This is discovery. The defendants threatened to distribute photos etc, from unspecified devices and sources. The prosecution wishes to confirm that such photos etc. exist, for without them there is no case. Defendants refuse to permit discovery.
If this were paper files in a locked box, the prosecution would be permitted top saw the boxes in half. The media should not change the law. That a document exists is generally not a Fifth Amendment issue. That the document is purely electronic need not matter.
I've changed my mind on this. On a fishing expedition, prosecutors should be denied secured material they cannot specify. In this case they seem to know just what they are looking for, and where it is. The defense cannot reasonably claim innocence based on the lack of evidence when it is plainly able to prove the lack.
Remember, location is usually implicit for landline calls. Usually.
Do not doubt they perform disambiguation for landline calls where location is not assured to be exact. Mobile phones are not special cases, save that location may change during a call.
And we haven't been told what they collect for text messages. Sure they do.
My Asus G50VT is only 9 years old. Works perfectly,even now with Windows 10 on it. I didn't game on it much, so the video card is still 100%.
My Dell E6440 is just shy of 4 years old. Works perfectly, but did get a hard drive replacement last year. Drive failures being essentially random nowadays, this is hard to blame on Windows, Microsoft, or Dell.
Before this, I had a no name laptop that lasted 11 years, damn, but i hacked the power connector back on several times. My ThinkPad X41t lasted me 9 years and is still working fine in its new life literally velcroed to a wall 24x7, running some weird asterisk pbx and bbs stuff, now about 12 years old. The battery has to be toast.
There are non-Apple laptops/notebooks out there doing fine for very long lives. Apple doesn't have a lock on hardware, just the foresight to avoid letting manufacturers build for them, getting caught up in driver hell. Well played, Apple.
"Using your fingers to touch a screen instead of interacting with a mouse is like replacing a scalpel with a fucking kitchen knife."
"Touch screens work great for phones."
So you're telling me that the smaller the screen, the better fingers work. No, actually, you're telling me that smaller screens need touch interfaces because they are on devices that have no other surface or input device. Not about the small screen, tiny little UI elements, or fat fingers.
And you're telling me that when my laptop is in full on tablet mode, without a keyboard or mouse, the bigger screen would still leave me with fat fingers.
True, but it still works, pretty well. Bigger screen just makes it easier.
Even Windows 10 on my Surface Pro 3 happily works as expected when the keyboard is attached. When I forced it into Tablet Mode, changing it back was trivial.
Windows 10 touch laptops work just fine with keystrokes and non-touch pointing devices in my experience.
"I have no problem with a touchscreen on a laptop as long as I'm not forced to use it."
If by "I have no problem with a touchscreen on a laptop as long as I'm not forced to use it." you mean "I have no problem with a touchscreen on a laptop as long as I'm not forced to use touch.", then you have no problem.
We are doing this at work with Windows 7 and a plethora of management tools.
- Redirect My Documents and Favorites to remote drive? Check.
- Pre- login VPN signon to reconnect remote drives? Check.
- Roaming profiles and virtually instant recovery on a new machine? Check.
- Data loss prevention at multiple levels? Check. (Does Chrome OS offer this, such as disabling all removable storage, preventing specific data from transmission, and file-level encryption in addition to drive-level encryption?)
Not perfect, but we have 80% of Chrome OS advantages in a familiar environment. And data security independent of user passwords.
Certainly you can use huge mass to solve the cooling problem. Siting a fusion reactor next to an ocean doesn't carry the same risks as fission plants, and we did those...
I'm pretty certain that there will be failure modes where plasma will jet and melt whatever it touches, if only for a moment. That will be devastating to the reactor and things close by.
Of course fission plants are known to also melt, the difference being that fission plants don;t stop melting as quickly. Oh, and the waste products are somewhat more lethal and long lasting than hydrogen and its fusion products...
Having said all that, fission plants are either surprising safer than they might have been, or we've been fortunate. Or both. The next generation of fission generation needs to be much better designed, or it will be rejected.
And another reason to send people to Mars. Developing reliable, self-contained, perhaps recyclable nuclear power generation would be really useful on Mars.
Similar designs as 'neighborhood' generation would be really useful on Earth, also. Form what I can tell, it just needs another round of serious engineering, and a change in attitude. And proof.
As someone who missed being able to fish for anadromous species, please, no more hydro. Impoundment is bad enough, but barriers to spawning are just the last insult to species that have to run a gauntlet of commercial fisheries, numerically advantaged predators, and escaped cultured variants that disrupt the native, free run populations and cause spawning failures,
We are learning that hydro isn't free of negative consequences either.
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This is discovery. The defendants threatened to distribute photos etc, from unspecified devices and sources. The prosecution wishes to confirm that such photos etc. exist, for without them there is no case. Defendants refuse to permit discovery.
If this were paper files in a locked box, the prosecution would be permitted top saw the boxes in half. The media should not change the law. That a document exists is generally not a Fifth Amendment issue. That the document is purely electronic need not matter.
I've changed my mind on this. On a fishing expedition, prosecutors should be denied secured material they cannot specify. In this case they seem to know just what they are looking for, and where it is. The defense cannot reasonably claim innocence based on the lack of evidence when it is plainly able to prove the lack.
But that's too easy.
Remember, location is usually implicit for landline calls. Usually.
Do not doubt they perform disambiguation for landline calls where location is not assured to be exact. Mobile phones are not special cases, save that location may change during a call.
