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NSA Prism: Why I'm boycotting US cloud tech - and you should too • The Register
US spy chief says internet monitoring 'legal' - Americas - Al Jazeera English: Director of National Intelligence James Clapper accused media of being "reckless" in revealing monitoring program.
Spy agency seeks criminal probe into National Security Agency leaks | Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. intelligence agency formally requested a criminal probe on Saturday into the leak of highly classified information about secret surveillance programs run by the National Security
Damage Control Time: National Intelligence Releases PRISM "Facts" | Zero Hedge: Confirming that the administration is in very hot water over this week's revelations of widespread domestic and global surveillance, moments ago this Saturday afternoon the head of National Intelligence James Clapper released "Facts on the Collection of Intelligence Pursuant to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act" in which he says that PRISM is not an undisclosed collection or data mining program. It is an internal government computer system used to facilitate the government’s... collection of foreign intelligence information." In fact, the program is so legit, it doesn't even work to collect foreign data: "We cannot target even foreign persons overseas without a valid foreign intelligence purpose." Finally, any rumors that Google Glass will be reverting to its original codename "NSA SpyCam" are greatly exaggerated: "Service providers supply information to the Government when they are lawfully required to do so." In short - please believe him. He is from the government, he is telling the truth, and the government is here to help. As for all those Verizon (and other carrier) all too domestic phone intercepts: don't you worry about that.
slight paranoia: Analyzing Yahoo's PRISM non-denial
Daring Fireball Linked List: Analyzing Yahoo's PRISM Non-Denial
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Daring Fireball Linked List: Google's Chief Architect on PRISM
» How to Keep Your Communications Private - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» NYU prof says fat Ph.D candidates need not apply - Col·lege In·sur·rec·tion
This Is What #OccupyResoluteDesk Meant By ‘Fundamentally Transforming The USA’ : The Other McCain
NY Times A1 Story Wrongly Credits NSA's PRISM for Foiling Zazi Case: Yesterday both the NY Times and Reuters claimed the Zazi terror plot against New York subways was foiled by an NSA email collection program called PRISM. That was not the case. The key to stopping the Zazi plot was an arrest and investigation by British authorities.
The PJ Tatler » List of Companies Cooperating with the NSA Grows to 50
Resistance is futile | Mehrdad Momeny: Yet Another KDE Developer (by Mehrdad)
Number Of U.S. Households On Food Stamps Hits Yet Another All-Time High, More Than 23 Million… | Weasel Zippers
PRISM data collection happens without tech companies' knowledge, says Washington Post | The Verge: In the ongoing discussion of PRISM and the NSA's data-collection tactics, much debate has raged over the phrase "direct access," as companies have denied allowing the government unfettered access t...
New slide from leaked PRISM presentation promotes directly collecting data from servers | The Verge: While many companies allegedly involved in government program PRISM have denied that they gave agencies access to their information, The Guardian says the leaked PRISM slideshow contradicts these...
How America Lost Its Way - WSJ.com: It is getting ever harder to do business in the United States, argues Niall Ferguson, and more stimulus won't help: Our institutions need fixing.
Where are the start-ups? Column: A country that celebrates achievement and risk-taking is likely to see more economic success than one that does not.
Edward Snowden: I mistakenly believed in Obama’s promises | WashingtonExaminer.com: Edward Snowden, the self-revealed whistle-blower at the National Security Agency, explains that part of the reason he decided to come forward was because President Obama did not roll back the surveillance measures put into place by the Bush Administration.
“A lot of people in 2008 voted for Obama. I did not vote for him. I voted for a third party,” Snowden said in an interview with the Guardian. “But I believed in Obama’s promises. I was going to disclose it [but waited because of his election]. He continued with the policies of his predecessor.”
Snowden acknowledged that he watched Obama struggle as he attempted to justify the surveillance programs during his press conference on Friday.
“My immediate reaction was he was having difficulty in defending it himself,” Snowden said about Obama. “He was trying to defend the unjustifiable and he knew it.”
Has the US become the type of nation from which you have to seek asylum?
Snooping Concerns Emerge Over Congressional Blackberries Serviced By Verizon: Amid the revelations that the National Security Agency has been secretly monitoring the records of millions of phone calls across the country via telephone service provider Verizon, Congress is concerned that the NSA's actions may have also captured phone calls of lawmakers and their staffers. It should be noted that Verizon is one of the main service providers to government issued Blackberries members and their staff use to communicate with one another.
Yes, NSA surveillance should worry the law-abiding | Ian Brown | Comment is free | guardian.co.uk: Ian Brown: The books you read, the emails you send, the TV shows you watch – 'big data' could jump to conclusions about your life
AT&T ends 20-month early upgrades, forces customers to wait two years | Ars Technica: Carrier also brings Nextel-style push-to-talk functionality to corporate iPhones.
» Former NSA Employee Leaked Surveillance Details Prior to Snowden - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Snowden job? - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Michael Geist - Report Confirms Canada Has Its Own Phone Meta-Data and Internet Surveillance Program: Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., surveillance in canada
Dr. Helen » Is Sperm a Marital Asset?
The PJ Tatler » NSA Leaker a Soldier in the Ron Paul Revolution?
The PJ Tatler » A Modest Question About the NSA Spying on Americans
Former CIA assistant Edward Snowden outs himself as NSA whistleblower | PCWorld: Edward Snowden tells the Guardian, 'My sole motive is to inform the public as to that which is done in their name and that which is done against them.'
The Falcon and the Snowden | Power Line
VodkaPundit » The Lawlessness of an Over-Lawed Society
VodkaPundit » Ohio Insurance Premiums to Skyrocket
Canadians react to U.S. surveillance program leak - Your Community
Mageia releases new Mageia 3 ISO images - The H Open: News and Features: A configuration fault with the images meant that users who specified the use of online repositories inadvertently switched their distribution updates to receive development packages
Natasha Trethewey Appointed To Second Term | News Releases - Library of Congress: Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has appointed Natasha Trethewey to serve a second term as U.S. Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry.
PRISM Must Go | RedState: The revelations on the NSA program code named PRISM are troubling. When coupled with the Obama Administration's generally lawless behavior it is PRISM, not our foreign enemies, that poses the greatest threat to our nation and our system of government.
NSA PRISM-gate: Relax, GCHQ spooks 'keep us safe', says Cameron • The Register
FUTURE of mobe tech: Today will be dry with chilly gusts of 12Mbps • The Register
US chief spook: Look, we only want to spy on 6.66 BEELLLION of you • The Register
Ex-CIA techie Edward Snowden: I am the NSA PRISM deepthroat • The Register
Pentagon Papers whistleblower says NSA leak is most important in US history | The Verge: Edward Snowden's decision to release top secret documents from the National Security Agency (NSA) has drawn praise from Daniel Ellsberg, the former military analyst responsible for leaking the...
Transterrestrial Musings - Why Is Everyone Upset With Obama?
NSA Whistleblower: The Ultimate Insider Attack | Threat Level | Wired.com: Edward Showden might well be the ultimate inside attacker, since he had not only that rarest of rare views into the core of the intelligence rabbit hole but also the ability to collapse the hole if he'd wanted.
The outsourcing of U.S. intelligence raises risks among the benefits - The Washington Post: Government reliance on private spying contractors comes with costs as well as benefits.
51% foreign test doesn’t protect Americans
Smile! You’re on PRISM | Code is Poetry: A place where Poetry and Tech talk
» Lasciviousness in the defense of liberty is a vice - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Edward Snowden, the N.S.A. Leaker, Is No Hero : The New Yorker: Edward Snowden is being hailed in some quarters as a hero and a whistle-blower. He is neither. He is, rather, a grandiose narcissist who deserves to be in prison.
» Edward Snowden Unveiled as Source Behind the NSA Leaks - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
The DiploMad 2.0: On the NSA Leaker
Althouse: "Manning's act was that of a goofball anarchist. Snowden's, by contrast, seems to have been one of civil disobedience."
The PJ Tatler » Clapper: Boston Attack Just Shows ‘We Weren’t Intrusive Enough’
The PJ Tatler » John Bolton: Snowden is Guilty of Treason
The Gang of Eight’s Bill: To Know It Is To Hate It | Power Line
Ed Driscoll » CNet Meets the Enemy…
The laughable innocence of Facebook and Google (and us) | Technically Incorrect - CNET News: Isn't there something a touch hypocritical about people complaining that Google, Facebook, and other companies complied with government data requests? Isn't this the very world we, the public, helped create? Read this article by Chris Matyszczyk on CNET News.
Slideshows in Vroom: So Noted | Buddy Burden [blogs.perl.org]
MediaGoblin - On Prism
Privacy czar to probe Canadian impact of U.S. data program - Technology & Science - CBC News: The federal privacy watchdog says she will look into any implications for Canada posed by possible U.S. government snooping on a wide scale. Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Canada's spy watchdog has been aware of data surveillance for years.
University Of California-Irvine Professor: NSA Leaker “Fits Into A Modernist/Liberal Reading Of Jihad”… | Weasel Zippers
Top House Dem James Clyburn Says NSA Leaks A Conspiracy To “Embarrass” Obama… | Weasel Zippers
Most Americans back NSA tracking phone records, prioritize probes over privacy | Jammie Wearing Fools
Hacker who helped find Steubenville rapists threatened with decade in prison • The Register
What's in the Rest of the Top-Secret NSA PowerPoint Deck? | Threat Level | Wired.com: What’s in NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden’s 41-slide PowerPoint deck that’s so hot that nobody dare publish it?
Government Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Program Needs to Stay Secret | Electronic Frontier Foundation: In a rare public filing in the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), the Justice Department today urged continued secrecy for a 2011 FISC opinion that found the National Security Agency's surveillance under the FISA Amendments Act to be unconstitutional. Significantly, the surveillance at issue was carried out under the same controversial legal authority that underlies the NSA’s recently-revealed PRISM program.
High-Ranking Democratic Representative Elijah Cummings: Now That We Know Everything We Need to Know about the IRS' Targeting, We Should Move On
Snowden Starting To Develop A Credibility Problem
Spying scandals metastasize to Canada
Poll: Most Americans not worried about gov’t phone tracking | Ars Technica: 56% are fine with a phone dragnet, and 45% are OK with email monitoring.
Althouse: "It turns out that the Gov't has no privacy either. So the joke is on them as much as it is on us."
Althouse: "Ladies and gentlemen..., you seem to accept as okay that the government, intelligence agencies, would be collecting all of this data on Americans."
Edward Snowden: Hero or Traitor? - The Rush Limbaugh Show: RUSH: I'm in a holding pattern just to wait and see, because, as you know, I do everything I can to avoid the conventional wisdom of the day, to follow the crowd.
The real story in the NSA scandal is the collapse of journalism | ZDNet: A bombshell story published in the Washington Post this week alleged that the NSA had enlisted nine tech giants, including Microsoft, Google, Facebook, and Apple, in a massive program of online spying. Now the story is unraveling, and the Post has quietly changed key details. What went wrong?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Can Anyone Intercept Unencrypted Wireless Communications?
Rights groups ask US spy court for justification of Verizon order | PCWorld: Civil rights groups have asked the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) for the legal justification of the U.S. government's surveillance of Verizon's customer records.
Interrupt-free computing | DanielPocock.com
KCRW Broadcast Intersects with Santa Monica College Shooting | Radio Survivor: After the shooting rampage at Santa Monica College on Friday, Santa Monica College-based radio station KCRW continued to broadcast following a campus shutdown.
Dan Misener: Sidestepping Apple's geoblock could put Canadians on NSA's radar - Technology & Science - CBC News: Some people use geoblocking circumvention services to get access to foreign services such as iTunes Radio, but obscuring your online identity could have unexpected consequences, writes Dan Misener.
The PJ Tatler » Edward Snowden is Missing. Has China Kidnapped Him?
The PJ Tatler » Dem Senator: I Gave Clapper Multiple Opportunities to Tell the Truth
The PJ Tatler » Unlikely Bedfellows Join Together in Senate to End ‘Secret Law’ of Surveillance Programs
The PJ Tatler » WaPo Quietly Changes Key Details in NSA Story
The PJ Tatler » Intel Community Didn’t Stop Boston Bombing, but It Did Disrupt Al Qaeda’s Magazine. So, Yay Us, Right?
Michael Geist - 20th Century Laws Meet 21st Century Surveillance: Why Metadata Surveillance is a Serious Concern: Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., metadata surveillance
Edward Snowden’s Dubious Heroism : The Other McCain
Rubio On Immigration Bill: “First Comes” Legalizing Illegal Immigrants “Then Comes” Border Security, “It Is Not Conditional”… | Weasel Zippers
Obama’s Director Of National Intelligence Jokes About Reading Americans Emails… | Weasel Zippers
Axelrod: NSA Leaker “Blew The Country”… | Weasel Zippers
Accentuate the positive .. but not by eliminating the negative
I Am Not Rushing To Judgment On Edward Snowden | RedState: Earlier today I spoke with foreign policy expert Stephen Yates, who worked for the NSA for several years and served as an adviser to former VP Dick
When will Americans finally start lowercasing 'internet'? TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics: When will Americans finally start lowercasing 'internet'?
Online music world on iRadio: Apple, imagine our concern • The Register
Yes, maybe we should keep hackers in the clink for YEARS, mulls EU • The Register
Want a fast, private Wi-Fi channel? Fine, go fight the regulators • The Register
Techies finger Bradley Manning for US secret files database breach • The Register
Review: Beagleboard Beaglebone Black • The Register
Senators propose bill to declassify orders behind NSA spying | The Verge: A bipartisan group of eight prominent US Senators announced a new bill today to declassify the court opinions that give the US National Security Agency the legal power to carry out the sweeping...
Mozilla, Reddit, 4Chan join coalition of 86 groups asking Congress to end NSA surveillance | The Verge: The US National Security Agency's recently revealed internet surveillance program PRISM has been broadly condemned by tech companies, even those whose networks were allegedly involved. But now some...
If You Like Your Sovereignty, You Can Keep Your Sovereignty: Obama Promises Amnesty Will Be Terrific; Senate Votes 84-15 to Begin Debate
ACLU sues four top Obama administration officials over Verizon metadata sharing | Ars Technica: Group wants a judge to declare that "the Mass Call Tracking is unlawful."
» ACLU Files Lawsuit Over NSA Phone Surveillance - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Five Clarifications We Can’t Ask of Edward Snowden - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Hollywood Script: Hipster Geek With Hot Girlfriend Fights ‘Omniscient’ Government : The Other McCain
This Was Probably Inevitable : The Other McCain
7 arguments for more low-skill immigration — and 1 concern | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Althouse: "The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit Tuesday challenging the constitutionality of the U.S. government’s surveillance program..."
ACLU sues over NSA surveillance program - The Washington Post: Suit challenges legality of collection of customer information, seeks an end to program and purging of data.
The PJ Tatler » Legislative Snowden Reaction Begins as Jackson Lee Looks to Limit Contractor Intel Work
The PJ Tatler » Did Obama Just Legalize Statutory Rape?
VodkaPundit » Trollin’ NSA
Enemy of the State (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
PJ Lifestyle » The Destroyer of Words
OBAMA: Oppressive Bureaucracy Always Monitoring Americans | The Daily Caller: OBAMA: Oppressive Bureaucracy Always Monitoring Americans
How TSA’s Groping Softened Us Up for NSA’s Snooping - Bloomberg: Here’s a question I asked myself yesterday: Would I rather have my phone records collected and readied for possible inspection by the National Security Agency, or have my genitalia scrutinized by the Transportation Security Administration?
5 Basic Unknowns about the NSA "Black Hole": Scientific American: It's still unclear if the National Security Agency has been collecting all Americans' phone and other records, and for how long
Redefining My Ideals | Everyday Athlete: From figure competitor to bikini competitor to primal Crossfit enthusiast
Moe Lane » My basic problem with the #Snowden/PRISM story.
Mozilla, EFF and 86 others launch campaign against surveillance - The H Open: News and Features: Mozilla and EFF are among the 86 organisations calling for signatures on a letter to the US Congress to investigate US Government surveillance orders as a response to recent revelations about NSA spying
The Voice of Greece: off the air, then on | The SWLing Post
Greece shuts down their state broadcasting arm, ERT | The SWLing Post
Obama: “We Owe” Young Illegal Immigrants A Path To Citizenship… | Weasel Zippers
FBI Sharply Increases Use Of Patriot Act Provision To Collect American Citizens’ Records, Up 1,000% Under Obama… | Weasel Zippers
BREAKING: Senate Votes To Advance Gang Of Ocho Amnesty Bill… | Weasel Zippers
Former Apollo Astronaut Gene Cernan: ‘We Are Becoming a Second-Rate Nation’ | Jammie Wearing Fools
Google again denies government has server access, says it sends requested data itself | The Verge: Last week, The New York Times reported that Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and others were creating secure portals where they stashed user data for the government to pick up. Google has already...
ACLU sues US government over metadata surveillance program | The Verge: The American Civil Liberties Union has announced it is suing the US government to put an end to the National Security Agency's blanket collection of communications records, which was exposed last...
Google's Real Secret Spy Program? Secure FTP | Threat Level | Wired.com: Google does not participate in any government program involving a lockbox or other equipment installed at its facilities to transfer data court-authorized data to the government, a company spokesman says. Instead the company transmits the data to the feds via secure FTP or by hand.
The proud moment when I realised I was worth hacking - Telegraph: A strange, late-night message confirmed my suspicions – internet privacy
doesn’t exist
DAILY MAIL COMMENT: No more excuses for ignoring child porn | Mail Online: At long last, after months of relentless campaigning by this newspaper, the Government appears to be waking up to the full evil of online pornography – and the utter inadequacy of the web giants’ response to it.
Boris: the moral of Prism is that nothing you do on the net is private The Tory Diary: By Paul Goodman Follow Paul on Twitter. William Hague was dispatched into the television studios yesterday to dismiss as "nonsense" claims that GCHQ has been seeking to circumvent the law by using data gathered by foreign intelligence systems, and will make a Commons statement about the matter later today. A central question is whether GCHQ has been making a indiscriminate trawl of information - of the kind that has led critics of the Data Communications Bill to dub it a "snoopers' charter" - or whether it has been carrying out targeted searches for information (an activity which even as dedicated...
Internet giants could end up in the dock if there is another horrific case like April Jones | Mail Online: As David Cameron told Google and other web giants to do more to remove vile images, Claire Perry, his adviser on childhood, suggested failure to do so could lead to prosecution.
Snowden's Looking a Little Dodgy
Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Obama, NSA Surveillance, and the Future of the American Information Technology Industry: Chicago Boyz
Did Obama Just Destroy the U.S. Internet Industry? | LinkedIn: News about the National Security Agency's PRISM program and its privileged access to internal user data at 9 U.S. Internet companies has unleashed a torrent of justified anger and hand-wringing. But
Navy ends century and a half of ALL-CAPS messages | Ars Technica: New message routing system means Navy can now use lowercase in messages.
Microsoft: No Internet connection? You can still buy an Xbox 360! | Ars Technica: Exec acknowledges those on nuclear subs are stuck with MS' last generation.
Hacker who led Anonymous-sponsored hacks against police agrees to plea deal | Ars Technica: John Anthony Borell III, aka Kahuna of CabinCr3w, will get 3 years and more.
The #FreeKate Criminal Caucus : The Other McCain
Well, What Is the Rate? : The Other McCain
Yet another way Obamacare stymies health care innovation | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Althouse: Misread headline: "Poll Finds Disapproval of Record Collection, but Little Personal Concern."
When conspiracy theories come true | DanielPocock.com
Blog posting suggests Yinnon Ezra exists. Evidence less clear on Maria Miller’s understanding of the point of libraries
Is Edward Snowden’s story unravelling? Why the Guardian’s scoop is looking a bit dodgy | Jammie Wearing Fools
Hey Pandora: good luck with Rapid City "Hits 102.7" FM | Radio Survivor: We checked out the happy deejay family over at Hits 102.7 FM, now purchased by Pandora. What a streaming company will do for lower royalty rates.
Ed Driscoll » Germany begs Totalitarian Leader to Dial It Back a Notch or Ten
Germans accuse U.S. of Stasi tactics before Obama visit | Reuters: BERLIN (Reuters) - German outrage over a U.S. Internet spying program has broken out ahead of a visit by Barack Obama, with ministers demanding the president provide a full explanation when he lands in
VodkaPundit » German Minister Compares NSA Tactics to Stasi
Germany to Spymaster-in-Chief Obama: You are on some Eastern Bloc $#!+ right now | The Daily Caller: Germany to Spymaster-in-Chief Obama: You are on some Eastern Bloc $#!+ right now
Why The “It’s Just Metadata” Argument Is False: One of the common defenses that has been trotted out over the past week to push back against criticism of the National Security Agency's practice of collecting
Is Edward Snowden's story unravelling? Why the Guardian's scoop is looking a bit dodgy – Telegraph Blogs: Questions are being raised about Snowden's background and motivations Now that the dust has settled after the Edward Snowden affair, it’s time to ask
The Gang’s Bill Makes Immigration Law Enforcement Worse, Not Better | Power Line
The PJ Tatler » Obama and Big Data: Follow-Up
The PJ Tatler » Snowden’s Lastest News Isn’t News, But Its Disclosure Does Harm America
The PJ Tatler » State Department Whistleblower, a Career Foreign Service Officer, Seeks Congressional Protection After State Threatens Her Kids
Ordered Liberty » Congressman Sensenbrenner Is Wrong on Patriot Act Records
The Volokh Conspiracy » Now There Are Some Sentences for You
Judge Holds Law's Punctuation in Contempt
Representative Steve Stockman (R-TX) Subpoenas the NSA's Phone-Record Captures of the White House & IRS
SCOTUS rules against Texas | Wizbang
Fight PRISM through the Free Software Directory — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
Skype Scandal and the Jedi Council | DanielPocock.com
Obama Claims He Doesn’t Want to ‘Tax All Businesses Out of Business’ | Wizbang
Even before NSA scandal, US residents were anxious about privacy breaches | PCWorld: Even before bombshell disclosures of the U.S. government's massive collection of Internet and cellphone data, many U.S. residents were very concerned about privacy violations.
White deaths outnumber births for first time - The Washington Post: New census figures show the decline was offset by immigrants, but it will happen more as baby boomers age.
Althouse: "More white people died in the United States last year than were born..."
Reasonable Expectation of Privacy, the NSA, and the value of metadata | Pegasus Librarian
For the first time, secret court won’t block release of NSA opinion | Ars Technica: Despite the rare "modest" victory, the opinion isn't available yet.
Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Who are they protecting us from ?: Chicago Boyz
COMRADIO | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog: Listen to your taxes
Bits from Debian - Remove unofficial debian-multimedia.org repository from your sources
Fire up the black helicoptors, people! | protein wisdom
“Six big problems with the immigration bill from someone who has actually read it” | protein wisdom
Calm after librarian's stormy firing - Times Union: Calm after librarian's stormy firing The entire Round Lake Library board of directors quit on Tuesday night amid criticism over the director's decision to fire a librarian who closed the library early on May 29 to keep patrons safe from violent storms. Libraries serve an enormous purpose in our communities. Libraries are absolutely still valuable — they are the center and heart of our communities. While Leno's "63" has laughs for older generations, a quickly circulating "32," released by YouTube music channel Fuse, offers a more realistic depiction of her age, including drinking wine, wearing sweatpants and eating cheese in bed.
ACMA mulls cloud regulation • The Register
BMI sues Pandora, calling radio station purchase a 'stunt' | The Verge: A day after Pandora purchased a radio station in an effort to pay artists less in royalty fees, the organization that collects license fees for songwriters and composers filed a lawsuit asking a...
At the Cable Show, an industry fights cord-cutting with technology | The Verge: On a philosophical level, "cord cutting" is a bit like global warming. Do we fully understand its scale and impact? Amidst the ongoing debate, 250 exhibitors representing the multibillion dollar...
Snowden Smuggled Documents From NSA on a Thumb Drive | Threat Level | Wired.com: The dreaded thumb drive has struck the Defense Department again as word comes that NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden smuggled out thousands of classified documents on one of the portable devices, despite the military's efforts to ban them.
Why 'I Have Nothing to Hide' Is the Wrong Way to Think About Surveillance | Wired Opinion | Wired.com: Many don’t understand why they should be concerned about surveillance if they have nothing to hide. It’s even less clear in the world of 'oblique' surveillance, given that apologists will always frame our use of information-gathering services like a mobile phone plan or Gmail as a choice. if everyone’s every action were being monitored, and everyone technically violates some obscure law at some time, then punishment becomes purely selective.
Why is the US economy stronger than Europe’s right now? It rhymes with ‘Wernanke’ | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Althouse: Waiting for Fisher....
Live blog of opinions (Sponsored by Bloomberg Law) (Updated: Completed) : SCOTUSblog
The PJ Tatler » Germany to Obama: You’re Acting Like the Old East German Stasi
The Volokh Conspiracy » Cert Petition Asks Court to Overturn “Dual Sovereignty” Doctrine in Double Jeopardy Law
Internet survey shows many Americans say 'Big Brother' is here - Technology & Science - CBC News: More than half of Americans polled in a 2012 survey released today said they agreed with the statement We are really in the era of Big Brother.
Choqok Twitter client handed over to community - The H Open: News and Features: The developer of the KDE microblogging client has announced that he will hand over development to a community of volunteers. Choqok is currently unable to talk to Twitter as it is using the deprecated API
Democrats in Congress can’t afford to keep their jobs under Obamacare? | RedState: My first response to this was Cry me a river... Dozens of lawmakers and aides are so afraid that their health insurance premiums will skyrocket next year
PRISM snitch claims NSA hacked Chinese targets since 2009 • The Register
Connecting the Dots on PRISM, Phone Surveillance, and the NSA's Massive Spy Center | Threat Level | Wired.com: Physically, the NSA has always been well protected by miles of high fences and electrified wire, thousands of cameras, and gun-toting guards. But that was to protect the agency from those on the outside trying to get in to steal secrets. Now it is confronting a new challenge: those on the inside going out and giving the secrets away.
Why geniuses don't have jobs - CBS News: There is a massive problem with our employment system - find out why we don't know how to employ geniuses
Are we on the verge of a conservative crackup? | Power Line
NSA gets early access to zero-day data from Microsoft, others | Ars Technica: Meant to help secure network, data could be used to attack foreign governments
Managing a collection is easier without all those books in the way: The Urbana Free Library’s lesson for the rest of us | Pegasus Librarian
Peace Order Against Bill Schmalfeldt: A Defeat for the ‘Troll Rights’ Movement : The Other McCain
Just Don’t Hoot and Holler too Loud | The Travelin' Librarian
If technological change is accelerating, how come we don’t see it in the productivity numbers? | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
No, Social Security disability isn’t masking the real US jobless rate | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Althouse: "The Five Stages of Living in a National Surveillance State."
The Five Stages of Living in a National Surveillance State | The Nation: Acceptance may be the most painful part of living in a national surveillance state.
The PJ Tatler » Lefty Bill Scher: NSA Stuff Not Creepy Because Obama And Not Nixon Or Something
The liberal case for high-tech NSA surveillance - The Week: President Obama is not violating his liberal principles by defending the NSA. He is exercising them.
The PJ Tatler » Alberto Gonzales Takes to Fox News to Defend Prism and Eric Holder: Here’s Why
The Volokh Conspiracy » “Weirdest Scandal Ever: Foreign Knights Invade America”
It isn't just the NSA: Digital surveillance programs trigger controversy abroad | PCWorld: Last week's disclosure of massive data collection efforts at the U.S. National Security Agency has generated heated debate in the U.S. and across the world about privacy. The NSA is collecting metadata on U.S. residents' phone calls made on Verizon's network and Internet records from nine Web companies, including Facebook, Google and Microsoft, according to reports in the Guardian and The Washington Post newspapers. But intelligence agencies in other countries have similar goals, according to reports, and in some cases there are few details about what data these governments are collecting.
Obama directs agencies to move toward sharing spectrum | PCWorld: U.S. President Barack Obama has directed federal agencies to take new steps toward sharing their wireless spectrum with commercial operators, in an effort to meet growing demands for mobile data services.
EU commissioner wants to protect citizens from Prism | PCWorld: Europe’s Justice Commission said Friday that she would not sacrifice European citizens’ rights for United States’ national security.
The end of Symbian: Nokia ships last handset with the mobile OS | PCWorld: Two years ago, Symbian was still the #1 mobile operating system. What happened?
NSA surveillance hikes interest in non-US cloud providers | PCWorld: European cloud providers think the U.S. spy scandal will result in more enterprises choosing local alternatives over the likes of Amazon Web Services and Rackspace, which, on the other hand, are adamant that they aren't taking part in programs such as Prism.
Ed Driscoll » Straight Out of Orwell
Mark Steyn: The digital superstate useless when it matters | boston, america, free - Opinion - The Orange County Register: Opinion: Mark Steyn: The digital superstate useless when it matters | boston, america, free, state, people, government, three, citizens, wrote, million
Ed Driscoll » A Culture of Spying at Bloomberg
VodkaPundit » What Do You Call a Cross-Border Multi-Nation Civil War?
Shortwave Central: WYFR to close all shortwave services
Printed Certificates for Ubuntu Members | jonobacon@home
SFLPhone-KDE 1.2.3 released! | Things related to stuffs I want to talk about?: The greatest WordPress.com site in all the land! (by Elv13)
Greek Government Shuts Down National Public Broadcaster ERT | Radio Survivor: On Tuesday, the Greek government shut down its national broadcasting network ERT and ordered all of its radio and television stations off the air.
The DiploMad 2.0: The Immigration Debate Misses the Point
BREAKING: Army Judge Bans Ft. Hood Jihadist’s Defense Strategy That He Killed Soldiers To Protect The Taliban… | Weasel Zippers
The PJ Tatler » Democrats for Illegal-Alien Drunk Driving?
Ft. Hood Jihadist Nidal Hasan To Claim Terror Attack Was Justified Because “Islamic Leadership Was In Imminent Danger”… | Weasel Zippers
Fort Hood shooting suspect: Islamic leadership threatened by deploying US troops - 6/4/2013 10:16:13 AM | Newser: The Army psychiatrist charged in the deadly 2009 Fort Hood shooting says he'll show evidence at his trial that he opened fire because Islamic leadership was in imminent danger. Maj. Nidal Hasan told... - 6/4/2013 10:16:13 AM | Newser
» U. Maryland secretive about secret NSA campus facility - Col·lege In·sur·rec·tion
Parsing the difference between the Internet and the Web according to Alan Kay | Ars Technica: Kay thinks the Internet was built better than the Web. Is he right?
GnuCash for Android v1.2.0.rc Release Candidate : Coding User: New release candidate of GnuCash for Android 1.2.0.rc
Althouse: "There were lots of discussions at N.S.A. and in the intelligence community in general about the acculturation process."
Althouse: "I had a little argument yesterday with a woman who wanted to bring her dog in at the restaurant by showing a card saying her dog is a 'service dog.'"
Althouse: Google to bring WiFi via balloons.
The PJ Tatler » Detroit Preps for Largest Municipal Bankruptcy in History
The PJ Tatler » Getting To Know Edward Snowden
The Volokh Conspiracy » Fourth Circuit Voids NLRB Posting Rule
John Boehner’s Immigration reform balancing act | Power Line
Girls Around Me and the NSA | DanielPocock.com
Google test-flies internet-beaming balloons - Technology & Science - CBC News: Google launches internet-beaming antennas into the stratosphere aboard giant, jellyfish-shaped balloons with the lofty goal of getting the entire planet online.
More than half of US senators skipped confidential briefing on NSA surveillance | The Verge: As anger continues to foment over the US National Security Agency's controversial surveillance programs, a confidential briefing on the topic held Thursday was attended by only 47 of 100 US...
Obama administration may declassify key court order on NSA surveillance, says NPR | The Verge: Following continued demands for more transparency, the Obama administration is said to be considering declassifying a secret court order that would shed light upon recent leaks. According to NPR,...
Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » The Great Unraveling: Chicago Boyz
Prenda Law is “winding down” and desperate to avoid a costly appeal | Ars Technica: A $237,000 up-front bill for appeal is off-base, argue porn-trolling lawyers.
Google flies Internet balloons in stratosphere for a “network in the sky” | Ars Technica: Project Loon: Solar-powered balloons beam Internet down to Earth.
Encrypted e-mail: How much annoyance will you tolerate to keep the NSA away? | Ars Technica: How to to encrypt e-mail, and why most don't bother.
The PJ Tatler » NSA Gave Talking Points To Members Of Congress
Moe Lane » Bankruptcy endgame for Detroit?
Peace, Love and C++ - dput-ng 1.5: dput-ng 1.5 If all goes well, a new release of dput-ng will hit the archive this week (depending on when I can find time to close the last 2 bigger bugs) - anyone interested in getting a new feature...
Certificates For Ubuntu Members
ERT now broadcasting on several medium wave frequencies | The SWLing Post

