They did not have a warrant because it is deemed to be a "reasonable" search (and seizure if they find contraband). No warrant needed.
Actually, no. It's not allowed because it's a "reasonable" search. The fourth amendment says that only a judge can decide what's reasonable, and communicates that decision only by issuing a warrant. It's pretty plain English.
However, there are times when you lose your fourth amendment rights, primarily when you are searched to protects the immediate and direct safety of others. These searches are not considered "reasonable" under the fourth amendment. Instead, they're legal because in certain circumstances you lose your fourth amendment rights entirely. I don't know if this is right or good, but that's how it is.
Again, these searches are not considered "reasonable" under the fourth amendment. The amendment specifically says the only "reasonable" search is one approved by a judge, with a warrant. These searches are allowed to protect the immediate and direct safetey of others.
You really were able to figure out quite a bit about me from that post. Can you tell my future too? You know I've totally given up on the concept of learning, and seem to hold quite a bit of resentment toward anyone who hasn't.
I have no misconceptions as to how much I know on any given topic, if anything the more I know the more I realize I have to learn. My only point was that anyone who has not totally given up and just decided to enjoy and actively pursue ignorance realizes that they really are very, very, very stupid, and don't understand 99.9% of the world they live in.
You know the type, the people who seem positively proud to be befuddled by technology, science, politics, basically the world around them.
I'm positively proud of the fact that I know I'm befuddled by technology, science, politics, and basically the world around me. It's dumb assholes like you who don't know, and fall for the pseudo-science bullshit and political lies and manipulations, because someone explains it to you using third grader words, and you nod your head and say "uh huh" because you want to pretend to yourself like you're not stupid.
Well, here's a clue, dipshit -- you're stupid. All humans are damned monkies, barely brighter than an ape. No-one alive understands more than a tenth of the stuff that happens right in front his face, and doesn't have a chance in hell to understand the stuff he doesn't directly experience.
The difference between a genius and a moron is that the genius knows he's barely more than a stupid ape, and will admit it. The moron has absolutely no idea.
Those are the one who usually buy Compaq, HP, Gateway, and Dell-brand PC's and end up leaving with a PowerSpec computer and liking it because its easily upgradable and serviceable.
And every single one of them paid extra for a computer they will never, ever, ever upgrade.
A few will come back in three years and ask to upgrade, at which point they will need a whole new everything. And, if they're smart, at that point they'll buy a Dell, and thell their friends to never give you another penny as long as you live.
If you want to be interesting or informative, tell us which operating systems don't use MD5.
Yeah, there are holes in the standard Linux password hashing algo. Wonderful. Great. You're super smart, and get all the girls. Now, tell us something we don't know.
Not if you want to use Firefox extensions, it isn't.
Saying "Camino is a bad web browser because it doesn't run Firefox extensions" is like saying "Firefox is a bad web browser because it doesn't run Internet Explorer ActiveX controls."
it allows them to do all the REASONABLE searchin' and seizin' they want.
Yep... and a judge decides what's reasonable, by issuing a warrant. The fourth amendment explicitly denies the executive branch permission to decide what's reasonable.
I'm not sure I'd want to participate in the Tor network. I'm definitely not the only one. Perhaps I'm a coward, but that should tell you something of what this country is slowly turning into...
This would also allow me the opportunity to VNC to the computer from work and change the schedule, in case of last-minute scheduling changes.
Well, it's clear that you've alredy found a solution, and now you're just searching for a problem to solve with it.
However, I really think you should step back and thought about the problem you're trying to solve. If you weren't so hung up on the technology, you'd realize that a thermostat running the X Window System would probably work just as well.
Yes, it's clear to me that your thermostat should run FreeBSD.
"Main Technical Contact at a Fortune 10 Company" pays more than any University job except football coach.
There are probably a few dozen university professors in the whole world who will make as much money as a "Main Technical Contact at a Fortune 10 Company." Probably a 100 or so administrators will make more, but absolutely no staff ever, ever will.
He'll probably make five to twenty times as much in the private sectors as "Main Technical Contact at a Fortune 10 Company" as he would as a Unix System Administrator at a University.
I can see it now. Some blogger stubs his toe on an Xbox 360 power supply. 2 minutes later Zonk posts a "Are Xbox 360 power supplies injuring our children?"
Three days later, Zonk will post a story about the "Xbox power supply foam padding mod."
War is dirty business, but the object is to win, no matter what.
