If I understand it correctly, fundamentals like curtilage even still apply, basically requiring something to be in plain sight, visible to the human eye, without standing on land that is private to the residence, for warrantless observation to be legal. Officers are legally allowed to approach the front door of a residence and can make their own observations as they do so, including looking through windows, but they can't enter parts of the land that are private, like the backyard, gardens or planters immediately adjacent to the dwelling, etc, to make such observations.
Using myself as an example, my backyard is surrounded by a 6' fence, and all gates through the fence are locked unless I'm actively using that gate as a passage. My front yard has planters defined by short stem-walls up against the windows that lack walkways and have large plants that would make casually walking up to the windows impossible. There's a paved 3' wide walkway up from the street to the front stoop, and on the side toward the bedrooms there's a 5' tall rose hedge row. There's a paved driveway up to the garages, and another 3' walkway connecting across the front yard in front of the house in front of the planter in front of the dining room to the main walkup from the street. Law enforcement would be within their rights to use any of the pavement to approach the front door and the garage doors to the attached and detached garages, including the driveway and the connecting walkway in front of the dining room, and if the dining room blinds are open then they are within their rights to observe through the plants in the planter, and through that window into the house. Between the various hedge rows and planters, combined with no walkway, they are not within their rights to approach the windows past the rose hedge, as there is no approach for casual walking up over there. The police might not even have the right to use the front grass to walk-up and observe, as I have provided an improved path for anyone to approach the front door. They definitely do not have the right to enter the backyard as there is no path to take without trespassing available to them.
That makes me wonder; since the police are allowed to approach a residence's main door, if homes with no clear improved walkup are actually sacrificing some of their rights as this lack of walkup enables the police to choose a path to approach through the front door to the front door, rather than being forced to use the path provided for them.
A recent Supreme Court ruling held that the police could not use a trained dog on someone's private property without consent or a search warrant; if the dog is legally considered to be police equipment, then it would follow that only an officer's own observations with his senses within the context of the mentioned "knock and talk", and the court supported this through Kagan's writing that even such technology as a high-powered binoculars to observe inside of the home while within the curtilage is not permitted.
It sounds to me like once a judge rules against the police, and on appeal an appeals-court rules against the police, if both cite the various Supreme Court rulings, that the precedent would apply nationwide. We'll have to see.
Yet, if you actually ask factory workers in poor countries what they want, one of their biggest desires is for LONGER HOURS.
I expect they don't feel they can ask for more money per hour. They're left with only one option to earn more, which is to labor more.
This is what happens when there are a lot of jobs that don't require a whole lot of skill, or require skills that the employer can teach to nearly anyone, fairly quickly. All workers are replaceable, and there is no benefit to individually trying to make gains because one will just be let go. That's why unions came into being, because if everyone or nearly everyone was involved, then it's a lot harder for the employer to fire that vast a portion of the workforce without putting themselves out of business.
I'm not going to deny that unions have their problems too, but labor strife as business came into direct conflict with organized labor is why we have safer workplaces in the United States and overtime when exceeding forty hours for most physical labor jobs.
China is going through what the United States went through 80-150 years ago, and they're going through what the United States started going through heavily in the late eighties and nineties when outsourcing overseas started becoming commonplace. That's a tough spot.
Sounds like another money grab for the overpaid government employee system.
Hah hah hah hah!
Oh, wait, you're serious...
Let me enlighten you as to how this works. Municipality or jurisdiction listens to sales pitch from a company like Redflex or American Traffic Systems. The company promises a system that will be installed and maintained entirely by them, with the company forwarding the collected data to the city traffic enforcement (sometimes part of the police department, sometimes independent), so that the city can mail fines to the vehicle owners. The city is then supposed to send a portion of the revenue from each ticket back to the company. Sometimes, the city effectively deputizes the company to issue the citations themselves, sending the city a portion of the fines collected. Either way, when municipal employees are involved they're not highly paid as it's a clerical job at-best, not anything with any real clout or influence outside of pushing paperwork.
My city went the former way with how it contracted for cameras, and the arrangement ended when the city didn't send revenue to the company for those speeders that opted for traffic-school and thus had the citation wiped from their records- the company complained, so the city actually opted to discontinue the contract and the cameras went away. Hopefully they'll stay gone, but we'll have to see.