Trying To Hit The Right Blog With This

Sat, 08 Jun 2013 00:00:01 GMT

NSA 'Boundless Informant' software leak shows just how much data the government has | The Verge
Director of National Intelligence issues fact sheet on PRISM in response to leaks | The Verge
Rules of cyberwarfare remain unclear as hackers and governments clash | The Verge
Yahoo says claims of sweeping surveillance 'categorically false' | The Verge
B&N Removes Nook for PC and Nook for Mac Apps TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics
Reading Well: A great national scheme that helps people, libraries … and the bottom line
The Volokh Conspiracy » Minimization and the “Collection First” Surveillance Model
Nightmares and Despair: 2012 is crucial to the republic. Illegitimi non carborandum « Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle
Obama Asks Officials To Draw Up Secret List Of Targets To Cyber Attack | Weasel Zippers
Al Sharpton: I Oppose NSA Wiretapping But It’s OK If Obama Does It… | Weasel Zippers
Spies Amongst US | Amplify the Signal
Rendition link to PRISM | DanielPocock.com
Michael Stapelbergs Debian blog
Are You Ready For the Atwitterpocalypse? - Hacking Thy Fearful Symmetry
Coyle's InFormation: BIBFRAME Authorities
VodkaPundit » Even Paranoiacs Have Enemies
Ed Driscoll » IRS? Data Surveillance? Holder? Nothing to See Here Says Washington Post
DNI Statement on the Collection of Intelligence Pursuant to Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act
Intelligence director Clapper slams media leaks, offers declassified PRISM explanation | PCWorld
The PJ Tatler » Who in the UK Had Access to PRISM Intel?
The PJ Tatler » Will Voters Be Angry Over Government Snooping?
» Anonymous Leaks Not So Secret NSA Documents - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Alan Dershowitz takes on anti-NSA narrative - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» When everything is a crime, government data mining matters - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
America in the Midst of a Coup d'Etat - The Rush Limbaugh Show
In Response to the NSA, We Need A New Church Committee and We Need It Now | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Government Says Secret Court Opinion on Law Underlying PRISM Program Needs to Stay Secret | Electronic Frontier Foundation
The Daily Dot - How to get by on the Internet without PRISM companies
Tech at Night: A few quick points on FISA, NSA, and PRISM. | RedState
The DiploMad 2.0: One and Half Cheers for the "New York Times"
monkeyiq: BeagleBone Black: Walking the dog.
The Threat of Immortality - Sam Hewitt | Blog | Sam Hewitt | Blog
ARMology | Marcin Juszkiewicz
Obama defends surveillance effort as 'trade-off' for security | Reuters
The Volokh Conspiracy » DoJ Seeks to Keep FISA Court Decision Invalidating NSA Surveillance Under Wraps
The PJ Tatler » Your Computer Is Bugging Your House
Government likely to open criminal probe into NSA leaks: officials | Reuters
The PJ Tatler » No Worries: The Government Is Totally Going To Look Into The Government’s Latest Creepiness
The PJ Tatler » Tech Giant’s Denials of Participation in NSA Program Ring a Little Hollow
BSD Release: FreeBSD 8.4 (DistroWatch.com News)
Barack Obama’s New Hampshire Primary Speech - New York Times
Althouse: "It was a creed written into the founding documents that declared the destiny of a nation..."
Tech Companies Concede to Surveillance Program - NYTimes.com
Althouse: "Twitter declined to make it easier for the government. But other companies were more compliant..."
Krauthammer On Obama's Handling Of Surveillance: "You Can't Trust The Administration" | RealClearPolitics
Althouse: "Obama says federal judges can be trusted to keep data mining/PRISM programs honest."
Obama: If People 'Can't Trust' Government, 'We're Going to Have Some Problems Here'
Althouse: "If people can’t trust not only the executive branch but also don’t trust Congress and don’t trust federal judges..."
PRISM Prevented Najibullah Zazi Subway Attack -- Daily Intelligencer
Althouse: "PRISM Stopped Najibullah Zazi From Blowing Up Backpacks in the Subway."
Worrisome: Why are US productivity numbers so terrible? | AEIdeas
Waiter and waitress nation: The May payrolls report shows the US creating jobs, just not many good ones | AEIdeas
The sequester isn’t biting, is it? | AEIdeas
Rush Limbaugh: Still Winning : The Other McCain
Michael Geist - Why Canadians Should Be Demanding Answers About Secret Surveillance Programs
» How the IRS scandal may damage PRISM and other anti-terror data mining - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» I hate to interrupt NSA-gate, but we’ve been fed lies about IRS-gate - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Call connected through the NSA: Ars readers react | Ars Technica
175K May Non-Farm Payrolls Small Beat, April Revised Down; Unemployment Rate Of 7.6% Higher Than Expected | Zero Hedge
Not superhuman Barack Obama, just a very naughty boy - Telegraph
[Liverpool] OggCamp13 Is Go!
Isaac Asimov - The Foundation Trilogy : Isaac Asimov : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive
Internet Companies Deny They're Helping the NSA Collect User Data. Should We Believe Them? - The Daily Beast
College professor says 'obese' grad applicants lack 'willpower' to finish degrees | Fox News
Boundless Informant: the NSA's secret tool to track global surveillance data | World news | guardian.co.uk
3 notes from Evan on mitigating mass spying | autonomo.us
Number Of Older Workers (55 And Over) Rises To New Record High | Zero Hedge
Officials: NSA mistakenly intercepted emails, phone calls of innocent Americans - Open Channel
Obama rejects comparisons between Chinese cyber-spying and NSA programs | WashingtonExaminer.com
"You Should Use Both" - How America's Internet Companies Are Handing Over Your Data To Uncle Sam | Zero Hedge
Why the NSA Prism Program Could Kill U.S. Tech Companies - Popular Mechanics
Why the NSA Needs Your Phone Calls… - By Stewart Baker | Foreign Policy
Where The (Low-Paying) Jobs Were Are | Zero Hedge
Twitter / iowahawkblog: Govt has to scrape all your ...
These are the most important numbers from the latest jobs report | AEIdeas
Shoot The PRISM-Gate Messenger: Obama To Launch Criminal Probe Into NSA Leaks | Zero Hedge
Real Unemployment Rate: 11.3% | Zero Hedge
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: Truth is Inconvenient
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: Intimidate
Will the end of driving mean the end of radio? | Radio Survivor
Internet Companies Deny They're Helping the NSA Collect User Data. Should We Believe Them? - The Daily Beast
Why Are Big Tech Companies Denying Involvement in the NSA’s Internet Data Mining Program? - Hit & Run : Reason.com
U.S. intelligence mining data from nine U.S. Internet companies in broad secret program - The Washington Post
Roger’s Rules » The assault on truth continues
Instapundit » Blog Archive » ROGER KIMBALL: The Assault On Truth Continues. “If you take certain positions, you will be cast in…
Redstone radar blob: 'Whatever it was' versus what we know it wasn't (updated) | al.com
Verizon Controversy Not As Bad As It Seems - Ricochet.com
Instapundit » Blog Archive » THEY TOLD ME IF I VOTED FOR MITT ROMNEY, WE’D HAVE DOMESTIC SURVEILLANCE POLICIES THAT JOHN YOO WOUL…
Instapundit » Blog Archive » AIRBRUSHING: New York Times quietly changes published editorial to make it less damning of Obama. …
The Hassle of Keeping All Your Conversations Private | Gadget Lab | Wired.com
Verizon Breaks Silence on Top-Secret Surveillance of Its Customers | Threat Level | Wired.com
Also Revealed by Verizon Leak: How the NSA and FBI Lie With Numbers | Threat Level | Wired.com
NSA Is Wired Into Top Internet Companies' Servers, Including Google and Facebook | Threat Level | Wired.com
Secret program gives NSA, FBI backdoor access to Apple, Google, Facebook, Microsoft data | The Verge
Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Yahoo, and Dropbox deny providing direct access to PRISM surveillance program | The Verge
The Government Lied And Privacy Died. | RedState
Remember When Dems Supported Obama’s Extension Of The Patriot Act? | RedState
The view from France: what did we expect?
NY Times Turns On Obama Over NSA Phone Records Scandal: “The Administration Has Now Lost All Credibility”… | Weasel Zippers
Bombshell Report: NSA, FBI Tapping Servers Of 9 Top Internet Companies To Gain Access To Americans Emails, Photos, Messages… | Weasel Zippers
Cloaking technique makes data transmission invisible - Technology & Science - CBC News
Obama nominee for UN Ambassador promoted US force against Israel | protein wisdom
Booted my Dragonboard | Marcin Juszkiewicz
Announcing the newest fully free GNU/Linux distribution: LibreWRT — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
President Obama’s Dragnet - NYTimes.com
VodkaPundit » From the Horse’s Mouth
Ed Driscoll » Answer: Let It Burn
Is the NSA’s Collection of Phone Records a Scandal? | Power Line
Reports: NSA, FBI collecting content from Google, Facebook, other services | PCWorld
Report: NSA PRISM program spied on Americans' emails, searches | PCWorld
The Volokh Conspiracy » NSA and FBI Have Real-Time Access to Major U.S. Internet Companies to Track Individuals Outside U.S.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Feinstein & Chambliss Confirm That NSA Call Records Program Has Been Operating Under FISA Orders for 7 Years
The PJ Tatler » Sensenbrenner to Holder: ‘Un-American’ Verizon Order Violates My Patriot Act
The PJ Tatler » Kirk to Holder: Have You Been Spying on Congress?
The PJ Tatler » Clapper to Committee in March: NSA Does ‘Not Wittingly’ Collect Data on Americans
The PJ Tatler » NSA, FBI Operation PRISM Tapped Into Nine Internet Companies
Althouse: "The National Security Agency’s seizure and surveillance of virtually all of Verizon’s phone customers is an astounding assault on the Constitution."
» Did PRISM watch me create this blog post? - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
New leak shows feds can access user accounts for Google, Facebook and more | Ars Technica
911 tech that locates cell phone users in buildings ready to go | Ars Technica
This Is Just Too Damn Perfect
Just Three Months Ago, Director National Intelligence James Clapper Told Congress That the NSA Does Not Collect Data on Millions of Americans
More: NSA Runs Huge Intelligence Collecion Program Called "PRISM" Which Collects Virtually Everything You Do Online
US security agencies tapping directly into internet giants' servers: report | ABC Radio Australia
The PJ Tatler » Payroll-to-Population Ratio Keeps Shrinking
Confirmed: The NSA is Spying on Millions of Americans | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Obama Administration Defends Spying on Over 100 Million Americans | Jammie Wearing Fools
Administration defends collecting phone records - Yahoo! News
Grahamnesty: I’m “Glad” Obama Has The NSA Collecting Phone Records On Millions Of Innocent Americans… | Weasel Zippers
NSA chief, two weeks ago: ‘We’re the only ones not spying on the American people’
Moe Lane » WaPo: Oh, by the way: the NSA lied about not spying on Americans. Oopsie!
The PJ Tatler » Paul on NSA: Obama at ‘New Low’ with ‘Astounding Assault on Constitution’
Less People Working Now Than A Year Ago; Gallup Warns Recent Job Gains Not Sustained In May | Zero Hedge
U.S. Payroll to Population and Unemployment Worsen in May
9 reasons why the 4-year-old US economic recovery is closer to awful than awesome | AEIdeas
Forking and Standards: Why The Right to Fork Can Be Pro-Social – Luis Villa
Pew: over half of all Americans now own a smartphone | The Verge
The Gold Standard in Free Communications Technology | DanielPocock.com
Female Israeli soldiers disciplined for 'unbecoming behaviour' after posing for pictures dressed only in their underwear and combat fatigues | Mail Online
VodkaPundit » God Bless the IDF
The PJ Tatler » How Big is Our Unemployment Problem?
The PJ Tatler » Court Ruling Overrides Sebelius, Allows Dying 10-Year-Old to be Eligible for Lung
Here’s the thing about quantitative easing: It doesn’t lower rates. It raises them. And that’s a good thing | AEIdeas
Return of the DX | The Travelin' Librarian
56 percent of Americans now own smartphones, Pew study finds | Ars Technica
Kindle DX unceremoniously reappears on Amazon | Ars Technica
Daring Fireball Linked List: The Guardian: NSA Collecting Phone Records of Millions of Americans Daily
FROM OFF STUMP TO OHIO | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog
Lawless aristocracy for a dominated people | RedState
Transterrestrial Musings - ITAR Emergency
Samsung wins US import ban on AT&T iPhone 4 and 3G iPads in ongoing patent dispute | The Verge
Liberals Pressure Obama Admin to Muzzle Wisconsin Talk Radio | RedState
Our Manifesto | Voices for the Library
BBC News - Malorie Blackman Q&A: Meet the new Children's Laureate
Malorie Blackman is a great choice to inspire children - Telegraph
Blackman named Children’s Laureate | The Bookseller
New Children’s Laureate Malorie Blackman will “bang the drum” for libraries
The DiploMad 2.0: A Mishmash of Modern Disasters, or Things I Really, Really Hate!
Amazon getting into grocery business: Reuters - Technology & Science - CBC News
Gitmo Looking for Instructor to Teach Terrorists Watercolor Painting | CNS News
“Gitmo Looking for Instructor to Teach Terrorists Watercolor Painting” | protein wisdom
VodkaPundit » Democrat Blames Rape Victim for Wearing Short Skirt
Ed Driscoll » The Process is the Punishment
Witness: IRS warned us not to protest Planned Parenthood « Hot Air
Possibly related DDoS attacks cause DNS hosting outages | PCWorld
The PJ Tatler » Drudge Editor Tweets: ‘IRS Scandal is About to Explode’
The PJ Tatler » Democrat Rep. Jim McDermott Blames Conservative Groups for Bringing IRS Abuse Upon Themselves
Althouse: More shaming of the "fat-shaming" professor Geoffrey Miller.
Adrian Lamo Is a Hero : The Other McCain
» Ex-Hacker Adrian Lamo Testifies on Day Two of Bradley Manning Trial - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Obama administration comes out swinging against patent trolls | Ars Technica
Amazon wants to deliver your groceries, in addition to everything else | Ars Technica
Ed Driscoll » IRS Agent to Pro-Life Group: ‘Please Explain in Detail the Activities at [Your] Prayer Meetings’
Jim McDermott: Let's Face It, You Deserved to Get Targeted by the IRS
Appeals Court Rules Wisconsin Voter ID Constitutional, WIGOP: Let's Go Even Further
Outrage over professor's Twitter post on obese students | Inside Higher Ed
How much should we be fearing “resets”?
ViralRead » Doubts Emerge on Senate’s ‘Gang of Eight’ Immigration Bill
Transterrestrial Musings - The IRS Intimidation
Did Bradley Manning 'aid the enemy'? Questions loom as historic trial begins | The Verge
Rebranding and self-promotion can work, honest …
Report: Finance Ministry Was Key to Hitler’s Agenda | Jammie Wearing Fools
Director Of D.C. Labor Board Told To “Refrain From Hiring White Men”… | Weasel Zippers
“Doubts Emerge on Senate’s ‘Gang of Eight’ Immigration Bill” | protein wisdom
IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family | CNS News
VodkaPundit » “Milch Cow” is American English for “Comrade”
Ed Driscoll » The Return of the Son of the ‘Unexpectedly’ Bad Economic News
Manufacturing Drops–Unexpectedly! | Power Line
Prosecutor: Manning shared data without regard for national security | PCWorld
The Volokh Conspiracy » Certification of Legal Questions to Foreign Courts?
The Volokh Conspiracy » South Carolina Supreme Court (3-2) Mostly Upholds Lifetime Satellite Location Monitoring for Child Molesters
The PJ Tatler » MSNBC President: ‘We’re Not What You’d Call a News Network’
The PJ Tatler » Democrat: Give the IR$ Even More Money If You Don’t Want More Abuse
» Judge Rules Major Hasan May Represent Himself in Fort Hood Trial – Update: Will use “defense of others” argument - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Day One in Trial of Accused Wikileaker Bradley Manning - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Anti-Wikileaks Hackers Claim Credit for DDoS Attack Against ‘Russia Today’ - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
France removes Internet cut-off threat from its anti-piracy law | Ars Technica
The Macalope Weekly: Escalation strategies | Macworld
Daring Fireball Linked List: Escalation Strategies
Fragmented Android drives big dev to Apple | Computerworld Blogs
Daring Fireball Linked List: Android Fragmentation
Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Quote of the Day
TREND EVIDENT | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog
Rob LaZebnik's Message for the Class of 2013 | Saturday Essay - WSJ.com
Any iOS device can be hacked within one minute with modified charger, say researchers | The Verge
US Federal Reserve to investigate online banking systems for potential risks | The Verge
New regulations will let Canadians cancel three-year wireless contracts after 24 months | The Verge
Look out, fanbois! EVIL charger will inject FILTH into your iPHONE • The Register
Will Republicans Reassert the Rule of Law? | RedState
HHS Website For Girls Aged 10 To 16 Informs Youth About Birth Control, Gay Sex, “Mutual Masturbation”… | Weasel Zippers
Introducing The Shortwave Radio Audio Archive | The SWLing Post
GCC 4.8.1 is C++11 feature complete - The H Open: News and Features
Oracle sets out future Java security plans - The H Open: News and Features
Apple e-book price-fixing case begins - Technology & Science - CBC News
New CRTC wireless rules signal the end of 3-year contracts - Technology & Science - CBC News
Can anyone take on top 3 telecom companies? - Technology & Science - CBC News
Rogers offers cheap internet to Toronto's poorest youth - Technology & Science - CBC News
Obama’s Asteroid | The Weekly Standard
VodkaPundit » Required Reading
The friends of Richard Windsor | Power Line
LTE and smartphones drive mobile traffic, says Ericsson | PCWorld
The PJ Tatler » NJ Sen. Frank Lautenberg, RIP
Althouse: Frank Lautenberg — the 89-year-old Senator who said he wouldn't seek reelection in 2014 — has died.
Where are the entrepreneurs? More evidence the very heart of the US economy is failing | AEIdeas
In the Digital Age, What Becomes of the Library? | The Travelin' Librarian
Michael Geist - CRTC Releases New Wireless Code That Should Eliminate Three Year Contracts
Ubuntu founder credits Android and iOS for reversing Microsoft's dominance | The Verge
Yahoo eliminates classic Mail, requiring users to agree to Gmail-like email scanning | The Verge
Court challenges could tear down major pieces of ObamaCare - The Hill's Healthwatch
Court challenges could tear down major pieces of ObamaCare | Jammie Wearing Fools
Bill Maher: “I Think Pope Might Be An Atheist Like I Think Obama Is” | Weasel Zippers
The DiploMad 2.0: Breaching the Gates of Paris and Memphis: Dhimmis Bow and Scrape as Jihadis Sharpen Knives
VodkaPundit » There’s No Saving Our Public Schools
» The zero-tolerance war on kindergarteners - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Wil Wheaton - Google+ - Sen. Chambliss (R-GA): “This is nothing particularly new." …
Wil Wheaton - Google+ - I'm leaving Verizon today, and looking for a new wireless…
White House: Spying on US citizens “critical” tool for fighting terror | Ars Technica
WASHINGTON: Judge behind phone records threw out Obamacare - Politics Wires - MiamiHerald.com
Top secret doc shows NSA demands Verizon hand over millions of phone records daily | Ars Technica
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is Verizon Turning Over Records of Every Domestic Call to the NSA?
The PJ Tatler » White House: Obama ‘Welcomes a Discussion of Tradeoffs Between Security and Civil Liberties’
The PJ Tatler » White House Claims NSA Phone Records Dragnet, a ‘Critical Tool’ in Protecting US
The PJ Tatler » Feinstein, Chambliss: Phone Records OK Because Government Didn’t Listen In
Secret court order allows the government to access all Verizon call records | PCWorld
Revealed: NSA collecting phone records of millions of Americans daily | World news | The Guardian
Report: NSA Was Granted Order to Snag Millions of Verizon Call Records for 3 Months | Threat Level | Wired.com
“Report: Gov’t scooping up Verizon phone records” | protein wisdom
Obama Ramps Up Domestic Surveillance: Secret Court Order Requires Verizon To Hand Over All Call Records On A Daily Basis To NSA… | Weasel Zippers
NSA secretly vacuumed up Verizon phone records | Politics and Law - CNET News
NSA collecting data on all Verizon calls - The Hill's Hillicon Valley
Leo Laporte - Google+ - I gave thousands of dollars to help elect +Barak Obama and…
Leaked docs show NSA collects data on all Verizon customers • The Register
Drudge Wins the Day on Obama’s Verizon Surveillance Story | Jammie Wearing Fools
» Battered Obama Supporter Syndrome — The Phone Records Grabber Episode - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Althouse: "Top secret court order requiring Verizon to hand over all call data shows scale of domestic surveillance under Obama."
ACLU on Obama’s NSA Snooping on Verizon Customers: ‘It Is Beyond Orwellian’ | Jammie Wearing Fools
12 Clear Signals That The U.S. Economy Is About To Really Slow Down | Zero Hedge

