Yes you can arrest someone as a material witness for a good long while even pre-9/11, the law was enacted in 1984.
"In addition, if prosecutors have reason to believe that a material witness in a criminal proceeding may flee, they may obtain a warrant for that person's arrest and detain that person, under a 1984 federal statute. The warrant must be approved by a judge, and the witness is entitled to a hearing to determine bond and, if necessary, a court-appointed attorney."
Someone is claiming a 3 hour detainment is a violation of civil rights??? A three hour hold is barely enough time for ICE to call their supervisor, run a background check and have army and DHS people drive down from their offices. If anything he got VIP treatment.
btw: He did flee the country after the conference. Noone stopped him from leaving or tried to "make him a statistic".
1) The united states is at war in Afghanistan 2) Wikileaks leaked secret documents about the war in afghanistan in a reckless manner that possibly endangered lives of our allies and soldiers on the battlefield. 3) A 3 hour border detention is less than someone would be detained for unpaid parking tickets. They did not arrest him. They could have easily arrested him as a material witness. 4) Given that he was allowed to go on to his conference and he was not questioned further without his lawyer present...I just dont see the story here other than its geek-celebrity news. 5) He was allowed to leave the country after his conference, not exactly what police states do.
Mr. Applebaum doesn't act like an innocent victim of human rights abuses. He acts like an uncooperative witness who flees at the first sign of oppurtunity.
It sounds like the FBI agents were genuinely trying to hear his side of the story about his rights being trampled
having been at the conference for other reasons.
Its a system with dual six-core cpus. Its like saying a computer with two one-core cpus is a "dual core" system. It may be literally true but very misleading and not what a customer expects.
Jailbreaking is legal under the doctrine of first sale, but this is implied under common law until a judge says so explicitly. An explicit right to jailbreak in statute law makes the issue moot for the time being but does not remove any existing right under common law first sale doctrine.
Some files produce vastly more bittorrent traffic than others. Im sure WOW updates using bittorrent are substantially more than 0.3% of bittorrent traffic by themselves. Many seeders do not seed pirated content.
As much as I disliked the DMCA, the safe-harbor provision has done its job.
Google didn't violate peoples copyrights. The individual uploaders may or may not have, according to the varying nuances of fair use. The benefits of youtube far outweigh the theoretical loss of revenue.
Google spent a 100m not defending its good name but to set a legal precedent and defend the value of its company.
Once the legal precedent has been set, the cost of defending these suits will drop a great deal.
Of Google will claim the entire 100m as a tax writeoff.
"He also said the technology is still in development and Microsoft has no plans to release it"
So why show us technology we will never see because microsoft and their partners too chicken s--t and politically correct to embrace all the possibilities.
This is open source hardware, the patents are all gone, anyone can make them. A number of manufacturers make them to a single double edged standard.
The point is a hardware definition not making the actual hardware itself. Its defining standards for making the hardware. Having open source definitions for hardware makes it easier for hardware manufacturers to be compliant with the standard at cost.
Having a free open standard makes low cost vanilla hardware easy.
The president does not have the power to suspend the constitution , the president does have the power to suspend habeus corpus during rebellion or invasion where public safety may require it. In ex parte milligan supreme court said that civilians could not be tried by military courts when civilian courts were functioning
Earthquakes in San Fransisco will be the least of your worries. The last eruption of the Yellowstone caldera 640,000 years ago shot 240 cubic miles of rock and dust into the sky.
Instead of fighting for a bunch of ungrateful people in the middle east, maybe we should move to nuclear.
The top 5 nations in uranium reserves include Australia, US and Canada.
Gee perhaps the country with the largest army in the world(usa) ought to be protecting the country with the largest supply of uranium in the world(australia).
Except that Taiwan is a modern liberal democratic nation with 16,000 per capita GDP who imports 18 billion in US goods versus 23 billion in exports to the US. Taiwan is practically even with South Korea in GDP per capita. If you look at purchasing power parity they already exceed Greece, Spain and Italy.
The reason Foxconn might leave china is not cost but quality. They have had numerous quality and labor problems with goods from their PRC factories.
Obama is trying to develop a viable space program that works and we can actually afford. The first part of that is a lowering the cost to get stuff to orbit. Spacex will be part of that plan
Ive never seen NASA recover from a near launch abort as quickly as spacex with a recovery time of less than an hour,
and yes it did enhance the drama:)
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Yes you can arrest someone as a material witness for a good long while even pre-9/11, the law was enacted in 1984.
"In addition, if prosecutors have reason to believe that a material witness in a criminal proceeding may flee, they may obtain a warrant for that person's arrest and detain that person, under a 1984 federal statute. The warrant must be approved by a judge, and the witness is entitled to a hearing to determine bond and, if necessary, a court-appointed attorney."
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-material-witness.htm
Its long established that the police can hold you up to a day without charging you. This is standard and the shortest time in the western world.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Detention_of_a_suspect#United_States
Someone is claiming a 3 hour detainment is a violation of civil rights??? A three hour hold is barely enough time for ICE to call their supervisor, run a background check and have army and DHS people drive down from their offices. If anything he got VIP treatment.
btw: He did flee the country after the conference. Noone stopped him from leaving or tried to "make him a statistic".
1) The united states is at war in Afghanistan
2) Wikileaks leaked secret documents about the war in afghanistan in a reckless manner that possibly endangered lives of our allies
and soldiers on the battlefield.
