Yawn.

Our clients run a product (vehicle emissions inspection analyzer) that could basically be considered an embedded system. They have no access to the operating system and are completely reliant upon us (the manufacturer) to repair it, perform software updates over the network, etc. When they purchased said system it's design was standardized by the government body that licenses them, and software upgrades were specifically dictated by the terms of the agreement between the manufacturer and the licensing body. (Typically two free updates.) Now many of these devices are quite old (some as old as 15 years old in fact), but they still perform the task that they were designed for. While we as the manufacturer sell newer devices running the software package on newer operating systems, there is no incentive for us to provide updated operating system software (Many analyzers still run Windows 98) unless the customer pays for it, and there is no reason for them to pay for it if what they have is working fine. In short the market dictates these things. If it's not broke people don't want to pay money to have it fixed.

I agree. If you take a nude picture of yourself it is DESTINED to end up on the Internet. Let's face it. If you take a nude picture of yourself your're an EXHIBITIONIST to a certain degree, and being (literally) EXPOSED as such should not be a surprising outcome.

Sports bars are for testosterone fueled male bonding and drunkenness not video gaming... Geesh. Now if they had said Counter-Strike maybe they would have something...

Yawn! There is CAT 5 running all over most office buildings. Physical access is always the least secure and easiest to get my hands on heh.

I agree with EFF that merely entering a password into a computer is testimony in that you are testifying that you have access to and/or control over it. Secondly, obviously, if whatever was on the device was highly incriminating then I would take the contempt charge. Finally, how can the prosecutor prove that that haven't merely misplaced or forgotten the password?

Marital misconduct can result it dramatically different awards when paying alimony and dividing up community property. Even in so called no-fault divorce states. The following states take marital fault into consideration when determining an award of spousal support: Alabama, Arizona, Connecticut, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Louisiana, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia and Wyoming. (Source: American Bar Association, Family Law Quarterly, Winter 1998, Tables Summarizing the Law in Fifty States) The following states take marital misconduct, especially economic fault, into consideration when dividing marital or community property or in reimbursing the marital or community estate: Alaska, Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Hawaii, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin. (Source: American Bar Association, Family Law Quarterly, Winter 1998, Tables Summarizing the Law in Fifty States). BTW: Your clown for arguing that slapping a GPS a cheating spouses car is somehow "one step" from domestic violence.

People don't have a right to "privacy" in most states, California, where I live, being one exception. At any rate when people are afforded this right it is typically a right to privacy from the government not other private citizens. You may have reasonable expectation of privacy for example in the bathrooms, but it is far from a right. Furthermore, parents have every interest is monitoring their minor children's activities. Minor children have no expectation of privacy. Back at you creep.

Hmmm.. I probably would have killed them both since I have guns at the house and I would have been armed with one rather than a bat. Voluntary Manslaughter.

The Hell it doesn't. You don't have any right to privacy on MY property or where I am paying the bill. I am tracking my kids phones, cars, monitoring their Internet activities, you name it. I don't keep my computer password protected from my wife or my e-mail. I don't have anything to hide. YOU DON'T HAVE ANY RIGHT TO PRIVACY FROM YOUR FAMILY. The idea that you do is laughable.

Obviously it's slowly being paid off by my monthly subscription. But since I wasn't under any sort of contract I could have cancelled any, and left them on the hook for the investment they already made.

Uh Verizon has spent 23 billion dollars building up their FTTH Network. That was before any (broadband stimulus) Federal Tax incentives, and there were no incentives at my local city level to speak of. At any rate, whatever breaks there may have been are a drop in the bucket when compared to the massive amount spent building the network. Oh! And if you are talking about the rights to install fiber from the utility companies own pole to my house, then SURE I gave them permission. After all they were supplying me with an 3K installation for free. Don't get me started on who owns the land the poles are on, because, again, it's usually private property and utility companies pay the owners an easement. Stick that in your commie pipe and smoke it!

Yeah. That worked out great for the commies. Oh! And BTW, my privately owned and paid for FIOS service is VASTLY superior to my shitty publicly funded and managed crumbling pot-hole ridden roads.