I'll even gladly give more money to projects like this out of my tax dollars, instead of wasting them to build F-22s at 3,000x the cost.
How about if you kept those dollars yourself, and spent them or saved them as you saw fit for your own purposes, instead of the government making those choices for you? Buy solar panels if you like.
In your view, what kind of obligation does Apple have to support other vendors' products, after the other vendor has made it clear that said product is on the way out?
All they have to do is say the search is reasonable based upon suspicion that ANYONE travelling outside of the country could have been doing so for "evil" reasons
That's why we separated the executive and judicial powers in the constitution, and required anyone making such a claim to swear to it, and to convince a judge that their suspicion is reasonable before the judge can issue a warrant.
It's not a religious writing, it's a contract. It is the entirety of the legal basis for the power of our government. If we permit them to ignore it for convenience, then we no longer have the rule of law, we have the rule of men, and history has shown us many times that an unlimited government is extremely dangerous.
I'd got a bit farther than that, and say that i consider it a citizen's duty to require public employees to obey the law. If a cop ever wants to search my car in the future, my answer will be "officer, sorry for the inconvenience, but if you believe you have probable cause to search my vehicle, then you shouldn't have any difficulty convincing a judge to issue a warrant. I'll wait."
Can you provide any citations that say Customs is not allowed to search [anything] at the border?
It's not for me or anyone else to prove that a given power doesn't exist. it's up to the officers who wish to exercise that power to prove their legitimacy.
a judge will only issue a warrant if there is probable cause, which in most cases there won't be.
Well, a judge who takes his duty seriously will hold to that standard. Sadly, law enforcement officers routinely find pet judges who'll issue a warrant just because the cop says he wants it.
As it happens, I've not only read it, I re-read it periodically, and i'm also familiar with the debates that surrounded its ratification. This kind of routine violation of privacy was among the reasons that we overthrew our king, and was a major issue that impeded ratification of the constitution before the bill of rights was drafted.
If ACLU wins based on fourth amendment basis on the right of people to be secure in their persons & papers, then the border searches will be extremely time consuming as each search will need to accompanied by a warrant from a judge.
You say that like it's a bad thing. I for one don't consider it advantageous for violations of my right to privacy to be simple and convenient for all concerned.
With 50K+ apps on the store, developers should think of it as their delivery mechanism, NOT as the way for the customers to hear about them. The time when the App store was an adequate source of publicity has been over for at least a year. Any competent PR firm will know that astrotufing the reviews is a waste of time.
No. Ticker tape is a strip of paper that gets stock quotes printed on it. No holes.
The clock row was called the S row for Sprocket.
Actually, they are sprocket holes. The mechanical readers use those holes to drive the tape through the reader. It was much later, when optical reading became common, that people took advantage of the sprocket holes being smaller than the data holes to use them to strobe the reader.
Most of the people who are still actively editing are cranks and and nutters with a political chip on their shoulder.
There certainly are plenty of cranks and nutters, but most?
I tend to correct grammar errors and awkward wording when I'm browsing the site. A quick glance at a typical page history shows me that in most cases, the edits are quite reasonable.
Slashdot Mirror
I forget... Is scrith transparent?
-jcr
Maybe we should call it "Snake Ethanol".
-jcr
I'll even gladly give more money to projects like this out of my tax dollars, instead of wasting them to build F-22s at 3,000x the cost.
How about if you kept those dollars yourself, and spent them or saved them as you saw fit for your own purposes, instead of the government making those choices for you? Buy solar panels if you like.
-jcr
In your view, what kind of obligation does Apple have to support other vendors' products, after the other vendor has made it clear that said product is on the way out?
-jcr
BS. It is up to the courts, the Supreme Court specifically, to decide what power the officers are allowed to exercise under the Constitution
Yes, that's where the proof has to be shown.
Apparently, the usual protections against searches do not apply at border entry points.
That remains to be seen. Cases against the border patrol are pending.