I've found that the only 'open' floorplan that works is when it's grouped for small teams with their own walls separating them from other teams. That allows the team to communicate effectively when they need to without having to get up and walk to someone else's office, but also gives a degree of privacy to the members of the team, so long as they're comfortable with each other.
That last statement is critical, I've seen some groupings work very poorly because of particularly boisterous people that could be heard through multiple closed doors as they didn't understand that their outside voices weren't necessary for a telephone call, or people that conduct way too much personal business on the phone while in the office. I've also seen teams whose work areas became the hangout for the department, which also destroys productivity.
It can work, but it requires conditions to be right to make it work.
I really don't think that'll help, mainly because those that are already intoxicated are already not of sound-mind and are not thinking about penalties. Adding penalties isn't going to solve the problem.
Unfortunately the only thing that I can think of that might make a dent would be to penalize establishments that serve patrons until they're legally drunk (as there are a lot of places with laws that should make establishments cut-off those that are drunk from continuing to be served) but given that drunks continuing to buy more drinks is what keeps the drinking establishments open, I don't think such penalties will ever be enacted.
Remember, it's those 10-20% of consumers of a product that consume it to excess that make the product profitable. Casual drinkers aren't where the profit is, binge or excessive drinkers are.
I'm curious as to how this is a nerd-news subject. Ignition Interlock devices are nothing new or novel, and if anything, the only nerd stuff would be talking about how to bypass or otherwise fake results, which isn't a direction that I want to head in either.
That's because, up until a few years ago, nearly all US-distributed appliances came out of a manufacturing plant in Evansville, Indiana, owned by the Whirlpool Corporation. Didn't matter if it was badged as Amana, Kenmore, Whirlpool, or any of a whole host of brands, they were all effectively the same machines.
Whirlpool screwed up. That screwup allowed other manufacturers to get a more of a foothold here, ones that could leverage previous badge-engineering and then transition to other sources for the products. It's similar to how GM and Isuzu screwed up and licensed the Isuzu Rodeo (MU) to Honda as the Passport, so Honda could get a jump on the SUV/CUV craze and establish themselves earlier than they would have been able to without having it in the first place.
The logistics industry is quickly moving away from pallets for everything but long term storage.
Really?
Last I saw, they're moving to flatter, sturdier, permanent-use molded plastic pallets that have integrated RFID and compartments for things like GPS and batteries, that are meant to be used for many years. Sure, pallets take some vertical space, but the amount of space taken is small compared to the ability for one person to move close to two tons of cargo single-handedly across smooth floors with no more than a jack.
Yup. Even a good lawyer cannot necessarily undo the damage that a criminal defendant has caused for themselves by speaking. The accused is not usually legally required to do any more than to identify themselves, and then only in states that have laws on the books requiring that.
Any 'deal', any promise to provide either immunity or a plea or for the court to recognize cooperation on the part of the defendant, needs to be made between the prosecution and the defense attorneys with the involvement of the court. After all, the police aren't the ones prosecuting the defendant in court.
Heh. After Robert Jordan stopped writing Wheel of Time main-line novels to work on prequels before dying, I'm inclined to wait until whole series are finished or the authors are dead before I read their work. Makes it a lot easier to avoid disappointment like that again.
Wasn't that the bigger issue actually? FOX/Newscorp trying to push a whole slew of their channels on DISH for fairly high rates, and using FOX News as the leverage, when those other channels aren't popular and aren't worth the money that was being demanded of them?
Personal opinion on the merit of FOX News aside, I can see where it has fiscal value as it's turned on and left on all over the goddamn place. Lobbies, break rooms, waiting rooms, all seem to have left CNN for FOX News and it's rare to find other stations on these days. But, it sounds like it's FOX News that's worth something, not the other, lesser channels, and even then, FOX News' value might itself be overinflated if it's serving as background noise more than actually being watched by the people in those lobbies, break rooms, and waiting rooms.
We don't have any subscription TV because we didn't want to pay for channels that we don't watch. This licensing model that is being pushed on DISH in turn forces DISH to push on to consumers, as if DISH has to pay for twenty channels to get one or two that people want to watch, they must charge for those twenty channels and push them to consumers, even if no one watches them.