A Missing Fragment

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 00:00:01 GMT

Download FreeBASIC | FreeBASIC Programming Language
Euorpe Facing "A Year Without A Summer," As It Last Did in 1816
A Few Bad Apples: 88 IRS Agents Named as Participating in Targeting, So Far
» Cincinnati IRS Workers to be Questioned by House Investigators - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
The #FreeKate Meltdown Continues : The Other McCain
Recovery in US incomes weakest in a half century | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
The PJ Tatler » Professor: What America Really Needs Now Is a Violent Civil War to Kill Off the NRA
Find your own private Internet with Freenet | PCWorld: Like BitTorrent with websites, Freenet lets you communicate and share data anonymously with other privacy-conscious folks around the world.
Spark • Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace -- Q&A with Ron Deibert: Black Code: Inside the Battle for Cyberspace -- Q&A with Ron Deibert Ron Deibert is Director of the Canada Centre for Global Security Studies and the Citizen Lab. Nora Young interviewed him about his...
Kinky? You're mentally healthier than 'vanilla' bonkers • The Register

And The Rain Keeps Falling

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 00:00:01 GMT

In Search of Liberal ‘Principle,’ and Also: Does #FreeKate Have a Larger Agenda? : The Other McCain
US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits, spyware, ransomware and trojans to attack pirates! | The Travelin' Librarian
Homeland Security database leaks employee information | PCWorld: The Department of Homeland Security last week said it notified employees and others with DHS clearance to be on alert for potential fraud due to a vulnerability discovered in software used by a vendor to process personally identifiable information for background investigations. The software hole in had existed since July 2009.
After Girl Expelled From High School and Charged Over Lesbian Relationship, Anonymous Goes on the Offensive | Mother Jones
Dem Sen. Dick Durbin: Not Sure Bloggers Are Entitled To Constitutional Protection | Weasel Zippers
Who Dares Call it Terror? | Wizbang
Ed Driscoll » Academics in a Hurry
Ed Driscoll » ‘We Go To The Crime Scenes, But When We Get There We Stand and Wait’
Fecklessness, Swedish Style | Power Line
Report: IRS Harassment Of Conservatives Is Still Happening | Weasel Zippers
Poll: By Massive 22-Point Margin, Voters Favor Repealing Obamacare… | Weasel Zippers
Jihadi Work Accident: Taliban Suicide Bomber Killed When Explosive Jacket Detonates Prematurely… | Weasel Zippers
CBS’s Bob Schieffer: How About Someone Other Than Holder Investigating Holder? ‘Makes No Sense’ | Weasel Zippers
Yahoo reportedly willing to pay up to $800 million in bid for Hulu | The Verge: Apparently Yahoo has some deep pockets: the company has reportedly bid somewhere between $600 million and $800 million in its quest to assume ownership of Hulu. Those figures come from All Things D,...
Justice Department told Fox News' parent company about phone probe years ago (update: News Corp denies report) | The Verge: An official from the Fox television network this week confirmed that officials from the Justice Department notified its parent company nearly three years ago of plans to seize the telephone records...
The Shortest Crashing C Program | llbit
Deploying a Web app in 14 days, No HTML. | Wat, blogged: JS and other development stuffs... (by Kory Nunn)
HE SIMPLY FEELS | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog: Russell Brand considers the
CONVERSION UNDERWAY | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog: Global oilman Tim Newman – nice bloke; I met him once in Kuwait –
» Tavis Smiley felt the wrath of Team Obama - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Yes, but only while wearing pajamas - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
#FreeKate Lies Unravel; Roman Polanski Could Not Be Reached for Comment : The Other McCain
The Volokh Conspiracy » English Police: “People Should Stop and Think About What They Say on Social Media Before Making Statements as the Consequences Could Be Serious”
Woolwich attack: Lincoln man Benjamin Flatters arrested over 'malicious comments' on Facebook - Mirror Online: Complaints were made to police about comments made on Facebook, which were allegedly of a racist or anti-religious nature
Results of the Debian systemd survey
The DiploMad 2.0: Scandal-palooza! Obama's Biggest Achievement: Making Al Capone Look Good
Australian University Censors Students For Mocking Islam… | Weasel Zippers
Forecasters Calling for “Active or Extremely Active” Atlantic Hurricane Season: Forecasters with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration are calling for an “active or extremely active” 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. The 2013 Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1-November 30.
Public library campaigning: the easy bit may have just ended in Herefordshire.
But what if I can't find it on the internet?
WikiLeaks party flirts with Oz law by taking Bitcoin gifts • The Register
Transterrestrial Musings - A Perl Mystery
WHERE IS YOUR PRIMARY AND OFFICIAL SOURCE? | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog: There are none so blind as those at the ABC.
Michael Geist - The Canadian Government's Embarrassing Opposition to Security Breach Disclosure Legislation: Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., privacy security breach
VodkaPundit » Blue State Blues
A demographic of one | as days pass by
Check out the AFRTS Archive | The SWLing Post
The DiploMad 2.0: How Many Times do We have to Hear about the Peaceful 99% of Muslims?
America’s Female Soldiers: Also Bravely Serving And Dying In Line Of Duty | Weasel Zippers
The Tomorrow People jaunt back to the airwaves • The Register
Fedora cooks up new Linux for Raspberry Pi • The Register
Developer codes VNC-over-GIF tool • The Register
Keith Ellison Perplexed: Why Doesn’t Apple Want To Pay More Taxes?… | Weasel Zippers
WEBDIARY REBORN! | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog: “Found someone to fund my work,” announces
FROM PARLIAMENT TO THE PITS | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog: What might Sarah Hanson-Young do if she’s voted out in September?“I’d like to be a
Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » Durbin, Tocqueville, and Freedom of the Press: Chicago Boyz
» Zimmerman judge excludes Trayvon Martin fighting, social media and marijuana use - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» The historical fiction of Israel’s “occupation” - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
A Definition of Insanity : The Other McCain
Althouse: "I Love ‘The Big Bang Theory.’ And You Should, Too."
Althouse: The live-blog of new Supreme Court opinions.
Althouse: Studying college-age females and their "fat talk" (in which 93% of them indulge).
'Fat Talk' Compels but Carries a Cost - NYTimes.com: Research shows that most women neither enjoy nor admire the body-denigrating bonding ritual known as “fat talk.” But that doesn’t stop them from engaging in it. Read more…
Raspberry Pi Twitter Sentiment Server | "It’s better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.": Ramblings on data, deals, development and other things starting with D. (by Jason Bell)
The PJ Tatler » Eric Holder Judge-Shopped to Get Warrant to Seize Fox Reporter’s Emails and Phone Records
The PJ Tatler » Levin: We Need More Money from Corporations ‘Whose Contributions to the Treasury Have Gone Down’
Marco Rubio is “our Republican,” says Chuck Schumer — and with good reason | Power Line
Mr. Holder regrets | Power Line
Singapore to regulate Yahoo, other online news sites | Reuters: SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Websites that regularly report on Singapore including Yahoo News will have to get a license from June 1, putting them on par with newspapers and television news outlets, in a move
U.S. accuses cyber exchange of laundering $6 billion | Reuters: NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. prosecutors have indicted the operators of digital currency exchange Liberty Reserve, accusing the Costa Rica-based company of helping criminals around the world launder more
The BBC and a confused concept of what is free and open | DanielPocock.com
Using the UDF as a successor of FAT for USB sticks - Tanguy Ortolo: USB keys are usually formatted with FAT, which has serious limitations. UDF can be used as an open alternative without these limitations.
(GIFT) GNU Image Finding Tool - News: Moved to Git! [Savannah]: Savannah is a central point for development, distribution and maintainance of Free Software. It allows contributors to easily join existing Free Software projects.
MediaGoblin
PayPal vulnerable to cross-site scripting again - The H Security: News and Features: The internet payment processing service, part of eBay, does not check search strings, allowing attackers to inject arbitrary JavaScript into the user's browser. The issue can be exploited to steal access credentials
AusCERT on the Internet Census: It's not the fault of "stupid users" - The H Security: News and Features: The Australian CERT has analysed previously unpublished Internet Census 2012 data. The team's findings indicate that security problems aren't caused by "stupid" users, but that they occur because of flawed coding and careless factory settings
Obama: “God Has A Plan And … We’re An Instrument Of His Will”… | Weasel Zippers
Axelrod Throws Holder Under The Bus, Says Naming Journalist A “Co-Conspirator” Is “Very Disturbing”… | Weasel Zippers
Democrat Anti-Gun Nuts Facing Recall in Colorado | Jammie Wearing Fools
Newborn Chinese baby is rescued ALIVE from toilet pipe after being flushed away by parents | Jammie Wearing Fools
Bill Gates: Corporate tax is not a moral issue • The Register
My, my Pi, did it spy ya? Bye, bye Pi, did it go higher? • The Register
DSD's 'don't be stupid' mitigation strategies still work • The Register
Is the new 'bible of psychiatry' a weapon for the courts? | The Verge: Three members of Occupy Psychiatry protest the American Psychiatric Association at their annual conference in San Francisco last week.

