Otherwise, what's to stop _any_ government agent from simply stating that he saw this or that on _any_ device, and, voila, you must now produce whatever documents the government wants?
Judges, either those issuing the warrants or those overseeing the appeals, are our only line of defense against that.
Which is why things like corrupt judges, such as those family court judges in Pennsylvania, can't be tolerated by a just society.
The civil sanction for contempt (which is typically incarceration in the custody of the sheriff or similar court officer) is limited in its imposition for so long as the disobedience to the court's order continues: once the party complies with the court's order, the sanction is lifted. The imposed party is said to "hold the keys" to his or her own cell, thus conventional due process is not required.
Read the whole thing before you quote it. That only applies to civil contempt charges.
Criminal contempt charges are punitive, not coercive. You don't know what you are talking about.
You know. That could create a pretty intresting situation, if you didn't mind body cavity searches and had a few free months.
Just create a massive file of random data. Never say it is anything else. Obviously, you can't decrypt it, but they can never prove it one way or another.
There is a slight possibility of being held in contempt indefinitely, but if you are a citizen with the current administration you will probably at the very least be detained without trial in-country.
At the very least, it's a lot of extra information to be taking in. Once someone is adjusted to it, it's absence could, in some cases, be uncomfortable.
I don't really know about the "Nothing will be satisfying enough unless it has an overlay on it", I figure I'd treat them like horrible webpages and run RealityMonkey(tm). The bigger issue is at some point I'm going to have to take them off. If you think crackberries are bad, good AR is going to be about a hundred times worse(obviously they'd be used for all sorts of communication in addition to just the AR role and bring the web closer than your fingertips).
Now everyone stop complaining about Chrome having no extension! If Chrome is really that good for everything else except has no add-ons, and if you really so sick of getting that noscript/adblock add-on, why not develop one yourself and contribute back to the project?
It's very simple. That would take a lot of work. Chrome is slightly better than firefox at a few things.
It's not worth it.
Unless the changes make it back into the main fork, not a whole heck of a lot of people are going to make extensions anyway, so it is mostly pointless unless it supports firefox plug-ins(which is pretty close to not being feasible).
Now, Google pays people to do that sort of work. When we complain, they hear about it, however indirectly. Bitching about it can do something that a more hands on approach would do less well, and it's a heck of a lot easier.
Diesel also requires less energy to produce than gas(though extra taxes increase at pump costs, and refineries are geared to produce as little diesel, and as much gasoline, as possible suppressing supply).
Honestly, I think a lot of our energy problems could be helped by a nation wide effort to encourage diesel production and use. In the short term, with less taxes and more production, it will help with energy costs. In the long term, bio diesel would be more attractive because of a large fleet of vehicles that can use it with little modification.
Demand for diesel is pretty inelastic and already meets supply. It would take effort from manufactures, refiners and the federal government. I don't expect it to happen, but can't help but think it would save a lot of money and energy.
itunes+appstore has pretty good market penetration. Unless something similar and equally useful comes out to compete, Apple is probably going to have to start worrying about appearing anti-competitive.
They definitely have an advantage over other digital distribution networks, based on OS and Accessory tie-in. The EU will probably start looking down on that eventually.
The EU's decisions are fairly political. Most of this stuff is based off lobbying technologically ignorant politicians. If enough of the right people start complaining, it can happen.
pffffttt.. Wall-E doesn't pay as much attention to accurate micro gravity physics.
What sort of recourse does the girl have? Are there protections preventing her from suing for having three months of her life wasted?
There is a class action lawsuit in progress against the judges, and like 16 other parties. I don't know if this girl is part of it.
At least it's not the WMD Particle...
Right, Some competition can be harmful. It is specifically harmful when it encourages the restriction of open communication of information and prevents people from having the best available tools for their work/research.
This is slashdot, so that's a question I feel pretty comfortable begging. Compare competition between proprietary software v. competition between open source solutions.
The information associate with these physics projects are open. Heck, once the LHC is up, they are going to be doing crowd computing for the analysis.
While they are competing for resources, somewhat, the tools they are creating do have other purposes so it isn't too wasteful. The information is open and available. This is good competition.
The new version of AVG doesn't actually do that anymore. It's pretty neat.
That wouldn't actually help. You still have to create that power when you are cruising, so it is more efficient just to take it from the engine directly.
You are passing the power through the whole power train, loosing energy at each step, and then convert the airflow back to rotational momentum and then to energy. That's is a lot less efficient than just a belt.
I can't say anything at all about Webshield, but most commercial filtering software also blocks things like game sites and employment resources(job search sites, as well as sites with information about how much people in specific jobs get paid) .
They wouldn't have to pay for an anti-porn blacklist, so that saves them a little money and they probably offer services(or at least could) above and beyond just porn and IP filtering.
of course, by 'actionable' I mean libelous. grrr...
Friction is a drag.
