I do not feel the least bit threatened by this at all.
This is just yet another reason why I refuse to get a MySpace account. People need to learn their lesson that whatever they post on the Internet is public. Even if it's labelled "private", it's still public. MySpacers have the "look at my page now" attitude whenever it comes to their friends, but when it's someone they don't like, it's a "get away from me, you're trespassing on my privacy" attitude.
As for police investigations, I'm all for it. Personally I'm sick of people posting illegal material on their MySpace, glorifying it, and getting the respect of every other junkie who is lucky enough to see it. Illegal things should be investigated and prosecuted.
As for the legality of searching on MySpace, I pull up this quote from my government textbook (Government By The People, by Burns). I hope it's relevant: "Police may make warrantless searches in public places if the offers have probable cause, or at least a reasonable suspicion, that the persons in question have committed or are about to committ crimes. No later than two days after making such an arrest the police must take the arrested person to a magistrate so that the magistrate, not just the police, can decide whether probable cause existed to justify the warrantless arrest. Probable cause however does not except in extreme emergencies justify a warrantless arrest of people in their own homes...Not every time the police stop a person to ask questions or to seek that person's consent to search is there seizure or detention requiring probable cause or warrant. If the police just ask questions or even seek consent to search an individuals person or possessions in a noncoercive atmoshpere, there is no detention".
Once the average person realizes that everyone watches everything on the Internet, then we won't have problems like this. The amount of information one can glean on someone or about a certain event through MySpace and through various search engines is astounding. But most people don't have the common sense to know that.
"All-in-all, it's just Microsoft's usual game: own the system, rig the system, use that to take over another system. Keep secrets, and act all coy when your secrets are discovered."
Remember Mission: Impossible II? Make the virus, make the drug, and release them both? Rather than preventing the virus, Microsoft is just making more of the drugs.
Well, even if this decision is applicable in the United States (which I have not been convinced of), it doesn't mean it is binding.
Judges don't necessarily practice stare decisis (rule of precedent).
Famous examples:
Lawrence v. Texas
Plessy v. Ferguson
I'm pretty sure the court would think twice before applying the same decision here.
Think about the conclusion that some of you have drawn:
One study conducted by scientists at Duke University involved patients rigidly grouped into categories, where specific prayers were composed and read to some, and not to others.
The group that was read the prayer did not do better than the group without the prayer.
Therefore, prayer does not work. Therefore God does not exist. Therefore religion is bad.
I'm sorry, but the scientific conclusions that some of these posts I've seen are just not scientific at all.
If you want to say that prayers ordered to be read by doctors over heart surgery patients does not work, that's fine. That's about all you can draw. Even that's a stretch - it's not been proven that there was no confounding of variables.
Besides gaming (because gaming companies spend all their money on developing games for Windows), what can it do that an OS that costs the price of a blank CD can't?
It's 14, not 18.
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I do not feel the least bit threatened by this at all.
This is just yet another reason why I refuse to get a MySpace account. People need to learn their lesson that whatever they post on the Internet is public. Even if it's labelled "private", it's still public. MySpacers have the "look at my page now" attitude whenever it comes to their friends, but when it's someone they don't like, it's a "get away from me, you're trespassing on my privacy" attitude.
As for police investigations, I'm all for it. Personally I'm sick of people posting illegal material on their MySpace, glorifying it, and getting the respect of every other junkie who is lucky enough to see it. Illegal things should be investigated and prosecuted.
As for the legality of searching on MySpace, I pull up this quote from my government textbook (Government By The People, by Burns). I hope it's relevant: "Police may make warrantless searches in public places if the offers have probable cause, or at least a reasonable suspicion, that the persons in question have committed or are about to committ crimes. No later than two days after making such an arrest the police must take the arrested person to a magistrate so that the magistrate, not just the police, can decide whether probable cause existed to justify the warrantless arrest. Probable cause however does not except in extreme emergencies justify a warrantless arrest of people in their own homes...Not every time the police stop a person to ask questions or to seek that person's consent to search is there seizure or detention requiring probable cause or warrant. If the police just ask questions or even seek consent to search an individuals person or possessions in a noncoercive atmoshpere, there is no detention".
Once the average person realizes that everyone watches everything on the Internet, then we won't have problems like this. The amount of information one can glean on someone or about a certain event through MySpace and through various search engines is astounding. But most people don't have the common sense to know that.
"All-in-all, it's just Microsoft's usual game: own the system, rig the system, use that to take over another system. Keep secrets, and act all coy when your secrets are discovered." Remember Mission: Impossible II? Make the virus, make the drug, and release them both? Rather than preventing the virus, Microsoft is just making more of the drugs.
So I'm not the only one who thinks this is a complete waste of time?
Any typo that starts with "m" will obviously point to www.microsoft.com. And also any typo that starts with "n" too because it looks like "m".
Well, even if this decision is applicable in the United States (which I have not been convinced of), it doesn't mean it is binding. Judges don't necessarily practice stare decisis (rule of precedent). Famous examples: Lawrence v. Texas Plessy v. Ferguson I'm pretty sure the court would think twice before applying the same decision here.
Think about the conclusion that some of you have drawn: One study conducted by scientists at Duke University involved patients rigidly grouped into categories, where specific prayers were composed and read to some, and not to others. The group that was read the prayer did not do better than the group without the prayer. Therefore, prayer does not work. Therefore God does not exist. Therefore religion is bad. I'm sorry, but the scientific conclusions that some of these posts I've seen are just not scientific at all. If you want to say that prayers ordered to be read by doctors over heart surgery patients does not work, that's fine. That's about all you can draw. Even that's a stretch - it's not been proven that there was no confounding of variables.
Besides gaming (because gaming companies spend all their money on developing games for Windows), what can it do that an OS that costs the price of a blank CD can't?
Yes, agreed. Except what is a small majority?
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