Walter Madden had a secret.
He and his wife, Kelsey, had...
8 Things That Suck About Obamacare - Pocket Full Of Liberty | Pocket Full Of Liberty
mjg59 | Secure Boot isn't the only problem facing Linux on Windows 8 hardware
P.J. O'Rourke: Obama Is Stupid
FCC bid to control Comcast’s channel lineup shot down by court | Ars Technica: FCC "badly misread statute" in Comcast/Tennis Channel case, judge writes.
Critical Ruby on Rails bug exploited in wild, hacked servers join botnet | Ars Technica: Attackers' success shows many servers still aren't patched. Is yours?
» Radical Chicago Hacker Pleads Guilty to Stratfor Leak - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Our Own Corner Of The Library : The Other McCain
The PJ Tatler » Issa Slaps State Dept with Benghazi Doc Subpoena
The PJ Tatler » Report: 20% of Ohio’s Registered Voters are Bogus
The PJ Tatler » Cincinnati Poll Worker is Third Voter Fraud Convict in Her County This Year
The Volokh Conspiracy » Notice for E-Mail Warrants and the James Rosen Case
The Illustrated Road to Serfdom
On the usefulness of wishlist bugs
“No more back-room deals between bureaucrats and liberal activists” | protein wisdom
while I was away, 1: Senator Durbin wants a 21st century solution to an outdated First Amendment | protein wisdom
LibreOffice 4.1.0 Beta 1 arrives with over a thousand changes - The H Open: News and Features: The first beta of LibreOffice 4.1.0 includes over 1000 improvements and bug fixes, including security improvements from Coverity's scan of the code base. The release also includes the new Sidebar UI in an experimental state
The DiploMad 2.0: The Right of National Defense
Video: Brain Dead Libs Sign “Thank You” Card To IRS For Targeting Conservatives… | Weasel Zippers
Netherlands: Muslim-Majority Parts Of The Hague No-Go Areas For The Police, Self-Governed By Sharia Law… | Weasel Zippers
http://www.designinglibraries.org.uk/documents/Liverpool_Central_Library.pdf
Comprehensive Amnesty Reform Could Lead To Fascism. | RedState: When Islamist fanatics Michael Adebolajo, 28, and Michael Adebowale, 22, allegedly murdered British soldier, Lee Rigby in Woolwich last Wednesday, it looked as if Enoch Powell was truly The Cassandra of Post-modern Great Britain. Could there be riots on the streets of England reminiscent of what has befallen Stockholm, Sweden in the last few days? Not if Dame Stella Rimington has her way. Here’s what British society would devolve into if we heeded her warning. The 78-year-old, who was MI5’s first female Director General, said: ‘The community has the responsibility to act as the eyes and ears, as they did during the war where there were all these posters up saying the walls have ears and the enemy is everywhere. ‘There have often been indications in the community, whether it’s Muslim or anywhere else, that people are becoming extremists and spouting hate phrases.’
Fedora 19 lands in beta with updates for devs, cloud • The Register
Oz opposition says to stop hackers first stop refugee boats • The Register
Yahoo! ready! to! fling! $600m! at! Hulu! • The Register
Hammond pleads guilty to Stratfor hack: 'It's a relief' • The Register
Anonymous Hacktivist Jeremy Hammond Pleads Guilty to Stratfor Attack | Threat Level | Wired.com: At a time when the word "hacktivist" is routinely used to describe random brigands and petty vandals, Jeremy Hammond stands out as the real deal. Today, the 28-year-old Chicagoan pleaded guilty to conspiring in the keystone attack of the short-lived Lulzsec/AntiSec era, a damaging December 2011 intrusion into the servers of the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, Inc.
Harry Reid: GOP Must Purge Itself Of Tea Partiers… | Weasel Zippers
The Greek property mess | DamianPenny.com: A Nova Scotia family lawyer's blog
Opera 15 provides a mish-mash of Opera features and the Chrome interface | Ars Technica: The beta of Opera's WebKit-based browser will be familiar to both Opera and Chrome fans.
Michael Geist - Digital Economy Deja Vu: My Appearance Before the Standing Committee on Industry, Science & Tech: Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., digital economy deja vu
Is this the greatest thing ever written about taxes? Quite possibly | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Althouse: "The U.S. needs a leader, not a law professor."
eBooks | Ministry for Culture and Heritage
Ordered Liberty » Enemy Combatant Jihadists in Civilian Courts — The Lunatics Run the Asylum
The PJ Tatler » Lerner’s Signature on IRS Request for info on Tea Party Group
The PJ Tatler » WaPo’s Pincus: Why Is Press Whining About The First Amendment And Stuff?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Noel Canning Recess Appointments Case — Amici Weigh In
Apple to pay $53 million to settle iPhone, iPod touch warranty suit | PCWorld: Apple has agreed to pay $53 million to settle a class-action suit in connection with warranties for its iPhone and iPod touch devices. The proceeds of the cash settlement will be paid to over 153,000 owners of the devices who were denied warranty coverage while Apple's
Will Somebody Tell Al-Qaida That the Era of Terrorism Is Over? | Power Line
What fiscal cliff? | Power Line
Propaganda: NPR Incorrectly Claims IRS Has Nothing to do With Obamacare | Wizbang
Ed Driscoll » Just a Buck, Try Your Luck
Progressive Newspaper Village Voice Circling the Drain: Troubles are growing for New York City's venerable "alternative" weekly newspaper, The Village Voice. With multiple layoffs, ad revenue at an all-time low, and resignations by key staffers over the paper's management, the 58-year-old publication is coming to what one commenter is calling "the end times."
VodkaPundit » Pardon My French
Number Of Americans On Disability Hits Another All-Time High In May, 10,978,040 Now Collecting SSDI… | Weasel Zippers
Saudi Islamist Calls For Sexually Molesting Women Who Enter The Work Force… | Weasel Zippers
Biden Tells Trinidad and Tobago: America Forces 11 Million Illegal Immigrants To “Constantly Live In Fear”… | Weasel Zippers
Dingy Harry: It Will Be “Pretty Easy” To Get 60 Votes For Amnesty… | Weasel Zippers
China announces giant military hackathon at SECRET Mongolian base • The Register
Anonymous 'plonks' names, addresses of far-right EDL types on web • The Register
62,000 fewer shops: Welcome to the High Street of 2018 • The Channel
Bobbies need broadband-enabled gear, insist 4G LTE fans • The Register
Raspberry Pi puts holes in China's Great Firewall • The Register
Revealed: Google's plan to float BLIMP NETWORK over Africa, Asia • The Register
The future of package management in Fedora
Internet Radio: Will Congress level the playing field? | RedState: Ever heard of Pandora? A question you could be asking in the future when American's largest Internet radio service no longer exists. A strange idea in an era where the power of the internet has transformed the way we do business and our everyday lives. In a nutshell, Pandora is a free online radio service that allows subscribers to personalize their own “station” by artist, genre or other musical preference. Pandora then creates a playlist of songs in that stripe, perhaps exposing the user to artists who don’t normally get play on traditional AM/FM stations.
House Committee Formally Considers Perjury Charge for Holder
Mary Meeker is Back With Her 2013 Internet Trends Report Slides - Jason Del Rey - D11 - AllThingsD: The future is here, courtesy of Mary Meeker.
Daring Fireball Linked List: Mary Meeker's 2013 Internet Trends
Facebook to take a stand against rape jokes, gender hate speech | Ars Technica: Under pressure from womens' rights groups, Facebook pledges to make changes.
Aereo: The TV innovation that may be too good to last | Ars Technica: A startup making exactly the right move with TV is driving FOX and CBS crazy.
Education, human imperfection, and technological unemployment | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Distribution Release: Linux Mint 15 (DistroWatch.com News): News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
The Linux Mint Blog » Blog Archive » Linux Mint 15 “Olivia” released!
The PJ Tatler » Holder Personally Sued in Massive Tea Party Abuse Lawsuit
Nissan, other brands suspend Facebook ads over offensive content | PCWorld: Nissan and some other big brands have suspended advertising campaigns on Facebook after ads were apparently displayed next to offensive content on the site.
Citrix CEO questions efficacy of Yahoo's remote working ban | PCWorld: Citrix CEO Mark Templeton has said that banning employees from working from home is an ineffective way of preventing slacking on the job.
Dem. Senator Durbin Not Sure if Bloggers Deserve Constitutional Protection | Wizbang
Ed Driscoll » The Moral Case for the British Empire
Library History Buff Blog: The Whole Library Handbook 5
Google's XMPP users left high and dry | DanielPocock.comGoogle
Take action for free JavaScript — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
“House bill would force HHS to prescribe exercise guidelines ‘for all Americans’” | protein wisdom
House bill would force HHS to prescribe exercise guidelines ‘for all Americans’ - The Hill's Floor Action: Two House members have proposed a bipartisan bill that would require the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to prescribe exercise guidelines for Americans. Reps.
Brian Burke can serve claim to online commenters, B.C. court rules: Former Toronto Maple Leafs and Vancouver Canucks general manager Brian Burke has received a favourable ruling in his bid to track down people he claims made defamatory comments about him on the internet.
Radio Vacation | The SWLing Post
PCJ Radio International moves to 11,835 kHz | The SWLing Post
Private equity signals interest in Optus satellites • The Register
DUFF & NONSENSE!: Sorry to bore on - again!: But I do find these election results fascinating. The fact that, with one by-election for a parliamentary seat excepted, the remainder were concerned with voting in sundry county councillors who are for the most part a complete waste of oxygen, makes the results, which have produced national reverberations, all the more interesting and several random thoughts occur, and to be...
IOWAHAWK BEATS US ALL | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog: “I take my hat off,”
EFF wants $30,000 to defeat a podcasting patent troll | Ars Technica: In a single day, tech legal group raises nearly $11,000 of its lofty goal.
Mark Shuttleworth gives up dream of Ubuntu toppling Windows | Ars Technica: Shuttleworth closes Bug #1, says Windows was defeated by iOS and Android.
Can You Count All the Rationalizations and Lies Offered by Kaitlyn Hunt’s Mom? : The Other McCain
The PJ Tatler » ‘Unexpected’ Jobless Numbers-Time For MSM To Get A Thesaurus
Jobless claims unexpectedly rise, but still within 2013 range | Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The number of Americans filing new claims for unemployment benefits unexpectedly rose last week, but not enough to suggest a shift in the recent pattern of modest job gains.Initial
Computer scientists oppose Oracle's bid to copyright Java APIs | PCWorld: Nearly three dozen computer scientists have signed off on a court brief opposing Oracle's effort to copyright its Java APIs, a move they say would hold back the computer industry and deny affordable technology to end users.
Ubuntu's Bug #1 report closed after almost nine years | PCWorld: The tongue-in-cheek bug report from 2004 complained that Microsoft owned more market share than Ubuntu. Ubuntu leader Mark Shuttleworth closed the report Thursday.
EFF targets podcasting patent for invalidation | PCWorld: A 1996 podcasting patent is in the crosshairs of two digital rights groups, which are hoping the public will help them get the patent invalidated.
The Other IRS Scandal | Power Line
VodkaPundit » So That’s the Other Thing in It
Shortwave Central: VOA Radiogram set for May 25-26
Mars trip would expose travellers to hefty dose of radiation - Technology & Science - CBC News: Astronauts traveling to and from Mars would be bombarded with as much cosmic radiation as they'd get from a full-body CT scan about once a week for a year, researchers reported Thursday.
Well done to Edinburgh. Not so well done to …
Ubuntu's Shuttleworth: Microsoft no longer dominates PC biz • The Register
Transterrestrial Musings - A US Lunar Colony?
Has Obama Repealed the "Clear and Present Danger" Doctrine?
Help Save Podcasting! | Electronic Frontier Foundation: We need your help to save podcasting. EFF is partnering with leading lawyers to bust a key patent being used to threaten podcasters. But we need your help to find prior art and cover the filing fees for a brand new patent busting procedure.
Daring Fireball Linked List: Help the EFF Fight a Podcasting Patent Troll
Farewell, Camino: Development on Mac browser officially halted | Ars Technica: Trailblazing Mac Web browser no longer really needed in today's Webkit world.
The PJ Tatler » DOJ to Enforce Obama’s Opinion that ‘The Future Must Not Belong to Those Who Slander the Prophet of Islam’
Ocean of Awareness
VoIP federation: another milestone | DanielPocock.com
tml's blog: You can't win an argument against conspiracy theorists
The systemd journal is a broken piece of crap. « seife’s assorted rants
Bug 817778 – journalctl can not read (broken?) journal.
Comment: Don't develop just for your favourite distribution - The H Open: News and Features: Developing configuration programs and desktops for just one distribution creates lone wolves, limits users and slows down progress
Ubuntu Bug One fixed? Shuttleworth says it is - The H Open: News and Features: Mark Shuttleworth closed Bug One in the Ubuntu bug tracker saying that Microsoft's domination of the personal computer business was now fixed. Others disagree with his reasoning and selected status for the bug as "Fix Released"
The DiploMad 2.0: The WHO Announces the End of the World . . . Again
DOJ: Criticizing Muslims On Social Media May Violate Civil Rights… | Weasel Zippers
Axelrod: Holder Was Just “Carrying Out His Responsibilities” By Spying On Fox News Reporter… | Weasel Zippers
Grammatically Challenged IRS Thugs Harass Conservatives: “In your educational program, do you education on both sides of the issues in your program?” | Jammie Wearing Fools
You need to get serious about 4G coverage, Ministry of Fun told • The Register
Minty fresh Linux: Olivia hits the virtual shelves • The Register
» 2014 – The Great Debunking? - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» A third of Millennials regret going to college - Col·lege In·sur·rec·tion
» UC Boulder student has naked freak out after eating magic mushrooms - Col·lege In·sur·rec·tion
Althouse: "Americans are overly deferential to bureaucracy, but, in my observation, they are uniquely fearful of the state’s tax collectors..."
The Jawa Report: Cream? Sugar?: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
FBI — Bridgeport Man Charged with Delivering Hand Grenade Concealed in Coffee Cup to Bridgeport Police
Democracy down-under is not democracy | DanielPocock.com
VOA Radiogram features EasyPal digital images this weekend | The SWLing Post
What’s The U.S. Taxpayers’ Tab At The UN? | Weasel Zippers
Twitter turns geotagged tweets into art | The Verge: The data created from tagging tweets with their location can be used in a number of interesting ways, and Twitter's Visual Insights team has recently used that information to create some terrific...
A look at the patent on distributing podcasts, and EFF's plan to fight it | The Verge: Much of the public awareness and outrage surrounding patent trolls began a few years back when Lodsys started targeting small iOS developers for royalties on in-app purchasing technology. We've...
Holder becomes a family liability | Las Vegas Review-Journal
» Trial of Wikileaker Bradley Manning Begins Monday - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Don’t #FreeKate: The Hunt Family’s Hate : The Other McCain
You Stay Classy, Cleveland! : The Other McCain

Heading Into A Holiday

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All grown up and ready to go dancing: Mageia 3′s out! | Mageia Blog (English)
Download Mageia 3: Download Mageia 3 DVD, CD, LiveCD, network install ISO images.
JOURNALISM vs AUSTRALIA | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog: Intriguing, but not entirely surprising,
Financial Times’ Twitter, tech blog hijacked by the Syrian Electronic Army | Ars Technica: FT is part of a growing list of media companies duped by the Pro-Assad crew.
Althouse: "The church eventually stopped talking about heaven..."
Althouse: 5 reasons why Yahoo will ruin Tumblr...
5 Reasons Tumblr + Yahoo Is Good For Users - Forbes: Whenever a spunky, growing startup gets sold to an established player, the cry goes out. Users won't like it. The culture will be ruined. The startup will be subsumed by its parent. Sometimes it's true, but in the case of the Yahoo purchase of Tumblr, I think there's an argument [...]
perl 5.18.0 is now available! - nntp.perl.org
Three-hour-a-week language | The Endeavour
CPAN modules for converting markdown to HTML
Advice to a new Perl user | Learning Perl
"Mobile-first" Bootstrap 3 is almost ready - The H Open: News and Features: The developers of the open source web frontend framework Bootstrap are designing the next version of their software to be adaptable to mobile form factors by default. Development work on Bootstrap 3 is almost complete
Yahoo buys Tumblr blogging site for $1.1B - Technology & Science - CBC News: Yahoo is buying online blogging forum Tumblr for $1.1 billion as CEO Marissa Mayer tries to rejuvenate an internet icon that had fallen behind the times.
The PJ Tatler » Feds Spend Nearly a Million Annually on Empty Bank Accounts
Works and Days » It Can Happen Here
VodkaPundit » Sign “O” the Times
Moe Lane » Non-citizen[*] Dzhokhar Tsarnaev’s indictment facing Federal Speedy Trial Act deadline.
Google's chat client drops Jabber compatibility - The H Open: News and Features: The new Hangouts is designed to put an end to the proliferation of Google chat services and promises to provide interesting features - but its missing XMPP support potentially means that numerous Google Talk contacts could be irretrievably lost
Perl 5.18 goes stable - The H Open: News and Features: Twelve months and 400,000 lines of code changes have produced the latest version of Perl, 5.18. The headline feature is a reimplementation of hashing to make it truly random
Development plans for Ubuntu 13.10 - The H Open: News and Features: "Saucy Salamander" could include early versions of Ubuntu's Mir display server and of the Qt-based Unity Next desktop, both of which have been demonstrated. However, the graphics stack of Ubuntu 12.10 will continue to be used by default
Mageia 3 arrives "all grown up" after two months' delay - The H Open: News and Features: After almost two months' delay, the latest version of the distribution that started as a fork of Mandriva refreshes the included software packages, implements the /usr move pioneered by Fedora and adds Steam for Linux
The Volokh Conspiracy » Supreme Court Holds Chevron Deference Applies to Scope of Agency Jurisdiction
How Paid YouTube Channels Could Kill Cable TV | PCMag.com: Allowing people to pay for only what they wish to watch could usher in the era of à la carte TV programming, and signal the end cable television as we know it.
Works and Days » It Can Happen Here
The Volokh Conspiracy » Agencies and Legislative/Judicial Power
The Tipping Point? Liberals Reporters Outraged Over Obama’s Targeting of Fox Reporter James Rosen | Jammie Wearing Fools
Prenda lawyer gets kicked off 9th Circuit case | Ars Technica: Paul Hansmeier's motion to delay an $81,000 sanctions order was also denied.
Larry Page wants you to stop worrying and let him fix the world | Ars Technica: Op-ed: Google CEO's view on what the world needs may not match government's—or yours.
"Unprecedented:" Brit Hume Cannot Think of a Precedent For Obama's DOJ's Claim that a Reporter Acted Illegally in Conspiring to Commit Journalism
Think your Skype messages get end-to-end encryption? Think again | Ars Technica: Ars catches Microsoft accessing links we sent in our test messages.
» Israeli counter-hackers claim to expose #OpIsrael hackers - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Study: Living in big cities helps college grads find better jobs | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Althouse: "I get that there are some of my conservative brethren don’t agree that the tea party should protest tomorrow."
Althouse: Bob Woodward: "I think you have to kind of step back and say what’s the theory of governing here."
May 19: Mitch McConnell, Dan Pfeiffer, Dave Camp, Xavier Becerra, Peggy Noonan, Bob Woodward, Donald Rumsfled - Meet the Press - Transcripts | NBC News
The PJ Tatler » Has an Iron Curtain Descended on the Cincinnati IRS Office?
The PJ Tatler » Carney Claims White House Chose Not to Tell Obama About IRS Probe
The PJ Tatler » UPDATE: Obama DOJ Tracked TWO Fox Reporters and a Producer
The PJ Tatler » WaPo: DOJ Tracked Fox News Reporter in 2010
DOJ’s Fox News Surveillance: Legitimate Leak Investigation, Or Outrageous Violation of the First Amendment? | Power Line
GOP’s emerging IRS scandal narrative isn’t compelling | Power Line
Piers Morgan: This IRS Thing is ‘Vaguely Tyrannical Behavior by the Government’ | Wizbang
Perl 5.18.0 released » Perl News
Talk @ TUM: Tor and the Censorship Arms Race: Lessons Learned | GNUnet
Bear's Journal » XMPP features now missing from GTalk (aka Hangout Chat)
Google Voice Support Coming to Hangouts 'Soon' | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Google today confirmed that it is working to allow outbound Google Voice calls within its new Hangouts experience on Gmail and Chrome, but at this point, the service only supports inbound calls.
Tumblr Users Reportedly Flock to WordPress Over Yahoo Buy | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Following news that Yahoo would acquire blogging platform Tumblr, some users have reportedly begun to move over to Wordpress.
The DiploMad 2.0: Today's Scandals and The Wisdom of Blazing Saddles
The DiploMad 2.0: "Government’s the only thing that we all belong to."
Obama Admin Got Federal Judge To Rule DOJ Didn’t Need To Notify Fox News Reporter His Emails Were Searched… | Weasel Zippers
Two cheers: Monday 20th May 2013
Supreme Court sides with FCC in NIMBY wireless tower spat • The Register
Fox News reporter was labeled a "co-conspirator" to justify DOJ email probe | The Verge: Just one week after the US Department of Justice revealed that it secretly seized the telephone records of AP journalists, new details have emerged regarding another case of a reporter ensnared in...
The Special K cure: new tests show club drug's promise for treating severe depression | The Verge: Dr. Terrence Early, a psychiatrist in Santa Barbara, CA, is convinced he's found the holy grail of care for severely depressed patients — those who've tried a litany of antidepressants, and even...
Liberal Laughing that ‘Conservatives’ Were Targeted by Oklahoma Tornado Today | Wizbang
» DOJ Official Says “No Charges Were Anticipated” Against Rosen - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Michael Geist - Competition Bureau To Investigate Google Canada: Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., competition bureau google
Michael Geist - Canadian Library Association on Access Copyright Lawsuit: Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., cla on ac
Mageia Linux 3 brings a raft of key updates | PCWorld: This popular Linux distro offers a choice of six desktop environments.
Google Checkout to shut down in November | PCWorld: Google will retire its Checkout payment processing tool on Nov. 20, and warned retailers they will need to move to a different payment processing platform.
Iranians face new Internet curbs before presidential election | Reuters: DUBAI (Reuters) - Iranians are struggling with slower Internet speeds and limited access ahead of an unpredictable presidential election that has put hardline Islamist authorities on alert for possible
Google Hangouts drops XMPP support
Microsoft's Xbox revamp: Is the sun setting on game consoles? - Technology & Science - CBC News: With the rise of mobile and social games, the revival of PC gaming and a general proliferation of options for both developers and players, some are wondering whether game consoles matter anymore, writes Peter Nowak.
Arduino launches Wi-Fi board and ready-to-roll robotics platform - The H Open: News and Features: Arduino has launched a new family of development boards and its first full robotics platform. The Arduino Yún is a Wi-Fi enabled board running Linux and the Arduino Robot is the company's first robotics platform that is fully functional out of the box
IRS Went After 83-Year-Old Tea Party Member, Survived WWII Japanese Internment Camp In Malaysia… | Weasel Zippers
Irish deputy PM: You want more tax from Apple? Your problem, not ours • The Register
Syrian hacktivists hijack Telegraph's Facebook, Twitter accounts • The Register
A backdoor into Skype for the Feds? You're joking... • The Register
Chocolate Factory chucks out Checkout • The Register
Computer use irrelevant to education outcomes, says US study • The Register
Top IRS official will invoke 5th Amendment - latimes.com: A top IRS official in the division that reviews nonprofit groups will invoke the 5th Amendment and refuse to answer questions before a House committee.
Thousands of Criminals Commit Anti-American Speech Acts, Defiling Exalted Temples of Government
Lois Lerner Will Plead The Fifth Tomorrow, Rather Than Answer Questions About IRS Partisan Targeting
Daring Fireball Linked List: Wikipedia Corruption
Revenge, ego and the corruption of Wikipedia - Salon.com: The unmasking of a writer who took extraordinary advantage of online anonymity to pursue old vendettas
Reporters use Google, find breach, get branded as “hackers” | Ars Technica: Scripps reporters uncover mishandling of customer data; companies threaten to sue.
» Theory – Jay Carney wants to be the fall guy - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Ed Markey cheered gov’t witch hunt against Gibson Guitar - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Althouse: "Top IRS official will invoke 5th Amendment."
Distribution Release: Puppy Linux 5.6 "Precise" (DistroWatch.com News): News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
The PJ Tatler » True the Vote Sues IRS
The Volokh Conspiracy » Jonathan Adler on Leak Investigations
The Volokh Conspiracy » IRS Attorney to Take the Fifth
Steven Miller House testimony: The IRS has many more liberals than conservatives on staff. - Slate Magazine: Maybe it wasn’t the best idea for acting IRS Commissioner Steven Miller to resign before talking to Congress. He appeared before the House Ways and Means Committee on Friday as a sort of human sacrifice; the first bureaucrat to resign in the scandal, and not even the one Republicans or...
The Volokh Conspiracy » Be Civil, You Lynch Mob Supporters
New Ericsson software designed to ensure good connections for mobile users | PCWorld: New network software from Ericsson is designed to make sure mobile users get the best possible connection when there is both a Wi-Fi and a cellular network available.
A New Front in the Administration’s War on Journalism? | Power Line
Moe Lane » Lois Lerner to take the Fifth tomorrow on role in IRS attacks on Tea Party.
“Drudge Editor on Obama Scandals: White House Is Sitting on Something That Has Top Aides Terrified” | protein wisdom
Delving into Family Radio's Finances after Judgment Day | Radio Survivor: Today marks the 2nd anniversary of Family Radio's failed Judgment Day and new details are emerging about the Christian radio network's finances.
Is Radio Shirking its Public Service Duty During Disasters? | Radio Survivor: The horrific devastation in the Oklahoma tornado reminds us about the importance of terrestrial radio during disasters. Are most stations and DJs prepared?
Is Your Teen Sharing Too Much Online? | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: A recent Pew Internet study reveals that teens are sharing more information about themselves on social media sites than they have in the past.
IRS Chief Tells Senate: Conservatives Targeted To Be “More Efficient”… | Weasel Zippers
Report: Obama Admin Has U.S. Taxpayers Funding Anti-Israel NGOs… | Weasel Zippers
Treasury Inspector General: IRS Leaking Tax Info On Conservatives To Pro Publica Could Have Violated Law… | Weasel Zippers
Carney Compares Inquiries On HHS Raising Private Sector Funds To Implement Obamacare To Questions On Obama’s Birth Certificate… | Weasel Zippers
Serfdom for dummies | RedState: Obedience can be guaranteed with certain habits of mind, which are friendly toward collectivism.
Soylent Corporation prepares to DEFEAT FOOD • The Register
IRS Completed Internal Investigation Into Tea Party Targeting Matter in May 2012; Hid Report from Congress
Prenda blows sanctions deadline, ordered to pay an extra $1,000 per day | Ars Technica: Today's the deadline to pay $81,000 in sanctions, and Prenda missed it.
» California Tea Party Files Class Action Lawsuit Against IRS - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Looking more and more like a DOJ war on Fox News, not just James Rosen - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
The Volokh Conspiracy » Leakers, Recipients, and Conspirators
Advancing the IRS story | Power Line
FCC announces waivers for tornado relief fundraising on-air | Radio Survivor: Tuesday the FCC announced procedures for obtaining waivers to permit non-commercial stations to raise money on-air for Moore, Oklahoma tornado relief efforts.
Report: DDoS service as a legitimate, FBI-approved business - The H Security: News and Features: Unscrupulous profiteers are openly offering DDoS attacks as a service. They have no fear of being prosecuted - according to a reputable US blogger, the prosecutors themselves might be on board
Debian GNU/Hurd 2013 rounded up - The H Open: News and Features: The developers of the Debian project have released the first major version of the Debian userland with the GNU Hurd kernel. Even though it is not an official Debian release, it is in "a very decent state" say the developers
Yahoo 'won't screw Tumblr'? Then Tumblr will screw its balance sheet • The Register
Tamerlan Tsarnaev and His Buddy Murdered Three Men in 2011, Sources Say
Darrel Issa: Lerner Waived Her 5th Amendment Rights By Offering Her Claims Before Invoking Her Right to Silence
BLOOD ON HIS HANDS | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog: Islamist
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: Sacrifice Anyone in Order to Protect the Head
Is Kathryn Ruemmler the next one under the bus? « Hot Air
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: Comes Complete With Cult of Personality
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: Make Elections as Unfair as Possible
Pew: 94% Of Teenagers Use Facebook, Have 425 Facebook Friends, But Twitter & Instagram Adoption Way Up: Teenagers use Facebook by far more than any other social media site and have over 400 friends on it. But Twitter and Instagram have massively increased the
Daring Fireball Linked List: Pew: 94 Percent of U.S. Teenagers Who Use Social Media Use Facebook
Twitter launches two-factor authentication, too late to save The Onion | Ars Technica: Login authentication aims to stem flood of accounts exposed by phishing attacks.
Fedora is back on Raspberry Pi with remix optimized for ARMv6 | Ars Technica: "Pidora" is a new build of Fedora for the Pi's ARM processor.
Patent troll that wants $1,000 per worker gets sued by Vermont A-G | Ars Technica: Small state's action is the first government lawsuit against a patent troll.
Power company targeted by 10,000 cyberattacks per month | Ars Technica: Electric grid is under daily assault, Congressional report finds.
» Beheading of British soldier in South London reminiscent of Syrian bloodletting - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Are we distracted by scandals while Democrats walk away with the immigration amnesty prize? - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
‘We Must Fight Them as They Fight Us,’ Says Terrorist Who Beheaded Soldier : The Other McCain
Is ‘Bladerunner with food stamps’ America’s future? | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Jobs Jobs Jobs | Via Meadia
Althouse: "This is courage of the highest order, it sounds as if these members of the public are not soldiers, not policemen, not people whose duties demand this..."
Mum talked down Woolwich terrorists who told her: 'We want to start a war in London tonight' - Telegraph: Exclusive: A cub scout leader confronted terrorists just seconds after
they had beheaded a soldier asking them to hand over their weapons and
warning them: "It is only you versus many people, you are going to lose."
Althouse: "In our land our women have to see the same. You people will never be safe. Remove your governments they don't care about you."
UK soldier 'beheaded' near barracks by 'man who praised Allah after cleaver attack' - NYPOST.com: LONDON — Two men attacked another man near a London military barracks Wednesday, in what British authorities were investigating as a possible terror act. One man is dead and two others were injured.
Woolwich Assailants 'Filmed' Hacking Attack: Woolwich Assailants 'Filmed' Hacking Attack
The PJ Tatler » Holder: Four American Citizens have been Killed in Drone Strikes Since 2009
Obama administration acknowledges drone strikes killed 4 Americans since 2009 | Fox News: Four American citizens have been killed in counter-terrorism drone strikes since 2009, the Obama administration acknowledged for the first time Wednesday.
BBC News - Woolwich machete attack leaves man dead: A man is killed in a machete attack and two suspects shot and wounded by police in London, with footage emerging of a man with bloodied hands shouting political statements near the scene.
The PJ Tatler » UK Headline: ‘Barack Obama Is Rapidly Losing His Halo’
Barack Obama is rapidly losing his halo – Telegraph Blogs: Is the worm turning against Barack Obama? After four-plus years of being given the benefit of the doubt by the bulk of the US media, the President now
On IRC section 1203 | Power Line
Ed Driscoll » London: Shocking Islamic Beheading
GNU/Linux chosen as operating system of the International Space Station — Free Software Foundation — working together for free software
“British Soldier Beheaded In London By Attackers Shouting ‘Allahu Akhbar’” | protein wisdom
AT&T: We Won't Get Bashed By the 'Dumb Pipe' | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Turning a carrier into a business services platform is a better deal for consumers than creating a two-tier wireless Internet.
The DiploMad 2.0: Jihadist Savages in London: Makes You Feel All Warm and Tingly About Muslim Immigration
UNREAL: It Took British Cops 20 Minutes To Respond To Islamist Terror Attack Because They Had To Wait For Officers With Guns To Show Up… | Weasel Zippers
British Soldier Beheaded In London By Attackers Shouting “Allahu Akhbar” – Update: Police Call It “Islamist Terrorist Attack” – Update: Video Of Attacker Talking – Update: ”We Swear By Almighty Allah We Will Never Stop Fighting You”… | Weasel Zippers
“The only place where I would willingly obey the laws”: Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones on libraries
Keith Richards faces library fine for overdue books from 50 years ago - 3am & Mirror Online: after a lifetime of hell-raising the Rolling Stones legend has finally been brought to book – for unpaid library fines dating back 50 YEARS
Thumbs-up for the town's new library building | Ashbourne News
UK libraries one third less funded than USA counterparts.
Twitter locks down logins by adding two-factor authentication • The Register
Ethernet daddy: online education poised to transform the world • The Register
Press exposure of Federal data security hole leads to legal threats • The Register
Promoting STEM Education, Foolishly. In the Pipeline:
A Change to Google Code Download Service
Pidora - Raspberry Pi Fedora Remix
Obama: Hey, You Know Who Should Be Promoted? Victoria Nuland, Shepardress of the False Talking Points
» Team Obama’s dirty war against conservatives - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Crumbling US human capital, not physical infrastructure, is the big economic problem | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Americans are tired; Obama is tired — but not of the same thing | Power Line
On section 1203: A footnote | Power Line
Russia's leading social network banned by mistake | Reuters: MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's leading online social network was briefly banned on Friday, in a move dismissed as a mistake but which follows intensifying official pressure on the company as President Vladimir
ITV News Twitter account hacked by Syrian Electronic Army | Reuters: LONDON (Reuters) - British broadcaster ITV on Friday became the latest media outlet to have one of its Twitter feeds hacked by anonymous supporters of Syria's President Bashar al-Assad, just days after
Ed Driscoll » The Fascist New Frontier
The Jawa Report: In The Wake Of Woolwich, Authorities Crackdown On Twitter Users: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Woolwich attacks: Man charged with making 'racist or anti-religious' Facebook comments about British soldier¿s death | Mail Online: Benjamin Flatters, from Lincoln, was arrested last night after complaints were made to Lincolnshire Police about comments made on Facebook, which were allegedly of a racist or anti-religious nature.
“Conservatives became targets in 2008″ [Darleen Click] | protein wisdom
Google to replace SSL certificates - The H Security: News and Features: Starting in August, Google will issue new certificates for its services. The company especially plans to scrap certificates with old 1024-bit RSA keys and replace them with 2048-bit ones
Lost+Found: SSH key primer, Wireshark, toxic SSL certificates - The H Security: News and Features: On The H's radar over the last seven days: how to store and protect SSH keys, Wireshark 1.8.7 and 1.6.15, game engine vulnerabilities, Volatility plugins, irrevocable SSL certificates, and historical parallels to the internet
This BBC radio adapts programming to match your environs | The SWLing Post
The DiploMad 2.0: Pity the Multiculturalist Gaia Worshipping Obama Loving Liberals, and What They've Done to All of Us
My Reaction to John Scalzi's Reaction to Kindle Worlds TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics: My Reaction to John Scalzi's Reaction to Kindle Worlds
4G LTE: Good for tweets and watching Dr Who. Crap at saving lives • The Register
Amazon’s Kindle Worlds: Instant Thoughts – Whatever
BREAKING: Kaitlyn Hunt Refuses Plea Offer, Will Face Trial on June 20 : The Other McCain
Because She’s Cute, That’s Why : The Other McCain
PJ Lifestyle » The Return of the Primitive
Considering a Linux career? Four tips for new college grads | PCWorld: Linux Foundation executive director Jim Zemlin offers suggestions for those just starting out in Linux.
Holder Personally Vetted Rosen Search Warrant; Lied About It Under Oath
Finally: Britain Cracks Down On Those Exploiting the System to Encourage Hate
STILL WORTHLESS AFTER ALL THESE YEARS | Daily Telegraph Tim Blair Blog: Laurie Oakes outlines the case
Prenda shell ordered to pay $9,425 in attorney’s fees | Ars Technica: When it's time to collect, will the coffers at AF Holdings be empty?
Ohio bans those dangerous dens of iniquity, Internet cafes | Ars Technica: Cafes said they offered online "sweepstakes" but were hounded by prosecutors.
» IRS Official Lois Lerner Placed on Administrative Leave as Scandal Grows - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Issue spotting Lois Lerner and the 5th Amendment - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Althouse: "The Obama Administration fought to keep a search warrant for James Rosen’s private e-mail account secret..."
How Prosecutors Fought to Keep Rosen's Warrant Secret : The New Yorker: The Obama Administration fought to keep a search warrant for James Rosen’s private e-mail account secret.
Althouse: Update on the case of the 18-year-old lesbian charged with a felony for having sex with a 14-year-old girl.
Althouse: "Activists say authorities are unfairly targeting 18-year-old US high-school student because she is gay."
Althouse: "People with higher IQs are slow to detect large background movements because their brains filter out non-essential information."
BBC News - Intelligence linked to ability to ignore distractions: People with higher IQs are faster at detecting small moving objects but slower at noticing larger background ones, say US researchers.
Althouse: Judge cuts sentence from 11 years to 4 months because the sex offender suffers from "hypersexuality."
Judge slashes sentence for Virginia teacher who slept with student, citing diagnosis of hypersexuality - NY Daily News: Former Rustburg teacher Kathleen Cawthorne, 33, only has to serve four months of her 11-year sentence after a judge ruled she could not control her sudden sexual urges.
The PJ Tatler » DOJ Acknoweldges that Holder Signed Off on Subpoena for Fox Reporter’s Emails and Phone Records
The PJ Tatler » Hide And Seek: DOJ Fought To Keep Monitoring Of Fox News Reporter Secret
Google pursuing broad wireless project for emerging markets, report says | PCWorld: Google has reportedly launched an expansive effort to bring wireless networks and affordable computing to emerging markets such as sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia, moves that could bring the Internet to a further billion people.
My New Love | Everyday Athlete: Staying fit and healthy while relentlessly pursuing an extraordinary life
Moe Lane » Reuters: Eric Holder signed off on the raid of reporter James Rosen’s email account.
Release Critical Bug report for Week 21
Jailbait [Darleen Click] | protein wisdom
Shocker: Obama Donor/IRS Director Sat In On And Monitored IG’s Interviews Of Employees | Weasel Zippers
Obama Admin Fought To Keep Search Warrant Against Reporter James Rosen Secret | Weasel Zippers
Did Eric Holder Lie To Congress? | Weasel Zippers
Justice Department Urged Judge to Keep James Rosen Indefinitely in the Dark Over E-mail Tracking | Jammie Wearing Fools
Biden Slips and Reveals True Aim of Government “Studies” | RedState: At a recent meeting at the White House between Biden and faith-based leaders Billy Graham’s son Franklin proposed the idea of taxing violence and funneling proceeds to “help victims.” To which Biden replied that there was “no reason why they couldn’t do that.” Now the unconstitutionality of this has sparked no small amount outrage among those who value the First Amendment. But what he says next should alarm them even more. Biden continued by saying, “They really need a good scientific study, which they’ve done on things like smoking.”
Internet cafés declared 'illegal businesses' in Ohio • The Register
Reports: New Xbox could DOOM second-hand games market • The Register
Broadcasters go after Aereo by suing smaller competitor, Aereokiller | The Verge: Chet Kanojia, CEO and founder of Aereo

