This was done on purpose to inflame the story and imply strong racial motivation where none existed. The mainstream media is after stories and ratings, not the truth. They apologized because they got caught, not because they were sorry.
Not exactly. This was a state law that was struck down...Not a federal one. It sounds (I haven't read the ruling) like it was a proper ruling but it does nothing to curb the federal government...only state governments.
That said, I agree that the federal government has gotten away w/ far too much for far too long by claiming all kinds of powers under the commerce clause. No doubt about it.
Sadly, there is an award named after Edison and he gets all the attention in schoolbooks. Seems Edison's slow, amateur progress from a telegraph addict to inventing one of the least efficient light sources known to man is preferable to teaching about the 'madman' who repeatedly did the 'impossible' and established the technological foundation for the majority of modern age.
Probably just a bunch of teachers scared about what the middle-school science fairs would look like if Tesla had been part of the lesson plan...
Dude did invent quite a few things. He *does* deserve mention as a great inventor. You're right that Tesla is under-appreciated but that's no reason to beat down Edison.
I also stuff it in the cup holder and just listen to the auditory commands, if I'm using it for navigation. The screen *is* a distraction. If I want to study the route, I'll do it when the car isn't moving.
You're one person. Not all of us find an in-car map distracting. You don't want to use one, that's your choice. Don't force the rest of us to lose something we find very useful.
Apple's products, especially accessories, are cheap crap and IMO designed that way in order to force the consumer to buy replacements. What other excuse can they possibly have other than greed for having non-standard video out ports on laptops requiring an adapter w/ a flimsy cord and that costs at least $30 to buy(probably 30 to make) to display the output. Their charger cords fail constantly also and they will make any excuse not to cover these things under warranty.
Isn't this what the MPAA and RIAA have been trying to do with SOPA/PIPA and all these other bills? I guess it's only ok when they do it though.
Well said! Just like all the crap being pulled by Democrats/Leftists in Congress and the White House is the same crap they said the GOP should burn in hell for. The difference being that the Democrats own print and TV media so they stay quiet when the Dems do it.
I was pulled over on suspicion of DUI when I had not been drinking at all (I don't drink at all except for on very rare occasion...this was not one of them). The officer could see very quickly that I was not at all intoxicated and let me go. What he said led him to pull me over was what he described as erratic driving and when I explained that I was brand new to that area and had been given incorrect directions (it was also at night) to pick up a relative, that was the end of it.
I am not in favor of laws that try to preemptively prevent other crimes. If you hurt someone, then you should get charged w/ a crime...not before. Seat belts, DUI, cell phones...it's all the same. The government has no business telling people how to live their lives. They should only interfere if you cause harm to another person.
I will also say that I am lucky to live in an area that does not have mandatory DUI checkpoints.
Tolerance -- The idea of putting up with beliefs differing from one's own.
Zero Tolerance -- What liberals have for anyone who doesn't agree with them...
Why do people who gain such knowledge insist on pulling this kind of crap. Why not just attempt to disclose the bug to the site owners and let them fix it. If they refuse, post the info publicly to force their hand. Defacing a project on the site is like a 3 year finding a crayon and looking up and seeing that there's a wall to draw on.
I'm all for rear-view backup cams. I have one on my car. I would never tell anyone they have to have one by law. That's not the government's business to get involved in. They should keep their damn noses out.
Referencing the Founding Fathers' individual beliefs and opinions is illogical.
Wrong. It's quite logical as they were the ones who created the document that (in theory) governs us to this day. Therefore it is logical that we understand their beliefs and opinions in order to understand the constitution they wrote.
We have a democracy...
Wrong again. We have a representative republic...at least in theory. In practice we are nearing an elected dictatorship.
We have voting and majority rule...
Wrong a third time. We do have voting...but majority rule rarely decides anything in congress where anyone can "filibuster" or stop a bill from a vote simply by putting their name down on paper as such.
Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, and others had many beliefs, and often ended up disagreeing with each other. That's why the Constitutional Convention took months to write a relatively short document. That's why the US Constitution is full of compromises.
3 strikes and yet you aren't out. This statement is very insightful. It helps to explain a great many things in the constitution and it directly contradicts your statement that it is illogical to reference the beliefs and opinions of the founders. Half the stuff they put in there is because the smaller states were scared spitless that the larger ones would use their majority to impose their will on the minority. Sound familiar?
Interestingly enough, as originally designed, the federal government had only one part that was democratically elected. The US House of Representatives. That was the body that was supposed to be the direct voice of the general population. The Senate was the voice of the state governments (which in turn answered to the people of those states). The President was elected via Electors who answered to the states and the Vice President was the person who had the 2nd most electoral votes, regardless of party and the Supreme Court was provided as a means to balance power between Congress and the President.
Avatar didn't win because it was a bad movie. It had great special effects, for which it did win. It went viral and thus made a lot of money. It was NOT snubbed. That's not to say other movies haven't been snubbed. LOTR:FOTR was snubbed. It was by far the best of the 3 movies but didn't get much come Oscar time. The film studio therefore campaigned hard *cough* bribed *cough cough* for more notice and got it for ROTK.
