You're talking about something completely different. I'm talking about when you have the opportunity to challenge the validity of a warrant. If you're never charged and never defending yourself, I don't believe you have an opportunity to challenge the validity of a warrant.
But your argument is specious at best. There have been numerous examples of government agencies using information obtained by the secret warrants, only to claim it was a "traffic stop" instead of a targeted drug search. The abuse of information obtained by secret warrants is a known fact and not up for discussion just because you're a government shill.
Well, a warrant could only be challenged if you were charged and challenging the validity of the evidence in court.
But I agree: The US has some seriously messed up legal procedures when they can use evidence provided by such a warrant without even presenting the evidence in court nor explaining how they came to acquire it. That sounds more like Chinese Law than that of a free nation...
It would be the defendant/accused (i.e. the user) who could raise an issue of constitutionality of the search warrant. For an internet service provider to raise the issue is just wrong-headed. They're required to respond to warrants; they're not being charged under the warrants.
Of course, if Facebook et. al. would like to assume responsibility for the content posted by users, then they'd have a reason to raise defense-style arguments. But until and unless they want to do so, they need to STFU and obey the law.
IF haveOnlineGeneticProvile
THEN PRINT "You are too dumb to be allowed on the internet."
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Of course I realize the fact that Oracle hasn't "taken back" the code takes the wind out of the Oracle haters sails, but such is life...
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Nonsense. You're free to use whatever license you want for future releases if you own the code unless people have contributed to it.
There was nothing stopping Oracle from ceasing to release Java under permissive terms after Oracle 7. The could have locked down Java 8 as proprietary, and could still do so for Java 9 if they want to.
They can't revoke the license on the published Java 7 source, but they most certainly are not required to release all future development work under those terms.
I worked on the software for the military patrol frigates in Canada on my first job fresh out of university. It was such an old architecture it had no stack and used magnetic core memory.
For the years I was working in the tech industry, I was steadily employed (I'm on a disability retirement now.)
The only certificate I ever got was a low-level Oracle 7 DBA cert. Not one employer ever asked about that cert. Instead, they had their DBAs asking me *questions* to see what I knew. And because I'd worked with some sharp people and had good lunch-room discussions with them, I knew *far* more than that certificate course ever taught me.
My experience with "training courses" is that they run you through the same material you can get by downloading the user manuals and playing with the product. Unless you're talking something like a Cisco box that you can't just download, you're far better off using the internet for training materials, *learning* your stuff, and being able to *answer questions* during the interview process.
If you think even the most bone-headed of employers is going to take your word for it that a certification means you "know your stuff", you're off in fantasy land.
Worse, claiming a certificate means that you're going to be *grilled* on that subject if they're hiring you for it, so you'd damned well *better* know your stuff. Taking a certificate course for the sake of being "employable" is as bone-headed as renovating a house in order to sell it -- you *never* get back the money you spent on renovations, and you *never* earn as much more money as you spent on the course.
Certificate courses are all about one thing and one thing only: a revenue stream for whoever is doing the training.
Talk about worrying about drips while the river floods. Hundreds of billions wasted on the F35's alone, and someone is worried about $35 million for satcom.
No wonder there are never any *real* cuts to the military budgets with "prioritization" like this.
Fuhrer Harper doesn't give a rat's ass about our Constitution or Charter of Rights in Canada. His government has spent millions fighting lawsuits challenging their illegal legislation on a Charter basis, only to "tweak" the legislation when the courts mandated that the law must change, but never tweaking it to comply with the Charter, only to meet the courts demand that it change.
Fuhrer Harper is busy threatening the entire nation with an impending terrorist-inspired doom if we don't re-elect the Cuntservatives this fall. Have no doubt, C-51 (the most recent spying legislation) will be challenged in court and will lose, but that doesn't stop mein Fuhrer from pushing it through like the jackboot he is anyhow.
Every single contract I worked on save for one required that you use the company's equipment on site due to security requirements of the job. Every single one.
This isn't some weird "breach of regulations" -- it's the norm.
WTF are you bothering with a lawyer for? Aren't you paid enough to just do your damned job and STFU? You think you're going to "cash out" with some big lawsuit?
Even if you do cash out, expect to be blacklisted by every agency across the country when they find out what you've done, and never to work again.
