You always have your rights... it's just a question of if and how you exercise them.

The difference here is the guy who went to talk to the police on his own (ie voluntarily) vs being arrested (ie unwillingly).

The court ruled that in the prior, you have to make an affirmative statement as to you exercising your 5a rights.

Prosecutors argued such silence does not have constitutional protection because of the other questions Salinas had answered and since he was not under arrest and was not compelled to speak. A plurality of the Supreme Court affirmed for Texas Monday, noting that Salinas never expressly invoked the privilege when the officer asked about the shells. It has long been settled that the privilege 'generally is not self-executing' and that a witness who desires its protection 'must claim it...

No. The article explains that the person in question had NOT been arrested, had been freely answering other questions, but refused to answer one that concerned shotgun shells found at the murder scene.

The ACLU has a "bust card" that helps clarify the matter. The person in the article should have kept his fucking mouth shut, period.

The things you own end up owning you.

I've never been called because my whole family and extended family is in IT and software engineering. Only 7% of slashdot users have families that NEVER need help? I would have assumed that genius ran in more families......

the only var that I know of is in Unix, a directory called /var and /var/run

never heard of SAN & NAS. can someone plz explain accronyms? i tried a google search, but no luck

I've worked in IT my entire adult life and I have fucking acronyms.

I don't know if it's localized, but Lego Mindstorm should do the trick. Rather expensive solution though.

Wow. You seriously think that if a merc outfit was sent in to do a job for who knows what reason that they would wear logo gear to the gig? I though all bad guys wore a uniform for swift identification of their badness, that's what 20 years of shooters have taught me!