The nation's largest television broadcasters filed a copyright lawsuit against FilmOn.TV and its Aereokiller service yesterday, alleging that the service...
Syrian Electronic Army: pro-government propaganda, or just trolling for lulz? | The Verge: On May 4th, a series of odd tweets went out to the 5 million or so followers of the E! News Twitter account. "Exclusive! Justin Bieber to E! online: I’m a gay," read the first one. Then came a...
Holder Signed Off on Warrant Identifying Fox News Reporter as Criminal Conspirator | Threat Level | Wired.com: Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on the controversial warrant application that the Justice Department used to obtain the personal emails of a Fox News reporter.
Holder Should Demand Feds Get a Warrant to Read Our E-mail | Threat Level | Wired.com: Attorney General Eric Holder is on record the Department of Justice supports legislation that generally would require the government to get a probable-cause warrant to read your e-mail. That we're having this discussion is because federal law, dating to the President Ronald Reagan administration, allows the cops to access your e-mail without a warrant if it's been stored in the cloud at least six months. For years, Congress has been debating changing the law that we'd expect to be the norm in some third-world, despotic nation. Now its time for the United States, and Holder in particular, to show the world, and the American public, that he means what he says. It's time for the Justice Department to begin honoring the Fourth Amendment and start getting a warrant to access the public's e-mail and other stored content, civil rights groups say.
Faster, Please! » Obama Speaks, The Heart Sinks
911 Dispatcher Tells Woman About To Be Sexually Assaulted There Are No Cops To Help Her Due To Budget Cuts « CBS Seattle: An Oregon woman was told by a 911 dispatcher that authorities wouldn’t be able be able to help her as her ex-boyfriend broke into her place because of budget cuts. News, Sports, Weather, Traffic and the Best of Seattle
» College Enrollment Decline Accelerates - Col·lege In·sur·rec·tion
» 85% of college students are wasting their time and money - Col·lege In·sur·rec·tion
» Swarthmore: Where Not To Send Your Kid To College - Col·lege In·sur·rec·tion
» Camile Paglia Fisks Academia’s Three Latest Sex Books - Col·lege In·sur·rec·tion
» College Fix Editor: Porn is a weapon in the real campus ‘war on women’ - Col·lege In·sur·rec·tion
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: Always Opperate with Two Rule Books
The PJ Tatler » Obama’s Tesla Sports Car Still Sends America’s Children to Bed Hungry and Stupid
The PJ Tatler » Victim of London Terror Slaying, One Attacker, ID’d
Google defends its use of proprietary tech in Hangouts | PCWorld: Weak XMPP support and capabilities prompted Google to use proprietary technology in its Hangouts video chat application, the company says in response to recent criticism.
In the matter of James Rosen | Power Line
Ed Driscoll » ‘Allahu Akbar. We Take the Money’
Douglas Murray: The London Terror Attack Was More Than 'Unforgivable' - WSJ.com: In The Wall Street Journal, Douglas Murray writes that Britain has been in denial about the Islamist threat—and it's time to face it down.
David Cameron's Britain - Small Dead Animals
Instapundit » Blog Archive » BRITAIN: Two men arrested over ‘offensive Twitter comments about British soldier’s death.’ “…
Does welfare cause terrorism, Part XVIII … | The Daily Caller: 'Welfare benefits + ethnic antagonism' may be universal recipe for angry, oppositional underclass
Ed Driscoll » The Return of the Primitive
The American Spectator : The Spectacle Blog : #FreeKate? Movement to Normalize Pedophilia Finds Its Poster Girl
The Jawa Report: The UK Pays Anjem Choudary More Than It Pays British Soldiers: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
FreedomBox - Helps You Stay Free!
Bear's Journal » Google Hangout chat and the missing XMPP
Why Didn’t Anyone Come To The Defense Of The British Soldier Who Was Hacked To Death? | Weasel Zippers
Menendez: We Don’t Have Enough Votes To Pass “Gang Of Eight” Immigration Bill | Weasel Zippers
Google takes the 'last step' to shut down its failed social network Buzz | The Verge: Google's Buzz social network stands as one of the company's most high-profile missteps to date, but the search giant is taking the "last step" to put the failed service behind it. Past Buzz users...
Medical marijuana users can drive drugged, rule Michigan courts | The Verge: In Michigan, you can smoke marijuana and still drive a car. That's what the Michigan Supreme Court ruled this Tuesday, albeit on a technicality. Though Michigan has a zero-tolerance policy for...
We all wish we knew what we were doing on Google Plus: Orientation lesson for people new to G+
Transterrestrial Musings - “This Is A Blog Post”
» Thomas Friedman on Obamacare: It’s gonna be a bright bright bright bright sun shiny day - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Cyprus Bailout Update Reveals Bad News for Greece - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
It’s Early, Turley: Why So Surly? Thy Blame Laundering Doth Make Me Hurly : The Other McCain
New York Times: IRS Scandal Ignored Because of Rush Limbaugh | Wizbang
Reverse installing CPAN, at the Polish Perl Workshop | brian d foy [blogs.perl.org]
Guest Post: The Microeconomics Of Inflation (Or How We Know This Ends In Tears) | Zero Hedge: A week later and everyone is a bit more nervous, with the speculation that US sovereign debt purchases by the Federal Reserve will wind down and with the Bank of Japan completely cornered. In anticipation to the debate on the Fed’s bond purchase tapering, on April 28th (see here) we wrote why the Federal Reserve cannot exit Quantitative Easing: Any tightening must be preceded by a change in policy that addresses fiscal deficits. It has absolutely nothing to do with unemployment or activity levels. Furthermore, it will require international coordination. This is also not possible. In light of this, we are now beginning to see research that incorporates the problem of future higher inflation to the valuation of different asset classes. Why is this relevant? The gap between current valuations in the capital markets (both debt and credit) and the weak activity data releases could mistakenly be interpreted as a reflection of the collective expectation of an imminent recovery. The question therefore is: Can inflation bring a recovery? Can inflation positively affect valuations? The answer, as explained below, is that the inflationary policies carried out globally today, if successful will have a considerably negative impact on economic growth.
Aggravating Circumstances: Against the #FreeKate Campaign for Sexual Anarchy : The Other McCain

So We Went To The Zoo

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» Harvard Crimson now offering library sex tips - Col·lege In·sur·rec·tion
Applying for Obamacare | Power Line
New, improved, exclusive! | Power Line
Mir in Kubuntu | Martin's Blog
One of our favourite things
BMC's lost public libraries fight for survival - The Times of India: The Haji Yusuf Ismail Khatri Free Reading Room at Pydhonie is lost. Amid imitation jewellery shops, stores selling metal goods and yarn.
Question Everything: If it were a statutory instrument, it would have to go before the House
Exploring Ubuntu Touch, the other Linux OS for your phone | Ars Technica: It's far from done, but Canonical's mobile work-in-progress has some good ideas.
How the Internet Replaces Libraries — Annoyed Librarian
Networks in 2020: More traffic, less energy | PCWorld: Networks could use far less energy by 2020 even though they'll be carrying much more traffic, an industry group says.
Althouse: Let them eat insects.
BBC News - UN urges people to eat insects to fight world hunger: Eating insects could help fight world hunger, improve nutrition and reduce pollution, according to a new UN report.
The PJ Tatler » Coming Next January: New Tax Form to Comply With Obamacare Mandate
GNU Guix - News: GNU Guix 0.2 released [Savannah]: Savannah is a central point for development, distribution and maintainance of Free Software. It allows contributors to easily join existing Free Software projects.
Cinnarch successor Antergos arrives - The H Open: News and Features: Replacing Cinnarch, Antergos offers a GNOME-defaulting, but fairly desktop agnostic take on Arch Linux. With an additional graphical installer, Live CD option, and more it's sure to pick up some fans for its approach to desktop Linux
UN Bugs Out, Tells the Hungry to Eat More Insects | Jammie Wearing Fools
Open source cellular targets rural comms • The Register
French proposal would tax smartphones and tablets to fund cultural projects | The Verge: Reuters reports that a new proposal delivered to French President Francois Hollande today would create a one percent tax on the sale of internet-connected devices, like smartphones and tablets, to...
New Prenda letter threatens to tell neighbors about porn accusations | Ars Technica: Sprawling case may be porn troll's "last stand," but it looks massive.
What’s a Library?: Written by a man rich enough to live on W. 53rd St. who’s never been to the library and Googles everything | The Travelin' Librarian
America’s broken jobs machine and the long-term unemployed | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
A long-term problem for the economy - Economics - AEI
Althouse: There's no "upper limit on penis size" but "'the most attractive penis size' appeared to fall outside the range used in the study..."
Women Find Men With Bigger Penises More Attractive, Study Says | TIME.com: Call it sexist or sensationalist, but now science suggests it's so: women find men with bigger penises more attractive. (UPDATED) Reporting in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, researchers led by Brian Mautz, now a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Ottawa in C...
Althouse: Michael Tomasky thinks the idea of impeaching Obama is "industrial-strength insane," which is why the GOP will try to do it.
The Coming Attempt to Impeach Obama - The Daily Beast: Impeachment would be insane, but Republicans will probably try anyway, predicts Michael Tomasky.
The PJ Tatler » White House Counsel Knew in April of IRS’s Targeting of Conservatives
The PJ Tatler » A Few of the Crazy Things the IRS Asked Conservative Groups to Divulge Add Up to a Pattern and Purpose
The PJ Tatler » Justice Dept. Secretly Makes ‘Massive and Unprecedented’ Grab of AP Phone Records
The PJ Tatler » Did Dem Sen. Max Baucus Urge the IRS to Target Conservatives?
Ed Driscoll » Obama Justice Department Seizes AP Phone Records
Rumor: AT&T Discontinuing HTC First Amidst Lackluster Sales | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Sluggish sales of the HTC First have reportedly prompted AT&T to discontinue sales of the smartphone, the first to come pre-loaded with the Facebook Home experience.
AP: DOJ Seized Reporter Phone Records | National Review Online: The U.S. Department of Justice secretly obtained two months worth of telephone records from Associated Press reporters and editors, the news service announced on Monday:
Deja vu from 1976 … and CILIP Scotland express deep concern over cuts in Moray
Report: AT&T dropping Facebook phone after dismal sales • The Register
United Nations: 'Overpopulated Earth? Time to EAT BUGS' • The Register
Tea-Party Group’s Lawyer Brandishes Letter from Upper-Level IRS Specialist in D.C. | National Review Online
Dear Albuquerque Tea Party, From the IRS in Washington | National Review Online: Andrew, the letter that Jay Sekulow (Jay is our ACLJ Chief Counsel, and my boss) brandished on Megyn Kelly’s show can be read here. It’s from an attorney, a “Tax Law Specialist” in “Exempt Organizations Technical Group 1″ in Washington to the Albuquerque Tea Party, and it’s notable for a number of reasons.
Top Tea-Party Politicians Blast IRS | National Review Online: Some of the best-known politicians in the tea-party wing of the GOP are fuming over the IRS’s decision to target conservative groups in investigations.