Unfortunately, the people who sign the cheques are the ones who make the decisions, and they don't make their decisions based on security concerns. Their only concern is "does it work?"
Silly me. I agree with them in most cases, unless you're talking about down-level software. If current releases of software are being broken by updates, there is a problem with the updates and/or the implementation of the APIs, because API meanings should not be changed by security updates, only major revisions of the OS.
In Canada, they've had the option of placing you on a 72 hour mental health assessment for years, though usually a decision is made after the first 24 hours as to whether to hold you for the 72 hours. If you are having serious difficulties, they can hold you for up to three weeks after the 72 hours, an involuntary commital.
I went through the process, and it's a damned good thing they were able to hold me. They literally saved my life -- I was suicidal.
On the flip side, I've always applied all my Windows updates except for driver updates whenever they came out. It's only the driver updates that have proven "iffy" in the past for me.
But I am going to miss doing those updates on my schedule, as I've always figured it's good to know that the updates were done so I can blame them if any issues should arise.
They also don't mention what's going to happen if you restore from a restore point -- will the update be automatically be re-applied, even though you restored because it caused you issues?
Personally I think "truthers" are just very lonely and insecure people who are trying to boost their own egos through claiming to have "secret" or "superior" knowledge to the rest of the world. Kind of sad, really.
"Truther" conspiracy nuts don't believe in *anything* they can't see, feel, hear, or touch themselves. They probably think the very *existence* of Pluto is a lie.
You can make people go to school, but you can't force them to become educated.:(
I've got the blank DVDs waiting to burn the.ISOs when it shows up on my system. I've no doubt there will be issues with some of the third party software I use, but those bumps will get ironed out in due time.
I thought about sticking with Windows 7, but I realized it's not every day you get something for "free" from Microsoft, so I better get it while the getting is good.:D
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You're talking about something completely different. I'm talking about when you have the opportunity to challenge the validity of a warrant. If you're never charged and never defending yourself, I don't believe you have an opportunity to challenge the validity of a warrant.
But your argument is specious at best. There have been numerous examples of government agencies using information obtained by the secret warrants, only to claim it was a "traffic stop" instead of a targeted drug search. The abuse of information obtained by secret warrants is a known fact and not up for discussion just because you're a government shill.
Well, a warrant could only be challenged if you were charged and challenging the validity of the evidence in court.
But I agree: The US has some seriously messed up legal procedures when they can use evidence provided by such a warrant without even presenting the evidence in court nor explaining how they came to acquire it. That sounds more like Chinese Law than that of a free nation...
It would be the defendant/accused (i.e. the user) who could raise an issue of constitutionality of the search warrant. For an internet service provider to raise the issue is just wrong-headed. They're required to respond to warrants; they're not being charged under the warrants.
Of course, if Facebook et. al. would like to assume responsibility for the content posted by users, then they'd have a reason to raise defense-style arguments. But until and unless they want to do so, they need to STFU and obey the law.
Yeah, I noticed the typo as soon as it came up after hitting "Submit." I wondered what people would have to say about it. :D
IF haveOnlineGeneticProvile
THEN PRINT "You are too dumb to be allowed on the internet."
Of course I realize the fact that Oracle hasn't "taken back" the code takes the wind out of the Oracle haters sails, but such is life...
Nonsense. You're free to use whatever license you want for future releases if you own the code unless people have contributed to it.
There was nothing stopping Oracle from ceasing to release Java under permissive terms after Oracle 7. The could have locked down Java 8 as proprietary, and could still do so for Java 9 if they want to.
They can't revoke the license on the published Java 7 source, but they most certainly are not required to release all future development work under those terms.
I worked on the software for the military patrol frigates in Canada on my first job fresh out of university. It was such an old architecture it had no stack and used magnetic core memory.
For the years I was working in the tech industry, I was steadily employed (I'm on a disability retirement now.)
The only certificate I ever got was a low-level Oracle 7 DBA cert. Not one employer ever asked about that cert. Instead, they had their DBAs asking me *questions* to see what I knew. And because I'd worked with some sharp people and had good lunch-room discussions with them, I knew *far* more than that certificate course ever taught me.
My experience with "training courses" is that they run you through the same material you can get by downloading the user manuals and playing with the product. Unless you're talking something like a Cisco box that you can't just download, you're far better off using the internet for training materials, *learning* your stuff, and being able to *answer questions* during the interview process.
