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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And how is that different from the Washington Post or the New York Times, or most of the mainstream newspapers?

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.

I've just finished reading your post and I wasn't the slightest bit surprised to see that it consisted of nothing more than a series of excuses. Not excuses for having failed in one or more endeavors but excuses for why you never even tried. Judging only by what you've written here and in other posts, you've never once asked what you could do for your country, but have spent your time on Earth asking what your country could do for you.

I don't know if Fedora gives you the .rpm files when you install from a live image, but it's trivially obvious how to find out. If not, you can use dnf --downloadonly to download the packages you need, including dependencies as you need them.

Not always. If you were to go to a neighborhood theater that specialized in old movies and watched the 1941 version of The Maltese Falcon, you wouldn't be watching the original version, or the remake. You'd be watching the third version of that movie made by Warner Brothers because it took them three tries over a decade to get everything right.

Personally, I'd love to see The Ten Commandments again on a big screen, the way it was intended to be seen. Add in The Longest Day, How the West was Won, Around the World in 80 Days and The Great Race and you've got the beginnings of a great set of films to watch at the theater. Kids today can't appreciate movies like that, not because of the stories or the color but because none of them look right on a home screen. Either they're trimmed to fit a standard screen, so that you don't see everything, or they're letter-boxed so that while you see everything, it's too small and cramped.

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.