Senator Mike Lee of Utah tells National Review, “you don’t ever want to have American citizens fearing that their participation in the political process, whether as individuals or through a group, will [put] them or the group in which they’re involved [at risk for] discriminatory targeted treatment by the IRS or by any other government regulator.”
IRS Demanded That Would-Be 503(c)4 Group Turn Over Its Reading List
Lodsys patent rampage continues as Activision and Capcom get sued | Ars Technica: Apple's intervention can't stop the lawsuits—five more were just filed.
Althouse: "The same IRS office that deliberately targeted conservative groups applying for tax-exempt status in the run-up to the 2012 election..."
Progressive Group: IRS Gave Us Conservative Groups' Confidential Docs: The progressive-leaning investigative journalism group ProPublica says the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) office that targeted and harassed conservative tax-exempt groups during the 2012 election cycle gave the progressive group nine confidential applications of conservative groups whose tax-exempt status was pending.
Althouse: "The National Transportation Safety Board recommended that all 50 states lower the threshold from 0.08 blood-alcohol content to 0.05."
Tougher drunk-driving threshold proposed to reduce traffic deaths | FOX6Now.com: WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A common benchmark in the United States for determining when a driver is legally drunk is not doing enough to prevent alcohol-related crashes that kill about 10,000 people each year and should be made more restrictive, transportation safety investigators say.
The PJ Tatler » IG Report: IRS Discrimination Against Conservatives Due to ‘Ineffective Management’
The PJ Tatler » NAACP Chair Emeritus Backs IRS Targeting of Conservatives
The PJ Tatler » IRS Demanded Tea Party Group’s Reading List. Their Response is an Instant Classic.
IRS Asks for Reading List, Tea Party Group Sends Constitution - ABC News: (Image Credit: Visions of America/UIG via Getty Images) When Marion Bower decided to start her tea party organization in 2010, she didn’t know that it would take nearly two years for the Internal Revenue Service to approve her request for tax-exempt status. The Ohio woman also did not expect that providing information about the books her group read would be part of the application process. “I was trying to be very cordial, but they wanted copies of unbelievable things,” Bower told ABC News today. “They wanted to know what materials we had discussed at any of our book studies.”…
Criminal probe of IRS launched as report details targeting of conservative groups - The Washington Post: The IRS developed “inappropriate criteria” focused on conservative groups that stalled work on most of the organizations’ applications for nearly 13 months, report finds.
The PJ Tatler » Carney: Just Because the IRS Apologized Doesn’t Mean They Did Anything Wrong!
The PJ Tatler » TV News Anchor: IRS Is Targeting Me!
The Volokh Conspiracy » Congressional Inquiry of IRS Targeting of Israel Groups
The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Launches Criminal Investigation into IRS
The Volokh Conspiracy » IRS Disclosed Confidential Material Too
So Long, Cinnamon: Cinnarch Linux is reborn as Antergos | PCWorld: GNOME 3 is now the default desktop in this newly renamed Linux distribution.
VodkaPundit » “IRS sent confidential info on conservatives to liberal nonprofit ProPublica…”
VodkaPundit » Here’s What Else Needs to be Said
KMOV anchor: The IRS is targeting me - POLITICO.com: UPDATE (8:31 p.m.): In a segment on KMOV 4 on Tuesday night, Conners disclosed that his issues with the IRS predated his 2012 Obama interview "by several years."Larry Conners, a veteran local news anchor at KMOV Channel 4 in St. Louis, says that the Internal Revenue Service has been targeting him since an April 2012 interview he conducted...
The Jawa Report: IRS Asked For Reading List Of TEA Party Group: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
The Jawa Report: NAACP Chairman: 'Legitimate' For IRS To Target 'Admittedly Racist' TEA Party, The 'Taliban Wing Of American Politics'..: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
“Senate Democrats ordered IRS in 2010 to investigate 501(c) groups, letter shows” | protein wisdom
Senate Democrats ordered IRS in 2010 to investigate 501(c) groups, letter shows
Feature light Firefox 21 lands - The H Open: News and Features: Some new social API providers, a tweak to Do Not Track and the integration of the Firefox health report are some of the few user facing features of Firefox 21. There are also changes of interest to developers and web designers, but not many
Facebook Shoots Social Roulette Game Dead | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Social Roulette, a game of chance that offers a one-in-six possibility of deleting your social network account, has been blocked from Facebook just days after it launched.
IRS Inspector General Report: Almost 300 Conservative Groups Targeted, Every Application With “Tea Party, Patriots, Or 9/12 In Their Names” Were Singled Out… | Weasel Zippers
IRS Asks for Reading List, Tea Party Group Sends Constitution | Jammie Wearing Fools
“Every library should have a Hulk”: An interview with the man behind a great libraries idea
Judge orders redacted Aaron Swartz prosecution docs to be revealed • The Register
Justice Department defends surveillance of AP reporter phone calls | The Verge: The Associated Press reported yesterday that the Justice Department conducted widespread surveillance of its reporters' phone calls, potentially revealing "communications with confidential sources...
Transterrestrial Musings - The Question That Launched The IRS Scandal
Daring Fireball Linked List: How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion
How the Syrian Electronic Army Hacked The Onion - Onion Inc.'s Tech Blog: This is a write-up of how the Syrian Electronic Army hacked The Onion. In summary, they phished Onion employees’ Google Apps accounts via 3 …
» IRS officials in D.C. in on Tea Party targeting, Cincinnati office leaked tax docs - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Althouse: The cynicism question: What do you want — ἁτυφια or τύφος? Lucidity or smoke? Clarity or choom?
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Seizure of the AP’s Phone Records a “Non-Story”?
The Volokh Conspiracy » The Non-Story of the AP Phone Records, At Least So Far
Lonely Cactus: Lessons from Ceefax
Skype with care – Microsoft is reading everything you write - The H Security: News and Features: If you thought Skype messaging was private, think again. The H's associates at heise Security have discovered that Skype/Microsoft analyses all data sent using the service
Sun lets loose with THREE record eruptions in 24 hours • The Register
Google abruptly shuts down search-by-SMS portal • The Register
BBC News - Seven million Brits have 'never used the internet': More than seven million adults in the UK have never been online, official figures say, with the elderly remaining the least connected.
Chinese internet: 'a new censorship campaign has commenced' | World news | guardian.co.uk: Murong Xuecun, who has had his accounts deleted, explains how bloggers compare being silenced on the internet to being put to death
Opinion: Google Glass, the beginning of wearable surveillance - CNN.com: Michael Chertoff says imagine wearing the equivalent of a drone on your head everyday. Scary, isn't it?
Syrian rebels launch assault on Aleppo prison
Twitter / AJELive: An internet intel group is ...
Prenda can’t find that darned “Salt Marsh” signature | Ars Technica: A current Prenda lawyer blames a former Prenda lawyer. But yeah, it's "lost."
» @SodaStreamUSA response to Limbaugh boycott: “We continue to advertise” - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Complete copy of Treasury Report on IRS targeting of Tea Party and conservatives - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
How to Make Library School Harder — Annoyed Librarian
Guest Post: The Brewing Generational Conflict | Zero Hedge: The promises made to the 76 million baby Boomers cannot be met. It's really very simple: promises made when the economy was growing by 4% a year and the next generation was roughly double the size of the generation entering retirement cannot be fulfilled in an economy growing 1.5% a year (and only growing at all as the result of massive expansions of public and private debt) in which the generation after the cohort entering retirement is significantly smaller. We desperately need an adult discussion focused on reality rather than resentment. The solution will require dismantling open-ended, everyone-deserves-everything Medicare, which will bankrupt the nation itself. The solution is currently "impossible". What nobody dares say is that if the 76 million Boomers press their claims to the point the nation is bankrupted, then the next generations (X and Y) will have to wrest political power from the retirees, not for their own sake but for the sake of the nation and for the generations behind them.
The Unintended Consequence Of The Soaring Dollar | Zero Hedge: It seems the S&P 500's recent strength is somehow comforted by the fact that the USD is riding high on its cleanest dirty shirt meme at 34 month highs but unfortunately for the Chinese (and their practical peg to the USD), things are a little less fun than in the old mercantilist manipulation days. The implicit benefit that dollar flows appear to be getting (via the wealth effect in the US stock market) is not there in China (lower equity ownership); in fact, the rising Yuan is drastically hurting them as despite export orders remaining in growth mode, the China Daily reports that "most exporters in the delta region have told us that the rising yuan value has led to a big profit decline." Of course, the exporters are calling for a weaker Yuan but as the nation struggles with an exploding shadow banking system, bubbles in real estate and credit, and inflation concerns it knows that any implicit effort to weaken the CNY will create a surge in capital inflows and fuel further imbalances. China remains in the middle of the 'currency war'-driven inflation rock and 'sagging growth' hard place; and with two 91-day bill issues in the last week (in addition to repo) the clear signal (masked by export data fudges) is that China is much more worried about inflation than it is letting on (and has little ability to manage hot money inflows).
The Volokh Conspiracy » Did the Leak of the CIA Operation in Yemen Justify “Very Aggressive Action” to Investigate Its Source?
Publisher Threatens to Sue (Librarian) Blogger for $1-Billion | The Travelin' Librarian
Publisher Threatens to Sue Blogger for $1-Billion - Technology - The Chronicle of Higher Education: Jeffrey Beall has criticized the publisher on his blog. The company, based in India, says his comments are criminal under Indian law.
The PJ Tatler » Axelrod: Government is ‘So Vast’ Obama Can’t Know About All the Bad Things It’s Doing
Syria disappears from the Internet again | PCWorld: Internet traffic to and from Syria, a country engulfed by civil war, again came to a halt on Wednesday, according to Internet monitoring company Renesys.
Adventures in administrative law | Power Line
High tide of Obamaism | Power Line
Weblog for dkg - OpenPGP User ID Comments considered harmful: Tips for a Debian GNU/Linux System Administrator.
Open source project licensing | Sascha's Hideout: A site about open source and personal opinion.
Skype is following your links – that’s proprietary for you | /home/liquidat - Open Source, Linux and Business
United States of Surreality | protein wisdom
Raspberry Pi camera module now available - The H Open: News and Features: After being in development since late last year, the Raspberry Pi camera module is available to purchase and the software to support it is now built into Raspbian
Canonical to maintain Linux 3.8 until August 2014 - The H Open: News and Features: Canonical employees have announced that they plan to provide security fixes and minor improvements for Linux kernel version 3.8 until August 2014. However, the code will be maintained separately from the official stable and long-term kernels
Axelrod: Obama Couldn’t Have Possibly Known About His IRS Scandal Because the Government Is Too Big | Jammie Wearing Fools
librarian.net » Blog Archive » What is going on with New York’s public libraries?
The Road to Graduation | National Review Online: It takes students an average of 5.5 years to graduate from public universities, says Harry Stille, head of the Higher Education Research/Policy Center in Greenville, S.C. He is in the process of quantifying taxpayers’ cost of subsidizing students who take too long to graduate (and often just drop out without finishing). His estimate for Arizona State is $26 million a year.
Stephen Hawking Backs Academic Boycott of Israel | National Review Online: In a Hardwire post I examine the latest high-profile academic to join the “Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions” movement — in this case, famous author and physicist Stephen Hawking. Hawking pulled out of an academic conference in Israel, where he had been scheduled to speak, after coming under intense pressure from organizers of the anti-Israel BDS campaign.

Hawking declared that he made the decsion after consulting “Palestinian colleagues,” who unanimously advised him to boycott the conference.
EU wants the Swiss and pals to cough up IT giants' hidden bank info • The Register
Transterrestrial Musings - “Get Up Off The Floor”
On Librarians Writing | Academic Librarian
Get Up Off The Floor | According To Hoyt: It's ALL In the Game
Google beefs up Hangouts into text, photo, video chat powerhouse | Ars Technica: Babel opens hailing frequencies and unites Google+, Google Talk video/text chat.
» IRS Acting Commissioner Resigns Amidst Scandal - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
The $7,000 master’s degree | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
The PJ Tatler » Breaking: Miller Claims He’s Only Leaving the IRS Because His Term Ends In June
The PJ Tatler » IRS Acting Commissioner Resigns (Updated)
Syrian Internet service comes back online | PCWorld: Internet traffic in and out of war-torn Syria has been restored after a disruption of nearly eight and a half hours, according to Internet traffic charts.
Is Stephen Hawking's academic boycott of Israel ethical? - Technology & Science - CBC News: British physicist Stephen Hawking's decision last week to boycott a major international conference in Israel in June has been controversial. Two academics shared with The Current their contrasting views on whether such boycotts are ethical and effective.
Exploit for local Linux kernel bug in circulation - The H Open: News and Features: A bug that was already fixed in the development branch of the kernel back in April was not identified as being security relevant and can therefore still be exploited on many systems
Double standard? IRS targeted conservatives, despite spike in applications from labor groups | Jammie Wearing Fools
Update Tuesday. IRS Plot thickens slightly. Never try to rape a hornets nest. « Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle
Open Source is not a sport for the armchair quarterback - Jorge's Stompbox: Earlier this week the techboard asked what we should do with Brainstorm. Having been involved with Brainstorm since almost the beginning, I felt it …
Australia downloads a limping 13 Mbps, says Ookla • The Register
It’s Not Erectile Dysfunction, It’s Erectile Discrimination | Chateau Heartiste: (by CH)
Hilarious Headline from Dan Foster of NRO
Study: Dan Foster Types More Likely to Be Conservatives | National Review Online: From the Daily Mail: ”Men who are physically strong are more likely to take a right wing political stance, while weaker men are inclined to support the welfare state, according to a new study.”
Men who are physically strong are more likely to have right wing political views | Mail Online: Research published in Psychological Science found that while stronger men like Arnold Schwarzenegger are more likely to be right wing, weaker men are more likely to support the welfare state.
Michelle Obama to College Grads: ‘How Are You Going to Respond When You Don’t Get that Job You Had Your Heart Set On?’ (VIDEO): First Lady Michelle Obama delivered the commencement address at Eastern Kentucky University this week. She avoided the traditional exuberant optimism of so many graduation speeches. Instead, she told students to prepare themselves for disappointed hopes. “How are you going to
10 Perspectives Into The Slow, Agonizing Death Of The American Worker | Zero Hedge: The middle class American worker is in danger of becoming an endangered species. The politicians are not telling you the truth, and the mainstream media is certainly not telling you the truth, but the reality is that there is nothing but bad news on the horizon for workers in the United States. The American people inherited the greatest economic machine in the history of the world, and we have wrecked it. Decades of very foolish decisions have resulted in the period of steady economic decline that we are experiencing now. Today, American workers are living in an economy that is rapidly declining, and their jobs are steadily being stolen by robots, computers and foreign workers that live in countries where it is legal to pay slave labor wages. Politicians from both political parties refuse to do anything to stop the bleeding because they think that the status quo is working just great. So don't expect things to get better any time soon. The following are 10 charts that demonstrate the slow, agonizing death of the American worker...
Trip Report of DPLA Audience & Participation Workstream | Disruptive Library Technology Jester
Hands on with Hangouts, Google’s new text and video chat architecture | Ars Technica: XMPP support remains for clients, but federation with Jabber is out.
Blogger writes about predatory publishing, is threatened with $1B suit | Ars Technica: Citing India law, firm informs Jeffrey Beall he could face up to three years too.
» Infamous LulzSec Hackers Get Jail Time - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
US budget forecast: ‘Around 2023 demographics trends turn brutal’ | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Brain drain to Wall Street: Goldman Sachs hires ‘God particle’ physicist | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
The Volokh Conspiracy » President Calls IRS Conduct “Inexcusable”
New tablet boots Ubuntu Linux, Android, and Windows 8 | PCWorld: Can't decide among operating systems? This tablet lets you have it three ways.
Review: MarkdownPad makes composing Markdown even easier than usual | PCWorld: With instant preview, custom CSS, and hotkeys for many Markdown features, MarkdownPad makes composing text for the Web easy, simple, and fun.
“IRS Scandal Raises Specter of Politically Motivated Healthcare Denials” | protein wisdom
Byron York: IRS scandal raises fears about enforcing Obamacare | WashingtonExaminer.com: The Internal Revenue Service scandal would be bad enough if the IRS just handled issues like collecting income taxes and granting nonprofit status. But the immensely powerful federal agency is about to become even more powerful with the arrival of national health care, and that makes the still-unfolding scandal even more troubling.
When I hold town meetings, a great deal of distrust comes through about the size and increasing power of government, says Republican Sen. Charles Grassley of Iowa. The IRS targeting crystallizes that distrust in a very big way because of the IRS' reach into taxpayer information. What's happened heightens fears about how the IRS will handle taxpayer information and wield its power when it enforces Obamacare starting next year.
The IRS is critical to Obamacare. The structure created by the Affordable Care Act requires the government to know about both the health care coverage (or lack of it) and the financial resources of every American. The IRS, which already knows the latter, was the only agency with the reach to do the job.
Google+ Games Going Dark in June | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Google+ Games will be discontinued on June 30, 2013.
Tweets Now Storming Yahoo's Newsfeeds | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Tweets are one step closer to being unavoidable with Yahoo's announcement that it will incorporate the 140-character messages into its homepage newsfeed.
Report: Christianity Facing “Catastrophic Collapse” In Britain, Number Of Muslims Surges By 75%… | Weasel Zippers
White House Wants You To Describe “Obamacare In Three Words”… | Weasel Zippers
Iron Law and Hatch Act; Steven Vincent Benet on War; When Galaxies Collide « Chaos Manor – Jerry Pournelle
The IRS’s Intern Audit | National Review Online: What about your interns?

That in effect was the question the IRS asked a longstanding conservative organization between 2011 and 2012, according to documents obtained by National Review Online. The tax-collecting agency sought to identify and track student interns at the Leadership Institute, a conservative educational organization based in Virginia.
First Lady to College Grads: Prepare for Disappointment | National Review Online: First Lady Michelle Obama picked up an honorary doctorate at Eastern Kentucky University this week. She also gave the commencment address. One particular line in her speech caught my ear: “How are you going to respond when you don’t get that job you had your heart set on?” she asked the crowd of young graduates.

A suitable question for these tepid economic times, don’t you think?

(More details and video from the speech in my latest Hardwire post.)
Two surveys show the importance of libraries
The legitimacy of elections | RedState: As the IRS scandal grows, it comes dangerously close to challenging the legitimacy of the 2012 election.
Google on Glass privacy: 'If I'm recording you, I have to stare at you' | The Verge: The team behind Google Glass defended its creation against against privacy worries in a Google I/O fireside chat with developers on Thursday. When asked what the privacy implications of Glass'...
Congress asks Google CEO if Glass infringes 'on the privacy of the average American' | The Verge: For all that's been said about the tremendous innovations of Google Glass, privacy concerns have only grown louder since the project's introduction last year. As Google's Explorer Edition continues...
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: You Belong to Us
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: Far Worse Than Nixon
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: Comes Complete With Cult of Personality
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: Third World America
Google wants your WordPress blog—and everything else—in its cloud | Ars Technica: Google adds PHP to AppEngine, tweaks compute and storage services to match AWS.
Michael Geist - Why Creators and Consumers Should Welcome the "Netflix Threat": Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., netflix threat
The PJ Tatler » Hey, Remember When Harry Reid Pestered Mitt Romney About His Taxes?
The PJ Tatler » Holder Doesn’t Know if Born-Alive Infants Protection Act has Ever Been Enforced
The PJ Tatler » Report: ‘Rogue’ IRS Workers Were Following Orders
Why some Web sites are much slower than others | PCWorld: John asked why one Web page
The Jawa Report: Lets Play Follow the Meme: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
RIPE: Attacks on domain name systems are on the increase - The H Security: News and Features: At the meeting of the RIPE IP address registry, discussions revolved around how to get black sheep to implement overdue security measures
The DiploMad 2.0: Scandal-palooza! Obama's Biggest Achievement: Making Al Capone Look Good
Bell and Astral merger: Netflix isn’t the enemy: Geist | Toronto Star: Content creators and consumers should welcome familiar adversary
Michael Geist - Why Creators and Consumers Should Welcome the "Netflix Threat": Dr. Michael Geist is the Canada Research Chair of Internet and E-commerce Law at the University of Ottawa., netflix threat
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: The Destroyer of Trust
Apple CEO: “We’re going very deep” with US manufacturing | Ars Technica: Apple looking at Arizona, Texas, Illinois, Florida, and Kentucky.
The PJ Tatler » Gallup: Americans have ‘Comparatively Low’ Interest in Benghazi, IRS Stories
The Volokh Conspiracy » No, the IRS Is Not an “Independent Agency”
Petter Reinholdtsen: How to transform a Debian based system to a Debian Edu installation
Effective Conference Calls | etbe - Russell Coker: I've been part of many conference calls for work and found them seriously lacking. Firstly there's a lack of control over the call, so when someone does
Google Cloud Messaging Update Boosted by XMPP: As you know, ProcessOne is about realtime messaging. Our core component is XMPP ejabberd scalable and ubiquitous server. We recently acquired Boxcar
Looking towards Xubuntu 13.10 « Xubuntu: Xubuntu – Home page for Xubuntu, the elegant and easy-to-use operating system.
Skype's ominous link checking: facts and speculation - The H Security: News and Features: Our associate's discovery that URLs sent through Skype are then visited by Microsoft has caused quite a stir. A little more information has now emerged and leads to even more questions
ownCloud fixes critical security vulnerabilities - The H Open: News and Features: The ownCloud developers have released versions 5.0.6, 4.0.15, and 4.5.11 to fix a number of serious vulnerabilities in their software including SQL injection, code execution and privilege escalation problems
FT Site, Twitter Feeds Hacked by Syrian Electronic Army | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: The Financial Times is the latest publication to fall victim to hackers who align themselves with the regime of Syrian President Bashar-al-Assad.
Pelosi On Obamacare: It Will Cost More To Repeal It… | Weasel Zippers
A Modest Proposal for immigration | National Review Online: There is obviously, and properly, a rough-and-tumble debate going on about immigration reform. I am not a close student of the topic, but the arguments I see casually right now strike me as heavy on moral outrage and “studies” masquerading as knowledge. Here’s something I think we could do that might help somewhat.
Breaking news, LITERALLY: Financial Times vandalised by hackers • The Register
Who is the mystery sixth member of LulzSec? • The Register
US Department of Defense approves iPhones and iPads for military use | The Verge: The US Department of Defense has cleared Apple's iPhone and iPad for use on its military networks. Bloomberg reports that devices running Apple's latest iOS 6 operating system have been approved...
The horrifying (and fictional) wonders of Google Island | The Verge: At this week's Google I/O, many were surprised to hear CEO Larry Page muse about "set[ting] aside part of the world" for technological experiments. Wired's Mat Honan has the most imaginative take...
Syrian Electronic Army hacks Financial Times website and Twitter feed | The Verge: The Financial Times is the latest news organization to fall victim to the pro-Assad Syrian Electronic Army. Reuters reports that FT's website and Twitter account were both compromised earlier this...
Transterrestrial Musings - ObamaCare And Job Growth
Obamacare Slowing Job Growth, at Least for Now | Via Meadia
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: Truth is Inconvenient
FaceTime redux: AT&T nixes video chat on Google’s updated Hangouts | Ars Technica: AT&T says OS and device makers must enable the app—and only certain plans allowed.
» Syrian Electronic Army Hacks Financial Times in Group’s Latest Attack on News Outlets - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: The Jackboot
Celestial Junk: American Fascist: How Do You Pray?
T-Mobile drops anti-net neutrality lawsuit filed by MetroPCS, leaving Verizon on its own | The Verge: Cellphone carriers have generally met net neutrality proposals with varying levels of hostility, but Verizon and MetroPCS have been particularly belligerent: in 2011, they sued to overturn the...
Google TV: silent but not forgotten at I/O 2013 | The Verge: It's easy to miss the Google TV booth here at I/O 2013, hidden in the corner of the third floor. That may not be an accident: there was apparently no room in the company's sprawling...
Althouse: "It is absolutely not illegal" says IRS Commissioner Steven Miller, testifying today about the targeting of conservatives.
IRS Commissioner: "It Is Absolutely Not" Illegal For IRS To Target Conservatives | RealClearPolitics: Â
The Volokh Conspiracy » Is the Library of Congress a Legislative Department or an Executive Department?
Library of Congress Announces Essay Contest | News Releases - Library of Congress: The Library of Congress today announced a summer essay contest in conjunction with public libraries in the Mid-Atlantic region encouraging rising 5th and 6th grade students to reflect on books that have made a personal impact on their lives.
IRS: 'Please Detail the Content of Your Members' Prayers.' | National Review Online: Today’s hearing on IRS abuses had a lot of “are you kidding me?” moments, but this one stands out:

