I've had just about enough of people referencing the television show Mythbusters as if this television show is the final authority on such things. It is, after all, merely a television show. As such, it is no substitution for science.
For instance, the fellas from Mythbusters never bothered to press the TALK button on their cellphone-in-a-box-full-of-fuel-vapor setup. That's a fairly major oversight, as far as I'm concerned. What they've done, at best, is prove that a cellphone ringer can't start a fire. They've proved nothing regarding a cellphone actually in use.
Sure, but what's to prevent the reverse from occurring? What if, for instance, John Kerry really had been there, and a 'doctored' image was used to prove he wasn't?
"What everyone here seems to be missing is the fact that the officer was responding to a report (eg, some other citizen called the police)"
Seriously. So what? Anyone can make a report. But there are people who are hired and trained to make the distinction of whether or not a crime has actually taken place, and we call them "the police." This is not a citizen's arrest, this is an arrest by an authorized agent of the state. It takes, or at least, it should take, more than a phone call to arrive at a determination of probable cause.
You know, I agree with you. I've been on top of this case since the night I was released from Harris County Jail. I have a feeling Hiibel's going to lose this case.
But what I'm worried about is the way prosecutors and other courts are going to interpret and use the decision. If the issues were so clear, as you and many others seem to see it, why did the SC take up the case in the first place? There can be only two reasons- either to reaffirm the rights and responsibilities laid out in Miranda, Brown, Kolender, etc. - or to create a new and expanded meaning of "reasonable suspicion."
Our civil rights are not taken away in one bold stroke. Rather, they are chipped away into dust by the constant hammering of the SC's gavel.
Long story short: Last year a newbie Sheriff's deputy arrested me for "failure to I.D." I was walking back from the store early in the morning, and a cop who I'd already had an incident with demanded my I.D. I'm fairly well-versed in Texas law on the matter, and I knew I was right.
Anyway, I plead not guilty and the deputy didn't show up at trial. I'm currently in the process of having the arrest record expunged.
The bottom line on this is: Constitutionally, every search or siezure must be reasonable, which the courts have decided means that reasonable suspicion must exist. If you're just walking down the street (like I was), and you don't match the description of a person wanted for a crime, and you're not committing a crime, there's no reason you should be compelled to identify yourself. Period.
Why are we allowing people to patent "methods" in the first place? A patent should be for the physical, mechanical device which performs the task. Stupid patents = stupid lawsuits.
Bionicle sets are the only LEGO product I see at stores with no toy department. In other words, they're sold at grocery stores, drug stores, convenience stores, and gas stations. These are places where a parent is more likely to pay $5 for 18 plastic pieces. At Wal-Mart or Toys-R-Us, the selection is huge, but so is the competition. At Texaco or Walgreens, if your kid wants LEGO, he's getting the overpriced Bionicle, and that's that.
I'm waiting until the "State of the Union" speech to decide if the president actually intends to follow through on this plan. Actually, the fact that this announcement wasn't held back until the SotU address already has me wondering about the sincerity of it.
Somebody floated a trial balloon on this at least a couple weeks ago, I wonder why?
My friend gets weekend visits with his 7-year old, and they usually end up over at my place on sundays. I have 2 giant boxes of Legos (some new, some vintage) and after playing monopoly or whatever, the kid always plays with the Legos, sometimes for hours.
Well, daddy bought the kid a PS2 for X-Mas, and guess what? No more interest in Legos. Hell, no more interest in Monopoly, for that matter. He just wants to play Tony Hawk or Simpsons Hit and Run. [shrug]
Right, because anyone the police have an interest in must be a criminal. BS
This is tantamount to my locksmith providing a copy of the keys to my house for the police to enter without a warrant and collect information.
I don't think so. It might have been a nice, soap-opera like drama for viewers, but the revelation is actually designed to affect Luke. His reaction is what sells the scene. It's the characters that matter, not the audience.
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It's a nice thought experiment, to be sure. One, in fact, that I've used many times to assist in teaching rudimentary physics to children and, for instance, my wife.
Kazaa Lite is a stopgap measure, and I, for one, thank them for it. Sharman's Kazaa could not have a more evil intent, unless perhaps they were purchased by RIAA. (cheap shot, ok)
Still, K-Lite helps mitigate the spyware problem, and when Kazaa goes commercial, KL will be a nice alternative.
