A search is a search, whether the scope is small or large. If you're trying to figure out whether an action is a search requiring a warrant, the question you ask yourself is not "did the FBI move into the data center and take stuff?" but rather simply "did the FBI obtain information [stored in some fixed medium, i.e., not testimony]?" If the answer to the latter question is "yes," then it was a goddamn search!
This is not a hard concept. I can't tell if you're an idiot who fails to understand it or a totalitarian shill who refuses to, but either way you're wrong.
Why would Microsoft let you play Xbone "console exclusive" games on any generic Windows 10 PC, especially when those games can be pirated much more easily on PC?
Indeed, why would they? Consider that the headline is "turn every PC into an Xbox" and not "turn every Xbox into a PC [by removing the DRM]" and you might discover the answer.
A drunken and slightly bloated Steve Ballmer clad in black spandex will shimmy up a drainpipe and into your bedroom window, where he will sail moistly past your desktop and furiously begin applying "x-box" stickers to the mini fridge in the corner of the room while furiously grunting "developers" over and over again under his breath.
That would be a terrifying thought if I believed for one nanosecond that Steve Ballmer had the athleticism necessary to shimmy up a drainpipe.
Please provide a "plain reading" where this is wrong.
You already did! Note how it says "the right... shall not be violated." It doesn't say "except when the government feels like it." It doesn't say "except when the offense being investigated is [insert hot-button issue here]." And most of all, it doesn't say "except when you're a witness instead of a subject of investigation!"
The reason for the search is completely irrelevant. The right shall not be violated, unless they've got a warrant. Period.
"Turn your PC into an Xbox" is nothing more than coded language for "sabotage your perfectly good general-purpose computer by infecting it with even more DRM than it already has." The thinking at Microsoft clearly must be "well, the consumers are resisting our attempts to force them to use the Windows Store, so maybe we can force them to the Xbox Live store instead?"
Exactly. The asinine thing about Smith v. Maryland is that even if the call records are shared with the phone company, the phone company is private too! AT&T has the same right to not be searched without a warrant as its customers do.
Now, if AT&T voluntarily decided to hand over records based on a non-warrant request from the FBI, that's allowed (albeit idiotic from a don't-piss-off-your-customers perspective). But it should not be possible to compel them to do so without a warrant.
On the contrary, games are designed just as much for OpenGL as they are for Direct3D. PS4 is just as much of a "first class" platform as Xbox One is (in contrast to all PC platforms -- Mac, Linux and Windows -- which are second-class afterthoughts).
What's a good way to [use two-factor authentication] in countries where it is common practice for cellular carriers to charge per received text message?
No, the real problem is the widespread corruption and embezzling of funds. That's why the stadiums are behind schedule, why the air and water hasn't been cleaned up like it was supposed to be, and why they can't seem to afford a comprehensive mosquito-control program.
More importantly, what crimes? It is not illegal for them to ask for the data...
They're "requesting" it in the same way that Vinnie from the mob "requests" protection money. So the crimes would be some combination of intimidation, coercion, extortion, racketeering, RICO act violations, etc.
The government can bully them for it.
I hope you agree that even if the government "can" currently do that (given that it's unlikely to prosecute itself for its own crimes), it should cease doing so.
Exactly. Population growth is not exponential, and never has been. Instead, it's logistic with a limit at the carrying capacity. It only appeared exponential because we're only now starting to hit the inflection point, and because the carrying capacity itself has been increasing due to technology.
Because the authors who provide creative works to the video hosting service do so under the understanding that the video hosting service isn't going to let viewers easily download and keep durable copies of said authors' works
Bullshit. Maybe that's true of stuff from big TV studios like you'd find on Netflix, but it's not even slightly clear that it's true for the majority of the stuff people upload to Youtube.
I think your post was a lie, not because I think you're wrong about Samsung hardware support, but because Windows 10 is not an upgrade and no reasonable person install it "happily!"
If you're a site owner and don't want to piss off your readers, then how about simply not trying to fuck them over? You don't need a damn "interstitial" if you don't have bullshit TOS in the first place!
They failed to sell it at $95,000, so that amount was overpriced. Since it hasn't sold yet (or at least, Slashdot hasn't reported its sale yet), whether $90,000 is overpriced remains to be seen.
