Not much on the blogs today, you'd
think it was a holiday or something...
Thank
God Maury Nichols sent me this article or I wouldn't have
anything interesting to blog about.
Judge
Orders Drug Evidence Suppressed in Warrantless GPS Tracking Case
A federal judge in Kentucky this week
upheld a lower court's decision to throw out crucial evidence in a
drug case because the evidence was gathered with the help of a GPS
tracking device that was installed without a warrant on the suspect's
vehicle.
In a 19-page ruling Tuesday, Judge Amul
Thapar of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of
Kentucky wrote that Robert Lee's constitutional rights were violated
when drug enforcement agents illegally tracked his car and then
seized 150 pounds of marijuana from it.
Thapar granted Lee's motion to suppress
the evidence, noting that it had been obtained purely as the result
of a fishing expedition. "In this case, the DEA agents had
their fishing poles out to catch Lee.," Thapar wrote.
"Admittedly, the agents did not intend to break the law. But
they installed a GPS device on Lee's car without a warrant 'in
the hope that something might turn up,'" he said.
Can you believe the New York Times has
a cartoon section? This one is on NYPD Drones...
Who says lawyers don't have a sense of
humor? (Almost everyone, actually.) Perhaps a new legal
specialization: Zombie Law
What
are the tax implications of the zombie apocalypse?
Chodorow, a professor at Arizona State
University's Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law, authored the paper
"Death
and Taxes...and Zombies," which will appear in a forthcoming
issue of the Iowa Law Review. Chodorow notes that, while
the CDC is ready for the zombie apocalypse, the United States
Congress has shown no such foresight, leaving us to question whether
zombies, vampires, and other members of the undead class will have
their estates transferred upon undeath or be able to collect income
tax. To rectify that oversight, Chodorow looks, in all earnestness,
to existing legal precedent.
For my Math students. All their work
is online and I don't want their brains to explode...
… The two key elements of being
able to manage your day in the browser are being able to actually see
how you’re spending your time, and then being able to force
yourself to manage that time more effectively. Mind the Time does
the former and Time Limiter does the latter.
Mind the Time
achieves a very simple goal for the user:
Keep track of
how much time you spend on the web, and where you spend it. A ticker
shows (1) time spent at the current site and (2) total time spent on
the web today. A summary page shows data for today and the past
seven days.
You’re able to
pay attention to your remaining time if you’ve set up a lock rule.
The time remaining is displayed in the title bar. When your time is
up, the page is immediately blocked
For all my students.
If you are having issues allocating
time to different tasks and getting distracted easily, give
BringFocus a try.
… Once installed, select the time
you want to spend on one task and the reason for using the time. You
must finish the task before the timer runs down to zero. It also
tracks the total amount of time spent on all tasks, so that you will
know how much time you’ve worked.
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