When Amazon first started selling their Kindles I started thinking of all kinds of problems this could present. Being in the tech field, I tend to do that a lot. Some of my thoughts were things like not being able to share a book with a friend, or losing the chance to float in the […]
Yesterday a right wing extremist shoots and kills a doctor who provides abortions. Greg also reminds us that it wasn’t that long ago the right was in an uproar over a DHS report talking about right wing extremists: One passage from the DHS report that provoked nonstop outrage said that right wing extremists “may include […]
Oh my! It all adds up to me, having to admit that I was wrong. Our government is not marching down the road towards communism or socialism. … But now I have to tell you that they’re not marching us that direction. They’re marching us to a non-violent fascism. Or to put it another way, […]
It looks like some of the larger ISPs in the country are looking at ways to filter content to their subscribers in order to fight copyright infringements. It would be nice if we had an FCC that cared about consumer rights instead of corporate America’s profits.
And here is the very reason that I hate cell phones: Federal officials are routinely asking courts to order cellphone companies to furnish real-time tracking data so they can pinpoint the whereabouts of drug traffickers, fugitives and other criminal suspects, according to judges and industry lawyers. In some cases, judges have granted the requests without […]
Another page from George Orwell’s 1984 comes to being in George Bush’s America. Ted Rall’s has a great article up explaining it: –“This is not a crime about thought,” says the assistant U.S. attorney. Then what is it? Mahmud Faruq Brent, a 30-year-old D.C. taxi driver, is about to spend the next 15 years behind […]