I didn't expect to hear myself say this, but good on DISH for standing up to FOX/Newscorp for now.
You seem to know an awful lot about a series that you seem so dislike so much.
I can certainly criticize and critique episodes and movies, but obviously I liked/like Star Trek and won't slam it as-a-whole. Admittedly I didn't watch Enterprise beyond the pilot, nor did I see Nemesis or the second JJ Abrams movie.
I've seen a faux-documentary related to Prelude to Axanar that was pretty good. They got a lot of experienced actors to participate, and their costuming and sets were decent, and the writing seemed pretty good too. Certainly good enough to be better than the worst TOS and TNG episodes, probably ranking up in about the middle of the pack. Certainly not Measure of a Man, but not Shades of Gray either.
I think that your friend is, at best, misinformed. At worst he's lying.
There has been discussion through the years of this sort of thing being possible in the future, but it has not yet happened. Cars simply require too much service for there to be the option of not opening for service-configuration.
Yes, but if the underside of the car needs to be accessed to make a battery swapout easy, then being able to drive over the swap pit, so the tech underneath can do the job, then drive out and continue on one's trip will be similar to fueling up, or possibly even faster.
Gas stations used to have service bays with oil change pits. Places like Jiffy Lube still operate that way. I can see those pits being repurposed for this function too, since easy access to the underside of the car and a drive-through bay may really help to keep the time down.
Well, it used to be common for gas stations to also have vehicle service bays for back when cars were a lot more finicky and in need of regular tuning, and part of that was the oil-change pit. Maybe those remaining stations with that setup will find that it's a good market to do electric car battery swaps with the old pits.
No, it's a place where tech people with realistic views of what tech can do and bring want to see the proof that it's worth their while.
I'm still waiting for the killer-app for a smartwatch. I want it to be a central hub of sorts for my personal electronics that anything and everything essentially tethers through, be it over bluetooth or some 802.11 variant, so that everything can have network connectivity. The watch itself shouldn't actually do much- make phone calls as a speakerphone or through a bluetooth headset, provide very rudimentary mapping and navigation, notify of text messages and maybe read text messages and e-mail via text-to-speech, and show task lists and calendar and stopwatch timer events.
Everything else, like having a nice handset for phone calls, or a really good dialer that can do advanced contact list editing, or web browsing, or any other enhanced feature should work on the tablet or other personal device on one's person.
If a car has no drain plug for a fluid service that has to be performed several times a year, or can't handle a simple battery replacement without squawking, then the manufacturer is doing something wrong. Either their engineering is terrible or they're assholes.
Yeah, bad form, replying to AC that can't even figure out how to quote right...
Advanced service on cars is harder than it used to be, I will not dispute that. On the other hand, I don't have to have my ignition system or valvetrain or carburetor adjusted every few thousand miles anymore. I have to change the oil and filter regularly, lube the suspension, check the fluid levels for coolant, transmission fluid, brake fluid, power steering fluid, and top-off the windshield washer fluid and possibly change the wiper blades, change the engine air filter, and do a brake job from time to time, and after many years, change the brake fluid, change the transmission fluid and filter, change the differential gear oil, possibly change the power steering fluid, possibly replace the spark plug wires, possibly re-gap or replace the spark plugs, and possibly replace a passenger compartment air filter.
If more service than that is required in the first 80,000 miles then the manufacturer screwed up. There should be no need pull the valve covers, or to take the top-end off of the engine, or to pull the transmission out, or to do any of a bunch of other jobs to a car unless it's been subjected to something abnormal.
Electrics eliminate a lot of that. There's still chassis/suspension maintenance, cabin/passenger compartment stuff, and there could even be new tasks like re-lubricating electric motor bearings to prevent premature wear, but by and large, electrics have a lot less of those kinds of maintenance tasks to perform, and likely a lot of them could be self-service with proper documentation.
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If I understand it correctly, fundamentals like curtilage even still apply, basically requiring something to be in plain sight, visible to the human eye, without standing on land that is private to the residence, for warrantless observation to be legal. Officers are legally allowed to approach the front door of a residence and can make their own observations as they do so, including looking through windows, but they can't enter parts of the land that are private, like the backyard, gardens or planters immediately adjacent to the dwelling, etc, to make such observations.
