At worst, it means that they have to do their jobs in the same way they did before they had ready access to telephone lines.
?!?!?
Since telephone lines existed, law enforcement has had access to them.
If you mean before telephone lines existed, well their non-existence mean evil-doers weren't using them either, so it's moot... It's not like bad guys are writing letters that police can steam open...
.If you have any evidence that a crime is being (or has been) committed, convince a judge to issue a search warrantHowever,
You might be able to convince a judge to give you a warrant, but if you can't tap the communications you're still back at square one.
If you have intelligence that The People's Front is going to blow up an elementary school, and you get a warrant to tap their comms, you still need access to those comms. This is what law enforcement is going on about - They're not upset about needing to get a warrant, they're upset about the fact it no longer helps.
Apple has an annoying habit of updating their devices to the OS that makes it no longer work well, then stops.
I have a couple of old iPods hanging around. They were perfectly fine for Netflix and playing music, but Apple nagged and nagged to update them, so I did, and now they're nearly useless. Yeah, yeah, I could reset them and start all over again, but who wants to do that?
The difference between a tv show and a game is that I watch a tv show once, whereas I play a single game for many hundreds of hours.
I think a better analogy is a TV Series on Netflix, not a TV show. For example, if you watch all of The West Wing that about 113 hours of viewing, give or take.
The actual flight part of an airplane trip may be fast, but getting to and from the airport generally is not
Only because the USA refuses to build trains. In a city like Stockholm you board a high-speed train at the airport. 20 minutes later you're downtown. Missed the train? No problem, there's another one in 10 minutes.
More and more of my (Canadian) friends and family have made the decision to cancel discretionary trips to and through the USA in recent months.
Most people I know who are are staying away aren't doing it because of Trump's EOs or new rules that are coming. The majority are caucasian Canadian citizens, so they'd breeze right in anyway.
It's more that many Canadians that I've talked to feel that discretionary travel to the US is tacit support for Trump and his Republicans. We realize it's a drop in the ocean, but it's the only tool we have.
My wife and her friends recently cancelled a 'girl's weekend' in Seattle. I have a cousin who recently made the decision to go to Cuba in May instead of the Hawaii trip she had planned. Other friends who cancelled a Disney trip. Still others who cancelled San Diego and went to Mexico.
I also know of several people here in Vancouver who booked trips to points south and east and specifically avoided (cheaper) US carriers so they could avoid transiting the USA. They instead transited YYZ, YUL and MEX.
None of these people are radical eco-hippie-lefties. Just average Canadians who have made the decision not the travel to or through the USA.
I know, I know, anecdotal, we don't need you socialist commie Canadians anyway, Trump rules, America's great, don't let the door hit us on the way out, blah blah blah, but nevertheless that's tens of thousands of dollars deflected away from the USA right there in my little sphere, within the last month or two.
I see little reason to give a damn that Indians can't be bothered to take a shot at a first rate society while they leech ours, driving down our standard of living.
Here's the thing: One of the reasons you enjoy a privileged life in the west today is your forefathers ran roughshod over places like India, Asia, South America and the Middle and Far East - Extracting resources, using cheap labour, installing corrupt governments - You name it. America, Canada, the UK - Your way of life was built on the backs of the people in those parts of the world.
Jordan is one of the few beacons of hope in the Middle East - An American ally that is peaceful and provides a real example of what a mideast success story could be (if you haven't visited Jordan I encourage it - Great country).
But sure America, go and screw with them, because FREEDOM.
From my experience it seems that the reason for most phone searches on the Canadian side are to make sure that you aren't dodging taxes when you bring something in to the country.
Actually, no. It's generally for two other purposes -
1) People who claim they are not coming to Canada to work / move here, but who are entering the country with all of their worldly belongings. The CBSA will search a phone to find emailed job offers, texts from friends saying "Have a great new life in Canada!", photos from going-away parties and calendar appointments with entries like "first day at new job."
2) Child pornography. If you're typically a single, 40ish, dweebyish, white male travelling home alone from a vacation in a region in Asia know for child sex tourism you may get pulled aside and have your phone and computer searched for incriminating pictures.
My wife's two-year-old iPhone 6 started glitching, so she just replaced it with - An iPhone 6.
She likes the iPhone technology stack (I'm an Android guy), but refuses to buy a phone without a headphone jack. For times when she does want to go wireless, bluetooth works fine for her.
How the fuck do you or anyone else know that the people in question are okay?
You look at them, you interview them, and you use common sense. You interview the family of these girls - If her dad is a dentist fleeing terror then you put a tick in the "not dangerous" box:.
For God's sake, where did all this American cowardice come from? You're the strongest nation in the world. Read your Statue of "Liberty" and prove it.
