Another TSA Officer Leaves Personalized Note In Passenger's Bag After Finding Marijuana

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Apparently, a TSA officer getting fired for leaving a personalized note in a passenger's bag has not deterred other employees at the Transportation Security Administration from editorializing on the contents of the bags they screen. This time, though, the TSA officer did the passenger a favor, by not turning him in for traveling with illegal substances. Indiana rapper Freddie Gibbs had packed marijuana in his checked luggage; when his bag was screened, the TSA officer must have noted Gibbs' unique interpretation of the "mile high club." On the official note informing Gibbs that his bag had been inspected, the officer allegedly wrote, "C'mon son." fake oakleys outlet

Gibbs did not take the avuncular advice very seriously, instead providing photographic evidence of his possession and transportation of illegal substances over state lines via Twitter:

Gibbs tweeted about the note on Wednesday, likely after flying to Denver to perform that night. While certainly a less intrusive note than "Get Your Freak On, Girl" (the one left by a TSA officer who discovered a vibrator), I imagine this TSA officer is going to get into double trouble for both leaving the note, and failing to act after finding something illegal in someone's bag.

" TSA takes all allegations of inappropriate conduct seriously and is investigating this claim," says a spokesperson for the TSA. " Should the claims be substantiated, TSA will take appropriate disciplinary steps and refer the alleged possession of an illegal substance to law enforcement."

Friends, this is why we don't tweet evidence that can be used against us (and those who did us a favor) in a court of law.

Given that two notes to figures with large online audiences have surfaced, I'm now starting to wonder how often other people (without Twitter accounts or blogs to showcase their notes) are getting personalized messages from officers.

We already waste enough time resources arresting almost 800,000 people every year for marijuana possession (yes, that's true, straight from the FBI annual Uniform Crime Report for nationwide arrest statistics). Christian Louboutin Sale

Meanwhile, do a quick search of your local sex offender online registry to see how many rapists were released from prison and moved into your neighborhood, because we release violent predators just to make bed space in jail for people who inhale smoke from a plant and get lazy from it.

TSA has enough to do, with trying to prevent terrorist hijackings, weapons, and other dangers to airline passengers. And frankly, the extent of privacy violations that includes photographing adults and children through their clothing is already bad enough, we don't need to add warrantless policing to the list. cheap oakleys

It's worth checking out the court opinion that kyllo links, in which a federal judge suppressed evidence in that case, lots and lots of cash that was found during a TSA screen, because the search violated the passenger's right to be free of unreasonable searches. The TSA flagged an Ohio passenger for secondary screening and then did a thorough hand search of his bag, after already having ascertained there were no weapons or explosives on him or in his bag. While ruling for the passenger in that case, the judge does say it shouldn't be interpreted as a universal right to carry 'safe' contraband in your bags when traveling. "The mere fact that contraband other than weapons or explosives is found during an airport screening search does not itself render the search unconstitutional," wrote the judge. Louboutin Replicas

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Somehow HTC Wildfire (and maybe the others) need something more from the system than Samsung devices. Simple solution is to run Eclipse as a root, but this is not very comfortable with non sudo Linux systems like Fedora. wholesale nhl jerseys

I've found another way of achieving the same goal, which seems to be more user friendly and is lesser security hole then running entire IDE with super user privileges. Mind this is still only a workaround of the problem. System root usage should be minimalized only to administrative tasks, and "adb" was designed to work with normal user account without SUID. Despite of the fact that the proper setting of SUID is quite secure, every single permission increase is a potential system security hole. /dev/bus/usb/001/115 (your bus number and device address will vary). This is sometimes linked and used from /dev/android_adb.

lsusb will help to find bus number and device address. one physical port ends up on one logical bus or another).

An lsusb line looks similar to this:

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PS2: Unrelated to this question, but less well known: adb has a fixed list of vendor ids it goes through. Not needed here, as you don't even get a "no permissions" if the vendor id is not known. cheap nhl jerseys

The device is unpermissioned until you accept the RSA encryption warning on the debugged device. At some point after connecting, the device will ask to accept the debugging connection. It's a minimal security protocol that ensures you can access the device beyond the initial swipe lock. Developer mode needs to be enabled, I believe.

The "no permissions" flag is actually a good first indicator that adb recognizes the device as a valid debugging target. Notice that it doesn't list your other USB devices. If you have devices from more than one manufacture, say like one from Samsung and one from HTC, then you need to have an entry(rule) for each vendor, not an entry for each device but for each different vendor you will use, so you need an entry for HTC and Samsung. It looks like you have your entry for Samsung now you need another. Use 'lsusb' like Robert Seimer suggests to find the idVendor and idProduct, they are usually some numbers and letters in this format XX:XX I think the first one is the idVendor and the second idProduct but your going to need to do this for each brand of phone/tablet you have.

4) maybe try adding "plugdev" group to your user with "usermod a G plugdev your_user", Try that at your own risk, though I don't thinks it anyriskier than launching a gui as root but I believe if necessary you should at least use "gksudo eclipse" instead.

I hope that helped clearify some things, the udev rules syntax is a bit of a mystery to me aswell, but from what I hear it can be different for different systems so try some things out, one ate a time, and note what change works.

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PHOENIX (AP) Hundreds of bus drivers overwhelming rejected a proposed labor contract Wednesday, setting the stage for a midnight strike that would shut down service in several Phoenix area cities.

Amalgamated Transit Union Local 1433 said about 95 percent of the almost 400 drivers it represents voted to reject the proposed agreement with First Transit Inc.

A strike would stop bus service on 40 routes in Tempe, Mesa, Chandler and Gilbert, plus some routes in Scottsdale and Ahwatukee Foothills, and express service from those communities to downtown Phoenix and Scottsdale.

The routes serve an estimated 57,000 bus riders daily. Valley Metro warned passengers who use the affected routes to prepare to use alternative travel options Thursday.

Valley Metro has 101 Phoenix area bus routes, and service within Phoenix wasn't expected to be affected by a strike. Light rail service also isn't affected, and Valley Metro said train service could be increased depending on demand. cheap jerseys china

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Union officials said drivers were asked to accept significant hikes in health care contributions and Valley Metro RPTA wanted greater rights to fire union members.

A strike in March 2012 crippled bus service in metropolitan Phoenix for six days before it was settled. That labor dispute involved more than 600 Phoenix drivers and another 310 in Tempe who work for Veolia Transportation Services. It affected 50 routes on the combined Valley Metro regional bus service.

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