Using myself as an example, my backyard is surrounded by a 6' fence, and all gates through the fence are locked unless I'm actively using that gate as a passage. My front yard has planters defined by short stem-walls up against the windows that lack walkways and have large plants that would make casually walking up to the windows impossible. There's a paved 3' wide walkway up from the street to the front stoop, and on the side toward the bedrooms there's a 5' tall rose hedge row. There's a paved driveway up to the garages, and another 3' walkway connecting across the front yard in front of the house in front of the planter in front of the dining room to the main walkup from the street. Law enforcement would be within their rights to use any of the pavement to approach the front door and the garage doors to the attached and detached garages, including the driveway and the connecting walkway in front of the dining room, and if the dining room blinds are open then they are within their rights to observe through the plants in the planter, and through that window into the house. Between the various hedge rows and planters, combined with no walkway, they are not within their rights to approach the windows past the rose hedge, as there is no approach for casual walking up over there. The police might not even have the right to use the front grass to walk-up and observe, as I have provided an improved path for anyone to approach the front door. They definitely do not have the right to enter the backyard as there is no path to take without trespassing available to them.
That makes me wonder; since the police are allowed to approach a residence's main door, if homes with no clear improved walkup are actually sacrificing some of their rights as this lack of walkup enables the police to choose a path to approach through the front door to the front door, rather than being forced to use the path provided for them.
A recent Supreme Court ruling held that the police could not use a trained dog on someone's private property without consent or a search warrant; if the dog is legally considered to be police equipment, then it would follow that only an officer's own observations with his senses within the context of the mentioned "knock and talk", and the court supported this through Kagan's writing that even such technology as a high-powered binoculars to observe inside of the home while within the curtilage is not permitted.
It sounds to me like once a judge rules against the police, and on appeal an appeals-court rules against the police, if both cite the various Supreme Court rulings, that the precedent would apply nationwide. We'll have to see.
I expect they don't feel they can ask for more money per hour. They're left with only one option to earn more, which is to labor more.
This is what happens when there are a lot of jobs that don't require a whole lot of skill, or require skills that the employer can teach to nearly anyone, fairly quickly. All workers are replaceable, and there is no benefit to individually trying to make gains because one will just be let go. That's why unions came into being, because if everyone or nearly everyone was involved, then it's a lot harder for the employer to fire that vast a portion of the workforce without putting themselves out of business.
I'm not going to deny that unions have their problems too, but labor strife as business came into direct conflict with organized labor is why we have safer workplaces in the United States and overtime when exceeding forty hours for most physical labor jobs.
China is going through what the United States went through 80-150 years ago, and they're going through what the United States started going through heavily in the late eighties and nineties when outsourcing overseas started becoming commonplace. That's a tough spot.
Hah hah hah hah!
Oh, wait, you're serious...
Let me enlighten you as to how this works. Municipality or jurisdiction listens to sales pitch from a company like Redflex or American Traffic Systems. The company promises a system that will be installed and maintained entirely by them, with the company forwarding the collected data to the city traffic enforcement (sometimes part of the police department, sometimes independent), so that the city can mail fines to the vehicle owners. The city is then supposed to send a portion of the revenue from each ticket back to the company. Sometimes, the city effectively deputizes the company to issue the citations themselves, sending the city a portion of the fines collected. Either way, when municipal employees are involved they're not highly paid as it's a clerical job at-best, not anything with any real clout or influence outside of pushing paperwork.
My city went the former way with how it contracted for cameras, and the arrangement ended when the city didn't send revenue to the company for those speeders that opted for traffic-school and thus had the citation wiped from their records- the company complained, so the city actually opted to discontinue the contract and the cameras went away. Hopefully they'll stay gone, but we'll have to see.
I've found that the only 'open' floorplan that works is when it's grouped for small teams with their own walls separating them from other teams. That allows the team to communicate effectively when they need to without having to get up and walk to someone else's office, but also gives a degree of privacy to the members of the team, so long as they're comfortable with each other.
