True, in that it does not apply to the whole country (even in Illinois it applies to Cook County only), but this literally affirms the lower court's ruling. Pay attention: The lower court was a federal appeals court, thus its jurisdiction is the whole U.S. By the Supreme Court letting stand the federal appeals court's ruling in that the law against eavesdropping is unconstitutional, any other state will think twice (or three times) before bringing a charge against a citizen recording police in the course of performing their duties.

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You joke about this, but that is, in a way, the exact thing they're doing. They're starting bullshit like this at an early age, so that by the time you get to critical thinking (late high school early college) you've been used to it, looking at it as a matter of fact and not questioning it.

... for Open Source. Compile it yourself if you want to, or download it from a reputable place and trust it.

I don't know. I just tried to order something and during the checkout process there was NO tax added. I am using Amazon Prime. I wonder if Amazon will lower its prices if it ends up charging taxes. I am a democrat and am not opposed to more taxes. In a way more taxes could help things.

Here's how I see it. Amazon is all of a sudden forced to charge sales tax on out of state purchases, while it'll be a few years before smaller businesses will have to charge sales tax. Meanwhile, some people will flock over to small businesses, which will help those businesses. Amazon, in return, will have to lower its prices to stay competetive. So the Amazon users will pay the proper sales tax, which goes to the states and will benefit the people as a whole. Small businesses will not necessarily flourish, but will do better meanwhile. It's a win-win situation for tax payers.

Ethics are evaluated on a personal basis. They are not written down for everyone to follow. Laws are.

Seriously? Since when is it illegal for someone to videotape people in the street and add the video to his private collection of masturbation materials? Or posting it to YouTube so that others can have a laugh at it?

Face it. He's living in a country which has deemed that its citizens do not have an expectation of privacy while in the public. Ever hear of paparazzi? He can follows you six steps behind and not get in your way, while filming you, and there's nothing you should be able to do about it, otherwise it's yet another right that has been eroded in this country.

I put a little thought into the airship idea, and even something like the Hindenburg, covered with solar panels, but the end result will just be that they cannot move fast enough to make air travel suitable to today's needs.

I was going to respond to the OP that it was a dumb-ass idea because of the ratio of the power consumed vs. power generated, but instead I thank you for looking up the information and having hard numbers at hand that cannot be refuted.

Although many people who use CF pay for licensing to Adobe, Open Blue Dragon is an open-source implementation of the Coldfusion language and has evolved very nicely in the past few years. At a major site I write CF for, they have 11 production servers running CF (4 Enterprise). Besides those they have about 10-12 servers running OpenBD (all Linux), some outside facing, and some of those have been running for a few years without any hickups. So, licensing, IMO, is a moot point.

There are also a couple of other open-source or free implementations of the language (Railo, Smith, etc), but I've been extremely happy with OpenBD, specially some of the additional functionality it has that Adobe's version doesn't have, such as the Render() function.

Got me there. I should've said OS X. And I know about the command prompt on OS X.

I never said the I couldn't watch someone do something on a Mac and be able to learn it. Read below

When did I give the Mac users shit about not knowing the innards of Linux? I didn't even say that the majority of people care about being computer savvy. In fact, I mentioned the opposite, that they "just want something that works all the time (which Apple products do) without much hastle."

What I believe is that Mac users (which apparently you are one) need to get over yourselves and hating everyone else's guts. Just read back everything you wrote. It's nothing but hate. You should try and relax a little!

The point I was trying to make was that the graphical interface on Macs is not that intuitive, as Apple users would have the rest of the world believe. There is still a learning curve, whether you're shown how to do something in OS X or whether you have to figure it out on your own. Put me in front of a graphical interface on the Mac and for me everything seems out of place and not intuitive, including how to control the look and feel of my experience and colored minimize/maximize buttons. Add to that the fact that I hate Apple as a company and thus I have no desire to purchase any of their products. That's all.

Yup. The magic keywords in your sentence were if Apple customers acted responsibly . I know many Apple users and the last thing they're worried about is acting responsibly in choosing the company they're going to trust their digital life to. They range from kids and teenagers to doctors and lawyers. They just want something that works all the time (which Apple products do) without much hastle.

What really scares me, though, is that you put me in front of an Apple laptop and I suddenly don't know WTF I'm doing, even though I can work the innards of Linux with little problem. I am pretty glad that I'm enough computer savvy to have the option of not using Windows or iOS.

Keyboard under the desk? Absolutely not, unless you're a midget! The proper way to sit is for lower arms parallel to the ground. Keyboards should always be on desk, and them you adjust your seat so that it allows you to keep your lower arm straight. A cushioned keyboard and rest is also a must. I consulted at a large CA corportation and they specifically came to people's cube and observed them for 10-20 minutes, noting their wrongs. They ended up lowering many of the desks because the people who sat behind them were shorter than average. What it came down to is what I wrote in the above paragraph. I am 5' 10" and I would NEVER put my keyboard below the desk level. Your wrist should be completely level. Incidentally I am trained in playing piano and the rule is the same there. Adjust your seat so that your wrist angle is parallel to the ground. I have been in IT for almost 30 years and I have never had any problems with my wrists/body, even though I am sverely overweight. The other thing I advocate is to absolutely get up and walk around to 2 minutes every 30-60 minutes. There are times when I didnt' want my concentration ruined and thus stayed in the seat for over 2 hours, but those times are far and in between. Usually I can afford to get up and walk around for 2 minutes, as in get ice for my drink. Bring the keyboard up over the desk!