“It would surprise me that that question was asked,” acting commissioner Steven Miller tells Representative Aaron Schock, Republican of Illinois.
Assisted Religious Suicide | National Review Online: Charles C. W.
With Obama's Support, Reid Is Hoping to Exercise 'Nuclear Option' in July | National Review Online: On his blog at the Washington Post, Greg Sargent reports that Harry Reid is gearing up to exercise the “nuclear option” in July and that the president is right behind him:
Who Should Vote? Everyone, and More Than Once | National Review Online: There are four groups of people who are typically not allowed to vote in the United States: children, criminals, noncitizens, and the clinically insane. This week, the bohemian voters in Takoma Park, Md., decided to enfranchise 16-year-olds and felons; the city council of New York is contemplating enfranchisement of noncitizens. And of course the Left also resist
Adobe's Creative Cloud fails at being a cloud • The Register

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Sign of the times? Occupy Wall Street dances around golden calf during May Day celebration – Glenn Beck
Book of Woe: The DSM and the Unmaking of Psychiatry by Gary Greenberg reviewed by Benjamin Nugent. - Slate Magazine: When I think of psychiatry, my first thoughts are unkind. I think of mildly sad people on antidepressants. I think of upper-middle-class parents putting their kids on Ritalin as soon as they flunk math, or misremember the lyrics to Dave Matthews songs. Pills seem so overabundant in our country that...
After conquering earth, Vint Cerf discusses 'interplanetary internet' | The Verge: Vint Cerf knows a thing or two about the internet. Along with Bob Kahn, Cerf is credited with developing the initial TCP internet standard over thirty years ago, and now spends his time looking...
CBS threatens to sue Aereo again, this time in Boston | The Verge: CBS indicated today in a heated Twitter post from one of the company's public relations executives that the media giant intends to file another copyright complaint against Aereo — this time in...
Aereo files suit against CBS to head off second copyright claim from network | The Verge: Aereo has filed a complaint today against CBS in an effort to prevent the network from filing additional lawsuits against the fledgling service.
Aereo is a web TV service that enables users to...
Open and Shut | National Review Online: In Impromptus today, I begin a series on Roger Kimball’s latest book,
Benghazi Coverup: Clinton Tried End-Run Around Counterterrorism Bureau on Night of Benghazi Attack | Jammie Wearing Fools
Olivia Sprauer modeling photos: Martin County High School teacher says she was asked to resign after pics surface: A Martin County High School teacher who had planned to resign at the end of the school year said she was asked to leave a month early.
Florida Teacher Asked to Resign Over Modeling Photos | Jammie Wearing Fools
Benghazi Whistleblower: Hillary Clinton Cut Counterterrorism Bureau Out During Attack On Consulate, “You Should Have Seen What She Tried To Do To Us That Night”… | Weasel Zippers
The DiploMad 2.0: Benghazi, Again
EU: Motorola Abused Power With Apple Injunction Requests | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Motorola abused its dominant position by filing a patent-related injunction request against Apple, according to the European Commission.
Rush Limbaugh may leave Cumulus - POLITICO.com: The Rush Limbaugh Program is considering ending its affiliation agreement with Cumulus Media at the end of this year, a move that would bring about one of the biggest shakeups in talk radio history, a source close to the show tells POLITICO. Should the move take place, 40 Cumulus-owned radio stations would lose the rights to the most popular talk radio...
Althouse: "The Rush Limbaugh Program is considering ending its affiliation agreement with Cumulus Media at the end of this year..."
Althouse: "When I think of psychiatry... I think of mildly sad people on antidepressants."
Aereo sues CBS to preempt deluge of copyright suits | Ars Technica: CBS had threatened to sue startup again in Boston—and everywhere else.
Aereo seeks to block CBS from suing in additional markets | Reuters: NEW YORK (Reuters) - Aereo Inc, the online television venture backed by Barry Diller, asked a federal court on Monday to block CBS Corp from suing it in new markets where it plans to expand.The startup
Regulator mulls setting rules for digital currency Bitcoin | Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The top U.S. derivatives regulator is considering whether the Bitcoin virtual currency should be subject to its rules, a top official at the agency said.Bart Chilton, one of five
Google's Schmidt Concerned by Lack of Internet 'Delete Button' | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: The permanence of information on the internet, in some cases, goes against the basic principle of fairness in America, Google Executive Chairman Eric Schmidt said during a Monday talk at New York University.
When Did Google Become the Internet Police? | PCMag.com: And why aren't more people upset about it?
Library Campaign’s call to action on volunteer libraries: “Let’s get real”
Another Wikipedia Hoax Comes to an End After Nearly Four Years | LJ INFOdocket
Christian-run NHS surgery criticised for refusing to prescribe morning-after pill - Health News - Health & Families - The Independent: A Christian-run NHS GP surgery has attracted criticism for posting a notice warning that some of its doctors refuse to prescribe the morning-after pill to patients on grounds of conscience.
Adobe kills Creative Suite – all future features online only • The Register
YouTube channels at $1.99 per month could launch this week • The Register
Crazy like a Fox: how broadcast networks could rake in billions by going cable-only | The Verge: An array of Aereo's coin-sized antennas, designed to pick up TV signals and retransmit them to paying subscribers.
The bluster-fueled battle between upstart Aereo and incumbent over-the-air...
Internet Offline
“House of Horrors”: Disturbing new details released in Ohio kidnapping case – Glenn Beck
GOP Rep. Reads Previously Unreleased Benghazi Email During Hearing, Whistleblower Says He Was ‘Stunned’ Attack Was Blamed on Video | Video | TheBlaze.com: During Wednesday's highly anticipated Benghazi hearings, Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) questioned Greg Hicks, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. Embassy in Tripoli, about the Obama administration's response to the deadly attack. The South Carolina congressman also read a previously unreleased email sent by a State Department official...
Update: Syria drops offline for a day | Ars Technica: Sudden exit from Internet routes are a sign of government shutdown.
Those Correspondence Degrees — Annoyed Librarian
Eli Lake Slams C-SPAN Caller On Israel - Business Insider: "Enjoy your basement, sir."
Althouse: "Enjoy your basement, enjoy your conspiracies."
Prenda lawyer downplays devastating order, promises appeal | Ars Technica: Judge Wright is "no fan of intellectual property law," says John Steele.
Cleveland ‘House of Horror’ Neighbors Called 911; Police ‘Didn’t Take It Seriously’ : The Other McCain
Prenda hammered: Judge sends porn-trolling lawyers to criminal investigators | Ars Technica: Lawyers who obfuscated for years face disbarment and an $81,000 fine.
San Francisco gives up on cell phone warning stickers | Ars Technica: Reuters' reporting makes a hash of the science.
11 Arduino projects that require major hacking skills—or a bit of insanity | Ars Technica: Lawn care, Daleks, bug zappers prove the Arduino thrives as much as Raspberry PI.
Rubin Reports » Obama’s Unprecedented Claim: America Equals Government
Althouse: "The Cleveland police should be ashamed of themselves.... These girls were five minutes away."
Suspect in Cleveland Kidnapping Had Some Contact With Police - NYTimes.com: The authorities had been called two times to a house in Cleveland, Ohio, where three young women who disappeared about a decade ago were found.
Cleveland kidnapping house of horrors: Neighbors reported seeing naked women crawling on leashes, a woman with a baby pounding on a window for help ... but cops walked away 3 times - NY Daily News: What the neighbors saw was terrifying and dehumanizing: Naked women on dog leashes, crawling in the dirt. A lady clutching an infant and pounding on a window for help.
Amanda Berry 911 call: Dispatcher under investigation after 'cold' treatment of Cleveland kidnap victim | Mail Online: The 911 dispatcher - one of the first people Amanda Berry spoke to after her decade long captivity - has been criticized for not comforting the distressed caller and not keeping the 26-year-old on the phone until the police arrived.
Proposed U.S. law aims to counter cybertheft with import bans | PCWorld: A bill proposed in the U.S. Senate aims to block imports of products containing U.S. technology stolen online, a move that appears primarily directed at China.
The Jawa Report: El Diablo: The Castro Brothers Of Cleveland: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Reports of sex abuse, beatings inside Cleveland house: Three young women who were held captive in a residential home for as long as decade are in 'fairly good' physical condition and have been returned to their families.
Plymouth is not a bootsplash
Julie Payette on Hollywood's space stories - The Buzz
Scientist Nikola Tesla's lab purchased for science center - Technology & Science - CBC News: A community group that raised $1.3 million in a six-week online fundraising effort has purchased a laboratory once used by visionary scientist Nikola Tesla.
National Research Council move shifts feds' science role - Technology & Science - CBC News: The National Research Council is now focusing more on practical, commercial science and less on fundamental science that may not have obvious business applications, says Gary Goodyear, minister of state for science and technology.
Debian release triggers distribution updates - The H Open: News and Features: The recent release of Debian 7.0, code-named "Wheezy", has triggered distribution updates of CrunchBang and aptosid. CrunchBang 11 "Waldorf" is now considered a stable release and aptosid 2013-01 was released as well
Report: Yahoo in Talks to Acquire Hulu (Again) | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: A new report claims that Yahoo is in preliminary talks to acquire online video service Hulu.
The Name ‘Pelosi,’ the Voldemort of Red House Districts | National Review Online: Today’s Morning Jolt features a preview of the Benghazi hearings, praise for an NR colleague, and then last night’s big news . . .

This Just In from South Carolina: HA HA HA HA HA HA HA HA!

Hey, Democrats. You just spent a bundle and lost . . . to Mark Sanford.
The President's Perpetual Campaign Continues | National Review Online: The Pentagon accused China of cyber-espionage; the conflict in Syria is now “a brutal campaign of sectarian cleansing,” with death toll around 80,000;
Dear New FCC Chairman Wheeler, Please Stop the Attacks on the Internet | RedState: From the diaries... The Barack Obama Administration has nominated Tom Wheeler to replace Julius Genachowski as Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman. (Wheeler awaits Senate approval.) Wheeler has - Heaven forfend - actually held pertinent private sector gigs: Wheeler served as president of the National Cable Television Association (NCTA), and later as CEO of the Cellular Telecommunications & Internet Association (CTIA). Many on the Left find Wheeler’s real-world experience and knowledge troubling: Senator Bernie Sanders, a Vermont independent (umm, he’s a Socialist), (said)... “I...am troubled that President Obama would appoint the former head of two major industry lobbying associations to regulate the industry.” Many on the Left find it very troubling:
The Metro experiment is dead: Time to unleash Windows Phone+ • The Register
Good news: Debian 7 is rock solid. Bad news: It's called Wheezy • The Register
Net darkness in Syria • The Register
Syrian internet access restored, state-run news says 'optic cable malfunction' caused outage | The Verge: After Syria effectively disappeared from the internet yesterday, service appears to be restored. Google's real-time transparency report shows that traffic is picking back up in the nation that's...
Syrian Internet Goes Dark, Leaving Questions and Uncertainty | Electronic Frontier Foundation: Anas Qtiesh (@Anas) and Rainey Reitman contributed to this report.
Obama’s Constitutionally-Challenged Labor Board Silent After Losing Another Legal Battle | RedState: So far, the National Labor Relations Board’s Office of Public Affairs has been unusually quiet since Barack Obama’s constitutionally-challenged NLRB appointees and their union cronies were dealt another blow on Tuesday by the DC Circuit Court of Appeals.
Walt at Random » Blog Archive » It Didn’t Work for Phil Ochs, It Doesn’t Work for Jeffrey Beall
Facebook news feed too quiet? Auto-play video ads are coming | Ars Technica: Try all you want, you can't hide your love of auto-play ads from Facebook execs.
» Only one brother in Cleveland kidnapping to be charged - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Blackout: Internet Traffic in Syria Suddenly Disappears - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Breaking news: Traffic from Syria Disappears from Internet - Umbrella Security Labs
BBC News - Syrian internet back after 19-hour blackout: The internet in Syria appears to have returned after a blackout that lasted more than 19 hours.
Study: US military too reliant on foreign-made equipment | PCWorld: The U.S. military's reliance on foreign-made products, including telecommunications equipment and semiconductors, is putting the nation's security at risk by exposing agencies to faulty parts and to the possibility that producing nations will stop selling vital items, according to a new report from the Alliance for American Manufacturing.
Ed Driscoll » It’s Philip K. Dick’s Universe; We’re Just Living In It
VodkaPundit » Windows 8.1: RUN AWAY!
Ubuntu SDK apps to get own package format - The H Open: News and Features: Ubuntu's phone and tablet developments have set Canonical on a path to create a new package format for simpler, single directory, no dependency apps, but some may find the format a little familiar
Internet Restored in Syria, Government Blames Severed Cable | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Internet access in Syria has returned, according to those monitoring Web traffic in the region, as well as Syrian media reports.
The Age National Times: Radio Australia may cut broadcasts to China/Indonesia | The SWLing Post
Biden: Giving Illegal Immigrants Amnesty Is About “Granting Them The Dignity And Respect They Deserve”… | Weasel Zippers
Bad news in Herefordshire, good news elsewhere. Questions in Manchester and Isle of Wight
One volunteer library, many questions: Walcot Library and matters arising
Divorcing sex from marriage | RedState: Mark Sanford's affair, and its aftermath, compared to Bill Clinton's misadventures.
Disaster, meet opportunity: Verizon's plan to push wireless on copper landline customers | The Verge: Last Friday, Verizon filed a proposal with New York state that would allow it to abandon traditional copper telephone lines in favor of wireless service in select areas. Companies like Verizon and...
Attack hitting Apache sites goes mainstream, hacks nginx, Lighttpd, too | Ars Technica: Linux/Cdorked backdoor exposes 100,000 Web visitors to potent Blackhole exploits.
A ruling class FYI | protein wisdom
Ubuntu dev proposes new package format for mobile apps • The Register
Celestial Junk: Canada: Is This Your Future?
Chicago Boyz » Blog Archive » RERUN–Benghazi: Chicago Boyz
AOL vs. Netflix: The Entire Internet In One Simple Chart
Daring Fireball Linked List: AOL vs. Netflix: The Broadband Era Illustrated
Notes on the Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks | Disruptive Library Technology Jester
No joke: The Onion tells how Syrian Electronic Army hacked its Twitter | Ars Technica: Phishing attack, grabbing of Google credentials from employees exposed accounts.
» Elizabeth Warren finds way to inflate Higher Ed bubble even more - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Microsoft Mulling Nook Media LLC Purchase For $1 Billion | TechCrunch: Microsoft is offering to pay $1 billion to buy the digital assets of Nook Media LLC, the digital book and college book joint venture with Barnes & Noble a..
A bit of good news on the US labor market | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Althouse: "A gastric band is not the answer to curing an overweight child."
As more teenagers have weight-loss surgery, a horrifying insight into the terrible price they pay as they grow up: Agony of the children give gastric bands as young as 13 | Mail Online: A shocking number of children undergo life-threatening surgery every year as a third of British children are classed as overweight before they start secondary school.
Althouse: "The women were chained in the basement during the first years of their captivity..."
Initial police report: Castro tempted women with rides, then abducted, beat and raped them | cleveland.com: A police source with access to the initial police report filed by the first responding officers said Castro tempted Berry, who was last seen wearing a Burger King uniform, with a ride to her home.
Castro suicide note blames his victims: report - NYPOST.com: He blamed everyone but himself.Cleveland cops found a self-pitying suicide note from accused dungeon master Ariel Castro that actually blamed his young victims for their imprisonment, law-enforcement...
What could Microsoft gain from buying Nook? | PCWorld: Microsoft's rumored $1 billion offer for the Nook brand seems like a bit of a head-scratcher—until you consider Nook's blossoming e-textbook business.
Estimate: 41 percent of all Windows 8 licenses sold aren't being used | PCWorld: Microsoft this week said that it had sold 100 million licenses of Windows 8 in the operating system's first six months. But how many copies are being used?
Hacking back: Digital revenge is sweet but risky | PCWorld: As cyberattacks increase, victims are fighting back. But retaliation has its own consequences—and may create more damage.
Battling over Beck | Power Line
Primal Beast Mode! | Everyday Athlete: Staying fit and healthy while relentlessly pursuing an extraordinary life
Wheezy was brought to you by … | nthykier: Things that I work on in Debian (by Niels Thykier)
Canonical plans dogfood-capable phones by the end of May - The H Open: News and Features: Canonical's developers are going to dogfood the Ubuntu phone just as soon as some important features get added to the current installable images. Ubuntu VP Rick Spencer is setting out to get that done by the end of May
PyPy 2.0 alpha on ARM includes Pi support - The H Open: News and Features: ARM support has arrived for the JIT-compiling Python interpreter, and that includes the Raspberry Pi. Although early days for PyPy on ARM, it appears to be performing well compared to the traditional C-based interpreter
The Onion details SEA/Twitter compromise - The H Security: News and Features: Details of how recent hijackings of high-profile news site Twitter accounts were carried out have been scarce, but The Onion, itself a victim, has now detailed the timeline of phishing and hijacking that took place when it lost control of its tweets
Ubuntu 11.10, 10.04 Desktop and 8.04 Server reach end of life - The H Open: News and Features: All versions of Ubuntu 11.10, the desktop version of Ubuntu 10.04.4 LTS, and the server edition of Ubuntu 8.04.4 LTS reach their end of life today. Canonical recommends users upgrade as soon as possible
New York City Considers Giving Non-Citizens The Right To Vote… | Weasel Zippers
Washington D.C. Dem Mayor Wants To Give Illegal Immigrants Driver’s Licenses… | Weasel Zippers
NYC Poised to Become First Major City to Allow Non-Citizens to Vote | National Review Online: New York City is poised to become the first major city to grant non-citizens the right to vote.

