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NSA Officers Sometimes Spy on Love Interests (WSJ.com) 26 Aug 2013 | 07:45 am
Yet more evidence of inadequate oversight of the intelligence-industrial complex. And no, the fact that it only happens once in a while is not a comfort: there should be no way for it to happen at all...
American Bar Association Journal looks at police militarization 26 Aug 2013 | 12:17 am
Radley Balko's book Rise of the Warrior Cop (and no, I haven't read it yet) seems to have succeeded in generating a good deal of attention on the problem of the militarization of policing. I've previo...
if you're brown skinned, "Don't Fly During Ramadan" 23 Aug 2013 | 07:23 pm
The ignorance, bigotry, and incompetence that Aditya Mukerjee encountered should make you weep for what America has become. Don't Fly During Ramadan (/var/null) Having been selected before for so-ca...
Tokyo's superhero of the subway 22 Aug 2013 | 06:48 pm
The best superhero tales are about how the heroes inspire others, how their examples leads others to step up. Masked hero hauls bags, babies up and down Tokyo subway stairs (Yahoo! News) In a green ...
tales of the Unix pioneers 19 Aug 2013 | 10:56 pm
When giants roamed the Earth, when True Hackers carved the bits of the One True Operating System, Unix, in the Holy Language of C. In their own words: Unix pioneers remember the good times (Network W...
silly Muslim, state support is for Christian schools! 19 Aug 2013 | 08:14 pm
I think that a big part of the philosophy of the GOP base is an unconscious belief that, other than a handful of sinners, everyone is Just Like Them. You hear it over and over in the voter ID debates:...
psychological torture of the capital punishment process 16 Aug 2013 | 08:18 pm
Another face of the horrid absurdity of murdering people to show that murdering people is wrong. I can no longer view capital punishment as even attempting to be a rational policy, it's nothing but a ...
hacking toilets 16 Aug 2013 | 12:52 am
Some things just don't need to be networked. It Now Appears Possible to Hack a (Fancy, Japanese) Toilet (The Atlantic) The information security company Trustwave Holdings published an advisory regar...
the on-line life of Adam Lanza 16 Aug 2013 | 12:02 am
The Hartford Courant looks at the on-line persona of Newtown gunman Adam Lanza: Mass Murders Captivated Online User Believed To Be Adam Lanza (Courant.com) Although Lanza did not use his name, inves...
sell your soul the modern way: with shares of stock 15 Aug 2013 | 11:39 pm
Taking worship of markets to a new extreme, Mike Merrill decided to sell himself to stockholders, who would be able to vote on most aspects of his life, from romantic relationships to sleep schedules ...
