From the article: When Sacramento agents made their request in August 2003, the wiretap provision had not yet been used, and authorities had to convince a federal judge to grant the authority.
The court order was granted, with a requirement that two groups of agents be involved in monitoring Morgan. The first scrutinized his computer use and culled out everything not related to the investigation. The rest was turned over to the second team.
Everything was by the book here. Now, it's just that computer users aren't invulnerable to using the Internet to commit crimes, the Feds have caught up.
Well, it's more of a wonder how long it took slashdot to shoehorn this topic onto the main page.
The fact is that there really is no issue whether those prison photos were taken digitally or on film. They posed for those pictures and those photos and more existed for months.
If the editors wanted to bring this topic up, they could have done so without wrapping it around some bogus, nonexistent tech issue. The agenda was clear, look at what the thread is really talking about.
Puleeze.., let's not pretend that the Linux side and their zealots are not completely free from FUD that can be worse than what Microsoft can hope to produce.
This site alone still generates to much Anti-Microsoft drivel that's based solely on hate and jealousy. "640K should be enough for everybody" still gets tossed around even though it's proven that Bill Gates never said it. BSOD jokes that are 4 years out of date. Baseless claims that Windows or Office breaks compatibility. Any of these ring a bell?
That's only the tip of the iceberg. You people shouldn't be throwing stones in this glass house.
The idea that Apple is "breaking" or "crippling" this part of iTunes is misleading. It wasn't a feature that Apple provided to begin with, and any hacks to break the DRM scheme will be thwarted by Apple eventually.
If you don't like this, you shouldn't use iTunes at all and don't buy their music because this is something they need to sell music online. Last I checked, you can just buy the CD at the store that contains no DRM at all.
That's how he got to the Padres and also why he had to stay on the big league roster. Otherwise, he would have gone back to the club he got drafted from (Cubs).
and it's not on the field. It's in the front office.
The generation of Moneyball General Managers is here. Billy Beane, John DePodesta (Harvard), Theo Epstein (Yale) are paving the way for seamheads who know baseball and use statistical analysis to build their teams.
Now, there's hope for geeks with math and statistics degrees who want to break into baseball.
I'm always amused to see how slashbots turn into hysterical luddites when it comes to technology that is implemented by someone they don't like. The fact is the seas are militarized, and the skies was militarized as soon as airplanes were invented.
P Why space should be untouchable to some strikes me as weird. The US has the most advanced space technology right now. Continuing research on using this lead in defending our country is a valid goal. There's plenty of legitimate applications here. China, North Korea, Iran would think twice if they knew they could get zapped as soon as they launched a missile at us or our friends.
This Slashdot crusade by michael against space weapons is getting tired. It seems to come up once a month.
I submitted
this article to slashdot(rejected, of course), and the author makes the arguments along your line. The luddites and privacy advocates have engaged in scaring away any technological innovation in the remote possibility that your privacy is in jeopardy. Never mind these programs are using data that is already available. Somehow linking all this data and finding useful information from it turns into "Big Brother".
The Chicken Littles should read that article and see that they're barking up the wrong tree on this.
The point isn't about economics, it's about principles and putting money where your mouth is.
Slashdot seems to be on a jihad against Microsoft. Yet while they rail against the Evil Borg Gates, they have no problem accepting business and cash from them which shows their hypocrisy.
They constantly trash Microsoft, but display ads which could potentially just bring more money back to them. It's funny to see them talk about how evil and dominating they are, and wishing that Microsoft go out of business, yet help them continue that position.
Principles and personal feelings come into business decisions all the time. CBS, for example, does not accept ads for ABC, and not for adult oriented servies. It's not always just an economic decision.
Slashdot hates Microsoft with a passion, yet it has no problem taking advertising dollars from them. I'm typing this as a big fucking banner for Visual Studio.net is on the top of the page.
I guess Microsoft is evil, except when that blood money comes your way.
European countries know about international diplomacy and don't take everything personally.
Good one. Is this the same European 'international diplomacy' that gave us two World Wars, the Iron Curtain and the Bosnian Civil War? That's some accomplishment there.
And the US just doesn't use its "big boy voice", we can back them with guns and nukes.
Remember Slashdot's History
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Slashdot doesn't have a very good track record with iPods.
And now their criticisms of the iPod Mini before it even came out are biting them in the ass.Bottom line, the editors and most of the readers are out of touch with reality sometimes.
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I've been modbombed by idiots not because of the comments I make, but because they see that my friends and fans list are full of trolls.
Never mind that it has nothing to do with my comment, they think I'm somehow trolling even when I'm not. That's guilt by association.
Blacklists are already hapenning here based on foes/freaks modifiers.
We need to keep reminding people that what's at stake here is free speech. We need to keep reminding people that what we're doing is trying to keep the freedom of ideas in the 21st century,
Does this mean that any piece of closed-source software is a threat fo Free Speech?
Are the store shelves that are stocked with closed-source games and applications threatening the world? The customers who buy them don't seem much to care.
Maybe some legislation is in order to free the source!!!!
Considering the U.S. is the World Leader in just about everything else (technology, medicine, entertainment, finance, etc. the least goes on and on).
We're the richest, most powerful, most prosperous country in the history of mankind. You can just add this to the list that the US leads in. Leading in spam is a small price to pay for this.
I love how on slashdot any differing opinions from the majority is usually targetted as "flamebait".