If you think even the most bone-headed of employers is going to take your word for it that a certification means you "know your stuff", you're off in fantasy land.
Worse, claiming a certificate means that you're going to be *grilled* on that subject if they're hiring you for it, so you'd damned well *better* know your stuff. Taking a certificate course for the sake of being "employable" is as bone-headed as renovating a house in order to sell it -- you *never* get back the money you spent on renovations, and you *never* earn as much more money as you spent on the course.
Certificate courses are all about one thing and one thing only: a revenue stream for whoever is doing the training.
Talk about worrying about drips while the river floods. Hundreds of billions wasted on the F35's alone, and someone is worried about $35 million for satcom.
No wonder there are never any *real* cuts to the military budgets with "prioritization" like this.
Fuhrer Harper doesn't give a rat's ass about our Constitution or Charter of Rights in Canada. His government has spent millions fighting lawsuits challenging their illegal legislation on a Charter basis, only to "tweak" the legislation when the courts mandated that the law must change, but never tweaking it to comply with the Charter, only to meet the courts demand that it change.
Fuhrer Harper is busy threatening the entire nation with an impending terrorist-inspired doom if we don't re-elect the Cuntservatives this fall. Have no doubt, C-51 (the most recent spying legislation) will be challenged in court and will lose, but that doesn't stop mein Fuhrer from pushing it through like the jackboot he is anyhow.
Perhaps I have better things to do with my time than read documentation for obsolete CRAP.
Ask the people who wrote the software that doesn't exhibit the bug. Obviously it can be done.
This is not a "Unicode bug". It is a rendering bug exhibited by some applications.
So you're going to ban outsourcing, then?
Every single contract I worked on save for one required that you use the company's equipment on site due to security requirements of the job. Every single one.
This isn't some weird "breach of regulations" -- it's the norm.
WTF are you bothering with a lawyer for? Aren't you paid enough to just do your damned job and STFU? You think you're going to "cash out" with some big lawsuit?
Even if you do cash out, expect to be blacklisted by every agency across the country when they find out what you've done, and never to work again.
I have no problem with forcing them to install security updates instead of letting them watch more YouTube videos.
That has always been true.
Unfortunately, the people who sign the cheques are the ones who make the decisions, and they don't make their decisions based on security concerns. Their only concern is "does it work?"
Silly me. I agree with them in most cases, unless you're talking about down-level software. If current releases of software are being broken by updates, there is a problem with the updates and/or the implementation of the APIs, because API meanings should not be changed by security updates, only major revisions of the OS.
In Canada, they've had the option of placing you on a 72 hour mental health assessment for years, though usually a decision is made after the first 24 hours as to whether to hold you for the 72 hours. If you are having serious difficulties, they can hold you for up to three weeks after the 72 hours, an involuntary commital.
I went through the process, and it's a damned good thing they were able to hold me. They literally saved my life -- I was suicidal.
On the flip side, I've always applied all my Windows updates except for driver updates whenever they came out. It's only the driver updates that have proven "iffy" in the past for me.
But I am going to miss doing those updates on my schedule, as I've always figured it's good to know that the updates were done so I can blame them if any issues should arise.
They also don't mention what's going to happen if you restore from a restore point -- will the update be automatically be re-applied, even though you restored because it caused you issues?
Personally I think "truthers" are just very lonely and insecure people who are trying to boost their own egos through claiming to have "secret" or "superior" knowledge to the rest of the world. Kind of sad, really.
"Truther" conspiracy nuts don't believe in *anything* they can't see, feel, hear, or touch themselves. They probably think the very *existence* of Pluto is a lie.
You can make people go to school, but you can't force them to become educated. :(
Grocery Manufacturer's Association says it all. This is a ruling in favour of manufactured food-like products, not the production of actual food.
I have DVDs; I'd have to buy a stick. And if I had a choice between buying either, you're talking about $0.50 vs $5.00 or more.
I've got the blank DVDs waiting to burn the .ISOs when it shows up on my system. I've no doubt there will be issues with some of the third party software I use, but those bumps will get ironed out in due time.
I thought about sticking with Windows 7, but I realized it's not every day you get something for "free" from Microsoft, so I better get it while the getting is good. :D