There are specific holes designed into all iPhones and iPads that show up in iOS allowing them to bypass any locking.

They're not "published" per se, but they're there and many suppliers of law enforcement software provide them, which work either over wireless or the data/power connection ports.

What warrants? They're already quartering troops in your pocket and purse.

I mention the iPhone and iPad angle, since more than 60 percent of all adult US citizens use those. You'd think Droids would be more popular, but that's not showing up in the government metrics.

Happened this summer, mostly May and June. Details in Vancouver Sun and Vancouver Province and Georgia Straight, and Globe and Mail.

Comrade Harper had to "suspend" the TFWP because it meant his Conservative Party was not going to be reelected, and was going to lose half it's seats.

That's a sop to allow corporations to bring in H1-B to fill our community colleges.

Probably about half of the students in my math classes in Seattle Central are not American. Or Canadian.

Nothing wrong with that, but it's not helping with retraining when you outsource the jobs overseas.

They said that they needed Temporary Foreign Workers and it would lead to full time jobs in Canada too.

And then the media got off their butts and figured out that it was really being used to provide cheap labour in Canadian restaurants instead of hiring local teens.

H1-B is a giant sucking sound of jobs being outsourced to India, and I don't mean native tribal lands here in North America.

We will have been accelerating past the lightspeed barrier.

Watch out for future echos?

Smote me a kipper, I'll be bonsai for breakfast!

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Earth below us

(Major Tom)

A warrant like this is the equivalent to searching all the houses and apartments and cars and storage lockers you've ever had or anyone in your family or that ever met you ever had.

We fought a Revolution over this.

But Americans today are not made of the metal that would stand up against such things.

Sadly.

Repeat after me: Baaaaaaah!

A higher minimum wage means more Americans working.

Corporations don't care about that.

The TPP can not sell Canadian Citizens Constitutional Right to privacy.

It's not a bill.

It's in the Constitution.

In writing.

No government can sell that right to another country.

PERIOD.

(yes, I did take Canadian Law in grade 10, it was the best thing I ever did, other than Canadian Business Law later on, and, yes, my brother passed the BC bar and got his LLD from UBC)

Including those residing in countries with International Data Treaties with Canada.

Yes, that means the USA and the EU.

Privacy. It's what's for Breakfast, Lunch, and Supper.

Would you like some Poutine with that back bacon, American Privacy Ignorers?

And then I realized I never use PSN, but just play games I have discs for on my PS4.

Second Son rocks. It's like Seattle, but more.

What GTA should have done for GTA: Emerald City but they were too chicken to mess with the best!

If by debate you mean it's a debate that ended a couple of decades ago and is only kept as a "debate" by crazies funded by the fossil fuel industry ...

Then, yes, it's a debate.

Look, it's here.

Adapt or Die. ... no, I'm not going to sugarcoat it for you ... no, I'm not going to listen to you yammer about "clean coal" (which does not exist)

Adapt.

Or die.

Those are your choices.

I think you're thinking of another country.

In America, Congress does nothing except whine and posture.

When state laws are a barrier to interstate commerce and prevent a US manufacturer from retailing in a state, the White House can void them.

Interstate Commerce.

All your Red South is belong to plug-in electric cars

originally, in the early 80s, 100 percent of all cross-exchange calls were listened to, without warrants. Basically, anything that went beyond a service area.

However, the tech at the time meant that most calls were not recorded, beyond the first few seconds, unless you used a trigger word or were on a list to be recorded.

This did mean no local exchange calls at the time.

Now the five data centers record a lot more than we admit.

And, yes, I said five.