-jcr
There's FileVault. System Preferences->Security->FileVault.
-jcr
All they have to do is say the search is reasonable based upon suspicion that ANYONE travelling outside of the country could have been doing so for "evil" reasons
That's why we separated the executive and judicial powers in the constitution, and required anyone making such a claim to swear to it, and to convince a judge that their suspicion is reasonable before the judge can issue a warrant.
-jcr
It's not a religious writing, it's a contract. It is the entirety of the legal basis for the power of our government. If we permit them to ignore it for convenience, then we no longer have the rule of law, we have the rule of men, and history has shown us many times that an unlimited government is extremely dangerous.
-jcr
I'd got a bit farther than that, and say that i consider it a citizen's duty to require public employees to obey the law. If a cop ever wants to search my car in the future, my answer will be "officer, sorry for the inconvenience, but if you believe you have probable cause to search my vehicle, then you shouldn't have any difficulty convincing a judge to issue a warrant. I'll wait."
-jcr
the overwhelming majority of the US debt is owned by the US Government itself.
You know, if any private organization replaced its pension funds with its own bonds, someone would be doing time for it.
-jcr
Can you provide any citations that say Customs is not allowed to search [anything] at the border?
It's not for me or anyone else to prove that a given power doesn't exist. it's up to the officers who wish to exercise that power to prove their legitimacy.
-jcr
Follow Radley Balko's stories at Reason.com.
-jcr
a judge will only issue a warrant if there is probable cause, which in most cases there won't be.
Well, a judge who takes his duty seriously will hold to that standard. Sadly, law enforcement officers routinely find pet judges who'll issue a warrant just because the cop says he wants it.
-jcr
have not read the entire Constitution
As it happens, I've not only read it, I re-read it periodically, and i'm also familiar with the debates that surrounded its ratification. This kind of routine violation of privacy was among the reasons that we overthrew our king, and was a major issue that impeded ratification of the constitution before the bill of rights was drafted.
-jcr
If ACLU wins based on fourth amendment basis on the right of people to be secure in their persons & papers, then the border searches will be extremely time consuming as each search will need to accompanied by a warrant from a judge.
You say that like it's a bad thing. I for one don't consider it advantageous for violations of my right to privacy to be simple and convenient for all concerned.
-jcr
UNREASONABLE searches may not be conducted without a warrant,
They're not showing any probable cause, either. Routine searches with no grounds for suspicion are unreasonable, QED.
-jcr
Yes, it's a fourth amendment violation.
-jcr
With 50K+ apps on the store, developers should think of it as their delivery mechanism, NOT as the way for the customers to hear about them. The time when the App store was an adequate source of publicity has been over for at least a year. Any competent PR firm will know that astrotufing the reviews is a waste of time.
-jcr
Ticker tape is the paper version.
No. Ticker tape is a strip of paper that gets stock quotes printed on it. No holes.
The clock row was called the S row for Sprocket.
Actually, they are sprocket holes. The mechanical readers use those holes to drive the tape through the reader. It was much later, when optical reading became common, that people took advantage of the sprocket holes being smaller than the data holes to use them to strobe the reader.
-jcr
I generally consider "high voltage" to be any power source that would be dangerous to lick.
I draw that line at voltage that will arc through a rubber-coated canvas glove.
-jcr
The data density is pretty low, but it's awfully durable.
-jcr
Can you ask him to teach us how to do it?
It wasn't through any deliberate effort on his part.
-jcr
What's funny about a shark offering to be in a soup? Is there some kind of Douglas Adams angle I'm missing here?
-jcr
It's been a long time since I checked, but as I recall nixies only took 100v or so.
-jcr
Most of the people who are still actively editing are cranks and and nutters with a political chip on their shoulder.
There certainly are plenty of cranks and nutters, but most?
I tend to correct grammar errors and awkward wording when I'm browsing the site. A quick glance at a typical page history shows me that in most cases, the edits are quite reasonable.
-jcr