehicle and house. When they arrived, he told them everything. He was drunk, and pissed off, so he shot at businesses that he thought had wronged him. He told them where to find the gun, which was under the seat of his vehicle.
Video evidence of the crime. Identification of the person involved, and vehicle involved, with a few affidavits stating the facts. That's evidence.
If I just said "Hey, my iPad is in the trunk of his car, go arrest him" isn't evidence. Sure, they could ask him. What's he going to say? "No, that's my iPad." It falls into "unreasonable search and seizure" if they search his car anyways.
Consider the opposite.
I know you have an iPad. So I call the police and say you stole my iPad, because I can show the IP belongs to the same provider that yours does, or the GPS signal was last seen in the vicinity of your house. You'd be very upset to have the police knocking on your door, demanding to search the premises for a stolen iPad, and even more so if they seized *your* iPad with some schmuck saying "nope, that's mine".
Shhh. People prefer to believe in the evils of the government. If they can't point at real government things, they'll start making up conspiracies to hate. It's the Illuminati shadow government, and the reptilian overlords planning to destroy all humanity, or at least the lower classes.
They'll always overlook pesky little things like CERT (Community Emergency Response Team). You, me, or virtually anyone, can get training, and volunteer to be available in the event of an emergency. And that's not guards at some death camp. That's trained first responders who can and will be dispatched in case of an emergency.
If for nothing else, the training is excellent to receive. It can make a life or death difference to those around you.
I really need to get some refresher training. It's been a while.
Right. There's always a limit.
I worked for a place that provided unlimited service. Unlimited space, unlimited bandwidth. We had some specific restrictions to what could be served. They had to use our payment system, and provide content related to that system. The majority of the users did this perfectly. In exchange for complying to our restrictions, they had "free unlimited" hosting. We never took money from the client. We took an agreed upon percentage of sales via our payment system. It worked out very well for everyone.
The real limits were what the machines could sustain. At the time, we were using 100Mb/s switches with GigE uplinks. Using TEQL, we bound two NICs together and could provide about 150Mb/s on a single machine. After that, we started running into memory and CPU capacity issues if they were serving lots of small files. Space was limited by what we could install in them.
So, on machines that had 250GB drives (the largest at the time), you couldn't store 1TB of data. You couldn't serve up more than 150Mb/s. We had the occasional legitimate user (within the restrictions mentioned earlier) that we'd have to work with to serve their purposes. Data would be split between servers, and they could get multiple servers just for them. Still, we had bandwidth limitations of multiple GigE circuits. Our own main site used up the majority of that bandwidth, and was always our reason for expanding.
I do hosting for friends and family. I moved over to a 25Mb/s CDR, and a decent amount of storage. For them, it's unlimited, at very reasonable prices. I'm done with hosting for the masses. Too many customers make for too many problems. I really don't want the pleasure of someone setting up a streaming porn site on my equipment, saturating my bandwidth, and then demanding to know why "unlimited" isn't really unlimited. I'm happier servicing a couple dozen customers with a few hundred sites. The don't get the headaches of wondering if they'll exceed their GB/month transfers and get hit with overage. I don't have the headaches of random people around the world complaining, doing chargebacks, or suing, because they want the world on a silver platter for $12.95/mo. That, and I like actually knowing my customers. It makes them much happier too. We can sit down over a beer and talk about stuff which sometimes includes their hosting. :)
Do you shop at Walmart? Best Buy? Amazon? McDonalds?
Walmart is the worst. They can (and do) move into a town, undercut all the mom and pop stores, and then adjust their pricing to what the market will support. Employees are paid less than the competition. If Walmart has a department for it, that's an area that competing stores will die. The first that I noticed, and knew competition failing because of, was toy stores. Then bicycle shops. Mom and pop food markets were served with their death blow when Walmart started their "super Walmart" with full grocery stores in them.
Between Walmart and Best Buy, they killed Circuit City, and every small electronics store. Electronics repair shops went by the wayside. Who wants to spend $200+ to have your old TV repaired, when you can get a bigger newer one for the same price.