That last statement is critical, I've seen some groupings work very poorly because of particularly boisterous people that could be heard through multiple closed doors as they didn't understand that their outside voices weren't necessary for a telephone call, or people that conduct way too much personal business on the phone while in the office. I've also seen teams whose work areas became the hangout for the department, which also destroys productivity.
It can work, but it requires conditions to be right to make it work.
I really don't think that'll help, mainly because those that are already intoxicated are already not of sound-mind and are not thinking about penalties. Adding penalties isn't going to solve the problem.
Unfortunately the only thing that I can think of that might make a dent would be to penalize establishments that serve patrons until they're legally drunk (as there are a lot of places with laws that should make establishments cut-off those that are drunk from continuing to be served) but given that drunks continuing to buy more drinks is what keeps the drinking establishments open, I don't think such penalties will ever be enacted.
Remember, it's those 10-20% of consumers of a product that consume it to excess that make the product profitable. Casual drinkers aren't where the profit is, binge or excessive drinkers are.
I'm curious as to how this is a nerd-news subject. Ignition Interlock devices are nothing new or novel, and if anything, the only nerd stuff would be talking about how to bypass or otherwise fake results, which isn't a direction that I want to head in either.
That's because, up until a few years ago, nearly all US-distributed appliances came out of a manufacturing plant in Evansville, Indiana, owned by the Whirlpool Corporation. Didn't matter if it was badged as Amana, Kenmore, Whirlpool, or any of a whole host of brands, they were all effectively the same machines.
Whirlpool screwed up. That screwup allowed other manufacturers to get a more of a foothold here, ones that could leverage previous badge-engineering and then transition to other sources for the products. It's similar to how GM and Isuzu screwed up and licensed the Isuzu Rodeo (MU) to Honda as the Passport, so Honda could get a jump on the SUV/CUV craze and establish themselves earlier than they would have been able to without having it in the first place.
No, they don't.
I'll leave the interpretation this statement of perception of quality of this particular vacuum as an exercise to the reader.
...you're going to have a bad time.
People have been referring to Slackware as "slack" since it debuted. There should be plenty of prior art to prevent a trademark.
Really?
Last I saw, they're moving to flatter, sturdier, permanent-use molded plastic pallets that have integrated RFID and compartments for things like GPS and batteries, that are meant to be used for many years. Sure, pallets take some vertical space, but the amount of space taken is small compared to the ability for one person to move close to two tons of cargo single-handedly across smooth floors with no more than a jack.
Yup. Even a good lawyer cannot necessarily undo the damage that a criminal defendant has caused for themselves by speaking. The accused is not usually legally required to do any more than to identify themselves, and then only in states that have laws on the books requiring that.
Any 'deal', any promise to provide either immunity or a plea or for the court to recognize cooperation on the part of the defendant, needs to be made between the prosecution and the defense attorneys with the involvement of the court. After all, the police aren't the ones prosecuting the defendant in court.
Heh. After Robert Jordan stopped writing Wheel of Time main-line novels to work on prequels before dying, I'm inclined to wait until whole series are finished or the authors are dead before I read their work. Makes it a lot easier to avoid disappointment like that again.
Wasn't that the bigger issue actually? FOX/Newscorp trying to push a whole slew of their channels on DISH for fairly high rates, and using FOX News as the leverage, when those other channels aren't popular and aren't worth the money that was being demanded of them?
Personal opinion on the merit of FOX News aside, I can see where it has fiscal value as it's turned on and left on all over the goddamn place. Lobbies, break rooms, waiting rooms, all seem to have left CNN for FOX News and it's rare to find other stations on these days. But, it sounds like it's FOX News that's worth something, not the other, lesser channels, and even then, FOX News' value might itself be overinflated if it's serving as background noise more than actually being watched by the people in those lobbies, break rooms, and waiting rooms.
We don't have any subscription TV because we didn't want to pay for channels that we don't watch. This licensing model that is being pushed on DISH in turn forces DISH to push on to consumers, as if DISH has to pay for twenty channels to get one or two that people want to watch, they must charge for those twenty channels and push them to consumers, even if no one watches them.
I didn't expect to hear myself say this, but good on DISH for standing up to FOX/Newscorp for now.
