I disagree. Laws should be static. They should be based on principles so that they do not need to change with each new technology. Search and seizure of personal effects? Applies to email and phone conversations now as much as it did to letters in the 1700s. The current unconstitutional interpretation is absolute shit because it violates the principle behind the 4th. THAT is the real problem.

Grrrr. I wish pay was by "work done" rather than "hours worked". I would be making 100 times more money than most of my co-workers. As it is, I only make significantly more because my base pay is higher.

My first grade teacher did that with little star stickers in relation to reading achievements. Nothing new under the sun. :)

Marked as funny but should be marked insightful.

Worst. Euphemism. Ever.

Hm. "Absolutely sure" implies seeing it with their own eyes through a window or somesuch. In that case, they absolutely do NOT need a warrant.

If all evidence points towards that painting being inside the house but they have not seen it with their own eyes, then yes, they needs a warrant.

It seems someone here does not understand how America is supposed to work. We all know how it does work so let's leave THAT argument for another time.

Long story short, governments (Federal, State, County, City) are not allowed to do anything that they are not explicitly authorized to do. It is the citizens that do not need explicit authorization for the things that they do.

This police department is wrong and should have had a judge issue a warrant. It is this "cowboy" shit thinking that brings us closer and closer to a perfect police state.

There are numerous other reasons I am against this without a warrant (and actually HIDING it from the judge) but what about all of the other cell phones in the area? Were their rights not violated?

Rather than getting all of those folks to sign a legal document saying it was okay for their phones to be intercepted as well, why not just get a legal warrant signed by an actual judge? Clearly, the police broke the law.

Don't forget, America developed the atom bomb... if the war in Europe had continued, America had developed a trump card. In hindsight, there is absolutely zero chance of the Nazis ever winning no matter what strategy they tried.

How about you name one country that was NOT founded in that manner. Hm?

The CISSP certification does not grant intelligence. It demonstrates that you are familiar with certain concepts, not that you can string them together intelligently.

Holding a CISSP is not a sign of incompetence; although I have met many CISSP holders who were utterly and completely and contemptibly incompetent.

If you had not included the first part of your comment in the subject line (like a cunt) I would have been able to cut and paste that as part of your quote.

Blame Americans if you must but that kind of hatred is fucking rampant in this world. In Saudi Arabia, they can execute you. They just passed some laws in Russia that make the Arizona law look tame in comparison... and you fucking blame the Americans for hatred? Go fuck yourself.

Whoah whoah whoah there cowboy. Samsung provides updates. It is the carriers who are blocking those updates. The carriers put customized "firmware" on the phones and do not use Samsung's stock firmware.

In other words, Apple managed to strongarm the carriers but Samsung has not. Blame the carriers, not Samsung (or any other Android device manufacturer).

Hm. Odd. I have been through Amsterdam numerous times and only once was there any kind of "issue". Some guard guy at the gate politely asked me if he could search a particular pocket on my pants. I looked at him as if he was crazy and said, "If you must.", so he did. He found nothing of course. I expect that many Americans try to bring a little "souvenir" home with them and that would catch such an instance. I was mildly annoyed and seriously insulted... but meh. It was not a very big deal. I was certainly not up against a wall with a full search being done.

Your friend's experience is weird.

Mod down for trolling or reply? Well, I think we see how this one turned out:

Yeah, it is funny to be ironic about the slogans and such that American children were brought up under. The pessimism of having fallen is accurate as well.

The troll is this:

See? You should be smart enough to KNOW that the media is portraying it all as nobody caring. That is all you get to see is people shrugging it off... and yet hundreds of thousands, nay, millions of Americans absolutely DO care.

Sure, there is a large mass of people who are essentially cows or sheep. They are neither for freedom or against freedom, they just exist. There are quite a few people who are interesting in standing up the authoritarian state because they think they will be the winners. These types would be the fundamentalists and sadists and trolls of the world... but, there is still a goodly amount of people who absolutely do care about the principles that America was founded on. Dismissing them and how deeply they care is rude and trollish. Read your comment again and pay attention to the bolded words this time:

But yeah, keep on repeating that nobody cares. Eventually it will come back to bite you.