And, the object of a hammer is to pound nails.
But winning battles, and pounding nails, isn't a useful objective by itself. The war in Iraq is being run by a bunch of nitwits who think you can drop some lumber, nails, and carpenters off at a job site and come back six months later to a well-constructed house. Or, perhaps an apartment building, or garage, or a warehouse full of furniture. No-one is sure -- hopefully if we just start pounding nails, and the design will work itself out. Maybe if we let the lumber hold elections and draw up the plans, we'll get what we were looking for.
No, you mentioned gaming because you didn't bother to read the guy's post.
You like to write, you don't like to read.
I'm not even sure how to respond to your "newer hardware has better drivers" confusion. First, that's usually just wrong. Second, he was complaining that no version of fedora core has any support for any version of any nVidia card. Buying a more expensive nVidia card doesn't change that situation in any way.
You would have had a lot better luck at the $100 to $150 point which typically uses current or just-previous designs, complete with up to date driver support that is tested to work with current games.
It is only because there is currently a shift going on from AGP to PCI-Express that he can't just buy the latest vid card and be happy.
There are always shifts in computer technology. Every computer ever built has become obsolete between the time it rolls off the assembly line and the time it arrives at the customer's doorstep. You'll never make an upgrade without compromise.
My answer to the original poster is essentially this: If you buy an AGP card now, in two years you'll need an entirely new computer. But if you buy a PCIe card now, in two years you'll need an entirely new computer.
I am pretty sure that the AHRA actually says "it's still illegal but we agree not to prosecute you".
As another poster pointed out, copying has never been illegal, and at no time in history could you have ever been prosecuted. However, the AHRA took away the copyright owner's right to sue you. It's not like decriminalizing marijuana -- it's not agreement to "look the other way." Copying music for personal use is 100% free and legal, like walking on a sidewalk or quietly discussing fire in a crowded theater.
(Actually, this technically isn't true. The copyright owner can still sue you. Heck, I can sue you, too. I could walk down to the courthouse and sue "the person known as superid", because you sent out nasty brainwaves that have cause the left front tire on my car to slowly leak air. The AHRA took away the ability to win such a lawsuit, and now copying music for personal use has the same legal standing as thinking bad things about the air in my tires.)
I really don't understand why the graphics makers were so quick to dump AGP, they didn't drop PCI this quickly that I remember.
In the last 15 years, graphics cards have moved through ISA, EISA, VESA, PCI, AGP, and PCIe. AGP actually lasted a comparatively long time. Memory has changed just as often, and generation-old memory usually costs three or four times as much as new. A new CPU slot seems to come out every six months; there are a half dozen CPU slots in widespread use right now.
Hell, even power supplies change a few times a decade. My four year old case with a "monster" 275 watt power supply won't survive my next upgrade.
Every single part on a PCs has always needed a total replacement every three or four years. Anyone who thinks a PC is "upgradable" simply hasn't been alive long enough to know better.
You're mistaken. It is permissable to copy music for personal use from media you have purchased. You may, for instance, copy music from a CD onto your computer, and then onto an MP3 player. You can't copy music from media someone else has purchased.
Of course you can. The laws make no distinction between material you've purchased, material you've borrowed from the library, material you've rented, or material you've physically stolen.
Copyright isn't a license. It's a right to copy, period. Copyright and license are two entirely separate ideas, with two entirely separate sets of laws. The purchase of copyright material affords you absolutely no extra rights. Your right to copy material is exactly the same no matter how you came into possession of the material.
It is? I'd love to see the test case that established that precedent, or the law.
The Audio Home Recording Act makes most copying of music for personal use legal.
I see no reason why you couldn't copy music from "somone else's" copy of Window's Vista, though I can't see how that's related to using the sound in KDE. No law makes any distincting between "your own music" and "other people's music." That's mostly a fiction created by people who mistakenly believe that copyright is somehow related to licenses.
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They did not have a warrant because it is deemed to be a "reasonable" search (and seizure if they find contraband). No warrant needed.
Actually, no. It's not allowed because it's a "reasonable" search. The fourth amendment says that only a judge can decide what's reasonable, and communicates that decision only by issuing a warrant. It's pretty plain English.
However, there are times when you lose your fourth amendment rights, primarily when you are searched to protects the immediate and direct safety of others. These searches are not considered "reasonable" under the fourth amendment. Instead, they're legal because in certain circumstances you lose your fourth amendment rights entirely. I don't know if this is right or good, but that's how it is.
