Tag: usa
Schneier on Security – UK Immigration Officer Puts Wife on the No-Fly List
Imagine being the wife here, go visit your family, try to return, on a list that you can’t even find out why you are on and no way of being able to appeal your inclusion on the list.
NYTimes.com – Simon Johnson: The Ruinous Fiscal Impact of Big Banks
Another article about how banks are wanting their cake and eat it.
Salon.com – Why can’t we watch Al Jazeera?
The first part is just sad, the second makes other cable news companies look pathetic in comparison.
NYTimes.com – F.C.C. Seeks Mandatory Alerts of Cellphone Overage Charges
Remembers kids we can’t have the carriers implement a solution that might make them less money.
Ars Technica – Why you should always encrypt your smartphone
Important read for anyone who has a smartphone.
NYTimes.com – Why So Many Rich People Don’t Feel Very Rich
I love these sorts of article, putting a reality behind a feeling or attitude.
BBC News – Microsoft seeks to block Apple ‘App Store’ trademark
Right there with you Microsoft.
Reason Magazine – Hating the “Sinner”
Calling all people who are social conservatives bigots is a intellectually weak argument, but it is fair to call out such bigotry when it occurs.
The New Yorker – The battle over the Constitution
Covers the history of the ratification, the document itself and how it’s been used to argue all sides in a debate including gun control.
FactCheck.org – A ‘Job-Killing’ Law?
Let’s see misrepresents the CBO report, ignores the CBO report in other parts, yep totally valid criticisms Republicans.