I don't feel like looking it up. So, I'll ask you: what jurisdiction does the ALA have over a city employee, the librarian, or over the jurisdiction of a city over its libraries?
It's not clear to me why any business or public institution should be able to turn over its records to law enforcement without a search warrant.
Read past the demagoguery of the Slashdot title:
'It was a decision I made on my experience and the information given to me.'
The librarian willing GAVE the computers - they didn't have to.
But, the funny thing is that your statement, as fully quoted, is actually saying that the librarian, that is, an institution or business, shouldn't be able to cooperate with an investigation unless there is a 'search warrant'. Taken literally that would mean we should be run by a judicial oligarchy. Meaning: that unless a judge said so, I, as a business owner, couldn't cooperate with an investigation - I guess you're saying because I wouldn't know, myself, whether I should cooperate with them or not.
I know your argument only extended to a 'public' librarian, but they have to go by policies of their own. If that policy allows such cooperation then a judge isn't needed. After all, the director was hired with not only the capacity to make these decisions but with the authority as well.
What's really grievous that you think only a judge has a right to tell someone whether they can or cannot cooperate with any kind of investigation unless they give their intellectual blessing. It's not only what you stated but what you later explained.
The 'the' comment was both for the previous post AND for the title of the article, which, on Slashdot, are so often misleading about the actual nature of the story.
I do appreciate the grammatical break down - one just does not see such thoroughness on a regular basis.
...yet another example of Microsoft's utter disregard...
I'm not so sure this isn't more of an issue of their incompetence: they aren't good enough to intentionally be this bad solely on the merit of disregard. It's because they are bad at design that their product is bad and, because of their monopoly, they can continue to be this bad.
SanDisk, too, is coming off as incompetent: here they have a chance to drive Microsoft by offering a better product that, it seems, only Microsoft cannot take a advantage of. Instead of shaming Microsoft to fix what's broken, whether with Vista or with whatever is next, they instead dumb down their product for Vista and thus submit themselves to Microsoft's hegemony.
If the "?" should be a "." then you 'might' need to feel sorry for yourself.
But, I even doubt that seeing as how there is no massive coastal flooding already taking place AND the fact that the middle ages saw hotter weather than we are seeing now... meaning the Sun has caused these fluctuations before, is now, and will likely do so again.
You still don't get it: a huge amount of gases, Earth-like or not, human-inhabitable or not, will still have to be introduced to prevent the most simple of necessities: liquid H2O (verses the current conditions of frozen H2O sublimating, thus bypassing its liquid state).
An earth-like atmosphere?... they just need one that's breathable and that won't actively kill them.
Umm... that would be an Earth-like atmosphere: one that's breathable and won't actively kill [humans].
And just where do you propose the (Human breathable) gases will come from? Mars' current atmospheric pressure is currently one-thousand times less that of Earth's.
Even if the gases can be produced there's the very large problem of the significantly smaller mass Mars has in comparison to the Earth's. This will greatly affect the gases' retention. For all we know there is an equilibrium between a planet's mass, it's average temperature, it's volume of atmosphere, and (as a far-fetched idea) the solar winds - that is to say, what if there's a big surprise with the rate of atmospheric retention once the volume increases above it's maximum (in relation to other, more static factors); that the rate of lose could increase dramatically over a certain volume. Who knows?
I can imagine the atmosphere of Mars used to be thicker, has arrived at it current thickness, and will continue to become thinner as gases of the furthest reaches of its atmosphere escape the gravity of Mars to wander through the void of space until it should, perhaps, become the participant in another gravitational field.
It will never be 'thick' enough to produce the same atmospheric pressure we current need and enjoy here on Earth.
in a protracted campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration's war efforts
They absolutely failed at this goal - so, I doubt the veracity of this article.
The author is likely so bent on 'Bush (et al) is evil' that any thing that seems like success in Iraq is immediately the result of the Military Industrial Complex - a conspiracy against the truth - that there is NEVER a justified reason to go to war - and that if everyone thought like they did there wouldn't even be a need for war.
Not only could it waste their money on the BSA but it could also waste their money when a user regularly gives themself an excuse to not be able to do their work when they regularly sabotage their machine (as can and has happened when users don't manage their own machines).
That said, I think technical persons, with proper, if needed, licenses, might actually enjoy such a policy... unless their time is much more valuable to them.
Whenever it comes to harassing other countries in favor of US or, just to be more precise, US companies & corporations, then it is a first priority for them. While if it is otherwise situation nothing will change since US government considers themselves to be kings of the world and that their laws and points of view should prevail over everything and everyone else.
Yeah! Just like we harassed those tsunami victims with our military bringing them life saving supplies when they couldn't help themselves (as quickly)!
And, and when all those STUPID, SELFISH AMERICAN PEOPLE gave out of the kindness of their own hearts in donating what they could to help those victims, it just FRUSTRATES ME how selfish they were in helping those people they had ONLY seen on TV!
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I don't feel like looking it up. So, I'll ask you: what jurisdiction does the ALA have over a city employee, the librarian, or over the jurisdiction of a city over its libraries?
That's good: a specific example. What was written, though, was a statement so generalize it was easy for me to draw blanket conclusions.
You're clarification is appreciated.
I doubt it would matter: give sufficient priority those hard drives could be copied within a day's work.
Read past the demagoguery of the Slashdot title:
The librarian willing GAVE the computers - they didn't have to.