As for sci-fi pictures getting Best Picture nods, Star Wars in 1977 was nominated for it but lost. For those too young to remember, SW was a freaking big deal in 1977. It was nominated for 10 or 11 awards and actually won 6 or 7.
I don't agree, first because we can no longer reasonably assume the government is always truthful in its allegations and statements.
The constitution was written because the founders assumed government could not be trusted with power. This is why government must *prove* a case against a free citizen beyond reasonable doubt. You assume the government is wrong until they prove otherwise. If you ever assume government is right, you're in trouble.
It's EXACTLY the same thing if they know you have a dead body in your garage they can get a warrant to force you to unlock the garage.
No it isn't. To continue your analogy of a dead body, they can get a warrant that allows them to search your garage. If you don't open it for them, they then can break in and conduct their search. To apply this to the laptop scenario, the government indeed had a search warrant for the laptop and it was turned over by the defendant. She, in no way, can be compelled to unlock it or do anything else to it but in retrospect, the government would have the right to break into it. In trying to force the defendant to open it, the government has stated that they can't or won't break into it for fear of damaging possible evidence. That's their problem, not the defendant's problem.
[IANAL] I agree w/ the appeals court's decision here. Forcing the defendant to unlock and/or decrypt her laptop would be forcing her to provide evidence against herself thus violating her 5th amendment rights.
Hear Hear! Well said. I say the same about race as well. The more it is focused on, the more it will remain a problem. Stop taking race into consideration in any way. If you continue to give consideration(positive or negative) to someone based on their race (any race), you are promoting racism by definition.
It's much the same with gender with the exception that a few jobs requiring physical strength (fire-fighter for example) are more difficult for the average female to perform (such as having to lift an unconscious person as dead-weight and carry them out of a burning building. Most women just don't have the strength to do it. If they show they have the strength, then more power to them).
They served her a search warrant for the laptop so there was due process. I wonder how a court could determine if she had really forgotten the password. Such things do happen with regularity. Ask any sysadmin...
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This was done on purpose to inflame the story and imply strong racial motivation where none existed. The mainstream media is after stories and ratings, not the truth. They apologized because they got caught, not because they were sorry.
Not exactly. This was a state law that was struck down...Not a federal one. It sounds (I haven't read the ruling) like it was a proper ruling but it does nothing to curb the federal government...only state governments.
That said, I agree that the federal government has gotten away w/ far too much for far too long by claiming all kinds of powers under the commerce clause. No doubt about it.
Sadly, there is an award named after Edison and he gets all the attention in schoolbooks. Seems Edison's slow, amateur progress from a telegraph addict to inventing one of the least efficient light sources known to man is preferable to teaching about the 'madman' who repeatedly did the 'impossible' and established the technological foundation for the majority of modern age.
Probably just a bunch of teachers scared about what the middle-school science fairs would look like if Tesla had been part of the lesson plan...
Dude did invent quite a few things. He *does* deserve mention as a great inventor. You're right that Tesla is under-appreciated but that's no reason to beat down Edison.
I also stuff it in the cup holder and just listen to the auditory commands, if I'm using it for navigation. The screen *is* a distraction. If I want to study the route, I'll do it when the car isn't moving.
You're one person. Not all of us find an in-car map distracting. You don't want to use one, that's your choice. Don't force the rest of us to lose something we find very useful.
I swear, government must be run by the lowest common denominator.
Vote for Democrats, this is what you get... Vote for someone like Ron Paul and you won't have to worry about this stuff...
rare? today was the first time a measurable amount of snow was seen in the Portland, OR airport..ever.
This is not even close to true. We get measurable snow here in Portland most years....just not in late March.
NW Oregon has been getting snowed on all week, even to the valley floor. Several inches last night. It's not hot everywhere...
That was the excuse Al Gore used...
Apple's products, especially accessories, are cheap crap and IMO designed that way in order to force the consumer to buy replacements. What other excuse can they possibly have other than greed for having non-standard video out ports on laptops requiring an adapter w/ a flimsy cord and that costs at least $30 to buy(probably 30 to make) to display the output. Their charger cords fail constantly also and they will make any excuse not to cover these things under warranty.
Isn't this what the MPAA and RIAA have been trying to do with SOPA/PIPA and all these other bills? I guess it's only ok when they do it though.
Well said! Just like all the crap being pulled by Democrats/Leftists in Congress and the White House is the same crap they said the GOP should burn in hell for. The difference being that the Democrats own print and TV media so they stay quiet when the Dems do it.
Heroes of the Lance anyone? Anyone? Bueler?
I was pulled over on suspicion of DUI when I had not been drinking at all (I don't drink at all except for on very rare occasion...this was not one of them). The officer could see very quickly that I was not at all intoxicated and let me go. What he said led him to pull me over was what he described as erratic driving and when I explained that I was brand new to that area and had been given incorrect directions (it was also at night) to pick up a relative, that was the end of it.
I am not in favor of laws that try to preemptively prevent other crimes. If you hurt someone, then you should get charged w/ a crime...not before. Seat belts, DUI, cell phones...it's all the same. The government has no business telling people how to live their lives. They should only interfere if you cause harm to another person.
