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1.Why Should I Care That No One’s Reading Dzhokhar Tsarnaev His Miranda Rights? (slate.com)
377 points by mojaveblues on April 20, 2013 | 256 comments
2.Verlet-js - Open source dynamic body physics engine (subprotocol.com)
325 points by subprotocol on April 20, 2013 | 53 comments
3.CipherCloud used DMCA Takedown on StackExchange discussion of their cryptography (crypto.stackexchange.com)
249 points by rdl on April 20, 2013 | 81 comments
4.Breaking News is broken (slate.com)
210 points by thm on April 20, 2013 | 109 comments
5.Mystery Aircraft Parts and Atomic Clocks (m0tei.co.uk)
195 points by kierank on April 20, 2013 | 18 comments
6.Richard Stallman response to Boston Police efforts (pastebin.com)
158 points by magic5227 on April 20, 2013 | 253 comments

You shouldn't care. Because not reading someone under arrest the Miranda warning is constitutionally irrelevant in and of itself. It only acquires relevance if the government seeks to have the statements admitted at trial.

Discussing the similar case of Faisal Shahzad, who attempted to bomb Times Square, Orin Kerr, a law professor who is an expert on the 4th Amendment wrote:

"Importantly, though, it would not have violated Shahzad’s constitutional rights to not read him his Miranda rights. A lot of people assume that the police are required to read a suspect his rights when he is arrested. That is, they assume that one of a person’s rights is the right to be read their rights. It often happens that way on Law & Order, but that’s not what the law actually requires. Under Chavez v. Martinez, 538 U.S. 760 (2003), it is lawful for the police to not read a suspect his Miranda rights, interrogate him, and then obtain a statement that would be inadmissible in court. Chavez holds that a person’s constitutional rights are violated only if the prosecution tries to have the statement admitted in court. See id. at 772-73. Indeed, the prosecution is even allowed to admit any physical evidence discovered as a fruit of the statement obtained in violation of Miranda — only the actual statement is excluded. See United States v. Patane, 542 U.S. 630 (2004). So while it may sound weird, it turns out that obtaining a statement outside Miranda but not admitting it in court is lawful."

Oops, link: http://www.volokh.com/2010/05/05/shahzad-and-miranda-rights/

8.Razer will not cancel 90%-off test coupons (facebook.com)
145 points by arcatek on April 20, 2013 | 66 comments
9.Security theater martial law and a tale that trumps every cop-n-donut joke ever (popehat.com)
136 points by dfc on April 20, 2013 | 174 comments
10.Damn Excel – How the 'most important application' is ruining the world (cnn.com)
133 points by akkartik on April 20, 2013 | 174 comments
11.Fox Censors Cory Doctorow’s “Homeland” Novel From Google (torrentfreak.com)
127 points by fraqed on April 20, 2013 | 42 comments
12.PG chooses healthcare non-profit Watsi as his first board seat (thenextweb.com)
129 points by sethbannon on April 20, 2013 | 31 comments
13.Ask PG: Has HN ever received a DMCA Takedown Notice?
128 points by jcr on April 20, 2013 | 49 comments
14.Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition Linux Ultrabook review (arstechnica.com)
124 points by smacktoward on April 20, 2013 | 140 comments

Sir Thomas More: What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil?

William Roper: Yes, I'd cut down every law in England to do that!

Sir Thomas More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned 'round on you, where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country is planted thick with laws, from coast to coast, Man's laws, not God's! And if you cut them down, and you're just the man to do it, do you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake!

16.The Square Root of Not (americanscientist.org)
108 points by ColinWright on April 20, 2013 | 25 comments
17.A new search engine (samuru.com)
105 points by trishume on April 20, 2013 | 103 comments
18.Why I'll never work on First-Person Shooters again (gamasutra.com)
94 points by MilkoFTW on April 20, 2013 | 84 comments
19.We are not Consumers, We are the People, as in We The People (katzr.com)
92 points by bound008 on April 20, 2013 | 34 comments
20.What you can do with the Gimp (rosiehardy.com)
84 points by macco on April 20, 2013 | 42 comments
21.Double Tap (daniellemorrill.com)
86 points by dmor on April 20, 2013 | 27 comments
22.Bitcoin ASIC Miner from BFL, finally (codinginmysleep.com)
83 points by enmaku on April 20, 2013 | 99 comments
23.Boston Bombing Suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev Apprehended Alive (mashable.com)
83 points by jeeringmole on April 20, 2013 | 119 comments
24.The market for paid iOS apps isn’t dead (marco.org)
78 points by nikunjk on April 20, 2013 | 66 comments
25.Proposed new schedule for JDK 8 (java.net)
76 points by austinbv on April 20, 2013 | 29 comments
26.Python Number Conversion Chart (gist.github.com)
75 points by snakile on April 20, 2013 | 12 comments
27.You don't need every customer (marco.org)
73 points by ajhit406 on April 20, 2013 | 25 comments
28.CommaFeed - Open-source bloat-free Google Reader clone (commafeed.com)
72 points by crapet on April 20, 2013 | 53 comments
29.An adaptive prompt for Bash and Zsh (github.com/nojhan)
68 points by nojhan on April 20, 2013 | 21 comments

It took hundreds of police and probably millions of dollars to catch a teenager who didn't even bother to leave the area or go into hiding - and even TWEETED after the event.

If we were attacked by real, organized terrorists, we are screwed.

I really do not get all the celebration and back-patting, it's disturbing.

Oh and while this huge distraction was going on - no background checks for guns, the most basic bill failed.

But several senators were quick to voice their desire for no miranda rights.


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