The cop then asked me for ID, so I handed him my business card. I'm a lawyer. The cop walked back to his car, came back a minute later, and said that we were free to go.
Moral of the story... print up fake business cards that make you look like a lawyer.
So not only does he deal in human sex slavery, he also is acting as a catalyst for the FBI to erode our right to privacy a little bit more.
Like they need an excuse.
FBI, instead of trying to get a skeleton key to all our phones, including me who has never made a woman sell herself for money, how about you just pass a law that people convicted of pimping can't have phones? No objections from me on that one... anyone else?
Yean I object. A phone is pretty much a requirement for anyone to find legitimate work. What you propose will make it just that much harder for criminals become former criminals - the only ones who would obey such a law are the very people you would want to have a phone.
Stop crying to me about how "society" is to blame for Mr. Dears decisions. MR. DEARS is to blame for his own decisions.
That's a canard, no one, not even the post you were responding to has said one word about absolving Dears for his actions. Strawmen are easy to knock down because no one was supporting them in the first place.
Silly me - here I was thinking it was a failure of Mr. Dears to behave in a socially responsible adult manner, instead of engaging in petty crime and preying on the weak.
Silly you indeed. We are society so we can change it. We are not Dears so we can't change him. That you equate fixing systemic problems with giving criminals "a cushy life" indicates that you don't really give a damn about society.
They're even stupider than you think. The police didn't have a search warrant, so they just asked if they could come in, and the people in the apartment said yes. Can you believe it? They've got $35mm worth of meth and they invite the cops in? They must have been under the influence of drugs at the time...
No drugs, just that damn reality distortion field.
They will probably want a fax of the person's driver's license and/or passport then.
Tigerdirect have been douches from day one - they had a miserable score at reseller-ratings until they astroturfed it nearly a decade ago. Last I checked the evidence is still there, you can go back through the ratings and see a year or two of craptastic ratings and then a short burst of activity of all positive reviews. It is ironic that they would use fake identities to promote their own business but then turn around and start requiring invasively identifiying information from their customers.
In the long run, everybody is better off avoiding them.
They should have come up with their own backstory. Too bad those guys are out of business (after nearly 20 years) since Peter Jackson cut Tom Bombadil from the movies they would have been safe.
What's the big problem with speed cameras? I don't see it.
Its the lack of slack. The world runs on slack. Cameras have no slack. A society where all laws were rigidly enforced would come to a grinding halt. And while it might be an authoritarian's paradise, it would be as dreary and dull as north korea.
So, let him continue doing it, get caught, and get processed. That's how civil disobedience works.
That is how one form of civil disobediance works. But it is not the only way. Simply doing the action and not getting caught is just as much an act of civil disobediance. Getting caught and getting processed is actually obediance, it is the defying of authority in the first place that is the disobediance.
We could be talking about cars, or coal power, or plastic, or disposable goods, or you know just about anything else that produces green house gases or is a waste of resources?
But no... No, let's just rewrite the human genome so that people don't really want meat quite as much because........ global warming?
Lolwhat? This is just one guy and a couple of cohorts talking the crazy. 99.999% of the people are talking about the kind of stuff you listed. Come on, your over-reaction to this story is pretty bizarre.
By that logic we shouldn't have police either - after all a racist cop is quite capable of destroying and/or planting evidence in order to achieve a bogus ruling too. Being human, any system we come up with will be imperfect. But that is not a reason to eliminate a part of our legal system that has been there from the very beginning.
This device is non-lethal in the sense that a bullet is non-lethal.
The term "non-lethal" is just industry propaganda. The technically correct term is "less-lethal" - as in a rubber bullet is less lethal than a lead bullet, but as you noted, it still can kill.
Scalia and Thomas, the most conservative members of the court both then and now, both sided with the majority in Kyllo v. US, which held that thermal imaging of a home constitutes a search and requires a warrant. Scalia even wrote the opinion.
stop believing the propaganda that your country is somehow more free or just than some other. its not true. you only think its true due to brainwashing and the 'us vs them' mentality that countries LOVE to instill in its people.
As best I can tell your argument boils down to, "All men are imperfect, so all governments of men will be failures." That's simply not true. Imperfection does not equal failure. Some countries are better governed than others. Declaring them all to be equal is to give the people who abuse power a free pass.
They didn't follow procedure, that's a command issue - reprimand those in charge, correct the procedure, move forward.
I hope nothing like that happens where you work, I don't think you could handle it.
You accuse him of going over the edge, but your response trivializes the issue.