I will also say that I am lucky to live in an area that does not have mandatory DUI checkpoints.
Tolerance -- The idea of putting up with beliefs differing from one's own.
Zero Tolerance -- What liberals have for anyone who doesn't agree with them...
Ditto. RPM always bungled dependencies. Apt just asks if you want to install any and all dependencies and does it. No muss, no fuss.
Why do people who gain such knowledge insist on pulling this kind of crap. Why not just attempt to disclose the bug to the site owners and let them fix it. If they refuse, post the info publicly to force their hand. Defacing a project on the site is like a 3 year finding a crayon and looking up and seeing that there's a wall to draw on.
We have a representative republic instead of a Democracy.
I'm all for rear-view backup cams. I have one on my car. I would never tell anyone they have to have one by law. That's not the government's business to get involved in. They should keep their damn noses out.
Aye. Slashdot won't let me post a one word answer...so there...
Referencing the Founding Fathers' individual beliefs and opinions is illogical.
Wrong. It's quite logical as they were the ones who created the document that (in theory) governs us to this day. Therefore it is logical that we understand their beliefs and opinions in order to understand the constitution they wrote.
We have a democracy...
Wrong again. We have a representative republic...at least in theory. In practice we are nearing an elected dictatorship.
We have voting and majority rule...
Wrong a third time. We do have voting...but majority rule rarely decides anything in congress where anyone can "filibuster" or stop a bill from a vote simply by putting their name down on paper as such.
Madison, Jefferson, Hamilton, and others had many beliefs, and often ended up disagreeing with each other. That's why the Constitutional Convention took months to write a relatively short document. That's why the US Constitution is full of compromises.
3 strikes and yet you aren't out. This statement is very insightful. It helps to explain a great many things in the constitution and it directly contradicts your statement that it is illogical to reference the beliefs and opinions of the founders. Half the stuff they put in there is because the smaller states were scared spitless that the larger ones would use their majority to impose their will on the minority. Sound familiar?
Interestingly enough, as originally designed, the federal government had only one part that was democratically elected. The US House of Representatives. That was the body that was supposed to be the direct voice of the general population. The Senate was the voice of the state governments (which in turn answered to the people of those states). The President was elected via Electors who answered to the states and the Vice President was the person who had the 2nd most electoral votes, regardless of party and the Supreme Court was provided as a means to balance power between Congress and the President.
Avatar didn't win because it was a bad movie. It had great special effects, for which it did win. It went viral and thus made a lot of money. It was NOT snubbed. That's not to say other movies haven't been snubbed. LOTR:FOTR was snubbed. It was by far the best of the 3 movies but didn't get much come Oscar time. The film studio therefore campaigned hard *cough* bribed *cough cough* for more notice and got it for ROTK. As for sci-fi pictures getting Best Picture nods, Star Wars in 1977 was nominated for it but lost. For those too young to remember, SW was a freaking big deal in 1977. It was nominated for 10 or 11 awards and actually won 6 or 7.
I don't agree, first because we can no longer reasonably assume the government is always truthful in its allegations and statements.
The constitution was written because the founders assumed government could not be trusted with power. This is why government must *prove* a case against a free citizen beyond reasonable doubt. You assume the government is wrong until they prove otherwise. If you ever assume government is right, you're in trouble.
It's EXACTLY the same thing if they know you have a dead body in your garage they can get a warrant to force you to unlock the garage.
No it isn't. To continue your analogy of a dead body, they can get a warrant that allows them to search your garage. If you don't open it for them, they then can break in and conduct their search. To apply this to the laptop scenario, the government indeed had a search warrant for the laptop and it was turned over by the defendant. She, in no way, can be compelled to unlock it or do anything else to it but in retrospect, the government would have the right to break into it. In trying to force the defendant to open it, the government has stated that they can't or won't break into it for fear of damaging possible evidence. That's their problem, not the defendant's problem.
[IANAL] I agree w/ the appeals court's decision here. Forcing the defendant to unlock and/or decrypt her laptop would be forcing her to provide evidence against herself thus violating her 5th amendment rights.
Hear Hear! Well said. I say the same about race as well. The more it is focused on, the more it will remain a problem. Stop taking race into consideration in any way. If you continue to give consideration(positive or negative) to someone based on their race (any race), you are promoting racism by definition.
It's much the same with gender with the exception that a few jobs requiring physical strength (fire-fighter for example) are more difficult for the average female to perform (such as having to lift an unconscious person as dead-weight and carry them out of a burning building. Most women just don't have the strength to do it. If they show they have the strength, then more power to them).
Bunch of hypocrites they all are.
So are the Democrats. If you are going to make these comments, be an equal-opportunity commenter.
It seems that nothing but evil comes out of washington DC anymore.
Agreed. This is why I am supporting Ron Paul for President. He's the only candidate willing to do what it takes to clean out Washington DC.
They served her a search warrant for the laptop so there was due process. I wonder how a court could determine if she had really forgotten the password. Such things do happen with regularity. Ask any sysadmin...