A picture is worth a thousand words, but a jury will sleep through a negative inference instruction.

Exactly how would a consumer figure out whether to trust a coin exchange? From their website? Do you look for a plain jane web 1.0 site under the notion that they are using solid technology without a bunch of zero day exploits -- or do you avoid it under the notion that they obviously aren't keeping up and are incompetent? Do you take the word of random forum posters? Call up customer service and expect them to say anything but your money is safe?

It's very easy to say something like "use a trustworthy exchange" -- but I would think it quite hard to actually figure out if an exchange is trustworthy, even for geeks, and next to impossible for other users.

The modern incarnation of tea party groups is basically a lesson in major party co-option and poisoning of a movement to neutralize it. The Democrats certainly don't want to focus on its origins, because those are rooted in an anti-war / anti-coroporate welfare philosophy and Democrats still like to pretend they aren't neo-cons. The GOP certainly didn't want it to spread and disturb its social issue message which it uses to cover its financially wanton behavior.

As for recent history, which has been effectively erased by both parties, there were Ron Paul Tea Party events in 2007 with a major focus on ending the wars in the middle east and protecting civil liberties: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... Check out the tags on the boxes being thrown in the the water for example around 1 minute in: "iraq war" "corporate welfare" "homeland security" etc. Or this video from Nov. 2007: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v... which is 80% anti-war (warning, pictures of burned and blown up kids from Iraq or Afghanistan).

Then shortly after Obama's election, Karl Denninger popularized an idea of sending tea bags to Congress. http://market-ticker.org/akcs-... His focus was on the fraud and abuse the Feds winked at during the financial meltdown, and he was livid when the GOP coopted the Tea Party, and turned it into some "Guns, Gays, God" focused BS: http://market-ticker.org/akcs-... Indeed, it took almost no time for the GOP to co-opt the Tea Party: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

And in case you think Denninger is just another Koch brother wannabe, he voted for Obama in 2007: http://voxday.blogspot.com/201...

He also supported the Occupy Movement's focus on banking fraud and interestingly, thought it's lack of centralization good, seeing centralization as the fatal exploitable flaw for tea party groups: http://rt.com/usa/tea-occupy-d...

Anyway, today's Tea Party is a caricature the DNC and GOP created for their own purposes by poisoning the original ideas.

Actually there is a law. The highest law. The 4th Amendment forbids general searches, which is the only thing this device enables.

Secondly, they want to apply the third party doctrine, specifically, if you share info with a phone company they can just hoover it up. But none of the people whose cell phones were affected made an agreement to share information with the cops directly -- the cops in this situation are not a third party, they're "the man" in the middle.

Boston is not in Florida. The only exception in FL apparently is this:

6. for educational purposes in 11 states
Example: students in culinary school
...
The law permits "the tasting of alcoholic beverages by a student who is at least 18 years of age" as part of a course at an accredited post-secondary educational institution, but the student may not "consume or imbibe" the alcohol.

http://drinkingage.procon.org/...

In case you're wondering "Sequim" is pronounced "skwim" excatly like "swim" with a "K" after the "S".

Not that I'm against underaged drinking, have engaged in that myself decades ago, but she is obviously the kind of kid who has no issue posting incriminating evidence of her crimes. That is at least a little insight into who she is. Plus, Busch Light? That should grant further insight:

http://www.everyjoe.com/2014/0...

That deserves some +5 informative mods. I've heard about Roman devaluation of coinage to a small extent, but this really put that into perspective with the dark ages' reliance on metals.

Christ man -- it's a parallel. That was my whole point -- that this case will end up being applied like Smith is now. I really don't think I was that unclear.

BTW, the guy in Smith was an asshole too. There's a saying in the legal profession: "Bad facts make bad law."

You're last paragraph is epitomizes how that happens.

Holy moly what were they thinking when they let someone waive their fourth amendment rights? How could any of the sheep we've created be able to make such an important decision?

That is the thinking behind Smith v. Maryland (*) -- if you share information with a 3d party, you have no reasonable expectation of privacy (think about that the next time you talk to your doctor -- HIPPA be damned, the 3d party doctrine has already been applied to medical records (*)).

Smith was rooted in a set of facts where the police were investigating a single person for a specific crime in a situation where they could have definitely got a warrant.

However, by quote mining Smith v. Maryland for that 3d party doctrine, and divorcing that quote from its factual matrix, we end up with an interpretation where the NSA gets anything it wants with respect to information shared with a 3d party. This is true even if the factual basis is the complete antithesis of Smith -- the info the NSA collects is outside a specific investigation, unrelated to any specific person, and gathered in situations where a warrant most certainly would _not_ be granted.

This is how it works in the law. Take some fairly reasonable set of facts and enunciate a principal based on those. Next, divorce the principal from the facts. Profit (if you are fascist).

If you don't think this case will be quote mined, and this principal (that 3d party occupants can override the decision of a 1st party occupant) will become unhinged from its factual underpinnings, then applied to anyone anywhere anytime no matter how innocent -- you don't understand how law works in America. With this case, and your "hmmm -- makes sense" attitude -- you just got robbed, and you don't even know it.

* http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/...
** http://www.mdd.uscourts.gov/Op...

Clairvoyant much? I've seen people get arrested, but never had any idea why. Did the secondary occupant know why?

This is a dangerous case. Like Smith v. Maryland has been blown out of all proportion and stripped from its particular factual roots in order to justify NSA masspionage, twenty years from now, it is very likely people will look back on this case and think -- "Holy Moly -- WTF were they thinking when they did that."

Maybe I got a little carried away by telling religious groups to suck it up but it makes so unhappy to hear about people who oppose gay marriage and homosexuality in general ....

Your solution is elegant and simple and you did not get carried away. Never apologize to bigots who are willing to apply one part of the bible out of hate, but not others. We don't see non-virgin women who get married, being stoned to death do we? We don't see divorcees getting stoned to death either. And you don't see Christians turning up their nose at shellfish out of some type of moral indignation? Shellfish are an abomination: http://www.godhatesshrimp.com/

So please. Don't apologize to selective reading bigoted assholes. Ever. They have a right to their opinion, but they have no right to your respect.

What state do you live in? I want to make certain never to drive there.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=shou...

Seriously, you have some evidence for that statement?

That's kind of myopic.

Imagine glasses that discretely display your speed to the side of your field of view -- instead of looking down to check your speed, you don't have to take your eyes off the road. Other data about the road ahead could be displayed too. More awesome, the device could black out the intense points of oncoming headlights. I would love that, rather than having to look off to the side of the road (which is fine for staying in the lane, but not for seeing hazards ahead), I could continue to watch the road without being blinded.

Plus, your bill is too broad. Why should a GPS unit attached to the dash be treated differently from one built into the dash. The one on the dash is better from a usability standpoint because the driver doesn't have to look down as far, thus keeping more of the road in view. Of course, there are other things too -- a pacemaker is an electronic device. On the silly end, so are heated socks.

Honestly, you're law is terrible.

So far, Cold Fjord ( http://slashdot.org/~cold+fjor... ) has posted 17 comments to this 200 comment thread. Almost 10% of the comments. And while he/she/they ("it" hereafter) are bitching about the mod system, only 4 of those comments are rated 0. That means that someone not familiar with Cold Fjord's shilling and reading Slashdot, will be exposed to its BS and could very well be influenced by its misinformation and lies. That makes Cold Fjord and its bosses in JTRIG, successful.

So mods -- you see the problem. Do your duty.