and you'll never be left
out of the loop again.
Posted on 06/29/2004 9:02:48 PM PDT by al baby
Can any Freeper shed some light on this
A Buddy of mine was down in T. J. this weekend, That being tiajunna Mexico Upon his return as he was going though customes he showed his I.D. and that of his wife that was with him The customes Agent looked at a beeber like device. And asked which one of them had a stress test "He had one the week before He was stuned and asked how the agent knew and the agent said its best you dont know and he let them cross no big deal
Since I don't know what a beeber is, I can't be much help. Sorry!
They'll never get past the beebers.
See #60. I'll bet that farting Bostons love beebers too.
What's a beeber?
Are they heavily regulated?
You'll take my beeber when you pry it from my cold...stuned...hands!
I'm stuned you'd think I want your beeber.
Only if it's jinuine tiajunna beeber, though...
I guess correspondence courses aren't worth the monitors they're printed on.
Probably something from tiajunna.
It could very well be. The customes down there are very different from ours.
But I was too stuned to remember what we were talking about, so I walked off with my Og into the sunset singing.
"Don't touch my bags if you please Mr customes man"
Given the state of modern technology, it is entirely possible that, hundreds of years from now, cultural anthropologists will read this thread. One must wonder as to their conclusions.
So now I guess the new inside joke word is "beeber". Usually I am the last to know. ;9}
Blackberry beeber?
Cop On The Beat Is Now A Walking Database
BOSTON (AP) - A police officer stops you on the street, then taps something into a device in the palm of his hand.
The next minute, he knows who your relatives are, who lives in your house, who your neighbors are, the kind of car you drive or boat you own, whether you've been sued and various other tidbits about your life.
Science fiction?
Hardly.
A growing number of police departments now have instant access via handheld wireless devices to vast commercial databases that contain details on just about anyone officers encounter on the beat.
In a time of terrorism worries, the information could theoretically save lives, or produce clues that an eagle-eyed cop could use to solve a case.
But placing a commercial database full of personal details at an officer's fingertips also raises troubling questions for electronic privacy activists.
``If the police went around keeping files on who you lived with and who your roommates were, I think people would be outraged,?? said Jay Stanley, a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union, ``And yet in this case, they?re not doing it, but they?re plugging into a company that is able to do it easily.??
In recent years, police departments have been testing different handheld wireless devices.
Typically, they've used the devices to gain access to law enforcement databases meant only for police that, for example, alert them when someone is wanted for arrest.
At the same time, many police departments have been using desktop computers to search commercial databases to help them learn more detailed information about people they are investigating.
These databases can hold billions of public records from a variety of sources. Thousands of law enforcement bodies now use them; five states have linked their own records with a huge commercial database in a federally funded program known as Matrix.
Now, in a convergence of the two trends, police are beginning to access the commercial databases using handheld wireless devices.
LocatePLUS Holdings Corp., a Beverly, Mass.-based company that says it maintains more than 6 billion records and has data on 98 percent of the U.S. population, announced this week that it would provide Blackberry wireless devices to state police at Logan International Airport. Two of the planes hijacked on Sept. 11, 2001, took off from Logan.
The officers can use the Blackberrys to access the LocatePlus database wherever and whenever they want, though the records don't include state and federal criminal justice databases or terrorist watch lists.
Such empowerment gains even more heft with Monday's ruling by a sharply divided Supreme Court that people who refuse to give their names to police can be arrested, even if they've done nothing wrong.
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Or just radiation?
Probably didn't feed him anything unusual. That dog is walking chemical weapons facility. :)
Get your "beeber" off me you old lech!
How was that?
Stuning. I'm just . . . just stuned.
Sorry I didn't mean to hurt your felings. {9;
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