Again, these searches are not considered "reasonable" under the fourth amendment. The amendment specifically says the only "reasonable" search is one approved by a judge, with a warrant. These searches are allowed to protect the immediate and direct safetey of others.
Wow, just wow.
You really were able to figure out quite a bit about me from that post. Can you tell my future too? You know I've totally given up on the concept of learning, and seem to hold quite a bit of resentment toward anyone who hasn't.
I have no misconceptions as to how much I know on any given topic, if anything the more I know the more I realize I have to learn. My only point was that anyone who has not totally given up and just decided to enjoy and actively pursue ignorance realizes that they really are very, very, very stupid, and don't understand 99.9% of the world they live in.
You know the type, the people who seem positively proud to be befuddled by technology, science, politics, basically the world around them.
I'm positively proud of the fact that I know I'm befuddled by technology, science, politics, and basically the world around me. It's dumb assholes like you who don't know, and fall for the pseudo-science bullshit and political lies and manipulations, because someone explains it to you using third grader words, and you nod your head and say "uh huh" because you want to pretend to yourself like you're not stupid.
Well, here's a clue, dipshit -- you're stupid. All humans are damned monkies, barely brighter than an ape. No-one alive understands more than a tenth of the stuff that happens right in front his face, and doesn't have a chance in hell to understand the stuff he doesn't directly experience.
The difference between a genius and a moron is that the genius knows he's barely more than a stupid ape, and will admit it. The moron has absolutely no idea.
Those are the one who usually buy Compaq, HP, Gateway, and Dell-brand PC's and end up leaving with a PowerSpec computer and liking it because its easily upgradable and serviceable.
And every single one of them paid extra for a computer they will never, ever, ever upgrade.
A few will come back in three years and ask to upgrade, at which point they will need a whole new everything. And, if they're smart, at that point they'll buy a Dell, and thell their friends to never give you another penny as long as you live.
I'd suggest using SHA256 instead.
In the open source world, "suggestions" come in the form of "source code."
Messages written on anonymous message boards aren't "suggestions," they're "idle chit-chat."
If you want to be interesting or informative, tell us which operating systems don't use MD5.
Yeah, there are holes in the standard Linux password hashing algo. Wonderful. Great. You're super smart, and get all the girls. Now, tell us something we don't know.
Not if you want to use Firefox extensions, it isn't.
Saying "Camino is a bad web browser because it doesn't run Firefox extensions" is like saying "Firefox is a bad web browser because it doesn't run Internet Explorer ActiveX controls."
it allows them to do all the REASONABLE searchin' and seizin' they want.
Yep... and a judge decides what's reasonable, by issuing a warrant. The fourth amendment explicitly denies the executive branch permission to decide what's reasonable.
I'm not sure I'd want to participate in the Tor network. I'm definitely not the only one. Perhaps I'm a coward, but that should tell you something of what this country is slowly turning into...
Yes. It's turning into a nation full of cowards.
Firefox can look pretty darn good on OS X; you just have to find the right theme
Camino is a perfectly fine "theme" for Gecko.
This would also allow me the opportunity to VNC to the computer from work and change the schedule, in case of last-minute scheduling changes.
Well, it's clear that you've alredy found a solution, and now you're just searching for a problem to solve with it.
However, I really think you should step back and thought about the problem you're trying to solve. If you weren't so hung up on the technology, you'd realize that a thermostat running the X Window System would probably work just as well.
Yes, it's clear to me that your thermostat should run FreeBSD.
"Main Technical Contact at a Fortune 10 Company" pays more than any University job except football coach.
There are probably a few dozen university professors in the whole world who will make as much money as a "Main Technical Contact at a Fortune 10 Company." Probably a 100 or so administrators will make more, but absolutely no staff ever, ever will.
He'll probably make five to twenty times as much in the private sectors as "Main Technical Contact at a Fortune 10 Company" as he would as a Unix System Administrator at a University.
More important to me are the lack of a full-size 5-pin DIN keyboard port, a DB-9 serial port, and 5 1/4" floppy drive.
The fact that I can't use my 23 year old floppies and keyboard really bothers me.
I bet the passengers aboard that plane were very glad they had a old pilot who knew about gliders
Yeah, I bet they were glad to have a pilot who started flying before 1903, when airplanes started getting engines.
I can see it now. Some blogger stubs his toe on an Xbox 360 power supply. 2 minutes later Zonk posts a "Are Xbox 360 power supplies injuring our children?"
