http://www.pogowasright.org/article.php?story=20090607051528753
NY: Taser use to obtain DNA not unconstitutional
Sunday, June 07 2009 @ 05:15 AM EDT Contributed by: PrivacyNews
A decision by Falls Police to use a Taser to obtain a DNA sample from a suspect in an armed robbery, shooting and kidnapping is not unconstitutional. Niagara County Court Judge Sara Sheldon Sperrazza reached that conclusion in a 16 page decision handed down Wednesday that refused to dismiss an indictment against Ryan Smith and denied his request to have DNA evidence that links him to two separate criminal cases thrown out.
Source - Niagara Gazette
[From the article:
“She’s the first judge in western civilization to say you can use a Taser to enforce a court order,” Balkin said.
… After detectives and officers tried to get Smith to comply with the court order, and he refused, they drive stunned him with a Taser and then took the DNA sample.
Balkin had argued that the use of the Taser to get Smith to give up the DNA sample violated his constitutional right against an unreasonable search and seizure. Sperrazza ruled that the police action was reasonable.
This should prove amusing... (If you are going to rig an election, be sure to hire people who can count!)
Sequoia Disclosing Voting System Source To DC
Posted by timothy on Sunday June 07, @08:11AM from the watch-whether-my-pity-meter-twitches dept. government security usa politics
buzzinglikeafridge writes
"After Sequoia voting machines registered more votes than there were voters in DC's primaries last September, and the city threatened a lawsuit as a result, the company agreed to disclose technical details of the system (including source code) to the city. Although this isn't the first time the company has disclosed the source code of its machines, it is the first time the machines' blueprints will be handed over as well."
What does this tell us about ourselves? Use of the Internet (the greatest tool for interpersonal research ever invented) is rarely analyzed.
On Twitter, Most People Are Sheep: 80 Percent Of Accounts Have Fewer Than 10 Followers
by Erick Schonfeld on June 6, 2009
… A full 80 percent of Twitter accounts have fewer than 10 followers, according to an analysis of seven million Twitter accounts provided to TechCrunch by Web security firm Purewire (which operates TweetGrade). What’s more, 30 percent have zero followers.
… The fact that an estimated 32 million people around the world visited Twitter.com alone in April certainly indicates that there is something going on there. It just may be that Twitter really isn’t as much about two-way micro-conversations as it is about one-way micro-broadcasting. Indeed, a recent Harvard Business School study suggested that the top 10 percent of Twitter users produce more than 90 percent of all Tweets.
Related I'm pretty sure there is sex in India. I don't understand why they would want to block search access... I'd speculate there was an “Ignorance is Bliss” political party, but that attitude seems to be common to all of them.
Microsoft's Bing Refuses Search Term "Sex" In India
Posted by timothy on Saturday June 06, @08:12PM from the back-to-spontaneous-generation dept. censorship microsoft internet
An anonymous reader writes
"Apparently Microsoft is censoring search results for bing in India and other countries. If you try to search for the term 'sex,' along with lots of variations, from India using Microsoft's new search engine, an error message is returned that says, 'the search sex may return sexually explicit content. To get results, change your search terms.' There's no preference setting or toggle-on-or-off choice; you simply cannot search for the term 'sex' in India if you are using bing. While a user still can change their country and try the non-Indian version of bing, this seems like an unnecessary step and unnecessary censorship on the part of Microsoft. Apparently Google has no problem with Indians searching for the term 'sex.'"
Does it occur to anyone else that we are losing our lead (falling behind?) in cutting edge technology? Perhaps most people think the Chinese are going into space just so they can wear “My probe went to Mars, and all I got was this T-shirt”
http://science.slashdot.org/story/09/06/06/221243/Chinas-First-Mars-Probe-Ready-To-Launch?from=rss
China's First Mars Probe Ready To Launch
Posted by timothy on Saturday June 06, @07:01PM from the kazakhstan-facility-of-space-object-tossing-very-nice dept. mars space science
henrypijames writes
"At the Shanghai Aerospace Exhibition last week, China's first Mars probe Yinghuo-1 was the main attraction. The newly completed probe will soon be sent to Moscow for some further testing, before a joint launch with Russia's own probe Phobos-Grunt from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan this October."
Perhaps we could send this to data breach “victims” so they could see who is hacking them?
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An interesting tool for my website students
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