“Essentially, they are seeking to have the ability to convince people to comply by providing their fingerprints to law enforcement under the color of law – because of the fact that they already have a warrant. They want to leverage this warrant to induce compliance by people they decide are suspects later on. This would be an unbelievably audacious abuse of power if it were permitted.”

@kdfrawg It's being dismantled. Plain and simple. And people are too busy concentrating on idiocy to notice.

“They want the ability to get a warrant on the assumption that they will learn more after they have a warrant,”

If this doesn't, at the very least, set off an alarm or two, you're a damned fool.

While everyone is being distracted from this idiotic circus called an election..

DOJ demanding mass seizure of fingerprints to open iPhones [forbes.com]

Wake the Hell up, America. Please.

Win, place or show?

#NationalPastaDay
Nomatter how you twirl, slurp or slice it - it's time to celebrate!

I set trends to Chiba, Japan.
I know for a fact that fake Italian food is NOT trending in Chiba, Japan.

Devuan GNU+Linux

I used to scoff at that GNU bit. However, with the nonsense of systemd, I think there's a valid distinction to be made now. At least in this case.

Not interested enough to try it but I wish them all the luck in the world.

My office went from as dim as a bar to bright as an operating room so there's some truth in that. :)

//

We just enjoyed a low-brow dinner of cheeseburgers and tater tots. Chocolate cupcakes are next, I think.

@kdfrawg Futzing ceased being fun when surface mount stations became a requirement.

// @skematica