C'mon. I'm sure there are better ways to test the system. How about some complicated mathmatics? Why not just load up the chess software and let it analyze every possible move?
This is just the design team's wet dream. Not that I blame them, but c'mon- is it really news? Nerds like to play games??? Alert the press!
Aren't there already tools for administrators to rollout patches en masse? Seems like we made use of that during the deployment of Windows2000, for that matter.
If that's all MS is "considering," well we all know what that means. That's a trial balloon floated to see what the reaction will be. But it sounds like MS wants automatic patching on every desktop. Good christ on a fucking biscuit! They get targetted one week and the next they want every system to be identically compromised!?
The site doesn't specify, but he may be using "recycled" wood- perhaps even wood from an old, demolished roller coaster. You know once apon a time, they were all made from wood!
If the ice tower theory is true, what will this tell us? I think it answers more questions about the current but evolving state of our own planet than it tells us about the history of Mars.
The poster mentions what most of us realized many years ago: aside from production of the music, bandwidth is now the only commodity necessary for distribution. Bandwidth has replaced packaging, to some extent even promotion costs.
So now for the off-topic section. Why isn't there a credit-based, RIAA-endorsed P2P system yet?
If I buy the new Celine Dion CD, rip the music and offer the tracks to others- I've done all the work. If someone pays into an RIAA credit system and then spends X amount of credits to download MY rip- who loses? I've provided the bandwidth, while I've received only a fraction of the credits- which I can use to buy more music from another user who has done the same thing.
Meanwhile, the RIAA P2P system is collecting the majority of the profits.
What if I have large size photos on the web, as well as thumbnail photos of the same images. Assume that under each photo (of both sizes) is a notice of copyright. Doesn't that claim apply to the thumbnail?
Then, if a search engine makes a similar thumbnail, I can sue over a breach of the thumbnails' copyright.
Surely the court hasn't ruled that I cannot copyright my thumbnail images?!
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I've had just about enough of people referencing the television show Mythbusters as if this television show is the final authority on such things. It is, after all, merely a television show. As such, it is no substitution for science.
For instance, the fellas from Mythbusters never bothered to press the TALK button on their cellphone-in-a-box-full-of-fuel-vapor setup. That's a fairly major oversight, as far as I'm concerned. What they've done, at best, is prove that a cellphone ringer can't start a fire. They've proved nothing regarding a cellphone actually in use.
Sure, but what's to prevent the reverse from occurring? What if, for instance, John Kerry really had been there, and a 'doctored' image was used to prove he wasn't?
It cuts both ways.
Perhaps the agents decided that there was a wholesale destruction of data going on, and to safeguard the warranted evidence, decided to make a raid.
If that is what was happening, the ISP can expect obstruction of justice charges along with whatever else.
"What everyone here seems to be missing is the fact that the officer was responding to a report (eg, some other citizen called the police)"
Seriously. So what? Anyone can make a report. But there are people who are hired and trained to make the distinction of whether or not a crime has actually taken place, and we call them "the police." This is not a citizen's arrest, this is an arrest by an authorized agent of the state. It takes, or at least, it should take, more than a phone call to arrive at a determination of probable cause.
You know, I agree with you. I've been on top of this case since the night I was released from Harris County Jail. I have a feeling Hiibel's going to lose this case.
But what I'm worried about is the way prosecutors and other courts are going to interpret and use the decision. If the issues were so clear, as you and many others seem to see it, why did the SC take up the case in the first place? There can be only two reasons- either to reaffirm the rights and responsibilities laid out in Miranda, Brown, Kolender, etc. - or to create a new and expanded meaning of "reasonable suspicion."
Our civil rights are not taken away in one bold stroke. Rather, they are chipped away into dust by the constant hammering of the SC's gavel.
Long story short: Last year a newbie Sheriff's deputy arrested me for "failure to I.D." I was walking back from the store early in the morning, and a cop who I'd already had an incident with demanded my I.D. I'm fairly well-versed in Texas law on the matter, and I knew I was right.
Anyway, I plead not guilty and the deputy didn't show up at trial. I'm currently in the process of having the arrest record expunged.
The bottom line on this is: Constitutionally, every search or siezure must be reasonable, which the courts have decided means that reasonable suspicion must exist. If you're just walking down the street (like I was), and you don't match the description of a person wanted for a crime, and you're not committing a crime, there's no reason you should be compelled to identify yourself. Period.