And frankly, all this talk of 'safety' when it comes to suffering people is infuriating. If Trump truly wanted to make Americans "safe" he'd be pushing deep and meaningful gun control. He'd be supporting initiatives to reduce pollution and improve workplace safety in places like coal mines. He'd be pushing for clean drinking water in places like Flint, and working to improve highway safety. He'd beef up the FDA and inspect the food chain. He'd provide support to battered women and children.
...and much more.
Those are the things that make you unsafe - Not bogey-man refugee terrorists.
He demonstrates leadership in none of these things - Which proves he's not interested in keeping Americans 'safe' - He's just interested in keeping people like you scared.
What kind of idiot leaves their bluray player connected to the internet?
My Sony Blu-Ray is plugged into my home network - It's also a DLNA client feeding my TV and sound system. Now and again it updates its firmware, but it's never not played a movie so it could show me an ad.
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How much more of this nonsense does any remaining GOP member need before they really understand the insanity they foisted on America.
The GOP members of congress aren't going to turn until the Trump-supporting voters in their districts turn.
Until then it's Heil Trump!
To these cowards, re-election is more important than anything else.
But until CALEA, they did not have ready access to them.
Of course they did. Telephone tapping by law enforcement has existed since the late 1800s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
At worst, it means that they have to do their jobs in the same way they did before they had ready access to telephone lines.
?!?!?
Since telephone lines existed, law enforcement has had access to them.
If you mean before telephone lines existed, well their non-existence mean evil-doers weren't using them either, so it's moot... It's not like bad guys are writing letters that police can steam open...
.If you have any evidence that a crime is being (or has been) committed, convince a judge to issue a search warrantHowever,
You might be able to convince a judge to give you a warrant, but if you can't tap the communications you're still back at square one.
If you have intelligence that The People's Front is going to blow up an elementary school, and you get a warrant to tap their comms, you still need access to those comms. This is what law enforcement is going on about - They're not upset about needing to get a warrant, they're upset about the fact it no longer helps.
My concern is where all the extra electricity will come from with mass adoption.
Places like this -
https://www.bchydro.com/energy...
- Insert obligatory Slashdot 'electric vehicle' responses here -
[Response 1: My commute is 300 miles! As a result this electric vehicle is useless for everyone!]
[Response 2: Some electricity is coal-generated! As a result, in all jurisdictions, this car is more polluting than a 1973 VW Microbus!]
How could a loaner laptop be even slightly useful?
Your use case is way outside the norm. Watch most people on a flight. They work through their email inbox and 'do spreadsheets.'
That sort of thing can be easily done with a thumb drive and WiFi.
and that's the way it is with all apple products
Not really though.
Apple has an annoying habit of updating their devices to the OS that makes it no longer work well, then stops.
I have a couple of old iPods hanging around. They were perfectly fine for Netflix and playing music, but Apple nagged and nagged to update them, so I did, and now they're nearly useless. Yeah, yeah, I could reset them and start all over again, but who wants to do that?
It's a decent series, but it still baffles me how many billions Nintendo has made on a karting game.
You can sit down and play it in 10-15 minutes, so you're not committing an entire weekend.
Grandpa and a 6-year-old can play it and have equally as much fun.
The control are reasonably easy to understand. There aren't 64 buttons you have to learn just to play it.
It's visually comedic and never takes itself too seriously.
The difference between a tv show and a game is that I watch a tv show once, whereas I play a single game for many hundreds of hours.
I think a better analogy is a TV Series on Netflix, not a TV show. For example, if you watch all of The West Wing that about 113 hours of viewing, give or take.
Major advantage of the hyper loop is billions in government subsidies to build it.
That's the point of government subsidies. To build / run stuff for the public that benefits the citizenry.
The actual flight part of an airplane trip may be fast, but getting to and from the airport generally is not
Only because the USA refuses to build trains. In a city like Stockholm you board a high-speed train at the airport. 20 minutes later you're downtown. Missed the train? No problem, there's another one in 10 minutes.
More and more of my (Canadian) friends and family have made the decision to cancel discretionary trips to and through the USA in recent months.
Most people I know who are are staying away aren't doing it because of Trump's EOs or new rules that are coming. The majority are caucasian Canadian citizens, so they'd breeze right in anyway.
It's more that many Canadians that I've talked to feel that discretionary travel to the US is tacit support for Trump and his Republicans. We realize it's a drop in the ocean, but it's the only tool we have.
My wife and her friends recently cancelled a 'girl's weekend' in Seattle. I have a cousin who recently made the decision to go to Cuba in May instead of the Hawaii trip she had planned. Other friends who cancelled a Disney trip. Still others who cancelled San Diego and went to Mexico.
