Because it would be hard to argue that the area under your spare tire in the trunk is in your "immediate control" and thus subject to search based on your arrest. And even for areas that might be argued are under your immediate control, waiting to search until they have a warrant means there would be no "but you didn't have a warrant" defense at trial.

You might as well face it, if they arrest you in your car and impound it, they'll get the warrants they ask for.

Fourth Amendment? Other than 1) what is in plain sight, or 2) within reach and might hide a weapon.

That's pretty much the same thing the old curmudgeons say about you, you know?

This bed is too hard, this bed is too soft, this bed is just right. Yes, it's overkill for trivial tasks, it's underkill for high-powered computational tasks. It's just right for lots of things in between. I've got one running a Winlink RMS gateway using a Pi-TNC for radio to internet communications, and another as the gateway computer (just inside the router) for a data collection network to provide ntp, smtp, snmp, logging, etc services on the network. I had a second one on the same network to control two cameras that needed serial commands. And another that does nothing but collect temperature data and put it on the net.

And sometimes just being able to program in a real programming language is valuable. Like the serial command to cameras program that I was able to write and debug on a desktop and then port with only trivial changes to the Pi when it came time to put the final network together.

6. Pull the "hard disk" off the Pi and stick it in a card reader on any other computer, edit the files you need to and put the disk back.

7. Use the native DHCP client on the Pi to let it get an address from your existing DHCP server and ssh into it.

And yet, this reports the abuse of ham radio by the Indianapolis, IN, USA police department. You can read about FCC actions, for example, this one, which is typical of the kinds of illegal use commercial operations make of ham radio.

There are those who would claim that your listening announcement IS calling CQ. I hold the opinion that "it's nice that you're listening, if you wanted to talk to someone you'd say that."

Are you in the US? If so, yes, you can. You are not encrypting it for the purposes of obfuscating the meaning.

That says neither that it is needed nor that it was intended for that purpose.

Here. While it includes an HF component, the local transport is almost exclusively via packet.

Because the hospitals are eventually going to ask for it.

"Health and welfare" is not medical information covered by HIPAA.

You've already lost that battle. You should keep up with the changes to the regulations.

Well, I dunno. You've said a lot of things that are wrong. They may have been correct in the past, but times have changed. Just your statement that "encryption is not legal", for starters. Your ignorance of Winlink. That you think there is some limit on government employee's use of ham radio. And that you seem to think that "health and welfare" traffic is what HIPAA is about.

It's called "RAYNET" and it is very similar to ARES in the US. Support for emergency services like hospitals and government agencies. Hospitals, at least in this area, get a lot of support from ARES. Hospitals tend to deal with medical data.

And then you provide a quote that proves I am right. Thanks.

He wasn't "worried" they were, he KNEW they were. He knew and did nothing but issue "vague warnings". It was a SEEcret, you see. And as a US Senator with a mandate to serve the public who elected him, he didn't.

Those "secrecy rules" would not prevent him from writing exactly the bill he's being lauded for writing now. It would not have prevented him from writing a bill to prohibit what was happening. It would not have prevented him from doing a lot of things. All the secrecy laws kept him from doing was telling the public the specifics, but "telling the public" isn't how you get these things stopped. Nothing is still nothing.

Wow, he proved someone lied to congress. He didn't do anything to stop what they had been doing while they were doing it, but after they did it long enough he asked a question. I'm impressed.

Yes, I agree. And to know who their friends aren't. The fact remains: Wyden could have easily written such a shotgun bill the day he found out what was going on, but he chose not to. He's not the friend you think he is.

Why yes, it would be wonderful for the same kind of people who play fart sounds on the local repeater to be able to send telecommand signals to amateur radio satellites. Just a great idea. By the way, that's one of the kinds of signals that is explicitly called out in the regulations as allowing encryption.

But the rules don't actually talk about encryption, they talk about obfuscating the meaning. There are a large number of people using what used to be called HSMM -- basically, 2.4G wifi -- and they have encryption enabled. Why is it necessary? To keep Joe Ignorant from using his unlicensed laptop from connecting to a licensed NAP.

Also wrong.

Got no idea what you think you're saying here.

Also wrong. Nobody has said it is needed to increase usage, and "health and welfare" traffic has nothing to do with it. What is involved is the integration of amateur volunteers (and non-volunteers) into hospital emergency communications plans. And now, the excuse that the hams passing that traffic won't be employees of the hospital is gone, because it is highly likely that at least some of them will be. They'll have a radio in their hand they cannot use because HIPAA applies to them.

Good question. And completely unanswerable based solely on the description of the bill here on /.. (How DO you properly end a sentence that ends with '/.'?)

But if you read the bill (pdf), you might find some clues. For example:

(a) IN GENERAL. -- Except as provided in subsection (b), no agency may mandate that a manufacturer, developer, or seller of covered products design or alter the security functions in its product or service to allow the surveillance of any user of such product or service, or to allow the physical search of such product, by any agency.

How broad can you get with your paintbrush? An interesting interpretation of this might be that the FCC regulations for emissions no longer apply, because a cellphone can be "surveilled" by following the signals it emits using the FCC standards. E911 info is FCC mandated surveillance, as well, in very broad terms.

Maybe the "exception" paragraph?

(b) EXCEPTION. -- Subsection (a) shall not apply to mandates authorized under the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act (47 U.S.C. 1001 et seq.).

So this law is already watered down by CALEA. And what is a "covered product"? Here you go:

(2) the term "covered product means any computer hardware, computer software, or electronic device that is made available to the general public.

Emphasis mine.

Or maybe it will be voted down when it becomes an amendment, as it was in the house?

In the House of Representatives, Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) took up the issue of government encryption rules earlier this year. She passed an amendment to the annual defense funding bill ...

She didn't actually pass the amendment, she proposed the amendment and the house passed it. In any case, it was a rider to an otherwise unrelated bill. It is a standard ploy to attach unrelated things, and when one side votes against the part they don't like, they get painted in pubic as being against the other part they could accept. That's why there is talk of a "line item veto" from time to time, to remove the President from the "all or nothing" game.

Or maybe they'll vote against it because of what it is: a political game played by a master gamesman, who chose now to do something when he could have done it long ago. All this NSA stuff that got leaked -- he knew it before it got leaked. He's on the committee that has regulatory oversight to that agency. Did he do anything when he found out what they were doing? No.

This applies only to those who were not re-elected to congress. All the rest -- that majority -- still have to worry about the next re-election bid.

This, in spades.

If he really gave a rat's ass, he wouldn't have sat back before the NSA/Snowden revelations saying "you don't know the half of it". He was on the Senate committee that oversees such things and was fully briefed on it, and did nothing to stop it.

That's what Wyden is all about. I live in his state. I've seen him work and how he runs campaigns.

"Sync" doesn't imply two-directional, it simply means "make the two things align". In TV-land, that means all the monitors and cameras align their horizontal and vertical sync to the master sync generator. The master never cares what the cameras think is the correct timing. In iTunes-land, that means "make the iThingy look like the master".

It's relatively new that "sync" means "change everybody to look like everybody else", and even then it's not always possible to do that. Palm was very good at it; Google is horrible at bidirectional sync of my calendar. My phone now has at least two of every calendar entry.