Cryptography and e-security expert, Bruce Schneier, has a good article featured on BoingBoing today arguing to either let people bring liquids back on planes, or take the ban seriously and actually treat the supposed threatening liquids like a threat: Why people who try to bring toothpaste on a plane should be arrested
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I never get tired of being inspired. The debate is old, though.
I came upon the subject through a blog entry on Skepchick: Creationist Comeuppance on YouTube I started watching the video apology the creationist is “forced” to give for unethically and possibly illegally invoking DMCA to try to extort a critic of his to remove his critical videos. I got bored and stopped watching it. While [...]
READ MORE »The Amerikan Stasi!
I can’t believe I missed this. In researching information on my last post regarding the addition of peaceful opponents to capital punishment being added by police to terrorist watch lists, I found this news item from last year about the FBI and CIA’s programs to recruit and pay for citizen informants (thus spreading fear and [...]
READ MORE »One sane sheriff, one fascist superintendent.
It’s easy to find countless articles on the appearant rise of police brutality and fascist, militarized mindset, and are gleefully proud of their testasterone overdosed abuses, and stories in which the police are used as political weapons. Well, here’s one more story of overreaching abuse of power and damage to civil liberties: Top Maryland cops [...]
READ MORE »What honest day’s wage is worth millions?
Hilarious story for you; be sure to hold onto your side for this rib-tickler: As the nearly 160 year old bank, Lehman Brother’s, failed, funneling toward bankruptcy, it was handing millions of dollars in compensation over to its CEO. Lehman Bros. chief executive faces lawmakers “Your company is now bankrupt, our economy is now in [...]
READ MORE »Welcome to 1931.
The House just passed the bail-out bill the Senate passed earlier this week, which not only bails out Wall Street but also has billions for pork attached to, such as subsidies for rum makers in Puerto Rico and a couple million for makers of kids’ wooden arrows. So, the bankers and speculators who f–ed up [...]
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