Tag: Politics
The Economist – Intellectual property: Patents against prosperity
Yet another in a long line of articles decrying the patent system.
BBC News – US airports still vulnerable to attacks, says lawmaker
The TSA is so effective it’s ineffective.
LATimes – Implanted bombs: TSA warns of possible terrorist threat of bombs implanted in people
The threats will continue to magically appear until we all fear everything and give up every sense of privacy and self-respect to the TSA to implement rules and procedures that do nothing to solve the real problem.
Grist – The American suburbs are a giant Ponzi scheme
I can’t say I agree with this, but it fits my perception of America’s infrastructure.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Know Your Rights!
EFF has a brief overview of rights that you have with your technology.
BBC News – Netherlands makes net neutrality a law
The Netherlands of course makes the right call.
Yahoo! News – Armenia makes chess compulsory in schools
This seems like a cool idea, and I imagine would create students more skilled in critical thinking and logic, all good things.
CNET News – Democratic senator wants Internet sales taxes
When this goes through (though possibly not this year) some business is going to make a mint providing a back-end service to know how much taxes need to be applied towards a purchase. Amazon/PayPal/Google Checkout should start building that now, if they haven’t already.
Huffington Post – U.S. House Ignores Internet Reality, Again
If it wasn’t so frustrating you have to almost admire Republicans ability to ignore their own experts or examples when legislating.