Comment: Re:Brohoof (Score 2) 416
WTG bronies.
Bring back the 1-April-2006 Slashdot theme to celebrate.
DOJ Often Used Cell Tower Impersonating Devices Without Explicit Warrants 146
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from the bending-the-rules dept.
from the bending-the-rules dept.
Via the EFF comes news that, during a case involving the use of a Stingray device, the DOJ revealed that it was standard practice to use the devices without explicitly requesting permission in warrants. "When Rigmaiden filed a motion to suppress the Stingray evidence as a warrantless search in violation of the Fourth Amendment, the government responded that this order was a search warrant that authorized the government to use the Stingray. Together with the ACLU of Northern California and the ACLU, we filed an amicus brief in support of Rigmaiden, noting that this 'order' wasn't a search warrant because it was directed towards Verizon, made no mention of an IMSI catcher or Stingray and didn't authorize the government — rather than Verizon — to do anything. Plus to the extent it captured loads of information from other people not suspected of criminal activity it was a 'general warrant,' the precise evil the Fourth Amendment was designed to prevent. ... The emails make clear that U.S. Attorneys in the Northern California were using Stingrays but not informing magistrates of what exactly they were doing. And once the judges got wind of what was actually going on, they were none too pleased:"
Comment: Free publicity (Score 3, Insightful) 376
Entire Star Wars section added solely to gain publicity for the rest of the work.
Mission accomplished.
Comment: Re:Why video submissions? (Score 1) 79
Amen to that.
Should there not be a "Video Content" topic flag and a corresponding filter option?
Comment: Re:Wait (Score 3, Funny) 310
That can't be right. I used to use MySpace and it used to break all the time!
Comment: Re:too bad i switched to chrome....... (Score 2) 163
Could be time to switch back for the same reasons.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/macbook-air-chrome-16-firefox-9-benchmark,3108-18.html
Comment: Re:Again and again (Score 2) 392
It's not longer "do not evil", it's "let someone else do the evil for us!"
Comment: Runs anywhere (Score 1) 421
Easier != Better
Comment: Pfft (Score 5, Insightful) 203
Can any automated tool measure these kinds of best practices?
No. The - for the sake of politeness, let's call them "people" - who invested time and effort into devising these schemes have actually built a complete chain of negative productivity by doing so. Remarkable.
Comment: Re:Needs more pony (Score 1) 308
I hear being a card-carrying Lunar Republican will get you on the No Fly list.
Comment: Re:copy... (Score 1) 76
Hehe, yeah. TBH I doubt they'll even be able to try that particular blag since TFA says that West Yorkshire Police are now actually selling their own forensic tool based on the allegedly stolen information.
Comment: Re:uhhh (Score 3, Insightful) 171
Honestly, this should make you chuckle and smile and say "Wow!"
"Why" might be in there somewhere but if it's your first port of call, you're a lost cause - hand in your geek card.
Comment: However (Score 2) 951
The Ribbon is an abomination.
However, interesting little suggestion in TFA is that there is a "quick access toolbar" which basically looks... like an Explorer toolbar. You can customize anything onto it you like. And you can minimize the Ribbon, folding down into something that looks... like a menu.
So, it
Comment: Re:This isn't a Mozilla problem... (Score 1) 683
I agree that's the sensible sounding advice I've given many times over the years.
However, Mozilla removed the menu.
"Help" is no longer something clearly visible along a familiar menu bar. It's now an entry in the second column of a panel that comes pops down from the orange part of what many users will assume to simply be the title bar - not something interactive.
"Go to the orange Firefox button" you'll have to say, then "find help". I don't even know how to get to "About" any more in default Firefox and I've customized my interface back to what it used to look like, so I can no longer find out.
Comment: Plugins (Score 5, Informative) 415
Unfortunately six of the plugins I rely on (yes, those plugins that are supposedly the #1 reason to use Firefox over less customizable browsers) don't yet even support Firefox 5. Everytime that "update Firefox" box comes up, I check, find six plugins outstanding, and back out of it.
Update too fast and you will leave users behind.