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This has described every Presidential election in my lifetime. If Sanders were the nominee it would have been different for once...
There's a reason the setting of the book was "Airstrip One..."
A search is a search, whether the scope is small or large. If you're trying to figure out whether an action is a search requiring a warrant, the question you ask yourself is not "did the FBI move into the data center and take stuff?" but rather simply "did the FBI obtain information [stored in some fixed medium, i.e., not testimony]?" If the answer to the latter question is "yes," then it was a goddamn search!
This is not a hard concept. I can't tell if you're an idiot who fails to understand it or a totalitarian shill who refuses to, but either way you're wrong.
Indeed, why would they? Consider that the headline is "turn every PC into an Xbox" and not "turn every Xbox into a PC [by removing the DRM]" and you might discover the answer.
Of course they are! Where else do you think the records are being obtained from?
Any legal weaseling to imply otherwise is simply bullshit.
Indeed, which is why "turn[ing] every PC into an Xbox" almost certainly means disallowing that.
That would be a terrifying thought if I believed for one nanosecond that Steve Ballmer had the athleticism necessary to shimmy up a drainpipe.
No. They're gaming PCs with locked-down hardware and a fuck-ton of DRM, and that's what Microsoft apparently wants to do to normal PCs too.
You already did! Note how it says "the right... shall not be violated." It doesn't say "except when the government feels like it." It doesn't say "except when the offense being investigated is [insert hot-button issue here]." And most of all, it doesn't say "except when you're a witness instead of a subject of investigation!"
The reason for the search is completely irrelevant. The right shall not be violated, unless they've got a warrant. Period.
"Turn your PC into an Xbox" is nothing more than coded language for "sabotage your perfectly good general-purpose computer by infecting it with even more DRM than it already has." The thinking at Microsoft clearly must be "well, the consumers are resisting our attempts to force them to use the Windows Store, so maybe we can force them to the Xbox Live store instead?"
Bullshit. A plain reading of the 4th Amendment says no such thing.
Exactly. The asinine thing about Smith v. Maryland is that even if the call records are shared with the phone company, the phone company is private too! AT&T has the same right to not be searched without a warrant as its customers do.
Now, if AT&T voluntarily decided to hand over records based on a non-warrant request from the FBI, that's allowed (albeit idiotic from a don't-piss-off-your-customers perspective). But it should not be possible to compel them to do so without a warrant.
Non-password-reusing Slashdotters don't get to "get busy" -- but we already knew that!
On the contrary, games are designed just as much for OpenGL as they are for Direct3D. PS4 is just as much of a "first class" platform as Xbox One is (in contrast to all PC platforms -- Mac, Linux and Windows -- which are second-class afterthoughts).
Generate codes ahead of time
An XKCD-style password works just fine as the KeePass master password, though.
No, the real problem is the widespread corruption and embezzling of funds. That's why the stadiums are behind schedule, why the air and water hasn't been cleaned up like it was supposed to be, and why they can't seem to afford a comprehensive mosquito-control program.
They're "requesting" it in the same way that Vinnie from the mob "requests" protection money. So the crimes would be some combination of intimidation, coercion, extortion, racketeering, RICO act violations, etc.
I hope you agree that even if the government "can" currently do that (given that it's unlikely to prosecute itself for its own crimes), it should cease doing so.
Subtle troll is subtle.
(Either that, or bobbied doesn't know the difference between Switzerland and Sweden.)
Giggity.
Exactly. Population growth is not exponential, and never has been. Instead, it's logistic with a limit at the carrying capacity. It only appeared exponential because we're only now starting to hit the inflection point, and because the carrying capacity itself has been increasing due to technology.
Bullshit. Maybe that's true of stuff from big TV studios like you'd find on Netflix, but it's not even slightly clear that it's true for the majority of the stuff people upload to Youtube.
I think your post was a lie, not because I think you're wrong about Samsung hardware support, but because Windows 10 is not an upgrade and no reasonable person install it "happily!"
If you're a site owner and don't want to piss off your readers, then how about simply not trying to fuck them over? You don't need a damn "interstitial" if you don't have bullshit TOS in the first place!
They failed to sell it at $95,000, so that amount was overpriced. Since it hasn't sold yet (or at least, Slashdot hasn't reported its sale yet), whether $90,000 is overpriced remains to be seen.