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• On the post: Massachusetts' Top Court Says Warrants Are Needed For Real-Time Cell Site Location Info

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2019 @ 06:41am

  Re: Re: Well, it's sort of a no-brainer

  And the Government would have them rounded up as terrorists, tossed in Guantanamo, and tortured for giving us freedom instead of happiness. (And now it's time for me to go write a gritty reboot of the 'Grand Inquisitor' from Karamazov... or better yet, not write it and just sue anyone who does.)

• On the post: Massachusetts' Top Court Says Warrants Are Needed For Real-Time Cell Site Location Info

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 26 Apr, 2019 @ 08:03am

  Massachusetts isn't in the 8th Circuit, so at least they can still put chalk marks on people's cell phones

• On the post: ICE, CBP Want To Sit With The Adults, Angling For Entrance Into The Intelligence Community

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 25 Apr, 2019 @ 05:05am

  Fridge Brilliance/Paranoia

  This densely-worded flow of contradictions has raised concerns in the civil liberties community. (It should raise concerns elsewhere, but it almost always starts here.) What it sounds like is potentially-unlawful domestic surveillance.

  1. ICE and CBP are part of DHS.
  2. DHS is headquartered in the Nebraska Avenue Complex.
  3. The NAC is in Washington DC.
  4. DC is within 100 miles of a border, so it falls within the "Constitution Free Zone".
  5. Everything these guys do is fine.

• On the post: Federal Agent: Using A Taped Box To Send Stuff Overnight Via FedEx Is Suspicious Behavior

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 24 Apr, 2019 @ 01:06pm

  Based on information and experience, task force officers can easily identify suspicious packages with indicators, such as newly-bought boxes bought from the shipping company, overnight shipping, and excessive taping at the seams of the box.

  Many shippers of questionable materials (based on information and experience... or 10 minutes on Reddit) are also aware of these indicators, and avoid them by using old boxes, taping the seams from the inside, and/or vacuum packing the contents with a run of the mill food sealer from walmart.

  Law Enforcement Corollary: Old, lightly taped, odorless boxes are highly suspicious and worthy of investigation.

• On the post: State Investigator Granted Immunity For Hours-Long Detention Of Doctor At Gunpoint During A Search For Medical Records

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2019 @ 06:14pm

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  So, as I understand QI, if you killed the President, obviously you are going to fry. But the Trump estate and/or his family could not sue a cop for the assassination... Unless he's killed in Ford's Theatre or Dealy Plaza.

• On the post: State Investigator Granted Immunity For Hours-Long Detention Of Doctor At Gunpoint During A Search For Medical Records

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2019 @ 04:56pm

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  Okorie sought recertification. The board agreed to meet with him but also sought an administrative warrant to search his medical office for evidence it needed to make a determination on his recertification. Page 3 of the Fifth Circuit's Decision: No criminal sanctions are associated with any of the cited provisions.

• On the post: Scribd's Takedown Of The Public Domain Mueller Report Is A Preview Of The EU's Future Under The Copyright Directive

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2019 @ 04:37pm

  Re: Re: Re: Nerd Harder. -- Re-Write Harder.

  I remain confident, however, that we will reach the asymptote of filtering filters prior to exhausting all computational capacity on the planet. I believe it's possible to nest countably infinite filtering filters if you use blockchain. Uncountably infinite ff's require blockchain plus 5G, I believe.

• On the post: City Of Marathon Hand-Waves Stupid Cease And Desist Sent By Councilman Over City Seal

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2019 @ 07:53pm

  It's enough to make you wonder if one of you fair folk simply sent Migut a copy of our post on the topic, because he basically tracks the arguments we made. I shudder to think what the reaction from Senmartin will be, given the brash displays of ignorance in the past

  Senmartin will stay parallel with Mitgut and react by incoherently ranting to the City Council about Common Law?

• On the post: Scribd's Takedown Of The Public Domain Mueller Report Is A Preview Of The EU's Future Under The Copyright Directive

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 22 Apr, 2019 @ 10:25am

  Re: Re:

  I don't think he was making a point, I think he was making an obtuse.

