Perhaps she could accept that the police are bound by something called the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution, which says something about "The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized."
If there is probable cause, then there is no legal problem with obtaining a warrant and searching someone's home or car. The question is whether an anonymous, unverified report from an unknown source counts as probable cause. As usual, Popehat has a much clearer explanation of the subject than anything I have said:
"So, for instance, if you call in an anonymous tip that I am running a meth lab in my blue house on the corner, and the cops confirm that I have a blue house on the corner, those details are not meaningfully corroborative. If the cops find evidence of witnesses seeing me move precursor chemicals into my blue house on the corner, that's meaningfully corroborative. Here, the police observed no erratic driving or other corroboration of meaningful facts. In fact, they observed five minutes of unremarkable driving. The only corroboration was the innocent fact of the truck being present on the highway. "
If you don't see the problem with running the concept of probable cause through a paper shredder and then lighting the Fourth Amendment on fire then perhaps Justice Antonin Scalia's description might help:
"Drunken driving is a serious matter, but so is the loss of our freedom to come and go as we please without police interference. To prevent and detect murder we do not allow searches without probable cause or targeted Terry stops without reasonable suspicion. We should not do so for drunken driving either. After today’s opinion all of us on the road, and not just drug dealers, are at risk of having our freedom of movement curtailed on suspicion of drunkenness, based upon a phone tip, true or false, of a single instance of careless driving."
But AOL’s client had a security bug in it, called a buffer overflow. [...] AOL knew about this bug in their program and now they were exploiting it! That was what all those double zeros were for—they were just filling up space in the program’s buffer until they hit the end of the AOL client’s buffer and started overwriting executable code with the remainder of the protocol message. AOL was causing the client to look up a particular address in memory and send it back to the server.
There's something that you could always count on AOL for -- Respect for the users. Most companies, when faced with a trivially exploitable buffer overflow that could cause their chat client to execute arbitrary code would classify it as a bug and feel compelled to fix it, but that's not the AOL way. Instead they changed it from a bug to a feature which enhanced security by verifying the client's identity.
And if somewhere along the way someone else used it to own an army of AOL-zombie PCs, then that's just the price you pay. You can't make an omelette without breaking a few arms.
I've heard that story before. I once started a job and was told "Sure, this system is a bit touchy, but don't worry about a thing, it's being replaced and won't be needed after next month." My new coworker pointed out that he had been told the same story a year and a half earlier when he joined.
A year later the power supply on the single main server running dontworryitwillbereplacednextmonth blew out and we needed to replace it. Only it ran a very specific version of Netware with a highly specialized database product that nobody knew how to work with any more and even though we had backups it was still next to impossible to even reinstall the base operating system on anything but the original machine. We wound up checking eBay for an exact duplicate of the dead server, raced out to the next city to buy it and then just swapped the hard drives, powered it up and hoped for the best.
It worked, and a quick meeting was held in which my team stressed just how lucky we were to be able to recover from this and that we needed a real solution that didn't involve waiting until next month. The CIO listened to this,nodded his head and suggested that we should try to buy two more replacement servers just in case it happened again.
Another year later, when the company was finally bought up and the office closed down, dontworryitwillbereplacednextmonth was still happily running in the corner of the server room, waiting for a new application that would do everything that it did.
It got very tight sometimes and when someone made a copy of a file without checking the size, it filled the filesystem and the server fell over. That particular outage cost several million given what the server did.
At this point, or better yet several months before you get to this point, it's a good idea to volunteer the information that additional disk storage would cost only several thousand and prevent these kinds of problems.
Depending on what the server really does, a complete spare system ready to take over in the event of even the smallest failure also looks like a good investment. Don't let the business wait until they lose several million before spending a hundred thousand to prevent it.
Somehow reminds me of that joke where initially there's just one worker, then layers and layers of staff are added to manage that worker, then finally the worker is fired for underperforming.
Can't find it on Google or Bing though for some reason.