Three days later, Zonk will post a story about the "Xbox power supply foam padding mod."
And six hours later, Cmdr Taco will dupe it.
War is dirty business, but the object is to win, no matter what.
And, the object of a hammer is to pound nails.
But winning battles, and pounding nails, isn't a useful objective by itself. The war in Iraq is being run by a bunch of nitwits who think you can drop some lumber, nails, and carpenters off at a job site and come back six months later to a well-constructed house. Or, perhaps an apartment building, or garage, or a warehouse full of furniture. No-one is sure -- hopefully if we just start pounding nails, and the design will work itself out. Maybe if we let the lumber hold elections and draw up the plans, we'll get what we were looking for.
No, you mentioned gaming because you didn't bother to read the guy's post.
You like to write, you don't like to read.
I'm not even sure how to respond to your "newer hardware has better drivers" confusion. First, that's usually just wrong. Second, he was complaining that no version of fedora core has any support for any version of any nVidia card. Buying a more expensive nVidia card doesn't change that situation in any way.
You would have had a lot better luck at the $100 to $150 point which typically uses current or just-previous designs, complete with up to date driver support that is tested to work with current games.
He was talking about linux, mr. sooper genious.
It is only because there is currently a shift going on from AGP to PCI-Express that he can't just buy the latest vid card and be happy.
There are always shifts in computer technology. Every computer ever built has become obsolete between the time it rolls off the assembly line and the time it arrives at the customer's doorstep. You'll never make an upgrade without compromise.
My answer to the original poster is essentially this: If you buy an AGP card now, in two years you'll need an entirely new computer. But if you buy a PCIe card now, in two years you'll need an entirely new computer.
I am pretty sure that the AHRA actually says "it's still illegal but we agree not to prosecute you".
As another poster pointed out, copying has never been illegal, and at no time in history could you have ever been prosecuted. However, the AHRA took away the copyright owner's right to sue you. It's not like decriminalizing marijuana -- it's not agreement to "look the other way." Copying music for personal use is 100% free and legal, like walking on a sidewalk or quietly discussing fire in a crowded theater.
(Actually, this technically isn't true. The copyright owner can still sue you. Heck, I can sue you, too. I could walk down to the courthouse and sue "the person known as superid", because you sent out nasty brainwaves that have cause the left front tire on my car to slowly leak air. The AHRA took away the ability to win such a lawsuit, and now copying music for personal use has the same legal standing as thinking bad things about the air in my tires.)
I really don't understand why the graphics makers were so quick to dump AGP, they didn't drop PCI this quickly that I remember.
In the last 15 years, graphics cards have moved through ISA, EISA, VESA, PCI, AGP, and PCIe. AGP actually lasted a comparatively long time. Memory has changed just as often, and generation-old memory usually costs three or four times as much as new. A new CPU slot seems to come out every six months; there are a half dozen CPU slots in widespread use right now.
Hell, even power supplies change a few times a decade. My four year old case with a "monster" 275 watt power supply won't survive my next upgrade.
Every single part on a PCs has always needed a total replacement every three or four years. Anyone who thinks a PC is "upgradable" simply hasn't been alive long enough to know better.
You're mistaken. It is permissable to copy music for personal use from media you have purchased. You may, for instance, copy music from a CD onto your computer, and then onto an MP3 player. You can't copy music from media someone else has purchased.
Of course you can. The laws make no distinction between material you've purchased, material you've borrowed from the library, material you've rented, or material you've physically stolen.
Copyright isn't a license. It's a right to copy, period. Copyright and license are two entirely separate ideas, with two entirely separate sets of laws. The purchase of copyright material affords you absolutely no extra rights. Your right to copy material is exactly the same no matter how you came into possession of the material.
It is? I'd love to see the test case that established that precedent, or the law.
The Audio Home Recording Act makes most copying of music for personal use legal.
I see no reason why you couldn't copy music from "somone else's" copy of Window's Vista, though I can't see how that's related to using the sound in KDE. No law makes any distincting between "your own music" and "other people's music." That's mostly a fiction created by people who mistakenly believe that copyright is somehow related to licenses.
The most polished Yellow Dog Linux has been released...
The only dog release I've ever polished was brown, not yellow...
Because it hinders your ability to trample all over the copyright holder's rights?
Copying music for personal use is legal, and does not trample on anyone's "rights."