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  1. Re:Daily cup? on Climate, Habitat Threaten Wild Coffee Species · · Score: 1

    good points, all! Also use cold water when making it, Hot water will cause the coffee to burn while it cooks and have a much more bitter flavor. The best coffee i can make is made with very good well filtered water, with out good water you will always get crap coffee.

  2. Re:makes sense given the original rationale on Cell Phone Searches Require Warrant · · Score: 1

    Ya, the recording devices... hmm. The interrogation should be recorded and the suspect's lawyer has a right to that recording. Never heard of dening the suspect the right to a recording device. Perhaps in your state? Interesting, yet I can not think of a reason why not.

  3. Re:What if... on Cell Phone Searches Require Warrant · · Score: 1

    Partially due to the fact that the evidence stored electronically is usually easily altered. Not only does the officer have to get a warrant to do the search but the officer must conduct the search in a forensically safe manner so as to maintain the integrity of the data as much as possible.

  4. Re:Not not? on Cell Phone Searches Require Warrant · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Hmm, My first thought would be... why in the world is this phone in the bag. This requires inspection. I would most definitely check the phone over carefully, thinking that the suspect must be using the bag to keep something on the phone ir in the phone (not data) from smelling/leaking out in a pocket. Otherwise if found in a pocket with out a bag, ya everyone caries a phone, drop in in the bag with everything else and give it back to them when they are released.

  5. Re:Not not? on Cell Phone Searches Require Warrant · · Score: 1

    Yes, and is real nice to NOT be a female officer when a 400# female makes such a claim! "Sorry mam but you are going to have to book this one in, she wants a full body cavity search and there seems to be a LOT of body and cavities, so have fun!"

  6. Re:Not not? on Cell Phone Searches Require Warrant · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Ok, first off, I am a Police Officer in the state of Oklahoma (I know each state is different...) so with that being said, the search of a closed container during an arrest is for safety/inventory purposes.

    I have never even thought I had a right to examine the contents of the phone past the initial screen (no pushing buttons, etc) OR a flash drive with out a warrant. Even when I server a search warrant on a house to retrieve and search electronic storage devices I must always specify that I will be searching the contents of every object found including any phones, disk, computers, cameras, etc. If, during my warranted search I find evidence of the suspect using an online e-mail service (I.E. g-mail) I must again obtain a warrant for this service as well. This is to protect the peoples right to freedom of speach. If I can not convince the judge that the suspect was using the service to conduct illegal activity pertaining to my previous warrant then the Judge will not grant my warrant. In my opinion this is perfectly logical!

    If I am arresting some one for suspicion of dealing narcotics, I can justify a warrant on the phone to look for contacts, messages, etc. If I am arresting them for DUI, what reason could I have for needing to search the contents of the phone? If I am sworn to protect the public, I am just as sworn to protect the civil rights of the public! If I go to a neighboring city/state I would expect the same protection.

  7. Re:How so "stolen"? on The Trial of Terry Childs Begins · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Actually that would be after he found a girl, who he had originally thought was a cleaning lady that was fired 3 weeks earlier, under the hood with a wrench and a hammer, and upon confrontation she had him arrested and held without bail or telling him what the charges were. Then her and the Gardner were demanding he throw the keys out the jail window into the crowded street.

  8. Re:Dark Ages on Police Arrest Man For Refusing To Tweet · · Score: 1

    Can you even handle 1? What would you rather they do, shoot them? Wade into them with batons swinging? Start a line to ride the lightning (taser).

  9. Re:How would that work on Police Arrest Man For Refusing To Tweet · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You are incorrect. The 5th amendment guaranties you the right to not be forced to incriminate your self. The Officer was asking him to peacefully disperse a mob that he had caused to gather. This is not only a lawful request but a prudent one. The use of twitter is of no consequence except that it was the mobs chosen means of communication. It would have been the same if they were all using hand held radios.

  10. Re:Better comparisons on Modern Tech Versus the Past · · Score: 1

    NO ONE expects the ... Aww never mind.