Why are we allowing people to patent "methods" in the first place? A patent should be for the physical, mechanical device which performs the task. Stupid patents = stupid lawsuits.
"... I'd rather have an honest enemy than a ally who lies to me."
Oh, is that all? [*snicker*] Not very likely, my friend... not among the human race.
Two 3 inch screens are less expensive than one 6 inch screen. And they probably have a large backstock of them from the GBA.
Bionicle sets are the only LEGO product I see at stores with no toy department. In other words, they're sold at grocery stores, drug stores, convenience stores, and gas stations. These are places where a parent is more likely to pay $5 for 18 plastic pieces. At Wal-Mart or Toys-R-Us, the selection is huge, but so is the competition. At Texaco or Walgreens, if your kid wants LEGO, he's getting the overpriced Bionicle, and that's that.
I'm waiting until the "State of the Union" speech to decide if the president actually intends to follow through on this plan. Actually, the fact that this announcement wasn't held back until the SotU address already has me wondering about the sincerity of it.
Somebody floated a trial balloon on this at least a couple weeks ago, I wonder why?
Yes.
My friend gets weekend visits with his 7-year old, and they usually end up over at my place on sundays. I have 2 giant boxes of Legos (some new, some vintage) and after playing monopoly or whatever, the kid always plays with the Legos, sometimes for hours.
Well, daddy bought the kid a PS2 for X-Mas, and guess what? No more interest in Legos. Hell, no more interest in Monopoly, for that matter. He just wants to play Tony Hawk or Simpsons Hit and Run. [shrug]
Right, because anyone the police have an interest in must be a criminal. BS This is tantamount to my locksmith providing a copy of the keys to my house for the police to enter without a warrant and collect information.
I don't think so. It might have been a nice, soap-opera like drama for viewers, but the revelation is actually designed to affect Luke. His reaction is what sells the scene. It's the characters that matter, not the audience.
It's a nice thought experiment, to be sure. One, in fact, that I've used many times to assist in teaching rudimentary physics to children and, for instance, my wife.
Kazaa Lite is a stopgap measure, and I, for one, thank them for it. Sharman's Kazaa could not have a more evil intent, unless perhaps they were purchased by RIAA. (cheap shot, ok)
Still, K-Lite helps mitigate the spyware problem, and when Kazaa goes commercial, KL will be a nice alternative.
C'mon. I'm sure there are better ways to test the system. How about some complicated mathmatics? Why not just load up the chess software and let it analyze every possible move?
This is just the design team's wet dream. Not that I blame them, but c'mon- is it really news? Nerds like to play games??? Alert the press!
Aren't there already tools for administrators to rollout patches en masse? Seems like we made use of that during the deployment of Windows2000, for that matter.
If that's all MS is "considering," well we all know what that means. That's a trial balloon floated to see what the reaction will be. But it sounds like MS wants automatic patching on every desktop. Good christ on a fucking biscuit! They get targetted one week and the next they want every system to be identically compromised!?
The site doesn't specify, but he may be using "recycled" wood- perhaps even wood from an old, demolished roller coaster. You know once apon a time, they were all made from wood!
If the ice tower theory is true, what will this tell us? I think it answers more questions about the current but evolving state of our own planet than it tells us about the history of Mars.
"What's wrong with static, text and jpgs only pages?"
Yeah, I agree totally. That's why I read the newspaper.
Surely you meant to say Sisqo?
The poster mentions what most of us realized many years ago: aside from production of the music, bandwidth is now the only commodity necessary for distribution. Bandwidth has replaced packaging, to some extent even promotion costs.
So now for the off-topic section. Why isn't there a credit-based, RIAA-endorsed P2P system yet?
If I buy the new Celine Dion CD, rip the music and offer the tracks to others- I've done all the work. If someone pays into an RIAA credit system and then spends X amount of credits to download MY rip- who loses? I've provided the bandwidth, while I've received only a fraction of the credits- which I can use to buy more music from another user who has done the same thing.
Meanwhile, the RIAA P2P system is collecting the majority of the profits.
What if I have large size photos on the web, as well as thumbnail photos of the same images. Assume that under each photo (of both sizes) is a notice of copyright. Doesn't that claim apply to the thumbnail?
Then, if a search engine makes a similar thumbnail, I can sue over a breach of the thumbnails' copyright.
Surely the court hasn't ruled that I cannot copyright my thumbnail images?!