If the TSA are not LEOs, then why aren't they being prosecuted for unlawful detainment?
Please cite me an example where the *TSA* are engaging in unlawful detainment? There are situations where the TSA have called over the police who have detained people, but I'm not aware of any situations where the TSA have detained individuals.
from the TSA to a cop in a coffee shop, to force decryption.
Again, that's my point. The TSA are *not* LEOs - Even if they have nifty badges on their shirts. They're no more an LEO than the security guard outside a Wal-Mart. If they suspect a crime, they need to call over an LEO. The cop in the coffee shop is an LEO, and yes, once he had a warrant he could compel you to type in your password, in the same way he could compel you to open your safe.
As long as the only way to unlock the encryption is in your head, they can't legally force it out.
No, but they can put you jail for failing to reveal it. I guess at that point it becomes a calculation between you and your lawyer as to which would be the potentially shorter jail sentence- Being jailed for the crime of failing to give up your password, or being jailed for the crime that the evidence on your laptop will convict you for.
Do they have to show cause first or is this a new tool in the arsenal of the TSA?
You guys need to get your government departments straight. This is NOT the TSA. The TSA are the ones at Fargo International Airport who x-ray your flip-flops and make sure you're not taking nail clippers onto an airplane. They're not tasked with searching your laptop - They're only tasked with X-raying your laptop and your kid's teddy to make sure there isn't a bomb inside. If they suspect criminal activity they have to call the police.
The US CBP (Customs and Border Protection) *do* have the right to search the contents (i.e. files) of your laptop when you are entering the USA. They can search your laptop, search your luggage and search your person. In the same way they can require you to open a locked box that you might be travelling with, they are require you to open your 'locked' laptop. The courts have backed them up - See:
http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10172866-38.html
So don't get TSA and CBP mixed up - They're different.
[Insert dozens of obligatory Slashdot posts here about TrueCrypt "Plausible Deniability" here.]
Finally, note that this article has nothing to do with airport or border security - It's about a court case.
I would lean towards hoarding knowledge and being on-call.
Are you married? Do you have kids?...because 9 times out of 10, this is the attitude of a 20-something, not a 40-something. Once (if) you have a family, the last thing you want is your smartphone buzzing every evening and weekend...
the climate has been changing since the earth had an atmosphere. It has been hotter and colder and wetter and drier
The 'climate alarmists' (your term) aren't concerned with the climate changing. As you rightly point out, that has been happening for millennia. The concern is with the *rate* of change, and the ability of the ecosystems to adapt to the change at the pace at which it is happening. The concerns are also around the impacts to human society as economic structures change and break down due to climate change - For example, more frequent hurricanes and tornadoes, impacts to food supply etc. These impacts may happen more rapidly than the systems can manage.
I think everyone is getting tired of these 'flying car' stories, be they on/., Wired, PopSci or wherever.
Just so the editors understand what we're talking about here:
A Flying Car uses some kind of anti-gravity device. It can float. Don't show me a hovercraft, helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft. For greater clarity, see:
...and while we're at it, a 'Jetpack' should be good for at least several hour's flight. A 30-second hop is not a 'jet pack.' For greater clarity, see:
I wonder why thoses company(CEO) are not in jail, if this "crime" can send you in jail for 5 years.
Because they follow the 'rules' which, presumably, this kid didn't do. Namely, if they get a takedown notice, they take it down. Those are the rules the interweb lawyers have agreed upon. I would bet my mouse this kid got some notices, ignored them and then the law descended.
I don't want to "compare my mileage against that of other Leaf owners". What is this, the 8th grade locker room? No idea what information about the speed of your vehicle could be used for?
My sister is considering a Leaf, so I've been reading up on it. In a nutshell, all this 'telematics' is about crowdsourcing performance data on the car, so Nissan (and others) can get an accurate sense of battery life and other performance factors under a variety of conditions over the lifespan of the vehicles. So someone in Quebec can know that "At -5C with a 68% charge on batteries that have cycled 376 times the Leaf will go for 65 kilometers at 110 kph." (Sorry I'm too lazy to convert those to imperial units. Virtually no one uses Imperial any more anyway.)