  11. Re:I mention this on CERN Physicist Warns About Uranium Shortage · · Score: 1

    So, how much energy could you get from a tree huger turning the generator by hand or foot? Perhaps they would like to make up the difference?

  12. Re:Radar POP mode on Chicago Court Throwing Out LIDAR Speeding Tickets · · Score: 1

    I find this interesting, In our cars we use the old Genesis II K band Radar which can be switched on and off. I can switch it on and it will have a reading in about 0.5 sec if that long, that reading will stay the same as long as the vehicle does not speed up or slow down. This mode is called Instant On and works very well.

  13. Re:How many cases were thrown out, exactly? on Chicago Court Throwing Out LIDAR Speeding Tickets · · Score: 1

    Yep, it is all about funding and who can wright the best request for federal grant money when you get to the small towns. I use K band as do the others in my town of about 25k while the nearby town of 10k ends up with MUCH lower fines and all the newest radar and dash / mike cam equipment. They spend way more time searching for federal free money than we seem to have time to do.

  14. Re:Yeah, but it is reliable. on Chicago Court Throwing Out LIDAR Speeding Tickets · · Score: 2, Insightful

    In Oklahoma an officer is required to be able to determine the speed of an oncoming vehicle with in +-4 mph before graduation from basic police academy. You are correct we know about how fast you are going before we even hit the switch. The Radar usually picks up the largest vehicle in a pack unless it is a radar gun which can be pointed by hand. Never used a LIDAR so while I understand the theory behind it, I cannot comment on it's use or validity.

  15. Re:Not the same, in several aspects on Federal Judge Says E-mail Not Protected By 4th Amendment · · Score: 1

    As a customer of an ISP do we not rent the e-mail system that hosts our email?

  16. Re:Hrmm on Asus Releases Desktop-Sized Supercomputer · · Score: 1

    Especially the "Barn Cat" type, the alley cat type may do you quite well also!

  17. Re:Why not nuclear propulsion & rotational gra on More Water Out There — Ice Found On an Asteroid · · Score: 1

    Uh, no. He is talking about rotating the ship in flight to induce a gravitational force.

  18. Re:Troubleshooting skills. on Stargate Universe · · Score: 1

    Because the politician HAD TO DIE! Seriously, That guy needed it... some one would have shot him in the next episode anyway!

  19. Re:But the UK should have banned hands-free too on Executive Order Bars Federal Workers From Texting and Driving · · Score: 1

    DialToDo.com

  20. Re:Just federal employees? on Executive Order Bars Federal Workers From Texting and Driving · · Score: 1

    This document dos not accurately reflect the law in Oklahoma. We do have a distracted driving law, however in order for a DA to file the charge the offender has to be in an accident, and the distracted driving must occur in the presence of an officer.

  21. Re:Maybe it's a start on Executive Order Bars Federal Workers From Texting and Driving · · Score: 1

    Guess you aren't an American child. It is a common insult retort used when one child calls another a "bad" name.

  22. Re:Maybe it's a start on Executive Order Bars Federal Workers From Texting and Driving · · Score: 1

    Well if ya can't fix stupid, maybe at least we can put it in jail!

  23. Re:Tb or TB or TiB? on GE Developing 1TB Hologram Disc Readable By a Modified Blu-ray Drive · · Score: 1

    So THAT is why I was given a round geek card! Never fit the holder quite the way I thought it should...

  24. Re:Why is that legal? on Wii Update 4.2 Tries (and Fails) To Block Homebrew · · Score: 2, Informative

    Actually you should just do it the RIGHT way and send the bricked one with an RMA, only took them a week to put in a new MB and have my system back to me in good working order. I payed to ship to them, they payed to ship back to me. Provided me with tracking number and web site I could track the machine through their service department and everything. Give it a try before you attempt something that will get you arrested.

  25. Re:Treat ain't worth the paper its written on on Iran's Nuclear Ambitions · · Score: 1

    So, in line with your analogy, they must come up with their own way to destroy the world, and stay away from nukes!