A police officer's job is not the same as that of some random poster on slashdot. When not following procedure is enough to ruin an innocent person's life then a "reprimand" is a not sufficient response. If anything, that sort of lax attitude about such casual misuse of power is what leads people like the GP to use the phrase "United Police States of America."
Grammar is just as mutable as word definitions. The English language in particular is full of exceptions of all sorts. Although I do feel that people who use "begs the question" that way are annoying because it makes me have to stop and re-read the sentence a couple of times to figure out their intent. Language is intended for communication, not confusion so using a phrase to mean practically the opposite of what it usually means is really counter-productive.
I was administering unix systems before DNS existed, when everything was done with a single global hosts file, I even knew Jon Postel, so don't pretend to lecture me about how DNS works.
Your point about boostrapping into a DHT being the equivalent of the DNS root zone is completely off target. For all intents and purposes the root zone is considered authoritative by 100% of internet users and is controlled solely by the US Dept of Commerce. There need not be any such equivalent for a DHT type system.
As for resolving disputes - yeah it's gong to get ugly. But it already is ugly, we just haven't seen the full face of it yet. Governments will be unable to stop themselves from abusing hierarchal nature of DNS for their own short-term goals, it is their scorpion nature. A distributed system is just going to democratize the ugliness, which is a good thing in my opinion.
I'm not saying this should happen, I'm saying it is inevitable. The US goverment (or maybe the UN if the authority ever gets transferred there), probably at the behest of the MAFIAA, is going to abuse their position of authority enough to piss off the very people who will decide to make it happen. It will probably happen in fits and starts, with plenty of technical and marketing/social failures along the way -- we've already seen some experiments like alternic come and go. But in one form or another it is going to happen.
The end result of this is going to be the rise of a distributed name system that does not have a single point of failure like the current hierarchal DNS does today. Think of it as magnet links for domain names, just prettier looking.
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The cop then asked me for ID, so I handed him my business card. I'm a lawyer. The cop walked back to his car, came back a minute later, and said that we were free to go.
Moral of the story ... print up fake business cards that make you look like a lawyer.
I've been to this Texas border stop several times myself, and have never seen any dogs.
It must have been one of the changes as a result of SXSW.
Because, as any cop in Texas will tell you, SXSW is a big illegal alien destination.
So not only does he deal in human sex slavery, he also is acting as a catalyst for the FBI to erode our right to privacy a little bit more.
Like they need an excuse.
FBI, instead of trying to get a skeleton key to all our phones, including me who has never made a woman sell herself for money, how about you just pass a law that people convicted of pimping can't have phones? No objections from me on that one... anyone else?
Yean I object. A phone is pretty much a requirement for anyone to find legitimate work. What you propose will make it just that much harder for criminals become former criminals - the only ones who would obey such a law are the very people you would want to have a phone.
Stop crying to me about how "society" is to blame for Mr. Dears decisions. MR. DEARS is to blame for his own decisions.
That's a canard, no one, not even the post you were responding to has said one word about absolving Dears for his actions. Strawmen are easy to knock down because no one was supporting them in the first place.
Silly me - here I was thinking it was a failure of Mr. Dears to behave in a socially responsible adult manner, instead of engaging in petty crime and preying on the weak.
Silly you indeed. We are society so we can change it. We are not Dears so we can't change him. That you equate fixing systemic problems with giving criminals "a cushy life" indicates that you don't really give a damn about society.
after a certain point more don't really do much (not criticizing engineering at all, that's how EVERY field works).
Except for the law. The more lawyers they make the more lawyers we end up needing to fight the lawyers they keep making. Its kinda like the Borg...
They're even stupider than you think. The police didn't have a search warrant, so they just asked if they could come in, and the people in the apartment said yes. Can you believe it? They've got $35mm worth of meth and they invite the cops in? They must have been under the influence of drugs at the time...
No drugs, just that damn reality distortion field.
They will probably want a fax of the person's driver's license and/or passport then.
Tigerdirect have been douches from day one - they had a miserable score at reseller-ratings until they astroturfed it nearly a decade ago. Last I checked the evidence is still there, you can go back through the ratings and see a year or two of craptastic ratings and then a short burst of activity of all positive reviews. It is ironic that they would use fake identities to promote their own business but then turn around and start requiring invasively identifiying information from their customers.
In the long run, everybody is better off avoiding them.
They should have come up with their own backstory. Too bad those guys are out of business (after nearly 20 years) since Peter Jackson cut Tom Bombadil from the movies they would have been safe.
What's the big problem with speed cameras? I don't see it.
Its the lack of slack. The world runs on slack. Cameras have no slack. A society where all laws were rigidly enforced would come to a grinding halt. And while it might be an authoritarian's paradise, it would be as dreary and dull as north korea.