3) A 3 hour border detention is less than someone would be detained for unpaid parking tickets. They did not arrest him. They could have
easily arrested him as a material witness.
4) Given that he was allowed to go on to his conference and he was not questioned further without his lawyer present...I just dont see the story here
other than its geek-celebrity news.
5) He was allowed to leave the country after his conference, not exactly what police states do.
Mr. Applebaum doesn't act like an innocent victim of human rights abuses. He acts like an uncooperative witness who flees at the first sign of oppurtunity.
It sounds like the FBI agents were genuinely trying to hear his side of the story about his rights being trampled
having been at the conference for other reasons.
Do you define it as 256kbps(like the US did until 2 years ago), 1.5 mbps(at&t basic DSL), 10m(comcast), 25-50mbps(FIOS,uverse, next gen comcast)?
in the US there are plenty of users who cant yet get above 5 mbps.
Tell us how many there are within 100 light years.
Its much easier to sell the public a car/planet/boat/spaceship if there is somewhere they want to go.
Its much easier to get the public interested in spending money on propulsion research if its gets them where they want to go FASTER.
Its a system with dual six-core cpus. Its like saying a computer with two one-core cpus is a "dual core" system. It may be literally true but very misleading and not what a customer expects.
Jailbreaking is legal under the doctrine of first sale, but this is implied under common law
until a judge says so explicitly. An explicit right to jailbreak in statute law makes the issue moot for the time being
but does not remove any existing right under common law first sale doctrine.
They do sell Amiga 1200's on ebay. They sell even now for a couple hundred dollars.
Some files produce vastly more bittorrent traffic than others. Im sure WOW updates using bittorrent are substantially more
than 0.3% of bittorrent traffic by themselves. Many seeders do not seed pirated content.
Its because slashdot doesn't allow you to go back and edit posts after you have submitted them and realized your mistakes.
Someone who buys are care for its fuel economy
tend to be more aware of the world around them than people who buy hotrods.
Or at least they are aware enough to realize that killing pedestrians
looks bad to the other soccer moms.
I would like my CPU cores to be assignable. If I want 1 of my 4 cores on background stuff
all the time, thats my business.
Id like to be able to have fun with my GPU cores without being a super-duper programmer.
In Ubuntu or Linux Mint using WINE.
As much as I disliked the DMCA, the safe-harbor provision has done its job.
Google didn't violate peoples copyrights. The individual uploaders may or may not have,
according to the varying nuances of fair use. The benefits of youtube far outweigh
the theoretical loss of revenue.
Google spent a 100m not defending its good name but to set a legal precedent and defend the value of its company.
Once the legal precedent has been set, the cost of defending these suits will drop a great deal.
Of Google will claim the entire 100m as a tax writeoff.
duh.
"He also said the technology is still in development and Microsoft has no plans to release it"
So why show us technology we will never see because microsoft and their partners too chicken s--t and politically correct to embrace all the possibilities.
This is open source hardware, the patents are all gone, anyone can make them. A number
of manufacturers make them to a single double edged standard.
The point is a hardware definition not making the actual hardware itself. Its defining standards
for making the hardware. Having open source definitions for hardware makes it easier for hardware manufacturers
to be compliant with the standard at cost.
Having a free open standard makes low cost vanilla hardware easy.
Because people feed mice to pet snakes and its
legal to poison mice in your home and break
their necks(mouse traps).
In a nutshell mice are considered vermin not
pets to most people.
The president does not have the power to suspend the constitution , the president does have the power to suspend habeus corpus during rebellion or invasion where public safety may require it. In ex parte milligan supreme court said
that civilians could not be tried by military courts when civilian courts were functioning
Earthquakes in San Fransisco will be the least of your worries. The last eruption of the Yellowstone caldera 640,000 years ago
shot 240 cubic miles of rock and dust into the sky.
Instead of fighting for a bunch of ungrateful people in the middle east, maybe we should move to nuclear.
The top 5 nations in uranium reserves include Australia, US and Canada.
Gee perhaps the country with the largest army in the world(usa) ought to be protecting the country
with the largest supply of uranium in the world(australia).
Except that Taiwan is a modern liberal democratic nation with 16,000 per capita GDP who imports
18 billion in US goods versus 23 billion in exports to the US. Taiwan is practically even with South Korea
in GDP per capita. If you look at purchasing power parity they already exceed Greece, Spain and Italy.
The reason Foxconn might leave china is not cost but quality. They have had numerous quality and labor problems
with goods from their PRC factories.
Obama is trying to develop a viable space program that works and we can actually afford. The first part of that is a lowering
the cost to get stuff to orbit. Spacex will be part of that plan
As opposed to NASA who's Ares I-X rocket is where NASA was in 1957.
spacex for better or worse, has made slow but steady progress towards a manned orbital launch platform and will be ready
years ahead of Ares.
Ive never seen NASA recover from a near launch abort as quickly as spacex with a recovery time of less than an hour, :)
and yes it did enhance the drama
When Charles Lindbergh crossed the atlantic he wasnt doing it in a government plane he did it on a Ryan-NYP. NASA didnt exist back then.
The fact that it was an American pilot flying an american plane was all that mattered.
As for the rest we simply have to figure out how to do it for billions instead of trillions.
What is past is prologue and the future is not yet written.