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Border Patrol’s Horrific Treatment Of On The Media’s Producer, Family & Friends Highlights The Lack Of Accountability From DHS

By now we’ve all heard plenty of stories about ridiculous goings on at the border by Homeland Security’s Customs and Border Patrol agents. We’ve written many times about questionable electronics searches. Still, I urge people to listen to the story tha… Continue reading

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Focus transition

More cleverness by Nikita Vasilyev. The blue glow outline that surrounds focusable elements when they are in their :focus state “flies” (you have to see it) to the next focusable element. So when you tab around, it is very clear where the focus has moved to.

I think it’s a light enough effect that the cognitive gains are worth the animation. No feedback yet from anyone visually impaired. It would be great to know if this is helpful to them.…


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NSA Apologist Says The NSA’s Actions Are Fine Because ‘Privacy Is Dead’

When we last discussed columnist Froma Harrop, she was acting as a surveillance state apologist. She took some of the usual paths (directing snark at “clueless” internet users, conjuring up the threat of terrorism) and some unusual ones (claiming thos… Continue reading

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DOJ Puts Another Leaker In Jail: The War On Whistleblowers Rolls On

You may recall that, prior to the whole Snowden affair, the DOJ was under fire for spying on the phone records of a bunch of Associated Press journalists. The issue was some details of the US disrupting a supposed plan by al-Qaeda in the Arabian Penins… Continue reading

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Techdirt. 2013-09-23 23:52:16

As Techdirt has been pointing out for years, newspaper paywalls make no sense. By stopping people from reading your stories unless they have a subscription, you diminish your influence in the media world, drastically reduce the number of readers and th… Continue reading

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Another Day, Another Loss For Broadcasters In Quixotic Campaign To Kill Innovation

Just last week, we noted that a court in NY had rejected an attempt by ABC and CBS to shut down DISH’s AutoHopper offering that helps users automatically skip commercials (along with their PrimeTime AnyTime feature that automatically records prime time… Continue reading

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DailyDirt: What’s A Good Lifespan?

There’s an Isaac Asimov quote: “If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.” But if there really were accurate predictions for a person’s lifespan, how would people change? Maybe medical science is o… Continue reading

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Court Fines Patch Editor $300 Per Day For Not Revealing Sources

The war on journalism isn’t coming from just the federal government. Over in Illinois, a judge has fined Joseph Hosey, an editor for the AOL-owned hyperlocal news site, Patch, $1,000 plus court costs, plus $300 per day for refusing to reveal his source… Continue reading

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Spain Ratchets Up Anti-Piracy Laws To Even More Ridiculous Levels: Criminal Penalties For Linking To Infringing Works

If you may recall, for a while, Spain had some of the most reasonable copyright laws around. The country properly recognized that it didn’t make sense to blame service providers for the actions of their users, rejecting lawsuits against a number of onl… Continue reading

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NSA Complains That It Has To Spend Time Closing Leaks Rather Than Spying On Everyone

NPR has a slightly bizarre article claiming that the effects of the Snowden leaks “aren’t what he intended.” Except the article doesn’t really suggest that at all. It does focus on how the NSA is now spending a ton of time trying to figure out how to p… Continue reading

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