So, let him continue doing it, get caught, and get processed. That's how civil disobedience works.
That is how one form of civil disobediance works. But it is not the only way. Simply doing the action and not getting caught is just as much an act of civil disobediance. Getting caught and getting processed is actually obediance, it is the defying of authority in the first place that is the disobediance.
I get the above is humor, but what I don't get is how someone goes "Cool Hand Luke" on someone.
What we have here is a failure to communicate!
We could be talking about cars, or coal power, or plastic, or disposable goods, or you know just about anything else that produces green house gases or is a waste of resources?
But no...
No, let's just rewrite the human genome so that people don't really want meat quite as much because........
global warming?
Lolwhat? This is just one guy and a couple of cohorts talking the crazy.
99.999% of the people are talking about the kind of stuff you listed.
Come on, your over-reaction to this story is pretty bizarre.
By that logic we shouldn't have police either - after all a racist cop is quite capable of destroying and/or planting evidence in order to achieve a bogus ruling too. Being human, any system we come up with will be imperfect. But that is not a reason to eliminate a part of our legal system that has been there from the very beginning.
This device is non-lethal in the sense that a bullet is non-lethal.
The term "non-lethal" is just industry propaganda.
The technically correct term is "less-lethal" - as in a rubber bullet is less lethal than a lead bullet, but as you noted, it still can kill.
Scalia and Thomas, the most conservative members of the court both then and now, both sided with the majority in Kyllo v. US, which held that thermal imaging of a home constitutes a search and requires a warrant. Scalia even wrote the opinion.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Yes, all those hordes of LSD addicted people are just another problem. Oh wait....
My thoughts exactly.
stop believing the propaganda that your country is somehow more free or just than some other. its not true. you only think its true due to brainwashing and the 'us vs them' mentality that countries LOVE to instill in its people.
As best I can tell your argument boils down to, "All men are imperfect, so all governments of men will be failures." That's simply not true. Imperfection does not equal failure. Some countries are better governed than others. Declaring them all to be equal is to give the people who abuse power a free pass.
They didn't follow procedure, that's a command issue - reprimand those in charge, correct the procedure, move forward.
I hope nothing like that happens where you work, I don't think you could handle it.
You accuse him of going over the edge, but your response trivializes the issue.
A police officer's job is not the same as that of some random poster on slashdot. When not following procedure is enough to ruin an innocent person's life then a "reprimand" is a not sufficient response. If anything, that sort of lax attitude about such casual misuse of power is what leads people like the GP to use the phrase "United Police States of America."
Are you committing fraud by reading/posting on /. from work?
That's like asking if a cop is committing fraud by eating a donut.
Grammar is just as mutable as word definitions. The English language in particular is full of exceptions of all sorts. Although I do feel that people who use "begs the question" that way are annoying because it makes me have to stop and re-read the sentence a couple of times to figure out their intent. Language is intended for communication, not confusion so using a phrase to mean practically the opposite of what it usually means is really counter-productive.
So to make sure they have his details, he ran straight to them?
It's like reporting your car stolen to hide the fact that you were the getaway driver.
No. It is like reporting that your car is full of cash to hide the fact that you were the getaway driver.
I was administering unix systems before DNS existed, when everything was done with a single global hosts file, I even knew Jon Postel, so don't pretend to lecture me about how DNS works.
Your point about boostrapping into a DHT being the equivalent of the DNS root zone is completely off target. For all intents and purposes the root zone is considered authoritative by 100% of internet users and is controlled solely by the US Dept of Commerce. There need not be any such equivalent for a DHT type system.
As for resolving disputes - yeah it's gong to get ugly. But it already is ugly, we just haven't seen the full face of it yet. Governments will be unable to stop themselves from abusing hierarchal nature of DNS for their own short-term goals, it is their scorpion nature. A distributed system is just going to democratize the ugliness, which is a good thing in my opinion.
I'm not saying this should happen, I'm saying it is inevitable. The US goverment (or maybe the UN if the authority ever gets transferred there), probably at the behest of the MAFIAA, is going to abuse their position of authority enough to piss off the very people who will decide to make it happen. It will probably happen in fits and starts, with plenty of technical and marketing/social failures along the way -- we've already seen some experiments like alternic come and go. But in one form or another it is going to happen.
And give it to whom?
The people.
The end result of this is going to be the rise of a distributed name system that does not have a single point of failure like the current hierarchal DNS does today. Think of it as magnet links for domain names, just prettier looking.
FWIW:
The failure has been observed on three different machines, all running AMD cpus. A quad opteron 6168 (48 core) box, and two Phenom II x4 820 boxes.