If the systems were built better, then even admins couldn't get at stuff they aren't cleared for. I'd encrypt everything and store it as BLOBs in a database, and not on a normal filesystem. It is possible to build out such a system where the db admins are separate from the people who control permissions, with individual users able to access the decryption keys for the stuff they need.

I'd rather use the Datamatrix format instead. The density is much higher - up to 1556 bytes per barcode, and it can be encoded in either ASCII or binary forms.

...but here in the Pittsburgh PA area, the suburbs are only a few miles from Downtown. We do have upper middle-class areas within the city, but the vast majority of the population would rather live in a suburb to avoid the crowds and crime that bleeds out of the poor areas and their associated gang issues. My house is 15 miles from downtown, across the street from a golf course, costs me 775/mo in rent. You can't rent a shoebox in SF for that much.

Really, tech is going to move away from areas like Silicon Valley, the Bay area, etc. in favor of smaller cities across the country. Collaberation via the Internet makes it possible to group smart people regardless of geography - and cost of living DOES matter. Especially once you go past 30 years old and care less about the club scene and more about what you get for your money. And it is a good deal for employers to hire someone at 60k in Pittsburgh that they would have to pay 120k in CA - and the employee can have a higher standard of living too.

Shot shells can be linked to the firing weapon through impressions made by the bolt, extractor, firing pin, etc. The plastic part of the case is unlikely to be traceable, but the brass head is quite likely to be matchable.

I have about 100k lines of VBA code in Access that would be downright painful to rewrite in .NET, and completely unwritable on any *Nix platform.

Nothing like some good old-fashioned astroturfing!

They can keep trolling right along, but just need to restructure the deal as a contingency-fee based legal representation and file the suits in the name of the newspaper instead of the troll. Of course, that opens the paper up to damages on any counter-claims or fee awards if they bring a baseless suit, and unlike the shell company troll that Rightshaven was, actually do have assets that can be taken to satisfy such an award. And they will have to accept the PR hits that such suits would generate as well.

Not at all... highways cost somewhere around $10 - 50 million a mile to build. He basically donated a few inches.

If the barrel and/or the slide is made of even the best plastic, I wouldn't trust it to take the 35ksi of a normal 9mm round even once. That application requires properly heat treated 4130 or 4140 steel (or 316 stainless).

Once they lost the trail, they lost the hot persuit.

In addition, the traffic laws themselves may have a tolerance built-in. For example, in Pennsylvania, the law mandates a 10-mph tolerance under most circumstances, and no court can accept a ticket for less than that over the limit.

Yes, it is inherently wrong, especially in a college setting where the student is paying to attend the classes. Maybe if the tech had proper controls where the student was in charge of what got shared, with whom, and when it could be a positive (ie... struggling and can ask for help, then provide the access for review and suggestions).

Otherwise, it's just an outright invasion of the student's privacy.

There is a store about a mile away from me that sells coffee, premium cigars, and firearms. It's the strangest combo that I have ever seen in the Pittsburgh area. Now if they just sold beer, they could deal with all three main parts of the ATF.

And they upheld considering someone suspicious if they are a proven pedophile. The defendant didn't win - the evidence will still be used. They keyed on him because he has a long record of molesting kids and went back-and-forth to Mexico on a regular basis.

The good thing about this case is laying out some parameters barring random suspicionless running a full-blown forensic exam on a device while still allowing known shady characters to be given a digital anal exam.

Not in this case - the Feds can't appeal it because they won, and I really doubt that the other side has a shot at appealing to SCOTUS and getting cert granted.