FYI – We all have to “Stay in the Game.” That means keeping in the know about technology and developments in this world. There is little chance that any of us or our children can be successful if we don’t embrace change and make sure we are moving with the world around us. UNLESS you are so lucky as to have a job from which you can never be fired. For instance. the United States Supreme Court Justice’s don’t seem to know 1. About the workings of a pager or 2. The difference between email and texting. AND keep in mind, these are the people who have the last word on protecting most of our liberty and many of our freedoms. As you read theinformation below keep in mind, it’s up to us to take control of our destiny. Stay in the game and FINISH FIRST!

During oral arguments in the case City of Ontario v. Quon, which considers whether police officers had an expectation of privacy in personal (and sexually explicit) text messages sent on pagers issued to them by the city, the justices of the Supreme Court at times seemed to struggle with the technology involved.

The first sign was about midway through the argument, when Chief Justice John G. Roberts, Jr. – who is known to write out his opinions in long hand with pen and paper instead of a computer – asked what the difference was “between email and a pager?” *

At one point, Justice Anthony Kennedy asked what would happen if a text message was sent to an officer at the same time he was sending one to someone else.

“Does it say: ‘Your call is important to us, and we will get back to you?’” Kennedy asked.

Justice Antonin Scalia wrangled a bit with the idea of a service provider. “You mean (the text) doesn’t go right to me?” he asked. Then he asked whether they can be printed out in hard copy. “Could Quon print these spicy little conversations and send them to his buddies?” Scalia asked.

It wasn’t just the justices who had technical difficulties. When Justice Samual Alito asked Quon’s attorney Dieter Dammeier if officers could delete text messages from their pagers in a way that would prevent the city from retrieving them from the wireless carrier later, Dammeier said that they could.