They will learn who is charging with 110V, who is on 240, how often charges happen... on and on.
Over time, with more and more owners participating, Nissan gets a pool of data that can help improve the car, tweak the computer software etc.
Because there's gobs of cash to be made serving up ad content to the parents of the children watching the 'safe' channel. Parents with kids buy everything from minivans to cheerios to soccer balls.
When movie theaters are considerate enough to not steal my time with their advertising drivel at the start of the movie I paid for then I will be considerate enough to turn up on time.
So you'd rather pay $2 more per ticket than watch a few ads at the beginning? If there was a no-ad theatre with higher ticket prices you'd take your business there instead?
They gave up a long time ago, and now they're paying the price
So if there was a quality newspaper in your jurisdiction doing hard reporting and research, employing professionals earning a good salary, you'd subscribe to it? You'd pay, I dunno, $300 per year for this newspaper? And all your friends would too?
Are you comfortable with the current practice of letting a waiter you've never met whisk away a card with your account number prominently stamped on the front
Where I live (Vancouver, Canada) this practice has largely gone away. The server brings a wireless payment device to the table and processes the transaction there. This has largely been driven by the "new" (new to North America) credit cards that are PIN-enabled chip cards.
Why isn't there a backup available in case a glitch occurs?
It's called "risk management." Let's say a backup system would cost $150M over 20 years, and the current system is calculated to fail every seven years, at a cost per failure of $30M (cost in terms of lost business / OT / brand damage etc.). Running without the backup system you're many tens-of-millions of dollars ahead in the game. These figures are just made up, but these sorts of calculations go on all the time in many different industries.
Please mail me a cheque. My laptop at home is a 1 GHz PIII with 750ish megs of RAM running XP. It works fine, but the only browser that works reasonably well is IE7. Firefox is dog slow. I shouldn't need to buy hundreds of dollars of hardware just to surf the web...
The question is whether your driver is cost savings, or the coolness factor & being good for the planet. Because if it's cost savings, you'll likely never see a payback - The cost of an expensive home flywheel along with solar cells and a wind turbine will probably exceed the hard dollar power savings you'll see...
Sure it will - One of the reasons Apple has done so well is it owns the entire environment on an iDevice - From OS to hardware. Hell, they even own the mechanism to get apps on the device. By limiting what they have to support, MS has an opportunity to follow Apple's model. If you, as a consumer, don't like these models, then buy an Android tablet.
You can come across the Allenby Bridge from Amman, Jordan
Sure, but then you get the same set of questions you would have flying into Ben Gurion, only this time at the land crossing. I'm not suggesting the questioning isn't fair, and in my experience it's certainly more intelligent & professional than the questions I've experienced at North American border entry points, but nevetheless the questions require you to give up more privacy than Stallman may be willing to...
Have you ever flown into Ben Gurion? It's a very different experience... I arrived, with a friend, with Egyptian and Jordanian visas (in Arabic) in our passports. We were separated, then questioned - Very expertly and professionally. There wasn't any arrogance like you might find entering the USA or Canada, but the questions were very persistent...
"Where are you going?"
"Do you know anyone in Egypt? In Jordan?"
"How long have you known your friend?"
"Who are you meeting there?"
"Why is it you have a Canadian passport, and your friend has a British Passport?"
You got the sense you were interacting with human lie detectors. Answers like "It's none of your business" would not have gone down well.
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If the TSA are not LEOs, then why aren't they being prosecuted for unlawful detainment?
Please cite me an example where the *TSA* are engaging in unlawful detainment? There are situations where the TSA have called over the police who have detained people, but I'm not aware of any situations where the TSA have detained individuals.
from the TSA to a cop in a coffee shop, to force decryption.
