February 2008

Well, I had read about this a while back, but a recent Slashdot post brought it to my attention again. Did you know that the US Government convinced printer manufacturers to encode every page of a document with a pattern of yellow dots to identify the printer (and user)? If that doesn’t give you an [...]

Over the years, this issue has come up time and time again. Most ISP’s (internet service providers) now block port 25, which is the outbound email (SMTP) port. In the name of trying to “help block spam”, they make it a huge headache for customers who use their own domain or another email provider. If [...]

————————Note: This blog is about the subject in general – not meant to be taken personally by the one who just sent me the email.———————— Ok everyone. Please STOP sending this crap to me. I can only hit “reply all” and send refutes about these urban legends so many times before I get really tired [...]

Imagine that police arrest an individual for a simple traffic infraction, such as running a stop sign. Under the search incident to arrest doctrine, officers are entitled to search the body of the person they are arresting to ensure that he does not have any weapons or will not destroy any evidence. The search incident [...]