An arrest warrant is NOT a search warrant, unless the weapons were in plain sight or the arrestee made some move towards them that would indicate immediate threat of harm to the officers then yes, a search warrant was needed to conduct a search, and if the marshals service wants to use these devices as a part of servicing an arrest warrant then they need to file for a concurrent search warrant.

Look, it's not like there are too many judges that are going to fail to issue a warrant for Marshalls to observe a residence before conducting a raid so this is about police following proper procedure and making sure that scope of the technology usage is limit to permitted actions under proper oversight of the courts. It's a matter of the fundamental role of the courts in reigning in the excesses of the executive.

With some dangerous exceptions like NSLs you as the accused are to be informed of any warrants used to gather information against you at the time of arraignment as a normal part of discovery. If the police were actually obtaining warrants for the widespread use of such technology you'd think that defense attorneys would be made aware of it and would be talking to the media. We already know that with the stinger cellphone interception technology that police forces used the technology in an unconstitutional manner and covered up the use of the technology and the details behind it as a mandated cloak in the NDA from the tech company behind it (the police can not sign an NDA for something the intend to use to gather evidence as that necessarily means the defense does not have access to relevant information which is clearly against due process)

According to this chart the 50 largest police departments cover some 51m people or 16% of the countries entire population. If you don't consider nearly 1 in 5 people being covered by such technology large-scale then I'm not sure what to say.

That doesn't really get around Kyllo since there were civilian thermal imaging cameras available (commonly used in energy audits) but were not in widespread use by the general public. A better analogy might be detecting the name of a WiFi access point from the street that says "drug den", since the police could use commonly available equipment that are in general use to detect the AP it would not constitute a search.

No, we already have a ruling, Kyllo vs U.S. where the court quite clearly stated the limits of extra-sensory detection equipment:

"Where, as here, the Government uses a device that is not in general public use, to explore details of the home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a "search" and is presumptively unreasonable without a warrant."

Gimp uses dbus to do a named pipe to the running instance if you launch it from the CLI and there is already an open instance under the current users context that tells it to open the new file within the existing instance, and dbus is now part of systemd. There are alternative ways to package Gimp that don't use dbus since it also run on Windows and other platforms, that just happens to be the simplest way with the current Gimp source tree. A LOT of what systemd is about is easing thing on package maintainers.

If Google fixes it in AOSP then you can at least grab a fixed version with Cyanogenmod or other custom builds. At least for tech folks the main thing holding them back from moving up may be device drivers for the newer kernel.

It's not in the current builds yet.

Have you tried delivering the same level of automation to your Mac users that most corporate Windows users get?

Honestly, no, because it's ~2% of our user base so you would never get an ROI on the tools or the time to learn them. Now for an F-25 2% of the userbase might be enough justify a team to purchase and learn Mac specific tools, but for those of us in the SME space there's no way it works out. Now, the MDM angle is interesting, I'll have to look into what support Maas360 offers for Mac, but it doesn't change things like no GPO equivalent to manage settings and the fact that Apple does things like ban older versions of JRE from running (we have a handful of systems that require ridiculously old version of the JRE, under Windows I can just whitelist them for those sites)

Huh? I bought my Galaxy S5 Developer Edition directly from Samsung and use it on Verizon with no issues, we also buy iphones from Apple and use them on Verizon without any problems. The main issue with Verizon is that you need a phone that supports their bands, which until recently was only available through them as they tended to be one offs, now Qualcomm is including almost all bands in universal chips and the 2g/3g chips tend to have support for both GSM and CDMA. Now I will grant you, before LTE brought SIM cards to Verizons provisioning process the only way to effectively get a phone activated was to buy it through them so the IMEI was in their supported database, but these days it's rather easy.

The only job I've ever been drug tested for was one requiring clearance.

The other thing is that they are also freeing up a tremendous amount of tax dollars from the general fund by not arresting, trying, and housing non-violent drug offenders. My guess would be those savings absolutely dwarf the tax revenue. Also there's a societal benefit, fewer people labelled as criminals means more people able to access gainful employment outside menial entry level jobs which should lead to a higher GDP.

Uh, Windows 10 uses the same driver model as Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1. It even comes in a 32bit version (8.1 was supposed to be the last 32bit Windows, but MS must really want Enterprises with broken legacy crap to move up) so as long as your printer has a Vista+ driver you should be fine.

Actually, it's going to be a bit cooler than that, if you have a touch device then metro apps will by default work like they do in 8, if not they'll be windowed, and if you have a convertible like the Surface Pro line then it will change behavior depending on the current configuration (again, by default, MS has heard the masses and will allow you to tweak the behavior).

Windows 10 is where the enterprise is going. I literally just got out of a meeting where we were discussing our goals for the year and Office 2013 and probably Windows 10 (depending on launch date and apparent buginess) are on the list. As far as your MBP, that's fine for you if you work in IT, but if you think most businesses are going to give every worker drone an expensive Mac with about 5-10x the support cost (as in I have numbers that show our Mac users cost that much more depending on their level of competence/IT independance) you're delusional.