Again, that's my point. The TSA are *not* LEOs - Even if they have nifty badges on their shirts. They're no more an LEO than the security guard outside a Wal-Mart. If they suspect a crime, they need to call over an LEO. The cop in the coffee shop is an LEO, and yes, once he had a warrant he could compel you to type in your password, in the same way he could compel you to open your safe.
As long as the only way to unlock the encryption is in your head, they can't legally force it out.
No, but they can put you jail for failing to reveal it. I guess at that point it becomes a calculation between you and your lawyer as to which would be the potentially shorter jail sentence- Being jailed for the crime of failing to give up your password, or being jailed for the crime that the evidence on your laptop will convict you for.
Do they have to show cause first or is this a new tool in the arsenal of the TSA?
You guys need to get your government departments straight. This is NOT the TSA. The TSA are the ones at Fargo International Airport who x-ray your flip-flops and make sure you're not taking nail clippers onto an airplane. They're not tasked with searching your laptop - They're only tasked with X-raying your laptop and your kid's teddy to make sure there isn't a bomb inside. If they suspect criminal activity they have to call the police.
The US CBP (Customs and Border Protection) *do* have the right to search the contents (i.e. files) of your laptop when you are entering the USA. They can search your laptop, search your luggage and search your person. In the same way they can require you to open a locked box that you might be travelling with, they are require you to open your 'locked' laptop. The courts have backed them up - See: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13578_3-10172866-38.html
So don't get TSA and CBP mixed up - They're different.
[Insert dozens of obligatory Slashdot posts here about TrueCrypt "Plausible Deniability" here.]
Finally, note that this article has nothing to do with airport or border security - It's about a court case.
I would lean towards hoarding knowledge and being on-call.
Are you married? Do you have kids? ...because 9 times out of 10, this is the attitude of a 20-something, not a 40-something. Once (if) you have a family, the last thing you want is your smartphone buzzing every evening and weekend...
the climate has been changing since the earth had an atmosphere. It has been hotter and colder and wetter and drier
The 'climate alarmists' (your term) aren't concerned with the climate changing. As you rightly point out, that has been happening for millennia. The concern is with the *rate* of change, and the ability of the ecosystems to adapt to the change at the pace at which it is happening. The concerns are also around the impacts to human society as economic structures change and break down due to climate change - For example, more frequent hurricanes and tornadoes, impacts to food supply etc. These impacts may happen more rapidly than the systems can manage.
Germans LOVE David Hasselhoff.
I think everyone is getting tired of these 'flying car' stories, be they on /., Wired, PopSci or wherever.
...and while we're at it, a 'Jetpack' should be good for at least several hour's flight. A 30-second hop is not a 'jet pack.' For greater clarity, see:
Just so the editors understand what we're talking about here:
A Flying Car uses some kind of anti-gravity device. It can float. Don't show me a hovercraft, helicopter or fixed-wing aircraft. For greater clarity, see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qcMjG1KL2Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMQwT9z0Jyc
RTFA
You're new here, aren't you?
Lots of good info here:
http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/canada/1155046-prepaid-sim-data-smartphone.html
We will now proceed to the obligatory 579 posts as follows -
...followed by anecdotes about cell coverage, speed and pricing in Korea.
"This is bunk. In [Insert City], [carrier A] sucks donkey balls. [Carrier B] is much better!"
"Are you joking? [Carrier B] STINKS here in [City C]. I love [Carrier A]! "
"I wish I could just buy a phone that makes calls!"
I wonder why thoses company(CEO) are not in jail, if this "crime" can send you in jail for 5 years.
Because they follow the 'rules' which, presumably, this kid didn't do. Namely, if they get a takedown notice, they take it down. Those are the rules the interweb lawyers have agreed upon. I would bet my mouse this kid got some notices, ignored them and then the law descended.
And there would almost immediately be iPhone cases for sale which cover the IR receivers
Dude, the "IR Receiver" is the camera lens. Kind of defeats the purpose, doesn't it?
I don't want to "compare my mileage against that of other Leaf owners". What is this, the 8th grade locker room? No idea what information about the speed of your vehicle could be used for?
