Re: Hooray!
 

"Justice Antonin Scalia said ... when the government uses a device not in general public use to explore the details of a private home that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion, the surveillance is a search and requires a warrant". So instead I take the diffusion cover off of a motion dector, do the same thing with a device found everywhere - and that does not require a warrant.

The pathetic part is that thermal detection equipment is everywhere. Its the remote control in your TV. Its sold in 35 mm film. You can purchase thermometers in electronic surplus houses that measure a person's body temperature across the room - but are these 'devices found everywhere'? And when does the court decide what is and is not found everywhere? Did they provide a guideline?

They simply throw away any previous general guidelines probably because, as I expected, they did not even understand the previously held concept of what constitutes public transmission. That is too much work for a court that more looks first and sometimes only to political agenda to make their decisions.

Are telescopes in or out of the 'devices found everywhere' category? Do we have to take every device before the Supreme Court every 10 years to have them decide what is and is not 'found everywhere'? What a weak kneed, "throw the ball in someone elses court" decision.

The Supreme Court is suppose to make decisions that lay foundations for all future society conduct and legal interpretations. Instead all they have done is create some rediculous standard called "devices found everywhere". Pathetic. There is no underlying principal on which all future decisions can be made. They have only created chaos so that more lawyers can get rich a the expense of society. Pathetic this court has been. Interesting how the justices lined up on this one though. Scalia's pupply dog Thomas, as usual, expressed little opinion and voted his master's bidding.