What you're referring to is the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), which the US helped to draft. And of course it doesn't include the ridiculous "Universal Declaration of Human Rights", which is a completely useless exercise in flexing international power, including a huge caveat on all of its supposed protection that basically says nothing in it applies if it gets in the way of the United Nation's plans and activities.

But the ICCPR doesn't say that a country cannot confer rights to its own citizens that it doesn't confer to others, only that the rights spelled out in the covenant must be conferred to everyone. And there is nothing like the Constitution's 4th Amendment protections against search and seizure in the Covenant. The closest it comes is a blanket statement that "No one shall be subjected to arbitrary or unlawful interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence...", but those "arbitrary or unlawful" qualifiers are a huge loophole, especially the way the US administration has been defending their metadata collection as lawfully authorized.

And the huge loophole right at the top of the Covenant is this:

In time of public emergency which threatens the life of the nation and the existence of which is officially proclaimed, the States Parties to the present Covenant may take measures derogating from their obligations under the present Covenant to the extent strictly required by the exigencies of the situation

Don't you know the US is threatened by ISIS / ISIL / Al Shibob / Al Queuidea / whatever, and with that can justify throwing out those protections.

No good for me - I gotta have a number pad. Okay - I see they have an add-on keypad available, but it looks like the tilt stands are all add-on options too. So that makes the Freestyle a little to pricey. Not sure from the description about the keys, either. I'll probably just have to stick with getting another ErgoMagic keyboard when my current one wears out.

Good one.

Irrelevant in this case, because she (foolishly) consented to the search. We can assume she would have handed over they keys as well, since she didn't object to the search.

You don't even need any of that. Just go to Tools -> Add-ons, find Shockwave Flash, and change "Always Activate" to "Ask to Activate". Works for every website all the time.

Still can't handle facts, can you? Care to even try to provide ANY sources for your assertions of Soros as an angel (we'll just forget about how he earned his wealth by trading art the Nazis stole from the Jews they put into gas chambers)?

Bah! Why do I try? You'll never acknowledge facts - you just want to promote a boogieman meme with no basis in reality.

There's no right-wing equivalent of media matters, the EPA, the IRS, or the Leo W. Gerard, either, but that doesn't stop you from being their useful idiot anyway, with your head firmly embedded up your ass so you don't have to face reality.

BTW - here's your sign.

WOW. Just wow. I predicted the usual "it's okay if my side does it" response, but you've gone straight for the "Soros is an angel and Koch's tiny-by-comparison funds are evil incarnate" response instead.

Thanks for epitomizing the stereotypical "useful idiot". Ironically, you called me "gullible". I guess we can add your picture to the "projection" entry in the DSM.

LOL! Sure, buddy, sure. Here you go.

And what about Charles and David Koch — the two men whose right-leaning philanthropy is supposedly single-handedly destroying the political process? Where does their company, Koch Industries, rank? Number 36, with $2.66 million, well below AT&T, Comcast, Goldman Sachs and General Electric. Among individual donors, David Koch ranks 90th with $382,000, below a pair of Las Vegas figures. Las Vegas Sands Corp. Chairman Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam, rank 83rd with $391,000, and Wynn Resorts Chairman Steve Wynn ranks 84th with $390,000.

Truth hurts? Or will you try to dismiss the facts with ad hominems and excuses like "Oh, well, it's okay when my side does it."

Once you sign an agreement, it doesn't really matter whether the patent is worthless or not - you've agreed to the payments contractually, and that's still legally binding. Samsung is attempting to use some clause in the contract to claim that Microsoft Corporation has done something to invalidate the agreement - that is, transforming to a company with a major smartphone manufacturing subdivision. Maybe that will work, I don't know.

I'm not really convinced it's a trend in the industry - if anything, the trend is more toward the kind of environment where you work. I've worked at many organizations, both technology organization and it IT in other types of companies, and what you describe is more the norm, while the hostile-to-women places are the outliers. In fact, I've only worked at ONE place that was like that (I'll go ahead and name names - it was Capital One), and I only worked there three days before I quit - and I'm not even a woman.

That isn't really the case (there are clearly many organizations and government agencies inspecting the contents of all kinds of things these days, whether it's on a common carrier or not). And you missed the "LAWFUL content" part. How will they know if it's lawful or not if it's not inspected? Inspection of content (to determine whether it is allowed or not) will be MANDATORY!