• On the post: Supreme Court Again Ducks A Chance To Clarify First Amendment Protections

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2019 @ 08:29am

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  Page 16, https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.documentcloud.org/documents/2090907/13-983-7l48.pdf

• On the post: Tennessee Sheriff Defends Department's Armored Vehicle With A String Of Non Sequiturs

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 19 Apr, 2019 @ 07:56am

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  To date, American cops have never faced such threats, anywhere, ever, yet they want to be prepared for fighting a battle they'll never face Of course, they might have a long-term plan that involves manufacturing the sort of confrontational environment in which they will face the sort of threats that would justify using MRAPs (and more).

• On the post: Tennessee Sheriff Defends Department's Armored Vehicle With A String Of Non Sequiturs

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2019 @ 07:24pm

  Re: Could have been worse...

  Of course now that they've been publicly called out about not using their MRAP in a situation where two officers were injured, you can bet they'll be deploying it for everything from a loud sneeze on up.

• On the post: Very Little In Trump's 'Bold' New Rural Broadband Plan Is Actually New

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2019 @ 09:36pm

  Last week the Trump administration and the Ajit Pai FCC held a major press conference announcing a "bold" new three-pronged program they claimed would address the nation's longstanding rural broadband issues.

  Based on that picture, I've gotta assume that one of those prongs includes a plan for "Graboid Casualty Mitigation".

• On the post: Devin Nunes Has Filed A Second Bullshit Defamation Lawsuit Telling You All About A News Article He Doesn't Want You To Read

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2019 @ 09:16pm

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  Usually what the lawyers do is have supposedly disconnected third parties do their dirtywork, but the dots are very easy to connect. Careful, sometimes those dots turn out to be nothing but flecks of spittle on the monitor. I'm not saying that this is always the case, but it might be worth double-checking... triple-checking, if the connector lines have been drawn with feces or blood.

• On the post: Federal Court Says Teen's 'Fuck Cheer' Is Protected Speech

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 04 Apr, 2019 @ 03:51pm

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  Statement that has not, and never will be, uttered seriously: "I didn't get the job! They found out I used the word 'fuck' when I was a teenager!"

• On the post: Sheriff Decides The Best Way To Prep Teachers For School Shootings Is To Frighten And Injure Them

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2019 @ 04:39pm

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  “I really believe I’d run in, even if I didn’t have a weapon" Wait Mr. President! Think about it! I mean, there's a very slim chance you might miraculously save a lot of lives, but there's a very good chance you'll just get your head blown o... On second thought, go for it. Win/win for the rest of us.

• On the post: Sheriff Decides The Best Way To Prep Teachers For School Shootings Is To Frighten And Injure Them

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 25 Mar, 2019 @ 04:16pm

  Re: Re: Re:

  Yes, exactly. Mandatory basic training and a couple years service for everyone.

  Service guarantees citizenship? Read better books, you bowb.

• On the post: Officer's Body Cam Fails To Capture Footage Of Woman Shooting Herself In The Head While Her Hands Were Cuffed Behind Her

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2019 @ 02:57pm

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  It's not like hardened, field-ready, active-service police gear can be expected to match the reliability of consumer grade gopros.

• On the post: Officer's Body Cam Fails To Capture Footage Of Woman Shooting Herself In The Head While Her Hands Were Cuffed Behind Her

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 19 Mar, 2019 @ 02:45pm

  Re: Re: Re: Re: You don't know the truth are just smearing cops

  Oh, shit. I forgot that we're not the credulous morons they think we are. (I also forgot to log in, which means the implicit 's' that goes with my screenname was absent.)

• On the post: Does Twitter Have An Anti-Conservative Bias, Or Just An Anti-Nazi Bias?

  

  sporaderic ( profile ), 22 Feb, 2019 @ 07:06pm

  Re: Another day

  Another BestNetTech water-carrying article defending hatred of free thought when it doesn't align left. And another pseudo-conservative decrying the right of private businesses to refuse service to whomsoever they choose, when those refused happen to align right. (Even if there's insufficient evidence to show that that's happening in this case.)

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