That's about $29,000 more than OpenSSL receives every year, and still $22,000 more than they received this month when the entire world realized that they had been freeloading and scrambled to make themselves look good by making one-time donations.
I use Vice on my desktop computer and Frodo C64 on my Android phone. Accordingly, I don't need an extra gadget to play with my Commodore 64.
I was about to say something nice about the Android port of Frodo and how great it was that the developer must have finally figured out how to swap disks without entering 'LOAD"*",8,1' and had a keyboard that looked even vaguely like the original but...
No. Never mind. It's still nice to have but bordering on unusable for anything complex.
And I'm sure that she is being well paid in a timely manner by the most ethical industry in the world so she will never have to worry about not having a steady income.
Really legit mailing lists should be rewriting the sender headers to reflect that the mail has been redelivered by the mailing list, the only difficulty this would cause is when users try to reply directly to messages rather than forwarding their replies to the list itself.
Selling little bottles of very expensive water with labels that very carefully imply that they do, indeed, cure diseases (while legally not saying anything of the sort) to people who don't know any better is what gets people up in arms.
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If there is probable cause, then there is no legal problem with obtaining a warrant and searching someone's home or car. The question is whether an anonymous, unverified report from an unknown source counts as probable cause. As usual, Popehat has a much clearer explanation of the subject than anything I have said:
"So, for instance, if you call in an anonymous tip that I am running a meth lab in my blue house on the corner, and the cops confirm that I have a blue house on the corner, those details are not meaningfully corroborative. If the cops find evidence of witnesses seeing me move precursor chemicals into my blue house on the corner, that's meaningfully corroborative. Here, the police observed no erratic driving or other corroboration of meaningful facts. In fact, they observed five minutes of unremarkable driving. The only corroboration was the innocent fact of the truck being present on the highway. "
If you don't see the problem with running the concept of probable cause through a paper shredder and then lighting the Fourth Amendment on fire then perhaps Justice Antonin Scalia's description might help:
"Drunken driving is a serious matter, but so is the loss of our freedom to come and go as we please without police interference. To prevent and detect murder we do not allow searches without probable cause or targeted Terry stops without reasonable suspicion. We should not do so for drunken driving either. After today’s opinion all of us on the road, and not just drug dealers, are at risk of having our freedom of movement curtailed on suspicion of drunkenness, based upon a phone tip, true or false, of a single instance of careless driving."
Either facial recognition software has gotten a whole lot better, or the legalization of marijuana has started having an effect on people.
I'm willing to believe both stories.
I used to use passwords like "love", "sex", "secret" and "god", but now that we have switched to passcodes I just use "12345".
Heartbleed would simply not have happened if OpenSSL was written in Ada or another type safe language.
Right you are. Heartbleed happened because everybody was _using_ OpenSSL. Fix that and the problem goes away.
But AOL’s client had a security bug in it, called a buffer overflow. [...] AOL knew about this bug in their program and now they were exploiting it! That was what all those double zeros were for—they were just filling up space in the program’s buffer until they hit the end of the AOL client’s buffer and started overwriting executable code with the remainder of the protocol message. AOL was causing the client to look up a particular address in memory and send it back to the server.
There's something that you could always count on AOL for -- Respect for the users. Most companies, when faced with a trivially exploitable buffer overflow that could cause their chat client to execute arbitrary code would classify it as a bug and feel compelled to fix it, but that's not the AOL way. Instead they changed it from a bug to a feature which enhanced security by verifying the client's identity.
And if somewhere along the way someone else used it to own an army of AOL-zombie PCs, then that's just the price you pay. You can't make an omelette without breaking a few arms.
I've heard that story before. I once started a job and was told "Sure, this system is a bit touchy, but don't worry about a thing, it's being replaced and won't be needed after next month." My new coworker pointed out that he had been told the same story a year and a half earlier when he joined.
