This case doesn't make sense under established rules.
4th amendment protection applies to police officers, not civilians. If a civilian sees a crime being committed during the regular course of their day, it shouldn't be held under the same standards as police officers.
In this case, a tech saw child porn and alerted the police. In this case, the tech is a witness, not a police officer.
Under the logic used in the original case, you could invite me into your home and I could catch your collection of murdered corpses on the way to the bathroom, and the court would call it inadmissable because you didn't have a warrant.
I worked in tech support before college, and then I worked as a cashier. At the end of the day, in both fields you're not the one who made the broken thing, you're the hero that can fix it, and so the key is to be on the person's side.
The second you're percieved as being an agent of the company or the computer, your life immediately becomes much more difficult. You've gotta be Robin Hood, Helping the common man fight back against the unknowable machinations that are forcing them to get behind.
From my perspective, the value of a download is either full price or nothing. If the publisher refuses to sell to me, I'm under no obligation to buy. Doesn't mean I can't play.
(Gametap is insane for that though. Practically every game I've wanted to play but couldn't find is there.)
I agree so much I'm going to take it to the next level:
Almost all hardware today is ridiculously powerful for ridiculously cheap. Review sites implicitly agree by reviewing at full detail 1600x1200 or higher.
It's because you're a girl, and girls don't do science!
Wait...you're a girl, therefore my theory is right if it's rewritten as:
girls don't do science except for you!
Oh, and that other one, better rewrite:
girls don't do science except for you and that other one!
After I get a sentence with a billion names, I still won't have a theory that accurately predicts if a girl does science or not. But it's pretty neat in that it'll employ physicists for a long time.
It's win-win. Phone companies sell to customers they wouldn't otherwise be able to sell to and get to charge more per-call, customers get extreme flexibility.
I bought my last phone for 40 dollars, and it came with 40 dollars of talk time. Afterwards, it costs $15/mo keeping it stocked with time. For long distance or long duration calls, I've got my $30/yr skype subscription.
For the record, I was rather upset about losing my last phone a 40 dollar piece of crap from China. It didn't have the Internet. It didn't have a camera. It didn't have ringtones.
I loved that phone. It did exactly what I wanted it to. It even had a great alarm clock that'd ring until I did something about it(Unlike my current phone that rings exactly once). I don't care what the cost was, I'm sad it's gone.
My other vehicle cost me 500 dollars. I'd be upset over the loss of that vehicle if I crashed it. By your metric, this means I paid too much. Your metric, therefore, isn't reasonable.
What does any of this have to do with cell phones?
If you're thinking 'Gravity is a law!', it's an anachronism. They used to call natural theories laws when they were developed enough. Today everything is a theory, and with good reason. Newton's laws, for example, are theories which can be proven incomplete either by thinking big and looking at relativity, or by thinking small and looking at quantum physics.
No, it doesn't answer the question. Do they just add another 2 years to your contract then? I hope you really like that data plan and such, because you've got it for 4 years.
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This case doesn't make sense under established rules.
4th amendment protection applies to police officers, not civilians. If a civilian sees a crime being committed during the regular course of their day, it shouldn't be held under the same standards as police officers.
In this case, a tech saw child porn and alerted the police. In this case, the tech is a witness, not a police officer.
Under the logic used in the original case, you could invite me into your home and I could catch your collection of murdered corpses on the way to the bathroom, and the court would call it inadmissable because you didn't have a warrant.
+1, Epic truth.
I worked in tech support before college, and then I worked as a cashier. At the end of the day, in both fields you're not the one who made the broken thing, you're the hero that can fix it, and so the key is to be on the person's side.
The second you're percieved as being an agent of the company or the computer, your life immediately becomes much more difficult. You've gotta be Robin Hood, Helping the common man fight back against the unknowable machinations that are forcing them to get behind.
Isn't it crazy that you're able to get full detail at 1920x1080 anywhere near playable frame rates with a 100 dollar video card?
You're very wrong. The company may be able to lock me out of their servers, but they can't lock me out of my software. It's the internet, after all.
From my perspective, the value of a download is either full price or nothing. If the publisher refuses to sell to me, I'm under no obligation to buy. Doesn't mean I can't play.
(Gametap is insane for that though. Practically every game I've wanted to play but couldn't find is there.)
It's slashdot. This song ain't about you. Sorry.
Must be nice living in a world of free shipping.
My option for Assassin's creed is either 10 dollars on steam, or 20 dollars and 30 dollars shipping with an on-line store.
There are times a +6 is necessary.
I don't see how steam is any less reliable than a bunch of CDs or DVDs. Lost the CD? Get ready to steal, because you won't get it back otherwise.
I agree so much I'm going to take it to the next level:
Almost all hardware today is ridiculously powerful for ridiculously cheap. Review sites implicitly agree by reviewing at full detail 1600x1200 or higher.
It's because you're a girl, and girls don't do science!
Wait...you're a girl, therefore my theory is right if it's rewritten as:
girls don't do science except for you!
Oh, and that other one, better rewrite:
girls don't do science except for you and that other one!
After I get a sentence with a billion names, I still won't have a theory that accurately predicts if a girl does science or not. But it's pretty neat in that it'll employ physicists for a long time.
Will the two of you just shut the fuck up and kiss already?
The Internet is Serious Business.
Something just seems wrong about the celebration of raw materialism in our previous posts. :)
We've got a few prepaid players in Canada.
It's win-win. Phone companies sell to customers they wouldn't otherwise be able to sell to and get to charge more per-call, customers get extreme flexibility.
I bought my last phone for 40 dollars, and it came with 40 dollars of talk time. Afterwards, it costs $15/mo keeping it stocked with time. For long distance or long duration calls, I've got my $30/yr skype subscription.
That's exactly what I was thinking. Actually making a testable prediction is huge.
Ah, I see.
For the record, I was rather upset about losing my last phone a 40 dollar piece of crap from China. It didn't have the Internet. It didn't have a camera. It didn't have ringtones.
I loved that phone. It did exactly what I wanted it to. It even had a great alarm clock that'd ring until I did something about it(Unlike my current phone that rings exactly once). I don't care what the cost was, I'm sad it's gone.
My other vehicle cost me 500 dollars. I'd be upset over the loss of that vehicle if I crashed it. By your metric, this means I paid too much. Your metric, therefore, isn't reasonable.
What does any of this have to do with cell phones?
If you're thinking 'Gravity is a law!', it's an anachronism. They used to call natural theories laws when they were developed enough. Today everything is a theory, and with good reason. Newton's laws, for example, are theories which can be proven incomplete either by thinking big and looking at relativity, or by thinking small and looking at quantum physics.
If evolution is true, then when you poison a population, eventually the population will develop resistance to the poison.
What's that? There are drug resistant bacteria now?
I don't care how long the contract is. Being forced to use Rogers is a fate worse than death.
I'd tell you why, but I'm about 6 hours from the nearest service area.
No, it doesn't answer the question. Do they just add another 2 years to your contract then? I hope you really like that data plan and such, because you've got it for 4 years.
You've already signed up for that. It's overpriced in part because they're paying a chunk of the price of the phone.
So why should they throw away another couple hundred dollars on a customer they already have?
Or maybe the standard customer has a much higher profit margin than 10%, and that number is brought down by corporate rates with a lower margin?
Sacrilege! Next thing you'll be telling us that the original xbox controller was too big!