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An Inbox Is Not a Glove Compartment 316

Posted by Soulskill on Monday November 02, 2009 @11:21AM from the until-gmail-unveils-support-for-glove-storage dept.

Frequent Slashdot contributor Bennett Haselton writes "A federal judge rules that government can obtain access to a person's inbox contents without any notification to the subscriber. The pros and cons of this are complicated, but the decision hinges on the assertion that ISP customers have lowered privacy interests in e-mail because they 'expose to the ISP's employees in the ordinary course of business the contents of their e-mails.' Fortunately for everybody, this is not true — most ISPs do not allow their employees to read customer e-mails 'in the ordinary course of business' — but then what are the consequences for the rest of the argument?" Read on for the rest of Bennett's analysis.

Comment Re:Range (Score 5, Interesting) 254

by isleshocky77 on Tuesday May 20, 2008 @01:54PM (#23479080) Attached to: Using RFID Tags Around the House?

I would have to agree. I just had to do a project for a senior class on tracking people on RFID. It's so bad that decided to use another technology. RFID is just too expensive for anything over centimeter ranges. We ended up going with Zigbee devices from Texas Instruments. If you want to read about our setup it's all here. http://peopletrackerinc.com/ Their really cheap and small, accurate up to 1-2 meters with about 100 yard range. It uses something similar to 802.11 for wireless transmission. It's extremely cool if you want to look into. We have the entire setup up and running to track people within a building.

Bookmark Slashdot | Cell Phone Reception Hack (slashdot.org)

by isleshocky77 on Monday July 31, 2006 @09:15PM

Cell Phone Reception Hack 142

Posted by timothy on Monday July 31, 2006 @05:53PM from the zooming-out dept.

New Breeze writes "Has this ever happened to you? Just when you need to make a phone call, the bars of reception are scant to none. But Graeme, who writes a blog called 'Earth: Mostly Harmless,' gives us hope. Succeeding where most would quit, he chronicled his ingenuity in a post titled 'How I got mobile phone reception where there was no signal.'" Update: 08/01 14:31 GMT by T : Note: Credit for this story belongs to Mike Yamamoto, who wrote it for CNET's News.com.

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