A year later the power supply on the single main server running dontworryitwillbereplacednextmonth blew out and we needed to replace it. Only it ran a very specific version of Netware with a highly specialized database product that nobody knew how to work with any more and even though we had backups it was still next to impossible to even reinstall the base operating system on anything but the original machine. We wound up checking eBay for an exact duplicate of the dead server, raced out to the next city to buy it and then just swapped the hard drives, powered it up and hoped for the best.
It worked, and a quick meeting was held in which my team stressed just how lucky we were to be able to recover from this and that we needed a real solution that didn't involve waiting until next month. The CIO listened to this,nodded his head and suggested that we should try to buy two more replacement servers just in case it happened again.
Another year later, when the company was finally bought up and the office closed down, dontworryitwillbereplacednextmonth was still happily running in the corner of the server room, waiting for a new application that would do everything that it did.
Any month now.
It got very tight sometimes and when someone made a copy of a file without checking the size, it filled the filesystem and the server fell over. That particular outage cost several million given what the server did.
At this point, or better yet several months before you get to this point, it's a good idea to volunteer the information that additional disk storage would cost only several thousand and prevent these kinds of problems.
Depending on what the server really does, a complete spare system ready to take over in the event of even the smallest failure also looks like a good investment. Don't let the business wait until they lose several million before spending a hundred thousand to prevent it.
Somehow reminds me of that joke where initially there's just one worker, then layers and layers of staff are added to manage that worker, then finally the worker is fired for underperforming. Can't find it on Google or Bing though for some reason.
That's because the worker was really an ant..
$30,949 is how much the OpenBSD Foundation received in donations in 2013.
That's about $29,000 more than OpenSSL receives every year, and still $22,000 more than they received this month when the entire world realized that they had been freeloading and scrambled to make themselves look good by making one-time donations.
I use Vice on my desktop computer and Frodo C64 on my Android phone. Accordingly, I don't need an extra gadget to play with my Commodore 64.
I was about to say something nice about the Android port of Frodo and how great it was that the developer must have finally figured out how to swap disks without entering 'LOAD"*",8,1' and had a keyboard that looked even vaguely like the original but...
No. Never mind. It's still nice to have but bordering on unusable for anything complex.
Nostalgia used to really mean something, but nowadays it's just not the same.
Debian is like your sysadmin. You only really notice it when something goes horribly wrong.
Won't you feel silly when all non-basic lands turn into mountains tonight.
If I see the letters "CHA" carved on the moon after the eclipse, I'll know who to blame.
Oh yes. It was right here.
"He set the earth on its foundations; it can never be moved." - Psalm 104:5
"The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises." - Ecclesiastes 1:5
So the Bible teaches Newtonian relativity. Where's the conflict?
One of those actresses recently won a lawsuit against the director for doing so
The lawsuit is over, but I'm still waiting to see the director brought up on several charges of attempted murder.
Which would hold unless Mulgrew had parts/work. Oh wait, she does! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O...
And I'm sure that she is being well paid in a timely manner by the most ethical industry in the world so she will never have to worry about not having a steady income.
sex in a classroom sounds like illegal activity to me.
It's also a good way to lose your job as a teacher.
Really legit mailing lists should be rewriting the sender headers to reflect that the mail has been redelivered by the mailing list, the only difficulty this would cause is when users try to reply directly to messages rather than forwarding their replies to the list itself.
There really ought to be a better way to handle this.
And it really should be implemented properly everywhere. Oh, and I want a pony too.
The difference is that the Land Rover has more hours in service than the F35.
Probably more hours in flight too.
Exactly. A friend of mine is such a homeopath.
And a friend of mine is a bartender. The only difference is that the medicines she dispenses actually do something.
That's fine.
Selling little bottles of very expensive water with labels that very carefully imply that they do, indeed, cure diseases (while legally not saying anything of the sort) to people who don't know any better is what gets people up in arms.
But selling little bottles of expensive water in a way that carefully implies that they do, indeed, cure social problems (while legally not saying anything of the sort) seems to be totally okay with everybody.
Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure grain alcohol?
The term you are looking for is "Faith-based economic policy".