Looks like the same people complaining about abuse of government power have no problem abusing moderation power to shut down viewpoint that don't match their own.
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When Sacramento agents made their request in August 2003, the wiretap provision had not yet been used, and authorities had to convince a federal judge to grant the authority.
The court order was granted, with a requirement that two groups of agents be involved in monitoring Morgan. The first scrutinized his computer use and culled out everything not related to the investigation. The rest was turned over to the second team.
Everything was by the book here. Now, it's just that computer users aren't invulnerable to using the Internet to commit crimes, the Feds have caught up.
The fact is that there really is no issue whether those prison photos were taken digitally or on film. They posed for those pictures and those photos and more existed for months.
If the editors wanted to bring this topic up, they could have done so without wrapping it around some bogus, nonexistent tech issue. The agenda was clear, look at what the thread is really talking about.
Stop being so underhanded, editors.
This site alone still generates to much Anti-Microsoft drivel that's based solely on hate and jealousy. "640K should be enough for everybody" still gets tossed around even though it's proven that Bill Gates never said it. BSOD jokes that are 4 years out of date. Baseless claims that Windows or Office breaks compatibility. Any of these ring a bell?
That's only the tip of the iceberg. You people shouldn't be throwing stones in this glass house.
The idea that Apple is "breaking" or "crippling" this part of iTunes is misleading. It wasn't a feature that Apple provided to begin with, and any hacks to break the DRM scheme will be thwarted by Apple eventually.
If you don't like this, you shouldn't use iTunes at all and don't buy their music because this is something they need to sell music online. Last I checked, you can just buy the CD at the store that contains no DRM at all.
That's how he got to the Padres and also why he had to stay on the big league roster. Otherwise, he would have gone back to the club he got drafted from (Cubs).
The generation of Moneyball General Managers is here. Billy Beane, John DePodesta (Harvard), Theo Epstein (Yale) are paving the way for seamheads who know baseball and use statistical analysis to build their teams.
Now, there's hope for geeks with math and statistics degrees who want to break into baseball.
It's better to burn out than fade away.
P Why space should be untouchable to some strikes me as weird. The US has the most advanced space technology right now. Continuing research on using this lead in defending our country is a valid goal. There's plenty of legitimate applications here. China, North Korea, Iran would think twice if they knew they could get zapped as soon as they launched a missile at us or our friends.
This Slashdot crusade by michael against space weapons is getting tired. It seems to come up once a month.
The Chicken Littles should read that article and see that they're barking up the wrong tree on this.
I seem to remember this site used to focus on Linux, with only the occasional Microsoft-bashing article. Nowadays, it's completely the opposite.
Maybe perhaps michael and the editors are just trying to generate the extra pagehits and flamewars that Microsoft brings.
I mean, this is a news site, right? We just wouldn't make things up out of thin air to push our agenda here, would we?
I ask this because the Pony part seems unbelievable to me.
Slashdot seems to be on a jihad against Microsoft. Yet while they rail against the Evil Borg Gates, they have no problem accepting business and cash from them which shows their hypocrisy.
They constantly trash Microsoft, but display ads which could potentially just bring more money back to them. It's funny to see them talk about how evil and dominating they are, and wishing that Microsoft go out of business, yet help them continue that position.
Principles and personal feelings come into business decisions all the time. CBS, for example, does not accept ads for ABC, and not for adult oriented servies. It's not always just an economic decision.
I guess Microsoft is evil, except when that blood money comes your way.
Just curious.
Yes, it's the fault of US diplomacy amd not because of the Soviet Union's ambition to take over Eastern Europe and Asia under totalitarian rule.
And it was a failure of the US that two World Wars took place? Are you really that desperate to pin the US blame on everything
I only brought up Bosnia because it was due mainly to US intervention that ended that conflict.
Go back to junior high, jerk-off.
Good one. Is this the same European 'international diplomacy' that gave us two World Wars, the Iron Curtain and the Bosnian Civil War?
That's some accomplishment there.
And the US just doesn't use its "big boy voice", we can back them with guns and nukes.
Remember this about the original iPod?
No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame.
And now their criticisms of the iPod Mini before it even came out are biting them in the ass.Bottom line, the editors and most of the readers are out of touch with reality sometimes.
Never mind that it has nothing to do with my comment, they think I'm somehow trolling even when I'm not. That's guilt by association.
Blacklists are already hapenning here based on foes/freaks modifiers.
How odd, check today's news, manufacturing levels are at almost a two-decade high.
Insightful my ass.
The rest of us can go on living under this horrible repression of not having the source code, because we don't care.
Just keep the yapping about the immorality of it all to yourselves. The world will go on.
Does this mean that any piece of closed-source software is a threat fo Free Speech?
Are the store shelves that are stocked with closed-source games and applications threatening the world? The customers who buy them don't seem much to care.
Maybe some legislation is in order to free the source!!!!
You didn't refute any of part of my statement you quoted. We ARE the richest, most powerful, and most prosperous. There's really no debate there.
We're the richest, most powerful, most prosperous country in the history of mankind. You can just add this to the list that the US leads in. Leading in spam is a small price to pay for this.
Can you name me any totalitarian country where your remark would have been tolerated?
Looks like the same people complaining about abuse of government power have no problem abusing moderation power to shut down viewpoint that don't match their own.
Nice job.