And we haven't been told what they collect for text messages. Sure they do.
The Dell Latitude series has for the past 7-8 years far surpassed the 4 year life mark.
The fabric covered keyboard on my Surface Pro is years old and not nasty at all. And it's not because of me.
My Asus G50VT is only 9 years old. Works perfectly,even now with Windows 10 on it. I didn't game on it much, so the video card is still 100%.
My Dell E6440 is just shy of 4 years old. Works perfectly, but did get a hard drive replacement last year. Drive failures being essentially random nowadays, this is hard to blame on Windows, Microsoft, or Dell.
Before this, I had a no name laptop that lasted 11 years, damn, but i hacked the power connector back on several times. My ThinkPad X41t lasted me 9 years and is still working fine in its new life literally velcroed to a wall 24x7, running some weird asterisk pbx and bbs stuff, now about 12 years old. The battery has to be toast.
There are non-Apple laptops/notebooks out there doing fine for very long lives. Apple doesn't have a lock on hardware, just the foresight to avoid letting manufacturers build for them, getting caught up in driver hell. Well played, Apple.
The turbo will spin appreciably faster.
"Using your fingers to touch a screen instead of interacting with a mouse is like replacing a scalpel with a fucking kitchen knife."
"Touch screens work great for phones."
So you're telling me that the smaller the screen, the better fingers work. No, actually, you're telling me that smaller screens need touch interfaces because they are on devices that have no other surface or input device. Not about the small screen, tiny little UI elements, or fat fingers.
And you're telling me that when my laptop is in full on tablet mode, without a keyboard or mouse, the bigger screen would still leave me with fat fingers.
True, but it still works, pretty well. Bigger screen just makes it easier.
Even Windows 10 on my Surface Pro 3 happily works as expected when the keyboard is attached. When I forced it into Tablet Mode, changing it back was trivial.
Windows 10 touch laptops work just fine with keystrokes and non-touch pointing devices in my experience.
'work' in this context means 'where i am employed'. I received this laptop at work, that is, as part of my job.
It meant exactly what I intended it to mean. You may want to reset your typo filter level. There was no typo in my sentence.
ps - glare has afflicted nearly every monitor I've used for over 27 years, even the 'non-glare' ones. It happens.
No blower? Cold air intake? Boost controller? NoX? Remap?
Wimp.
"I have no problem with a touchscreen on a laptop as long as I'm not forced to use it."
If by "I have no problem with a touchscreen on a laptop as long as I'm not forced to use it." you mean "I have no problem with a touchscreen on a laptop as long as I'm not forced to use touch.", then you have no problem.
Next.
I thought so until I got one at work. Damn, it's useful.
Smear isn't a problem, the glass does a terrific job of not showing it, and when I do see it, I also see glare and reposition anyways.
I bounce between touch and mouse easily - whatever works best at the moment.
So good I bought a Surface Pro for myself. Excellent.
The only annoyance is reaching for non-touch screens...
Yeah, this is disturbing. It's as if Intel was asked to leave this alone so long as there was no civilian exploit found.
We are doing this at work with Windows 7 and a plethora of management tools.
- Redirect My Documents and Favorites to remote drive? Check.
- Pre- login VPN signon to reconnect remote drives? Check.
- Roaming profiles and virtually instant recovery on a new machine? Check.
- Data loss prevention at multiple levels? Check. (Does Chrome OS offer this, such as disabling all removable storage, preventing specific data from transmission, and file-level encryption in addition to drive-level encryption?)
Not perfect, but we have 80% of Chrome OS advantages in a familiar environment. And data security independent of user passwords.
This looks a little like a technology demonstrator. Look for a Surface Book 2 incorporating some of the design stuff inside this to come out.
I love my Surface Pro 3, and just want a swype-like keyboard to make it perfect. That's all ):
Mostly improved windows?
Certainly you can use huge mass to solve the cooling problem. Siting a fusion reactor next to an ocean doesn't carry the same risks as fission plants, and we did those...
I'm pretty certain that there will be failure modes where plasma will jet and melt whatever it touches, if only for a moment. That will be devastating to the reactor and things close by.
Of course fission plants are known to also melt, the difference being that fission plants don;t stop melting as quickly. Oh, and the waste products are somewhat more lethal and long lasting than hydrogen and its fusion products...
Having said all that, fission plants are either surprising safer than they might have been, or we've been fortunate. Or both. The next generation of fission generation needs to be much better designed, or it will be rejected.
And another reason to send people to Mars. Developing reliable, self-contained, perhaps recyclable nuclear power generation would be really useful on Mars.
Similar designs as 'neighborhood' generation would be really useful on Earth, also. Form what I can tell, it just needs another round of serious engineering, and a change in attitude. And proof.
As someone who missed being able to fish for anadromous species, please, no more hydro. Impoundment is bad enough, but barriers to spawning are just the last insult to species that have to run a gauntlet of commercial fisheries, numerically advantaged predators, and escaped cultured variants that disrupt the native, free run populations and cause spawning failures,
We are learning that hydro isn't free of negative consequences either.
Or you could unplug and sit in the dark.
That's funny.
'new'.
Care to retry that with a more accurate adjective?
Australia.
New Zealand.
And other examples where it's not a mesh any more...
0. They are not as easy to navigate as paper books.
1. They are dependent on electricity.
2. They are hard to share...