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• On the post: RIAA Calls 4th Amendment Passe: Pushes For Warrantless Searches

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 May, 2011 @ 10:59am

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  I'm not sure this warrantless search violates the Fourth Amendment. Recall that the Amendment allows warrantless searches in certain circumstances, including some administrative searches, so long as they are "reasonable." From the Supreme Court:
  
  I think you're confusing the constitution with the supreme court.

• On the post: RIAA Calls 4th Amendment Passe: Pushes For Warrantless Searches

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 May, 2011 @ 10:56am

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  I've noticed how anyone who is conservative or right of centre doesn't give a damn about anything but that enormous pile of money they worship.
  
  Clearly, painting 50% of the US population as evil with one brush stroke is an entirely rationale position founded in fact. Now all we need is some birther to come in here and claim that "'dem liber-UH-ls are destroying our country!", and the ignorant, partisan, internet hackery will have come full circle.

• On the post: 4th Amendment? What 4th Amendment? Supremes Say Police Can Create Conditions To Enter Home Without A Warrant

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 May, 2011 @ 08:01am

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  SWAT Team Guns Down Marine
  
  He survived two tours in Iraq, but a SWAT team filled him full of holes. What chance do you think you have?

• On the post: 4th Amendment? What 4th Amendment? Supremes Say Police Can Create Conditions To Enter Home Without A Warrant

  

  Chris ( profile ), 18 May, 2011 @ 07:59am

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  Sadly, the ends justify the means.
  
  Then the constitution means nothing and we should stop pretending.

• On the post: The PROTECT IP Act Is About The Old Media Industry Going To War With The Internet

  

  Chris ( profile ), 16 May, 2011 @ 01:23pm

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  they license their content to all sorts of internet music businesses.
  
  At rates that threaten to put those businesses out of business? Yes, great adaptation on their part.

• On the post: Julian Assange Doesn't Do Irony Well: Threatens His Own Internal Leakers With $20 Million Penalty

  

  Chris ( profile ), 13 May, 2011 @ 07:22am

  The Answer is Obvious

  We need to register wikileaksleaks.com ASAP!

• On the post: Court Slams FBI For Saying It's Okay For The Federal Government To Lie To A Court

  

  Chris ( profile ), 06 May, 2011 @ 04:49pm

  Re: Response to: DannyB on May 6th, 2011 @ 1:28pm

  "The Hunted". That was a good episode, actually.

• On the post: Labor Board Continues To Warn Companies Not To Fire People Based On Tweets

  

  Chris ( profile ), 05 May, 2011 @ 08:34am

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  This. Completely and totally.

• On the post: Utah Legislators Want Extra Tax For Owners Of Hybrid & Electric Vehicles

  

  Chris ( profile ), 04 May, 2011 @ 11:01am

  Much Like . . .

  . . . how we pump billions into new fuel sources and yet subsidize gas companies at the same time.

• On the post: Utah Legislators Want Extra Tax For Owners Of Hybrid & Electric Vehicles

  

  Chris ( profile ), 04 May, 2011 @ 11:00am

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  I support this. Remove all these indirect taxes and just tax people for what they actually use.

• On the post: No Punishment For Bogus DMCA Notices If Service Provider Doesn't Take Down The Content

  

  Chris ( profile ), 04 May, 2011 @ 08:51am

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  Man, I wished they applied the same logic to all IP cases.
  
  "You say he downloaded a song? What are the actual damages on that? Defendant, you owe the RIAA one dollar."

• On the post: How One Startup Used Patents To Kill A (Better) Competitor

  

  Chris ( profile ), 04 May, 2011 @ 08:50am

  Re: Shocked! Shocked, I say!

  Let's get this straight. The patent system is designed to protect innovators from copycats. And someone got a patent and then sued a copycat. It must be a slow news day for you, Mike.
  
  What if it wasn't even a valid patent lawsuit in the first place, but was just filed to scare off investors?

• On the post: DailyDirt: Foods For Thought

  

  Chris ( profile ), 03 May, 2011 @ 08:09pm

  Mmmmm

  Yet more proof that bacon is impossible to resist! I wonder if it would be good with tilapia . . .

• On the post: Blog Posts About Crusing Around The Caribbean On New Boyfriend's Sailboat Leads To Alimony Reduction

  

  Chris ( profile ), 03 May, 2011 @ 08:51am

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  There is still a huge pay gap for women doing the same jobs as men
  
  Not if you account for all factors, iirc. If you look at women who are career-oriented and childless (i.e. like most men), you find that women make more for the same job.

• On the post: Texas Legislature Looks To Make TSA Groping Procedures Illegal

  

  Chris ( profile ), 03 May, 2011 @ 08:15am

  Hmmm

  Seems like it wouldn't go very far due to the Supremacy Clause (if we assume that there is a clear mandate for the TSA to do these "searches" in federal law). If the law doesn't spell out how they must conduct themselves, and these searches are simply TSA policy, it might have an affect.
  
  Maybe an actual lawyer can weigh in here.

• On the post: Chris Rhodes Favorite Techdirt Stories Of The Week

  

  Chris ( profile ), 30 Apr, 2011 @ 07:42pm

  Re: Nicely done.

  You have no idea how hard it was to resist making a Zelda joke while writing this. :)

• On the post: DailyDirt: The End of Men?

  

  Chris ( profile ), 29 Apr, 2011 @ 10:10pm

  Bah

  Scott Adams did not "compare women to the mentally handicapped". He simply said that the strategies for dealing with both of those groups were similar for a man, in that there was no way to win the fight.
  
  Ironically, the firestorm of indignation that resulted from his post proved his point; from the moment he started typing, there was a hand behind a keyboard getting ready to make a federal case out of every word. He literally couldn't win.

• On the post: Hitch Your Wagon

  

  Chris ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2011 @ 11:03pm

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  Its not just you. That extra sentence made the comic 10x funnier.

• On the post: The Massive Treasure Trove Of Historic Jazz Recordings That Almost No One Has Heard… Thanks To Copyright

  

  Chris ( profile ), 28 Apr, 2011 @ 07:59am

  Once Again

  Once again it's up to the pirates to "promote the progress". Someone "accidentally" leak a copy somewhere. We'll do the rest.

• On the post: Is It Rude To Link To Someone Without First Asking Permission?

  

  Chris ( profile ), 27 Apr, 2011 @ 02:05pm

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  Lol, easily discovered sock puppets ftw!

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