C'mon, who expects their stuff to be private when they allow another to look at their box. If you take your car in to be serviced, and the service has nothing to do with opening the truck, but the auto tech opens the trunk and finds 20 Keys of Coke, you are getting busted.
Actually, I seem to recall just that kind of thing being declared an illegal search by courts. I don't remember the specifics, but it went something like this: Guy gets pulled over for speeding. Cop opens the trunk (why? well, there's the whole issue) and finds pot. Now the speeder gets to go to jail for possession. The whole issue came down to probable cause. In the case I remember, the court found that the police did not have reason to search the trunk, since it was a routine traffic stop.
Another variant that I've heard pop up lately has been the use of drug-sniffing dogs during routine traffic stops or roadblocks. Here, the dog goes nuts at one guy's trunk, so the cops declare they now have probable cause to search the vehicle. Now the question is: does the use of dogs in the first place qualify as a search, and if so, what reason is given for the dog-sniff-search?
If you take a book in to be rebound, and you have terrorist plans written in the margins, you are going to get reported.
I'm not sure someone can argue the expectation of privacy for the margins of a publicly-owned library book.
It would be interesting to hear someone try and define "in plain view" as far as the folder structure of a machine goes.
I think it is quite reasonable to expect privacy in something that is privately owned. If the offending material (like the child pornography on the desktop somebody mentioned earlier) is immediately apparent, privacy cannot be assumed. But it not reasonable that a routine computer repair be turned into a full-blown search for illegal materials, when any results will be given to law enforcement.
BTW, if anybody has info on the specifics of the car-searching case(s) I've mentioned above, please share!
One of these scientists, Henk Haagsman, Professor of Meat Science at Utrecht University, received a grant from the Dutch government to produce cultured meat, as part of a national initiative to reduce the environmental impact of food production.
Who doesn't want to grow up to study "Meat" Science? Personally, I think it ranks right up there with Astronaut, President of the U.S., and DotCom Billionaire.
Not to mention that McDonald's has been using this technology for years. Mmmmm..... "All-beef" patty, "Special" sauce, lettuce (aka crunchy water), cheese?, pickles, onions, sesame seed bun....
When this sale happened, my parents managed to get TWO of those magnificent machines! I never got a Commodore64, but boy did I get a lot of mileage out of my TI-99/4A!
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Not exactly a traffic stop, and I think I agree with the courts on that one, but you can definitely see the parallels.
C'mon, who expects their stuff to be private when they allow another to look at their box. If you take your car in to be serviced, and the service has nothing to do with opening the truck, but the auto tech opens the trunk and finds 20 Keys of Coke, you are getting busted.
Actually, I seem to recall just that kind of thing being declared an illegal search by courts. I don't remember the specifics, but it went something like this: Guy gets pulled over for speeding. Cop opens the trunk (why? well, there's the whole issue) and finds pot. Now the speeder gets to go to jail for possession. The whole issue came down to probable cause. In the case I remember, the court found that the police did not have reason to search the trunk, since it was a routine traffic stop.
Another variant that I've heard pop up lately has been the use of drug-sniffing dogs during routine traffic stops or roadblocks. Here, the dog goes nuts at one guy's trunk, so the cops declare they now have probable cause to search the vehicle. Now the question is: does the use of dogs in the first place qualify as a search, and if so, what reason is given for the dog-sniff-search?
If you take a book in to be rebound, and you have terrorist plans written in the margins, you are going to get reported.
I'm not sure someone can argue the expectation of privacy for the margins of a publicly-owned library book.
It would be interesting to hear someone try and define "in plain view" as far as the folder structure of a machine goes.
I think it is quite reasonable to expect privacy in something that is privately owned. If the offending material (like the child pornography on the desktop somebody mentioned earlier) is immediately apparent, privacy cannot be assumed. But it not reasonable that a routine computer repair be turned into a full-blown search for illegal materials, when any results will be given to law enforcement.
BTW, if anybody has info on the specifics of the car-searching case(s) I've mentioned above, please share!
In the article, the following is seen:
One of these scientists, Henk Haagsman, Professor of Meat Science at Utrecht University, received a grant from the Dutch government to produce cultured meat, as part of a national initiative to reduce the environmental impact of food production.
Who doesn't want to grow up to study "Meat" Science? Personally, I think it ranks right up there with Astronaut, President of the U.S., and DotCom Billionaire.
"cruelty-free"???
What about the folks who have to eat this stuff?
Not to mention that McDonald's has been using this technology for years. Mmmmm..... "All-beef" patty, "Special" sauce, lettuce (aka crunchy water), cheese?, pickles, onions, sesame seed bun....
When this sale happened, my parents managed to get TWO of those magnificent machines! I never got a Commodore64, but boy did I get a lot of mileage out of my TI-99/4A!
Looking at your signature:
An imperfect plan executed violently is far superior to a perfect plan. -- George Patton
Did Blood & Guts himself plan this event?
Tables do at least have some semantic value when used for actual tabular data - DIVs and SPANs have none at all - they only serve as containers to which styles are applied.
While the DIV tag itself may not lend any meaning to a document, I find them useful to DIVide my documents into logical sections, appropriately named. Since I don't actually have to style a DIV, the names can be reminders. Basically a fancy comment, but I can choose to style the DIV later if I feel like it.