Heh. Larry Nemecek was apparently hung over during the one he was in; don't know if that helped his portrayal of McCoy or hurt it...
You seem to know an awful lot about a series that you seem so dislike so much.
I can certainly criticize and critique episodes and movies, but obviously I liked/like Star Trek and won't slam it as-a-whole. Admittedly I didn't watch Enterprise beyond the pilot, nor did I see Nemesis or the second JJ Abrams movie.
I've seen a faux-documentary related to Prelude to Axanar that was pretty good. They got a lot of experienced actors to participate, and their costuming and sets were decent, and the writing seemed pretty good too. Certainly good enough to be better than the worst TOS and TNG episodes, probably ranking up in about the middle of the pack. Certainly not Measure of a Man, but not Shades of Gray either.
I think that your friend is, at best, misinformed. At worst he's lying.
There has been discussion through the years of this sort of thing being possible in the future, but it has not yet happened. Cars simply require too much service for there to be the option of not opening for service-configuration.
Yes, but if the underside of the car needs to be accessed to make a battery swapout easy, then being able to drive over the swap pit, so the tech underneath can do the job, then drive out and continue on one's trip will be similar to fueling up, or possibly even faster.
Gas stations used to have service bays with oil change pits. Places like Jiffy Lube still operate that way. I can see those pits being repurposed for this function too, since easy access to the underside of the car and a drive-through bay may really help to keep the time down.
Well, it used to be common for gas stations to also have vehicle service bays for back when cars were a lot more finicky and in need of regular tuning, and part of that was the oil-change pit. Maybe those remaining stations with that setup will find that it's a good market to do electric car battery swaps with the old pits.
No, it's a place where tech people with realistic views of what tech can do and bring want to see the proof that it's worth their while.
I'm still waiting for the killer-app for a smartwatch. I want it to be a central hub of sorts for my personal electronics that anything and everything essentially tethers through, be it over bluetooth or some 802.11 variant, so that everything can have network connectivity. The watch itself shouldn't actually do much- make phone calls as a speakerphone or through a bluetooth headset, provide very rudimentary mapping and navigation, notify of text messages and maybe read text messages and e-mail via text-to-speech, and show task lists and calendar and stopwatch timer events.
Everything else, like having a nice handset for phone calls, or a really good dialer that can do advanced contact list editing, or web browsing, or any other enhanced feature should work on the tablet or other personal device on one's person.
If a car has no drain plug for a fluid service that has to be performed several times a year, or can't handle a simple battery replacement without squawking, then the manufacturer is doing something wrong. Either their engineering is terrible or they're assholes.
No dice, huh?
And replace it with what, exactly?
Seriously, how do you intend to manage all of the addressing, both the IP level and the human-readable level, without some form of central authority?
This explains a lot! We're not posting on the real Slashdot at all! We're on someone's bad copy! The entire "beta" thing was just a hijack attempt!
Yeah, bad form, replying to AC that can't even figure out how to quote right...
Advanced service on cars is harder than it used to be, I will not dispute that. On the other hand, I don't have to have my ignition system or valvetrain or carburetor adjusted every few thousand miles anymore. I have to change the oil and filter regularly, lube the suspension, check the fluid levels for coolant, transmission fluid, brake fluid, power steering fluid, and top-off the windshield washer fluid and possibly change the wiper blades, change the engine air filter, and do a brake job from time to time, and after many years, change the brake fluid, change the transmission fluid and filter, change the differential gear oil, possibly change the power steering fluid, possibly replace the spark plug wires, possibly re-gap or replace the spark plugs, and possibly replace a passenger compartment air filter.
If more service than that is required in the first 80,000 miles then the manufacturer screwed up. There should be no need pull the valve covers, or to take the top-end off of the engine, or to pull the transmission out, or to do any of a bunch of other jobs to a car unless it's been subjected to something abnormal.
Electrics eliminate a lot of that. There's still chassis/suspension maintenance, cabin/passenger compartment stuff, and there could even be new tasks like re-lubricating electric motor bearings to prevent premature wear, but by and large, electrics have a lot less of those kinds of maintenance tasks to perform, and likely a lot of them could be self-service with proper documentation.