The New York City Council’s committeess on immigration and government relations will today hold joint hearings on a proposal that would allow non-citizens to vote in city elections, and backers of the effort say they have a veto-proof majority, according to the New York Daily News.
How Criminal-Gang Members Can Get Amnesty | National Review Online: One of the myriad loopholes in the Senate immigration reform bill could allow illegal immigrants who are known members of criminal gangs to become legal residents.
Microsoft 'poised' to SPAFF A BEELLION on e-book also-ran Nook • The Register
Syrian net access falls down some stairs, doing OK now • The Register
Voices for the Library» Blog Archive » Kathleen O’Neill – Assistant Librarian, Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London
John McCain Wants To Blow Up The Cable Industry As We Currently Know It - Business Insider: McCain will try to let consumers pick the channels they want, thus skipping the annoying bundles.
Colleges Soak Poor Students to Funnel Aid to Rich - Bloomberg: U.S. colleges such as Boston University are using financial aid to lure rich students while shortchanging the poor, forcing those most in need to take on heavy debt, a report found.
White House: “Unless You’re A Native American, You Came From Someplace Else”… | Weasel Zippers
Mayor of London: England's Departure from EU Would be "Shot in the Arm" for Democracy
Copyright troll Righthaven finally, completely dead | Ars Technica: Never had standing to sue, Ninth Circuit confirms.
“Vaccine” against heroin keeps it out of the brain | Ars Technica: Addicted rats are less likely to relapse.
Microsoft looks to get Nook all to itself for $1 billion | Ars Technica: Nook sales haven't been too hot lately.
Hope and Chains: #WarOnWomen Kidnapper Is Cuyahoga County Democrat : The Other McCain
The PJ Tatler » ICE Warns: Gang of Eight Immigration Bill Grants ‘Virtually Unlimited Discretion’ to DHS
Canonical staff to get working Ubuntu phones by late May | PCWorld: By 'eating its own dog food,' the company says it hopes to accelerate progress on Ubuntu Touch.
AT&T Launches Aio, a New No-Contract Prepaid Wireless Service | PCWorld: The new plan is currently only available in a few cities, but will spread to more markets soon.
State of the Art Library to Open on NY's Upper West Side in 2015...But Existing Libraries Find Funding Slashed | LISNews:
NSA Internet Spying Guide Made Public | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: A 2007 NSA "Guide to Internet Research was made public recently via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request.
Report: Snapchat Pics Not Self-Destructing | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: It turns out Snapchat's self-destruct function may have a fatal flaw: It saves users' images even after they were supposed to be deleted.
AT&T Launches No-Contract Service, Aio Wireless | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: AT&T today launched a new wireless service, dubbed Aio Wireless, that will provide customers with no-contract talk, text, and data.
librarian.net » Blog Archive » “Who are your guys?” some radical librarian resources
IQ and Immigration Policy | National Review Online: I haven’t read the supposedly racist Harvard dissertation of Jason Richwine, the coauthor of Heritage’s flawed immigration study. But I have read summaries of it in the coverage and have two related questions, both of which — in very different ways — undermine the relevance of the dissertation to the study.
“Fear of change”: William Sieghart interviewed
YouTube launches subscriptions with 53 paid channels • The Register
Google's cloud dumps custom Linux, switches to Debian • The Register
Why are scribes crying just 'cos Google copied their books? asks judge • The Register
Social engineering to blame in Syrian Electronic Army hijack of the Onion | The Verge: When the Syrian Electronic Army hijacked The Onion's Twitter account earlier this week, it was tough to tell if it was merely the satirical news site making fun the handful of major news...
John McCain proposes 'a la carte' cable bill, encourages death of sports blackout rule | The Verge: Senator John McCain today introduced the Television Consumer Freedom Act of 2013, legislation that would encourage cable operators and entertainment conglomerates to unbundle channels and offer...
This Trendy “Strong is the New Skinny” Thing (and what it could mean for the next generation of girls) | Sophieologie: Society as Sophie Sees it. (by S)
New Ubuntu for phones due 'by end of May' – usable this time • The Register
Obama Now Says To Expect “Mistakes And Hiccups” In Obamacare Implementation… | Weasel Zippers
Release Critical Bug report for Week 19
The Jawa Report: Road To Fascism Checklist: Tolerance becomes a crime when applied to evil.
Big Government in Wonderland | protein wisdom
Putting The Comprehensive In Immigration Reform
Report: ESPN may pay to exempt its content from wireless data caps | Ars Technica: Net neutrality groups raise alarm about rumored deal for preferential treatment.
» The FIRE: “The government has mandated speech codes on all campuses” - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Tablets can interfere with implanted defibrillators, stop hearts | Ars Technica: Science fair experiment shows cover-closing magnets disabling ICDs.
» Tunisian indicted in U.S. in connection with Canadian railway terror plot - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
Social Media: Libraries Are Posting, but Is Anyone Listening? | The Travelin' Librarian
Social Media: Libraries Are Posting, but Is Anyone Listening?
Record stock market, record corporate profits. But record jobs — not so much. Is technological unemployment the reason why? | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
The PJ Tatler » The Mass Exodus of Christians from the Muslim World
The mass exodus of Christians from the Muslim world | Fox News: A mass exodus of Christians is currently underway. Millions of Christians are being displaced from one end of the Islamic world to the other.
The PJ Tatler » An Armed March on Washington Is A Horrible Idea
iTunes snub is another nail in the Windows RT coffin | PCWorld: Apple's cold shoulder isn't a death blow for Windows RT, but it is another critical knock against the beleaguered operating system.
Smartphones driving violent crime across US | PCWorld: On Feb. 27th in the middle of the afternoon, a 16-year-old girl was walking through San Francisco's Mission district when she was ordered at gun point to hand over her cellphone. The robbery was one of 10 serious crimes in the city that day, and they all involved cellphones. Three were stolen at gun point, three at knife point and four through brute force.
Appeals court ruling could be 'death' of software patents | PCWorld: A U.S. appeals court has ruled that an abstract idea is not patentable simply because it is tied to a computer system, signaling what one judge described as the
Academic institutions urged to take steps to prevent DNS amplification attacks | PCWorld: Colleges and universities are being encouraged to scrutinize their systems to keep them from being hijacked in DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks.
Store Owner Installs $350K of Surveillance to Stop Frivolous Lawsuits | Wizbang
Spark • Is Canadian IP law equipped to deal with 3D printers?: Is Canadian IP law equipped to deal with 3D printers? 3D printer + 3D scanner = 3D photocopier. In theory, anyway. The price of 3D printers has been dropping for years. And now, affordable 3D scanners...
Rumor: U.K. Retailers Pull Nexus 4 Ahead of Google I/O | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: A pair of retailers in the U.K. have reportedly pulled Google's Nexus 4 from their shelves in anticipation of a newer version of the smartphone arriving next week.
The Onion Peels Back Layers of Syrian Electronic Army Twitter Hack | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: On Wednesday, The Onion took an atypical moment to very seriously detail how the Syrian Electronic Army hacked its Twitter account.
Penguins in spa-a-a-ce! ISS dumps Windows for Linux on laptops • The Register
Techies at The Onion: Here's how Syrian Electronic Army hacked our Twitter • The Register
Hear the Velvet Underground fade to static on a laser-cut wooden record | The Verge: Records can be made out of just about anything: vinyl, 3D-printed plastic, paper, even ice. Over at Instructables, Amanda Ghassaei has set out to push the limits of music formats — after trying...
thomas.apestaart.org » morituri and Hidden Track One Audio
The DiploMad 2.0: The Battle of Benghazi: Still not Getting to the Core of the Issue
The IT Crowd returns to Channel 4 for a final episode • The Register
Syria loses the Internet (again) | The SWLing Post
State records show Tsarnaevs quick to grab EBT cash | Jammie Wearing Fools
Not now, Apple: We've got the Pi-Phone, the smallest mobe network • The Register
Is the real US unemployment rate 11.3% or 7.5%? A new Goldman Sachs study offers an answer | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
FCC moves toward new airplane broadband service | PCWorld: The Federal Communications Commission has taken a major step toward helping more airlines offer in-cabin wireless broadband, with the agency voting Thursday to explore using new spectrum for air-to-ground broadband service.
Boston Police Commissioner: We Never Received Intel on Tamerlan Tsarnaev Until Day He Was Killed | Jammie Wearing Fools
Biometric Database of All Adult Americans Hidden in Immigration Reform | Threat Level | Wired.com: Civil rights advocates are worrying that immigration reform the Senate began debating yesterday is the first step toward a national identification system that would grow into a dossier on Americans and chronicle our most every move. That's because buried in the more than 800-plus-page piece of bipartisan legislation is language calling for the creation of a national, biometric identification system for workers.
Beamcaster blasts the internet along lasers through the open air | The Verge: Using only beams of light, a new networking hub is able to distribute gigabit internet to a receiver as far as 18 feet away, reports Ars Technica. Earlier this week, RiT Technologies unveiled its...
A wireless network with frickin’ laser beams on the ceiling | Ars Technica: Beamcaster's optical links offer high throughput but require line of sight.
The PJ Tatler » DEA Closes Abortion Clinic That Was Stealing Women’s Blood
Ed Driscoll » The One Beer To Have When Your Ear Is Having More Than One
Pasky’s Log » Playing MP3 on Raspberry Pi with low latency
Tamerlan Tsarnaev’s Body May Not Have Reached Its Final Stop; Locals Examining If Any Laws Broken In Burying Him There, And If They Can Ship Him Out | Weasel Zippers
“Student loans are like herpes with compound interest.” | RedState: Glenn Reynolds thinks that this Daily Show skit on our current student loan crisis will help collapse the (related) current educational bubble: The
Marathon bomber buried - NYPOST.com: Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev was quietly buried in a Muslim cemetery in a small central Virginia community — stunning locals who had no idea the dead terrorist was there.Tsarnaev,

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Another Example of How Our Miseducation System is Failing Our Kids | Wizbang
Moe Lane » Vaccinate your kids.
Boffins strap turbocharger to BitTorrent • The Register
Tapping Project Gutenberg to create computer-generated 'snowball' poems | The Verge: In yet another example of computers churning out art, Paul Thompson has built a C++ script that produces snowballs — poems where every line is a single word, with each successive word one letter...
Code4Lib Journal Issue #20 Published; My Editorial: “It is Volunteers All the Way Down…” | Disruptive Library Technology Jester
Notes on the Code4Lib Virtual Lightning Talks | Disruptive Library Technology Jester
Althouse: There was a time when people felt shame accepting a handout.
releng:4.12:roadmap [Xfce Wiki]
Nokia Betting on $20 Handset as It Loses Ground on IPhone - Bloomberg: As Nokia Oyj struggles to catch Apple Inc. and Samsung Electronics Co. in the market for smartphones costing $500 or more, it’s counting on a bare-bones handset that sells for just $20 to give it an edge.
Student Loan Bubble Cracks With Pulled Sallie Mae Bond Deal | Zero Hedge: In 2007 a small number of French hedge funds imploded over sudden losses stemming from highly leveraged bets made on the unstoppable subprime mortgage market. At the time, a few saw the writing on the wall; but many simply wrote it off as just another over-levered hedge fund and the subprime mortgage market was 'fine'. Fast forward six years and as we have discussed numerous times (most recently here and here) there is a bubble, potentially far bigger than subprime, in student loan debt. As one of the last remaining outlets for state-sanction credit creation, this is a big deal; but, of course, the popping of the bubble (or even a slight leak) is eschewed since there is so much 'reach for yield' and the Fed's got your back. That is until this week. As WSJ reports, Sallie Mae (SLM), the nation's largest non-government student lender just cancelled a $225 million debt offering as investors decided they simply were not getting paid enough for risk - amid rising student loan defaults. Simply put, there's a limit to what investors will tolerate.
Facebook deserted by millions of users in biggest markets | Technology | The Guardian: Facebook's dominance in the social media world has come under threat from newer services such as Instagram and Path
Ten ancestors of the netbook • The Register
Twitter warns news outlets of ongoing hacking threats, suggests more stringent security | The Verge: Several high-profile Twitter accounts have fallen victim to hacking attacks lately, and in response to the situation Twitter has issued a memo to media and news organizations suggesting steps they...
BT unleashes SIP licensing troll army • The Register
A French “Oui” for Gay Marriage? Not So Fast | Power Line
Proposed Democratic Resolution: Be It Resolved That Global Warming Is Going to Turn Women Into Whores and Coochmongers
Rehtaeh Parsons: a thought experiment | DamianPenny.com: A Nova Scotia family lawyer's blog
Rehtaeh Parsons: There may never be a case against the alleged rapists | Full Comment | National Post: Christie Blatchford's take on why there may never be a case against the alleged Rehtaeh Parsons rapists
Good Morning, Captain: open IP ports let anyone track ships on Internet | Ars Technica: In 12hrs, researchers log more than 2GB of data on ships due to Automatic ID Systems.
Congress tries to reset science grants, wants every one to be “groundbreaking” | Ars Technica: If lawmakers get their way, research like recent Higgs findings could disappear.
Supreme Court rules states can limit FOIA requests to their own citizens | Ars Technica: Alito declares "noncitizens have no comparable need" for public accountability.
» Australian PM denounces anti-Israel academic boycott movement - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Does not fit the BDS Jerusalem narrative - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
5 ideas to help the long-term unemployed | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
The PJ Tatler » The Bee, the Boom, and the Bloodyminded Left
The PJ Tatler » Congressional Democrats: ‘Climate Change’ May Turn Otherwise Good Women Into Whores
The Volokh Conspiracy » World Jewish Population, 2010
What Is This ‘Well Regulated Militia’ Business, Anyway? | Wizbang
Why online education is mostly a fantasy
What colour is your library?
“A pretty turbulent time”: BBC News covers public and volunteer libraries
Books gathering dust at libraries - Times Of India: KANPUR: The decreasing habit of reading is giving tough time to libraries, where book are gathering dust in the absence of readers. Even facilities like internet and very low registration charges
James Patterson and His Publishing Bailout Non-Plan TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics: James Patterson and His Publishing Bailout Non-Plan
Transterrestrial Musings - The Democrats Lost The Sequester
Linux 3.9 brings SSD caching and drivers to support modern PCs | Ars Technica: Improved Linux drivers boost support for Intel, ARM, and AMD hardware.
» Boston Bombings 2 Weeks Later – What We Do and Still Don’t Know - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
OverDrive Media Console Now Available on Linux | Good E-Reader - eBooks, Publishing and Comic News: Overdrive is one of the largest technology companies that lays down the infrastructure for libraries to loan out digital books. If you have an Android,
OverDrive Media Console Now Available on Linux (kinda, sorta, more or less) | The Travelin' Librarian
Althouse: "So when Democrats are pushing to ban people on the 'Terror Watch List' from buying guns..."
Instapundit » Blog Archive » SO WHEN DEMOCRATS ARE PUSHING TO BAN PEOPLE ON THE “TERROR WATCH LIST” FROM BUYING GUNS, they’re rea…
BSD Release: DragonFly BSD 3.4.1 (DistroWatch.com News): News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
The PJ Tatler » Tough Spin For Dems: March Consumer Spending Up Because Temperatures Weren’t
Consumer spending rises, driven by utility costs | Reuters: WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Consumer spending unexpectedly rose in March, temporarily boosted by demand for utilities due to colder weather, according to data on Monday that did little to alter a picture of
Mirandizing Tsarnaev — why the government should come clean | Power Line
Ed Driscoll » ‘Vichy Lives’ or, ‘We Are All National Socialists Now’
Steve Kemp's Blog: After you've started it seems like a bad idea?: After you've started it seems like a bad idea?
Open Build Service version 2.4 released - Open Build Service
Hacking on Ubiquity, the setup | Aurélien's Room: How I setup my system to work on Ubiquity, the Kubuntu installer
Guardian Twitter accounts hacked by Syrian hackers - The H Security: News and Features: Over the weekend, a group calling itself the Syrian Electronic Army hacked several Twitter accounts operated by The Guardian. Access to the newspaper's accounts was gained using simple phishing emails
DragonFly BSD 3.4 lands - The H Open: News and Features: The latest release of the BSD-derived operating system for clustered systems has improved performance thanks to work done when implementing a new packaging scheme, DPorts. There's also improved USB support and a switch of compilers
The world-changing libwww is 20 years old today - The H Open: News and Features: On 30 April 1993, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau were permitted to distribute the libwww library free of charge - a key WWW anniversary, marking the start of the history of the modern world wide web
Spreading Our Ideas in the Era of Drug-Dealer Journalism | National Review Online: The first Morning Jolt of the week offers a look at complaints about the White House Correspondents Dinner, some truly jaw-dropping statistics about the increasing rate of gun sales in this country, and then these thoughts on what I learned, and shared, at last week’s conference in Orlando:

Spreading Our Ideas in the Era of Drug-Dealer Journalism
DragonFly 3.4 released!
DragonFlyBSD: release34
From the ashes of Fuduntu, FuSE Linux is born | PCWorld: This brand-new distro will likely use the Consort desktop for a classic experience.
Citigroup: US economy will never be what it once was. Probably | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Duke faculty reject plan for it to join online consortium | Inside Higher Ed
Outgoing FCC chair: Wireless dominance by AT&T and Verizon a “very bad thing” | Ars Technica: Top wireless regulator defends 2011 call to block merger of AT&T and T-Mobile.
Distribution Release: Sabayon Linux 13.04 (DistroWatch.com News): News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
The PJ Tatler » ‘Fighting for gay marriage generally involves lying about what we’re going to do with marriage when we get there.’
EFF: Trust Twitter -- but not Apple or Verizon -- to protect your privacy - Network World: Report reveals tech companies that actively protect user information from government scrutiny
Comparing Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP: Comparing Perl, Python, Ruby and PHP
News | Jitsi
Open Build Service 2.4 understands Arch Linux packaging - The H Open: News and Features: The openSUSE developers have released version 2.4 of the Open Build Service that powers the openSUSE Build Service. New features include support for Arch's PKGBUILD format and AArch 64
Twitter Fails With "Who to Follow" Recommendations | John C. Dvorak | PCMag.com: With all the data Twitter collects, you'd think it could recommend some relevant people to follow.
Goracle: Current TV “Lifted Up” The Occupy Movement… | Weasel Zippers
The public library: Historic artifact or adaptive success? TeleRead: News and views on e-books, libraries, publishing and related topics: The public library: Historic artifact or adaptive success?
BlackBerry CEO: Tablets will be dead in 5 years • The Channel
Sources: Obama will name former telecom lobbyist Tom Wheeler as FCC head | The Verge: The White House will soon name former telecommunications industry lobbyist and businessman Tom Wheeler as the head of the Federal Communications Commission, sources familiar with the matter have...
Press Release: Sabayon 13.04 | Sabayon | Home
A Cataloging Sweatshop? — Annoyed Librarian
Barnes & Noble bungs Raspberry Pi-priced Nook on shelves • The Register
» The high cost of low information voters - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
» Hacking the News: Information Warfare in the Age of Twitter - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
BSD Release: OpenBSD 5.3 (DistroWatch.com News): News and feature lists of Linux and BSD distributions.
OpenBSD 5.3 Release: OpenBSD 5.3
The PJ Tatler » Even Maureen Dowd Notices that Obama’s a Lousy, Dishonest President
The PJ Tatler » Report: Saudis Warned Homeland Security About Boston Bomber in Writing in 2012
Works and Days » Why Read Old Books?
Belgian ISPs sued for providing Internet access without paying copyright levies | PCWorld: Sabam, the Belgian association of authors, composers and publishers, has sued the country's three biggest ISPs, saying that they should be paying copyright levies for offering access to copyright protected materials online.
Aging networking protocols abused in DDoS attacks | PCWorld: Aging networking protocols still employed by nearly every Internet-connected device are being abused by hackers to conduct distributed denial-of-service attacks.
Report: Yahoo drops Dailymotion deal in face of French opposition | PCWorld: Yahoo has scrapped plans to invest in French online video site Dailymotion, after the French government opposed the Internet giant acquiring a majority stake in the company, according to reports.
Saudis: We Told Obama About Tsarnaev, Too! | Power Line
VodkaPundit » Your Wednesday Morning Dose of Doom & Gloom
E-Books, Libraries and Democracy - NYTimes.com: All of the Big Six publishers have, for the first time, agreed to make e-books available to public library users.
Problem Solving in Perl (or any programming language) « Blue Cowdawg's Perl Blog
Why You Should Help Crowd-fund Pinto | Sawyer X [blogs.perl.org]
What is Radio? conference podcasts, for those who missed it | Radio Survivor: For those of us who couldn’t make it, journalism students at the University of Oregon recorded podcasts with What is Radio conference presenters and attendees.
Elections Canada drops plan for online voting due to cuts - Technology & Science - CBC News: Elections Canada has abandoned plans to experiment with an online voting pilot in a byelection before the 2015 general election. A spokesperson said Tuesday that experiments with online voting are postponed for the long term due to budget cuts.
Illegal wildlife trade thrives on the 'dark web' - Your Community
OpenBSD 5.3 introduces stable SMTPD - The H Open: News and Features: The OpenBSD developers have released the latest version of their UNIX-like operating system. OpenBSD 5.3 brings a number of new drivers and expanded hardware support, as well as other improvements
Sabayon 13.04 introduces experimental systemd support - The H Open: News and Features: The latest monthly release of Sabayon includes experimental systemd support and booting the distribution with UEFI and Secure Boot is now ready for production use. The developers have also moved to GitHub
T-Mobile Completes Merger With MetroPCS | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: The merger of T-Mobile and MetroPCS is complete, and the combined company - T-Mobile US - started trading on the New York Stock Exchange this morning under the TMUS ticker.
The DiploMad 2.0: Poverty, Mass Murder, and Liberals: A Complete Package
Saudi Arabia Warned U.S. About Tamerlan Tsarnaev In 2012, Considered Too Radical To Visit Mecca In 2011 | Weasel Zippers
Annual Armed Forces Day Crossband Test Scheduled for May 11: In celebration of the 63rd anniversary of Armed Forces Day (AFD), the Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are co-sponsoring the annual Military/Amateur Radio Crossband Communications Test.
Employee Benefits Fall As Firms Brace For ObamaCare | Jammie Wearing Fools
Employee Benefits Fall As Firms Brace For ObamaCare Employer Mandate - Investors.com: Private-sector employee benefit costs actually fell in Q1, as companies began bracing for ObamaCare, including cutting workers to part-time status.
Government as Accomplice to Murder | National Review Online: The Gosnell trial is winding down, and the pro-abortion crowd’s line seems to be that yes, this guy was an unfortunate outlier but he’s of no broader significance. This conveniently overlooks the fact that he couldn’t have done what he did without the assistance of government. Gosnell’s “clinic” went uninspected for 17 years — that’s to say, before many of its “women” patients were born.
Democracy on the Way Out? | National Review Online: In an interview in the Wall Street Journal of April 27, eminent classicist and historian Donald Kagan suggested that democracy “has had its day.” Though apparently tossed off casually, this is a worrisome thought from a serious source.
Yahoo! scuppered! in! Dailymotion! buyout! attempt! • The Register
Linux kernel 3.9 lands • The Register
What is Radio?
Passages in unedited version of Anne Frank Diary causing stir - Fox 2 News Headlines: Are the passages in Anne Frank's diary too graphic for 7th grade? A mother in Northville says 'yes' and she has a filed a formal complaint with school district.
The vanishing US labor force: New study suggests jobless rate is misleadingly low | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Meet Drone Shield, an ambitious idea for a $70 drone detection system | Ars Technica: Aerospace engineer wants to scan for audio signatures of flying robots.
Comcast’s cable network revenue up by 5 percent due to distribution fee rise | Ars Technica: Media companies see boosted revenue thanks to rising network fees.
» Some deep and meaningful thoughts on news filtering - Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion
2 examples of industries were employment is falling as output rises | AEIdeas: The public policy blog of the American Enterprise Institute
Whispers and Bricks | Everyday Athlete: Staying fit and healthy while relentlessly pursuing an extraordinary life
“The vanishing US labor force: New study suggests jobless rate is misleadingly low” | protein wisdom
Who is the Dow Jones-wrecking Syrian Electronic Army? A hacker explains - Technology & Science - CBC News: A group of hackers called the Syrian Electronic Army brought the Dow Jones stock index down $140 billion in 90 seconds recently when it hacked the Twitter feed of the Associated Press. Ahmed Heidar tells As It Happens about the SEA and the cyberwar in Syria.
Google Glass's White Male Problem | News & Opinion | PCMag.com: Google Glass seems to be used entirely by white men. For a transformational technology, that's a big, big problem.
How to Find Your Vocation in College | National Review Online: North Carolina governor Pat McCrory took a lot of heat for suggesting that education isn’t about “butts in seats but how many of those butts can get jobs.” Some conservatives rushed to defend his comments — which were, in fact, merely the logical extension of the “college grads make more money” justification given by liberals to further subsidize college loans — but Gene Edward Veith, professor of literature and provost at Patrick Henry College, asks us to step back a moment and look at students’ choices through
How to Find Your Vocation in College | Intercollegiate Review
What the Chief Librarians said to the campaigners …
Timbuktu librarians duped Al Qaeda to save books | New Republic: How a team of sneaky librarians duped Al Qaeda
It’s Time to Codify the Hastert Rule | RedState: Over the past few months, we have witnessed a dynamic in Washington in which House leadership is passing liberal legislation with support from the Democrat
Walt Crawford’s Big Deal and the Damage Done | Academic Librarian
Columbus Dispatch Declares There’s No Case Against Medicaid Expansion | RedState: Opposition to Medicaid expansion is purely ideological, The Columbus Dispatch editors declared in an April 28 column taking the paper's advocacy of its
CaliforniaCare: The Employer Mandate on Steroids | United Liberty | Free Market - Individual Liberty - Limited Government: employer mandate California AB 880: “This bill would make it unlawful for a large employer to, among other things…reduce an employee’s hours or work…if the purpose is to avoid the imposition of the penalty. A violation of
More Bad News for Obamacare: Study Finds Medicaid Has No Effect on Measured Health Outcomes - Hit & Run : Reason.com: This is huge, and stunning, even for critics of Medicaid: A randomized-controlled study published in the New England Journal of Medicine by a group of
Blogging is futile — New SSH-related stuff in Wheezy: Yet another Blosxom weblog from someone who promised himself to never start blogging - since blogging is futile.
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Duke Raises Tuition Costs To Pay For Sex Change Surgery For Any Student Who Wants One… | Weasel Zippers
Abortionist Monster Kermit Gosnell In Solitary Confinement: Prisoners “Frown On Snipping Babies”… | Weasel Zippers
The true meaning of moral panics
The Dreaded Wyoming GOP Facebook ‘Hatef–k’ Rapist Has Been Apprehended : The Other McCain
Althouse: Another hate crime turns out to be self-generated — another "victim" threatened herself.
UW Police: Facebook post was a hoax -- UPDATED - Laramie Boomerang Online