Congress is once again limitting what you’re allowed to do.  This time it’s imposing laws on publicly funded institutions so that they can’t allow access to social networking websites.
Read that one again.  You got it.  Social networking websites.
Really… doesn’t that include the one you’re presently reading?  You can certainly post feedback on the open forum […]

Diebold’s voting machine’s might be easier to use (debatable) than some other voting methods here in the states.
They’ve got a few major drawbacks however.
Such as the one being exposed over at El Reg.  All you need is some flash memory, a screwdriver, and access to a Diebold voting machine.  At that point, the sky’s the […]

Just picked up on this repost over at OSDir.
Check out the wording on that one, then read the title: “United States Cedes Control of the Internet”.
So, they’re reaching for a title with some “shlocking awe” qualities from an article that doesn’t say what the title implies.
The actual body of those statements are so vague and […]

While the USA .gov is waffeling over domain control and making more concilatory noises they’re still planning on maintaining control of the system with an iron fist.
All this while claiming that they’ve got our best interests in mind.  As long as our best interests are paying more for domain names.
Now.  I don’t care who carries […]

The homeless apparently create unsafe parks by, and this one’s a bit tricky, eating in them.
So Orlando is now banning feeding the homeless. Much like we ban feeding Canadian Geese here in CT.
Oddly for much the same reason. Orlando is going to eliminate the “homeless threat” before the “homeless win”. Because once […]

It looks like companies might have to obey the law, even when the US government tells them not to.
A judge has refused to drop the case against AT&T regarding their illegal wire tapping at the US governments request.
The nickel summary is that the NSA requested that AT&T willfully break the law and provide massive monitoring […]