No, what happened to you was odd. It's always been the case that if the cop had probable cause for conducting the search the results are admissible. If he heard screaming coming from inside your house and thought someone was being murdered so he busted inside but it turned out it was just the TV (but he genuinely thought it was real) he can still bust you for the brick of cocaine sitting on your coffee table.

So he could always get you despite being mistaken on the facts. Now it's the case he doesn't even have to be right on law. The Supreme Court just ruled that the cop doesn't even have to know the law he stopped you under.

What is inadmissible, though, is evidence obtained intentionally without warrant or cause. The cop cannot break into your house without a warrant or probable cause and snoop around, find something and then come back in the daylight with a warrant and bust you. And that's the question here. I don't understand how they can present the evidence of wrong doing if they don't say how they obtained the evidence. If they illegally hacked into his servers...then no, it shouldn't be admissible. There has to be a valid chain of custody, and we don't know if the chain is valid if we don't know where it started.

Yeah, the seedy subsection of the internet not indexed by google. Like IRC and World of Warcraft chat logs.

That's how the publicity stunt works. People all over the internet are screaming about how awful and terrible this is. Fucking John McCain has commented on how Sony shouldn't cow and respond to these threats. Right? US senators are urging Sony to release their movie.

Give it a week, and after some soul* searching, chats with their spiritual advisor, support from their friends and family, and a big-girl cry, Sony will release their movie to thunderous applause and ticket sales.

* lololololololol implying anyone at Sony has a soul. I kill me!

No, those are dictionary definitions. I didn't write webster's.

OMG I discovered a critical security flaw in Linux, guise! If someone has your root password and is sitting at your desk, then with just a few simple keystrokes they can have total access to your system! They can read all your shit, delete your files, anything! Haxx0rs!! It's proven, Linux is unsafe and we should all go run windows instead.

Or it's just trolls who don't give a shit about games or games journalism or anything and just want to watch SJWs and neckbeards fight. All it takes is 140 characters and 7 proxies and you've got weeks of entertainment.

But the threats are anonymous. There isn't evidence the threats are coming from GG either, so it's incendiary to attribute them as such. They should say they're investigating death threats (which is good! They should!) and not "death threats from GG supporters."

The whole thing is troll heaven.

1) Send threat to SJW
2) SJW overreacts and blogs and tweets about her awful victimization at the hands of vile neckbeards so everyone will see how "brave" she is.
3) Neckbeards retaliate against slanderous/libelous accusations
4) Popcorn while SJWs and neckbeards internet fight. And all it took was 140 characters and 7 proxies!
5) Go to step 1.

Seems to me they should be suing the federal government for not enforcing federal laws in neighboring states, placing an undue burden on Nebraska.

I think weed should be legal (for adults) everywhere, but in the meantime, Nebraska wants it illegal. Because the federal government isn't doing its job of enforcing federal laws, Nebraska's police and judicial system are feeling the pain. Nebraska taxpayers shouldn't have to pay for this. They pay taxes to the federal government to enforce federal laws, and they're not doing it.

Also, Colorado should (if they don't already) have laws preventing the export of marijuana to other states where it is illegal. Want to grow for distribution in Colorado? Fine. Want to grow in the safety of Colorado to go profiteer in Nebraska? Jail.

They just need to tell them the truth. Drinking and using marijuana as an adult in moderation is a choice with moderate and controllable health and lifestyle risks. Drinking and using marijuana as a child who's still developing mentally and physically is a terrible idea that can result in permanent harm. And then meth will just wreck your shit no matter what.

Perhaps, but there's a difference between looking the other way when you find a joint on somebody and looking the other way when you find 20 pounds of weed destined for illicit sale.

It would be great if every state and the federal government would just legalize it, but in the meantime, cops still need to enforce their state laws. "Discretion" is one thing. Completely ignoring their job requirements and the mandate of their bosses and the public (who in Nebraska, still want marijuana to be illegal) is something else entirely.

Doesn't matter. I hear they had words in 1906 they routinely called black people that today are "frowned upon."

"Piracy" a pejorative meant to associate copyright infringement with theft, which it is not. Also murder, scurvy, and parrots.

On the flip side, I also don't like the term "sharing." It's an attempt to associate copyright infringement with an innocuous or altruistic endeavor. It's not.

Words mean things, and I wish people would use them correctly.

Copyright infringement: the illegal copying of a work protected by copyright.

Theft: The unlawful taking of someone's belongings with the intent to deprive them of their use.

Sharing: Willingly giving a portion of your possessions to another, denying you use or benefit thereof.

Copyright infringement is not theft, because the copyright holder is not denied their property. They still have it. (Assuming no trespass or theft of physical property was required to obtain the source material)

Copyright infringement is not sharing. If I share my cake with you, I have given up a portion of my delicious cake I can no longer eat. If I share a ride with you, I've given up my personal space and privacy. But if you copy my file, I haven't given up anything. We both have full use of the file.

Let's just call things what they are, and leave the emotionally loaded words out of it.

This isn't even about a subversion of standards. It's kind of required for cell phones to work that the towers are able to identify your handset and route your calls and messages. This isn't an OTA exploit. You still have to have physical access to the switch and credentials.

OMG guys! I've discovered a terrible, awful vulnerability in Linux!!! If somebody has your root password, they can, with a few keystrokes, have total access to your computer! They can read all your files, change them, delete them, anything! We're doomed!

No, the problem with government surveillance is a political one, not a technological one. As long as they have the authority to hook their boxes into the communications lines, nothing can ever be secure. Somebody has to have root access to the system for the system to work and be maintainable.

I work at a hospital, and I have root access to the database. ZOMG your medical records aren't secure! Somebody sitting at the server with the root password can see everything! Ummmm no, your records are fine. I have to have access to the database to do my job. But we have a political system including an internal review board and threats of felony criminal prosecution if I were to do anything to violate your privacy. Also I'm not a dick. The solution to government surveillance is a political one. We need people who aren't dicks and rules that put them in jail if they intercept your calls.

It looked like a middling movie, but now it's the most talked about picture of the year. I bet they'll clean up on DVD sales.

And superpowers? You act like breaking into somebody's computers, copying their private shit, then making bomb threats is something inspiring? No. It's not. It's criminal.

I am a little conflicted. I still can't say "good job" to people who break into somebody else's computers. Despite Sony trying to break into millions of computers. Sony is one of the most evil corporations on the planet. So it's kind of like get incensed that Sauron's ring got stolen and melted. I mean, it was his ring.

I'll channel Gene Wilder from Willy Wonka, in the scene where Violet Beauregarde is going to eat the gum that turns her into a blueberry and he mutters quietly to no one in particular, "No. Stop. Don't."

As an electrical engineer, I'd like to build the robots for that tire plant. Let's get to work on that, shall we? ;)

I do not.