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...knew it had a shortcoming. Apple did not provide the necessary instructions that would allow the machine to send messages to other computers by telephone. Worse still, the company had neglected to publish the technical information that would permit professional programmers to write their own software. That did not deter Brothers, an M.I.T.-trained electrical engineer who runs a computer consulting business in Wayland, Mass. He opened up the Mac, studied its circuitry and wrote a program called MacTEP that solved the problem...
...Supreme Court accepted the lower courts' determinations that both warrants were defective, but found that the police had acted in the good-faith belief that the searches they made were lawful. Justice Byron White argued that the principal justification for the exclusionary rule was to deter police misconduct. But when police have obtained what they reasonably think is a valid warrant, "there is no police illegality and thus nothing to deter," wrote White. "Penalizing the officer for the magistrate's error, rather than his own, cannot logically contribute to the deterrence of Fourth Amendment violations...
...with an airborne unit that jumped early on that unforgettable morning in June. I hope all the hawks and warmongers read your fine story. Maybe it will deter another encounter...
Violence is violence, whether it takes place in a barroom or a bedroom. It should be deplored, punished and every step should be taken to deter it. Massachusetts legislators should take a careful look at $1002 before they pass it into law: the seemingly inconsequential change in policy will do nothing to prevent domestic violence and may well encourage...
...Olympics to survive their geopolitical wars, there should be a) a single permanent site (Greece seems the favorite), and b) a denationalizing of the events (no flags, anthems or colors; just individual names). If nations are serious about mucking up the Games, however, a single site would not deter them. No permanent location would prevent an act of terrorism such as made a tragedy of Munich in 1972. And if the will is there, an individual name can take on the magnitude or onus of a nation...