My sister is considering a Leaf, so I've been reading up on it. In a nutshell, all this 'telematics' is about crowdsourcing performance data on the car, so Nissan (and others) can get an accurate sense of battery life and other performance factors under a variety of conditions over the lifespan of the vehicles. So someone in Quebec can know that "At -5C with a 68% charge on batteries that have cycled 376 times the Leaf will go for 65 kilometers at 110 kph." (Sorry I'm too lazy to convert those to imperial units. Virtually no one uses Imperial any more anyway.)
They will learn who is charging with 110V, who is on 240, how often charges happen... on and on.
Over time, with more and more owners participating, Nissan gets a pool of data that can help improve the car, tweak the computer software etc.
why should Google bother to do it
Because there's gobs of cash to be made serving up ad content to the parents of the children watching the 'safe' channel. Parents with kids buy everything from minivans to cheerios to soccer balls.
When movie theaters are considerate enough to not steal my time with their advertising drivel at the start of the movie I paid for then I will be considerate enough to turn up on time.
So you'd rather pay $2 more per ticket than watch a few ads at the beginning? If there was a no-ad theatre with higher ticket prices you'd take your business there instead?
They gave up a long time ago, and now they're paying the price
So if there was a quality newspaper in your jurisdiction doing hard reporting and research, employing professionals earning a good salary, you'd subscribe to it? You'd pay, I dunno, $300 per year for this newspaper? And all your friends would too?
Are you comfortable with the current practice of letting a waiter you've never met whisk away a card with your account number prominently stamped on the front
Where I live (Vancouver, Canada) this practice has largely gone away. The server brings a wireless payment device to the table and processes the transaction there. This has largely been driven by the "new" (new to North America) credit cards that are PIN-enabled chip cards.
Why isn't there a backup available in case a glitch occurs?
It's called "risk management." Let's say a backup system would cost $150M over 20 years, and the current system is calculated to fail every seven years, at a cost per failure of $30M (cost in terms of lost business / OT / brand damage etc.). Running without the backup system you're many tens-of-millions of dollars ahead in the game. These figures are just made up, but these sorts of calculations go on all the time in many different industries.
People should just upgrade, it is not that hard
Please mail me a cheque. My laptop at home is a 1 GHz PIII with 750ish megs of RAM running XP. It works fine, but the only browser that works reasonably well is IE7. Firefox is dog slow. I shouldn't need to buy hundreds of dollars of hardware just to surf the web...
I would buy one.
The question is whether your driver is cost savings, or the coolness factor & being good for the planet. Because if it's cost savings, you'll likely never see a payback - The cost of an expensive home flywheel along with solar cells and a wind turbine will probably exceed the hard dollar power savings you'll see...
this effort won't help them one bit
Sure it will - One of the reasons Apple has done so well is it owns the entire environment on an iDevice - From OS to hardware. Hell, they even own the mechanism to get apps on the device. By limiting what they have to support, MS has an opportunity to follow Apple's model. If you, as a consumer, don't like these models, then buy an Android tablet.
You can come across the Allenby Bridge from Amman, Jordan
Sure, but then you get the same set of questions you would have flying into Ben Gurion, only this time at the land crossing. I'm not suggesting the questioning isn't fair, and in my experience it's certainly more intelligent & professional than the questions I've experienced at North American border entry points, but nevetheless the questions require you to give up more privacy than Stallman may be willing to...
Can he sell recordings of his paid speeches, or must those be made available for free?
Have you ever flown into Ben Gurion? It's a very different experience... I arrived, with a friend, with Egyptian and Jordanian visas (in Arabic) in our passports. We were separated, then questioned - Very expertly and professionally. There wasn't any arrogance like you might find entering the USA or Canada, but the questions were very persistent...
"Where are you going?"
"Do you know anyone in Egypt? In Jordan?"
"How long have you known your friend?"
"Who are you meeting there?"
"Why is it you have a Canadian passport, and your friend has a British Passport?"
You got the sense you were interacting with human lie detectors. Answers like "It's none of your business" would not have gone down well.