Amazon has done a beautiful job killing book stores. There are a few somewhat surviving chains, but not many. My aunt owns a small book store. She almost breaks even on the sale of used paperbacks at 25% to 50% cover price. That is, she pays the rent and power bill, and keeps one phone line on. As they expanded, they have been hitting other conventional stores.
But McDonalds? They've spent decades selling economy food stuffs at prices lower than restaurants can sell at. They even undercut competitive chains. The $0.39 hamburger has a $0.19 profit margin for them. Mom and pop restaurants would have to sell at a $1 loss (or more). And you'll notice, the $0.39 hamburger is long gone. Why? Because they can sell it for $1.00 now and stay competitive. They bought premium locations, and sell something resembling food quickly. Most locations, you can be in and out in just a couple minutes. Mom and pop burger shack? Go in, sit down, wait while they cook the burger, and then eat it. McD streamlined the process, so you don't have to dedicate more than a few minutes of your day to meals.
For all of them, they allow their "competition" to survive to some degree, to avoid monopolies. Their competition is driven so far down in profit, that they can fail at any moment. All it takes is running a special.
So, American companies are no nicer about screwing with the economy than foreign corporations. They do no differently than China did with the rare earth elements. The competition *could* have stayed in business. They just recognized that they didn't have a sufficient profit margin to do so.
You see that as evil. Most see it as proper application of the free market. We see this all the time. Companies sell *under* cost, to bring in sales. For places like retail stores, they'll sell particular items at a loss, to make a higher profit on others. Look at places like Best Buy. They'll sell some electronics at or under cost, but sell you cables for 1000% over cost.
In the case of China's application, they did it perfectly. Lower the sale cost so others can't complete and close up shop. Once that has happened, you can set your price to whatever you'd like. Limiting exports makes anything you do export more valuable, demanding even higher prices.
The WTO, EU, US, and Japan can complain all the want. I can't imagine any of those governments would bend over backwards to provide any resources or commodities at the prices China would want. For example, China could demand that the US sell military weapons and goods. The US will refuse to provide them. Filing a complaint with the WTO or anyone else won't make it happen. It would be responded to with a laugh and the diplomatic phrasing "Fuck China."
There is a way to fix it. It's called negotiations. I want rare earth elements. They want something. Come to the table willing to trade, and it will happen. Crying about not getting what you want without making any concessions is futile.
Don't like that? Go elsewhere. You mentioned Mountain Pass. They shut down in 2002 because of market prices. In 2007, China began export restrictions on rare earth elements. In 2010, China further restricted the exports. In late 2010 Molycorp (owner of the Mountain Pass mine) announced it would be reopening. Construction began in 2011, and will be completed this year.
So, when the price was down, Mountain Pass closed. Now that the price is up, they've reopened. That, sir, is how business works. If you want to open a business with virtually no profit margin, go for it. For professional businessmen, the go for where the profit is. When they're shipping again, I'd be willing to bet the pricing will be barely pennies under what the Chinese mines are charging.
Morbid curiosity makes me want to ask, but I'll avoid that. Congratulations on surviving. We all have plenty for living to do before we're not.
Nah, it's not the talking. I talk more shit than facts. Those attempting to filter the difference will find a wealth of useless trivia and a lot of entertainment, or end up with a massive headache. .. and vile glassware is no where near as much fun as dry ice bullets. :)
This is the picture you want.
And a few cases are...
1848, Phienas Gage, iron bar through his skull.
1987, Ahad Israfil (the photo in the first link)
2009, Hou Guozhu, Surgery removed half his brain.
http://minutest.com/6678/half-brain-boy/
2010, Angelina Mills, "LITTLE Angelina Mills had the RIGHT half of her brain ravaged by a rare condition... but thanks to miracle surgery she's LEFT with a great chance of a normal life. "
I can't find a name on this guy, but the removal of half a brain was from a car accident. He wasn't convicted for the arrests his mug shot was taken.
http://deadspin.com/5694479/half+headed-man-takes-worlds-most-bizarre-mugshot
And "useful" translates to "people who have great insurance, and money to pay for transplants"?
Wow. You're suggesting that anyone who has suffered a trauma which involves damage to any part of their brain doesn't deserve a chance to survive, because they'll be different? I'm sure there are quite a few people who disagree with you. That would start with neurosurgeons, neurologists, patients, friends, and family...