Going Through the Garbage

frankejames writes "This is a very funny piece on how Portland politicians said it was okay for police to seize a citizen's garbage without a search warrant. But when some reporters swiped their garbage (and reported the contents!) they screamed foul play! Read Portland's top brass said it was OK to swipe your garbage--so we grabbed theirs."

Good Lord!

[tempest303]

Only 4 troll posts so far, and already their webserver has melted!

Are they being hosted by that "webserver-on-a-gameboy" guy, or what?

Re:Good Lord!

[Stroman Rebar]

Yeah, but to be fair, they were running it on a gameboy advanced.

Re:They have every right

[Jardine]

I think that's the "do as I say, not as I do" law.

Dumpster

[CyanideHD]

This gives new meaning to Dumpster Diving.

GIGO...

[cqnn]

Garbage In, Garbage Out...

Re:text from site

[Mitchell Mebane]

Wrong! The *full* text from the site is as follows:

Error connecting to site

The Proxomitron couldn't connect to...
www.wweek.com/flatfiles/News3485.lasso
The site may be busy or the web server may be down.

Has to be done

[psi_diddy]

All your garbage are belong to us!

Re:Here is the article

[Anonymous Coward]

thank you very much for posting that text i really enjoyed reading it and was afraid i wouldn't get a chance since the server is slashdotted why slashdot doesn't create their own cache to avoid this problem is completely beyond me thank you once again for your service to this community i will place you in my friends list sircrashalot

Re:They have every right

[Skyshadow]

On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog.

Being a seventh grader, on the other hand, seems far more easy to detect.

slashdotted

[reitoei1971]

perhaps they grabbed the server out of the garbage?

Re:Seems to me there is a difference...

[Milican]

Have you seen one of those tampon shredders at Office Max? Or should we all incinerate our trash now too... Going through trash without a warrant in my opinion is a violation of the Constitution of the United States of America. I am not a lawyer, but I am an American citizen and that is my interpretation.

JOhn

Re:Anthro

[YetAnotherDave]

>The lying on these surveys is astounding.

really? I've always thought that telling the truth
on those surveys was a bit odd. I mean, what's my
incentive for giving true answers?

Re:Good Lord!

[AgentTim3]

Haha. And by getting modded up with that sig, you've also melted your own website! [upevil.net]

Ah, the price of being witty on /. :)

Oregon laws

[kEnder242]

The weirdest part about moving to oregon is learning that you can't pump your own gas.
(yes, it is illegal to get out of your car and fill up).
That and no sales tax, but you get used to it.

Re:I got into a fight with a garbage guy once

[litewoheat]

Its illegal to do the teamster's job of taking away trash. If too many people trash-pick, then there won't be enough jobs for the teamsters. Gotta love those unions.

If anyone has tradeshow setup experience you'll be nodding your heads right about now

That's Gotta Hurt

[limekiller4]

From the article [slashdot.org] :
"Chinese takeout boxes and junk-food wrappers testify to a busy lifestyle with little time to cook. A Post-it note even lays bare someone's arithmetic skills (the addition is solid, but the long division needs work)."

Ouch.

Re:I don't get it

[richie2000]

In what situations can police beat or shoot people where ordinary citizens can't?

When there are no ordinary citizens with camcorders around.

Simple solution.

[grub]

If you live in Portland just start flushing your garbage down the toilet and shitting in your garbage can.

are you mad or stupid?

[DrSkwid]

How can you make that huge leap of inference?

How is that not consistent with :

a: "Hey, I brought you a porno mag"
b: "er, thanks"

b throws it in the trash when a leaves

or

a: "son, this is a pornographic magazine and this is what I think of them"

a throws magazine in trash

or

a: "hey, look the printed some writing of mine in Playboy. Bah, I'm going to have to throw it in the trash in case someone finds it and thinks I'm into porno"

a throws magazine in trash

Privacy quote

[LunarOne]

"The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter,--but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement!" ---William Pitt, earl of Chatham

Wellll...unless there's incriminating garbage at the end of your driveway.

simple solution

[Anonymous Coward]

Everybody should just start planting suspicious items into their garbage.

Lasso sites?

[Anonymous Coward]

From the Blue World 'analysis' of Lasso versus PHP:
"The Lasso vs PHP report shows how Lasso Professional 5 beats PHP," said Bill Doerrfeld, CEO of Blue World. "This white paper will further increase awareness as to the significant performance, ease-of-use, architecture, security and total cost of ownership benefits of using Lasso over competing offerings such as PHP."

Uh, sure it fucking does. Scaled like a fucking champ here.

Re:I know I'm too late to be moderated or seen, bu

[nathanh]

Hypocracy has reached it's peak in the 'land of the free'.

Hypocracy? WTF is that? A ruling class of syringes?

Re:Fraud?

[mrmud]

... Don't think that just burning your receipts is sufficient, the ink can be recovered with chemical processes if the ashes are intact, so you still need to pulverise the results, so why not skip the burning stage and just pulverise them correctly in the first place.

Let me guess... Ex-Enron? :)

Re:Anthro

[IOOOOOI]

Sometimes, when my own garbage cans are full, I put my overflow in the neighbor's can. They do the same thing. Taints the "chain of possesion" doesn't it? Also, my trash is kept behind a locked gate until the night before collection. My dog will bark insanely if an unauthorized leaf lands on my property, so the only way anyone could pilfer my trash without alerting me would be to do it just before the garbage truck arrives (while it's approaching noise masks any sounds made by a scavenger).