Their hardware business contains the two products they make that don't suck.

Say what you will about their software, but IMHO, they make a damned fine keyboard and mouse.

All your light are belong to us

They may have searched the first accountant's computer (assuming he had one), but because the videotape is clearly non-responsive, it will not get searched.

Can it be disabled? And if so, how easily?

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Heck, only those darned libs read for fun anyways.
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Actually, there is jurisprudence on this. In a physical warrant, you cannot search for material that is non-responsive.

An example I used in a term paper in law school* is two accountants, one who is old fashioned and only uses paper, the other is fully digital. Accountant 1 has kiddie porn on a videotape labeled "Vacation 2014". Accountant 2 has kiddie porn in a file called "My Vacation 2014.mp4".

Both are served with warrants for tax fraud. The search of Accountant 1's premises cannot examine the videotape, as it is clearly non-responsive to the warrant. The search of Accountant 2's computer finds the illegal material in the MP4 under the "plain sight" doctrine.

It is obvious that the law needs to evolve to address this sort of issue.

* Disclaimer, I am not a lawyer. I am not licensed to dispense legal advice. Should you need legal advice, please consult an attorney licensed in your jurisdiction.

I studied this and even wrote a paper on it... There are severe issues with the way searches of digital devices are carried out. Granted, on a phone they're probably less, but because it's so easy to rename "IncriminatingDocument.txt" to "MyVacation.mp4", they have to search every file.

The issue is that any digital device these days has SO MUCH non-responsive information that it's essentially a general warrant. And as GP noted, it would be easy to do parallel construction. Maybe the answer is to have a third party (special master?) do the search, and only provide the responsive material to the police. But there's alway the issue of the equivalent of regulatory capture.

There is no easy solution.

Thank you Jack Byrnes

Except when you rent an apartment, they owner isn't using the term "buy" when advertising the rental.

Then it should be advertised as such.

[DISCLAIMER: I think the professor in question is an idiot].

Given that disclaimer, I think you're wrong here. What you're doing is conflating "new to working" with "new to working HERE".

There's a difference between learning to program and learning to build your company's product. There's a shit ton of institutional knowledge about your product that you're not going to be able to go to Amazon or B&N and buy a book about.

That's where in-office time matters. When I started my current job, they told me they were OK with hybrid, but for the first few months, they wanted me in the office to learn about our product -- what it does, how it works. And before you answer, our product is a physical device, not just software.

My ex-GF started watching Faux News during the pandemic because "It was the only place she could find info on getting her small business loan".

Soon, she had it on in her kitchen whenever she was awake. Then she started on the hard stuff -- OANN and NewsMax.

I broke up with her post Jan 6.

Doesn't matter. It's going to be renamed to Urectum in 2620 anywas.

Exactly. It's not an ill-advised attempt to save money, it's an attempt to sweep any pollution problems under the rug.

They all have to go through the EPA, whose job is no longer protecting the environment, but just doing whatever the hell POTUS wants.