But, the funny thing is that your statement, as fully quoted, is actually saying that the librarian, that is, an institution or business, shouldn't be able to cooperate with an investigation unless there is a 'search warrant'. Taken literally that would mean we should be run by a judicial oligarchy. Meaning: that unless a judge said so, I, as a business owner, couldn't cooperate with an investigation - I guess you're saying because I wouldn't know, myself, whether I should cooperate with them or not.
I know your argument only extended to a 'public' librarian, but they have to go by policies of their own. If that policy allows such cooperation then a judge isn't needed. After all, the director was hired with not only the capacity to make these decisions but with the authority as well.
What's really grievous that you think only a judge has a right to tell someone whether they can or cannot cooperate with any kind of investigation unless they give their intellectual blessing. It's not only what you stated but what you later explained.
The 'the' comment was both for the previous post AND for the title of the article, which, on Slashdot, are so often misleading about the actual nature of the story.
I do appreciate the grammatical break down - one just does not see such thoroughness on a regular basis.
"the" ice age?
SETI doesn't boast of tomorrow? Rather, in comparison to Folding at Home?
Really, which is more likely to have practical results?
Ultimately, as pointed out, it is a waste to use electricity on SETI.
In this case: it is wisdom to pursue Folding at Home. It is foolishness to be looking, as it were, afar to the empty hope that SETI is.
But I forgot to mention:
I'm not so sure this isn't more of an issue of their incompetence: they aren't good enough to intentionally be this bad solely on the merit of disregard. It's because they are bad at design that their product is bad and, because of their monopoly, they can continue to be this bad.
SanDisk, too, is coming off as incompetent: here they have a chance to drive Microsoft by offering a better product that, it seems, only Microsoft cannot take a advantage of. Instead of shaming Microsoft to fix what's broken, whether with Vista or with whatever is next, they instead dumb down their product for Vista and thus submit themselves to Microsoft's hegemony.
... or the mention of 'the resurrection' 300+ years before it happened.
Ooow. I thought 'Include New Security Tools' meant they would include Firefox... or something.
What of the ice ages? What of the times between the ice ages?
Man was never the cause of those fluctuations. Why the religious fervor (that man is the cause of the global warming) now?
I think it's completely too soon to know for certain that we can have any significant impact on global warming. 'An Inconvenient Truth' is nothing more than advertising for a company that Al Gore is deeply involved with that sells 'carbon credits'; it just can't be taken seriously - it's a ploy for you money.
Hmmm, I suppose there could then be multiple pathways that lead to global warming as well.
In any case, there have been ice ages and not-ice ages without the hand of man and I suppose that's more at what I'm getting at.
Polar bears?
If the "?" should be a "." then you 'might' need to feel sorry for yourself.
But, I even doubt that seeing as how there is no massive coastal flooding already taking place AND the fact that the middle ages saw hotter weather than we are seeing now... meaning the Sun has caused these fluctuations before, is now, and will likely do so again.
You still don't get it: a huge amount of gases, Earth-like or not, human-inhabitable or not, will still have to be introduced to prevent the most simple of necessities: liquid H2O (verses the current conditions of frozen H2O sublimating, thus bypassing its liquid state).
Umm... that would be an Earth-like atmosphere: one that's breathable and won't actively kill [humans].
And just where do you propose the (Human breathable) gases will come from? Mars' current atmospheric pressure is currently one-thousand times less that of Earth's.
Even if the gases can be produced there's the very large problem of the significantly smaller mass Mars has in comparison to the Earth's. This will greatly affect the gases' retention. For all we know there is an equilibrium between a planet's mass, it's average temperature, it's volume of atmosphere, and (as a far-fetched idea) the solar winds - that is to say, what if there's a big surprise with the rate of atmospheric retention once the volume increases above it's maximum (in relation to other, more static factors); that the rate of lose could increase dramatically over a certain volume. Who knows?
I can imagine the atmosphere of Mars used to be thicker, has arrived at it current thickness, and will continue to become thinner as gases of the furthest reaches of its atmosphere escape the gravity of Mars to wander through the void of space until it should, perhaps, become the participant in another gravitational field.
It will never be 'thick' enough to produce the same atmospheric pressure we current need and enjoy here on Earth.
Now, to only deal with the pesky problem of ice sublimating - leaving no liquid H2O for plant absorption.
Earth: there's no place like home.
Oh... you must be the one I was referring to.
They absolutely failed at this goal - so, I doubt the veracity of this article.
The author is likely so bent on 'Bush (et al) is evil' that any thing that seems like success in Iraq is immediately the result of the Military Industrial Complex - a conspiracy against the truth - that there is NEVER a justified reason to go to war - and that if everyone thought like they did there wouldn't even be a need for war.
Right.
Not only could it waste their money on the BSA but it could also waste their money when a user regularly gives themself an excuse to not be able to do their work when they regularly sabotage their machine (as can and has happened when users don't manage their own machines).
That said, I think technical persons, with proper, if needed, licenses, might actually enjoy such a policy... unless their time is much more valuable to them.
Now, what mailing address would get theme into Bill, Paul, and Balmer's hands the quickest?
What color pompoms would one order for such frivolities?
Yeah! Just like we harassed those tsunami victims with our military bringing them life saving supplies when they couldn't help themselves (as quickly)!
And, and when all those STUPID, SELFISH AMERICAN PEOPLE gave out of the kindness of their own hearts in donating what they could to help those victims, it just FRUSTRATES ME how selfish they were in helping those people they had ONLY seen on TV!
SELFISH! SELFISH! SELFISH!
You're so RIGHT!