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[evwhore]

Heh, for my vegetarian friends, response #2.

via boingboing, Out of Context Science -- sentences taken from scientific papers that are funny out of context. LJ syndication: outofcontextsci

Remember this guy? He sued the DEA, saying that they leaked the video, violating his privacy because "the video's distribution resulted in him becoming the 'target of jokes

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[dmorr]

Here's a writeup of the georgia cell phone search case if you're interested.

It's actually a tricky subject. It's pretty easy to come up with examples that intuitively allow searching, or ones that intuitively make searching look horrible without a warrant. My guess is that the end, when we get there, will not be a one-size-fits-all generalization, but that looking at some specific things (call log, maybe) is ok, but searching email is not.

[mattm777]

It's always a bit ironic/weird/amusing when liberals criticize a California Supreme Court opinion for not being sufficiently liberal.

[evwhore]

I can't figure out what you mean.

I'm agreeing with these guys: "The dissenting justices said [SC precedents] shouldn't be extended to modern cell phones that can store huge amounts of data and that the decision allows police 'to rummage at leisure through the wealth of personal and business information that can be carried on a mobile phone or handheld computer merely because the device was taken from an arrestee's person.'"

[mattm777]

I guess the point was that the California SC is one of the most liberal courts you'll find east of Maryland (the 9th Circuit is worse and maybe the Hawaii SC). They issue a decision (which I haven't read) that is not the knee-jerk liberal reaction (in this case, a less expansive view of 4th Amendment rights) and they get jumped on for not being liberal enough. I just find that funny.

[evwhore]

the California SC is one of the most liberal courts you'll find east of Maryland

ITYM west, but sure...

They issue a decision (which I haven't read) that is not the knee-jerk liberal reaction (in this case, a less expansive view of 4th Amendment rights)

I'm still not comprehending. Wouldn't you *expect* liberals to complain about a conservative ruling no matter what the provenance? It seems to me irony/humor would be if a liberal court issued a liberal ruling and liberals disagreed with it for being *too* liberal (in a "what do you want/make up your mind" sort of way).

(Anyway I'm sure you agree that in this whole exchange we are of course glossing over that there are many gradations of liberal and conservative and also that people have opinions on many different axes that cannot all be neatly aligned into a liberal-vs-conservative paradigm)

[adbjupe]

Feels like a fundamental error to me if some software assumes the DNS server is in the vicinity of the users machines. Especially where not only the standard users really don't know how DNS works but also many IT experts and even sysadmins don't know either.

[evwhore]

Feels like a fundamental error to me if some software assumes the DNS server is in the vicinity of the users machines.

It does seem like a bit of an architectural flaw, but it probably assumes (and I would guess correctly in genera) that most home users use their ISP's DNS servers so the IP of the DNS client is an acceptable proxy for geolocating the download client.

Better, of course, would be a client/server handshake from the download client to get the IP address of the download instead of the IP of the DNS lookup and then hand off the actual download to a geolocated server.

many IT experts and even sysadmins don't know either.

Oh, man, you don't need to tell me. (Work thing.)

[skin_it_mahatma]

we can be as thick-skinned as some of our animal friends we try to protect, rhino, elephant et al,

but

>Heh, for my vegetarian friends, response #2.

birds falling out of the sky _possibly_ influenced by the fireworks by some rednecks, to me, is not funny.

fireworks often cause pets like cats and dogs to get scared and run away from their safe homes. you and me have been pet owners. while i agree that the owners should ensure that their pets are safe, it cannot be denied that frightening noises like this can make the pets do something you normally don't expect them to do.

[evwhore]

To be more specific, I found the 2nd response, "There are thousands of bird corpses in our supermarkets, but you don't see that making the news" to be funny in a pro-vegetarian way

[skin_it_mahatma]

thanks for the explanation

[el_jefe_rey]

...to me the (The?) Onion punchline in "American Voices" is meant to be as callous and poorly thought-out (or at least off-the-cuff) as most 'man on the street' features of any newspaper. It succeeds in this effort and is very funny, natch

[skin_it_mahatma]

"I hope this gets overturned: the California Supreme Court has ruled that police can search arrestees' cell phones without a warrant,..."

even worse:

dhs can confiscate inbound travelers' laptops without probable cause and keep them for months, right?

even if you are a US citizen?

[evwhore]

I believe that to be correct, yes. And also odious.