And how exactly do you think your retort comes across to the average American citizen who watched a US President legally elect an Open Border Czar who ensured the American southern border wasn’t one for damn near four years?

Do you think that whole idea of bending over the citizen taxpayer at the border and fucking them with an unlubed copy of the 4th Amendment on 30-grit sandpaper is one of those lessons they only teach at Learing centers?

This is why you travel with an iPhone. At that point, the US citizen could have invoked the Apple defense.

”Wait, what do you mean my phone is wipe..dammit, did you dumbasses hold it wrong?!?”

I don’t wish ill will upon anyone crossing the American zone of UnConstitutional Wrongs, but I DO hope you see how many holes your theoretical protection has here.

IF you’re ever stopped and questioned at the border, you would be handing your pre-wiped and highly hygienic device to law enforcement. Which you only did because you DID find a reason to destroy your information (albeit temporarily) before your “criminal” data could be “discovered” at the border. They consider their unconstitutional behavior necessary for national security and don’t like it when you claim otherwise.

All I can say is good luck with that tactic. When the other 99% of border crossers don’t take that measure, know your actions will be questioned for more than just hygiene. I wish I could say your behavior was more normalized.

Voters should have paid more attention to violators of the Bill of Rights. Because violations without proper punishment was established long ago. Voters fucked up by not threatening to remove (by democratic process) every violator of the US Constitution long ago.

Voters still hold the power to remove and replace elected Representatives. Especially when they forgot what being a Representative means.

Citizens have a REAL problem with this when Bills of Rights for Thee and Not Me bullshit is being thrown in their face too. Watching someone like Fauci plead the 5th while you’re a “criminal” getting locked up at the border for the “crime” of recognizing your own inalienable (allegedly) Right, is a real punch to the fucking gut that should be answered at the voting booth.

What exactly needs to be reversed when my elected Representatives need a fucking history lesson/job refresher regarding the Bill of Rights, specifically the 4th and 5th Amendments?

The American Citizen should be legislating that alright. By threatening to vote every motherfucker out of office who dares to forget THAT long-held rule over 200 years old.

If this persists China will simply build more fabs, and more quickly than anyone else. So what if it's old-ish tech, at least they will have it.

That was a failure, but the first failure was not recognizing it wasn't ready for a research project either. When they realized it was going to have to be heavy and bulky, they should have stopped and either iterated the design again, or smarter IMO, waited for tech to improve (or push it) and then done another design. OTOH Apple can afford to lose the money...

The grey area you’re looking for, was addressed about two hundred fucking years ago. When we ratified the 4th Amendment.

That is not “evidence” until you have a fucking legal reason for it to be.

Glad to hear they are still kicking. I hear there's also some Linux-based stuff now but I haven't seen it yet, I'm afraid I'm not much in the market for new cars.

Perhaps the proper response to being accused of said “crime” is ”Uh, exactly what information are you accusing me of making you destroy before verifying it ever existed in the first place?”

My need to carry a personal communications device, doesn’t mean you get to be fucking lazy and assume the 4th Amendment means nothing.

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What code they are based on is irrelevant. Slashdot still has a very simple interface (I am using it right now, it is still the best interface) which is easy for bots to interface to using the DOM. Whether it's Perl or C# or Ada underneath makes no difference.

The real question, therefore, is why are we still being subjected to this cowardly anonymous bullcrap? This management has turned off AC posting before, and you could say they turned it back on only because post counts tanked, but have you seen post counts recently? It's now horribly rare to break 100.

Slashdot needs a major overhaul, and I don't mean of the code though that will of course have to change. I mean specifically that mod abuse and AC trolling are driving away every serious poster. My thanks to those of you who still remain, but most of you post less and less, not that I blame you. I presume you're here less, too.

He tricked them into doing it, if anything that will work against him. They are allowed to lie to you, you are not allowed to lie to them.

Because they're idiot followers and they were awed by an RDF

Yeah but just for protection from the cops