I also know of several people here in Vancouver who booked trips to points south and east and specifically avoided (cheaper) US carriers so they could avoid transiting the USA. They instead transited YYZ, YUL and MEX.
None of these people are radical eco-hippie-lefties. Just average Canadians who have made the decision not the travel to or through the USA.
I know, I know, anecdotal, we don't need you socialist commie Canadians anyway, Trump rules, America's great, don't let the door hit us on the way out, blah blah blah, but nevertheless that's tens of thousands of dollars deflected away from the USA right there in my little sphere, within the last month or two.
I see little reason to give a damn that Indians can't be bothered to take a shot at a first rate society while they leech ours, driving down our standard of living.
Here's the thing: One of the reasons you enjoy a privileged life in the west today is your forefathers ran roughshod over places like India, Asia, South America and the Middle and Far East - Extracting resources, using cheap labour, installing corrupt governments - You name it. America, Canada, the UK - Your way of life was built on the backs of the people in those parts of the world.
Jordan is one of the few beacons of hope in the Middle East - An American ally that is peaceful and provides a real example of what a mideast success story could be (if you haven't visited Jordan I encourage it - Great country).
But sure America, go and screw with them, because FREEDOM.
From my experience it seems that the reason for most phone searches on the Canadian side are to make sure that you aren't dodging taxes when you bring something in to the country.
Actually, no. It's generally for two other purposes -
1) People who claim they are not coming to Canada to work / move here, but who are entering the country with all of their worldly belongings. The CBSA will search a phone to find emailed job offers, texts from friends saying "Have a great new life in Canada!", photos from going-away parties and calendar appointments with entries like "first day at new job."
2) Child pornography. If you're typically a single, 40ish, dweebyish, white male travelling home alone from a vacation in a region in Asia know for child sex tourism you may get pulled aside and have your phone and computer searched for incriminating pictures.
My wife's two-year-old iPhone 6 started glitching, so she just replaced it with - An iPhone 6.
She likes the iPhone technology stack (I'm an Android guy), but refuses to buy a phone without a headphone jack. For times when she does want to go wireless, bluetooth works fine for her.
why not just publish paper-only stuff?
Limits your market. Lots of people don't want to buy a paper book - They want an e-version for their e-reader.
Plus it's a 'greener' choice - No dead trees.
But he doesn't exclusively do e-books.
But how is the poor, poor metallica going to survive then? I mean god, they have to do concerts now! Won't someone please think of the poor metallica!
Hey Anonymous Coward, my brother is an author.
When someone steals an e-book of his work, how does he put bread on the table?
Should he "do" book-reading concerts?
How the fuck do you or anyone else know that the people in question are okay?
You look at them, you interview them, and you use common sense. You interview the family of these girls - If her dad is a dentist fleeing terror then you put a tick in the "not dangerous" box: .
...and much more.
http://bit.ly/2kOQsdf.
For God's sake, where did all this American cowardice come from? You're the strongest nation in the world. Read your Statue of "Liberty" and prove it.
And frankly, all this talk of 'safety' when it comes to suffering people is infuriating. If Trump truly wanted to make Americans "safe" he'd be pushing deep and meaningful gun control. He'd be supporting initiatives to reduce pollution and improve workplace safety in places like coal mines. He'd be pushing for clean drinking water in places like Flint, and working to improve highway safety. He'd beef up the FDA and inspect the food chain. He'd provide support to battered women and children.
Those are the things that make you unsafe - Not bogey-man refugee terrorists.
He demonstrates leadership in none of these things - Which proves he's not interested in keeping Americans 'safe' - He's just interested in keeping people like you scared.
Team leader, this is team two. Come in, please.
I have the coordinates of the reactor.
Kirk here.
Admiral, we have found the nuclear wessel.
Well done, you two!
And Admiral... it is the *Enterprise*!
If people from all these countries are so safe that these companies consider it worth risking American lives for them
The people are safe - The countries aren't.
Why do you think families are desperate to leave Syria? Because it isn't safe. Doesn't mean the people who want to leave are unsafe.
That's why you want to hire smart people from Syria, not open an office in Syria.
Everything is cool when you're part of a team!
What kind of idiot leaves their bluray player connected to the internet?
My Sony Blu-Ray is plugged into my home network - It's also a DLNA client feeding my TV and sound system. Now and again it updates its firmware, but it's never not played a movie so it could show me an ad.
DVD sales are "ok", because the media and platform doesn't suck like Blu-ray
What're you talking about? My six-year-old puts in the Cars 2 Blu-Ray, presses play and starts eating Cheerios and watching his movie.
Nothing 'sucks.'