Bottled water and snake oil
Like a lot of successful, improbable marketing campaigns, the sale of tap water isn’t so much about outright lying as it …
A brief history of SPAM
The New Yorker traces the history of unsolicited e-mail advertising pitches. E-mail spam was born in a 1978 send via the …
$20 billion US arms sale to Saudis in the works
It would be helpful to have a sense of the overall, long-term plan in this case (as in so many others), …
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Most vote machines lose test to hackers
Interesting story, but I’m going to take issue with the “hacker” implications. It’s probably just an editorial oversight, but the article …
Senate refuses to fund Real ID
Real ID is dead in the water, and it is clear that no amount of money can save it,” said …
Where to Find Public Records Online
This might not be the most complete (or the most scary) listing of online resources you can find, but it’s …
Linguists seek a time when we spoke as one
from Moises Velasquez-Manoff, for the Christian Science Monitor Around 50,000 years ago, something happened to our ancestors in Africa. Anatomically …
Ron Paul in the New York Times
An old friend said to me yesterday, “So tell me about this Ron Paul…” This is a fine, thoughtful and even-handed article from Christopher …
In case you weren’t sure AT&T really is spying on you
The U.S. Department of Justice has stated that AT&T may neither confirm nor deny AT&T’s participation in the alleged NSA …
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Checkers bites the dust
A Canadian team has created a computer program that can win or draw any game, no matter who the opponent …
Six Years After 9/11, the Same Terror Threat
from Scott Shane, for The New York Times July 18, 2007 Nearly six years after the Sept. 11 attacks, the …
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Data mining at the FBI: digging for terrorists, insurance scammers, and identity thieves, and…?
In a report sent to Congress this week, the Department of Justice describes six data mining programs currently under way …
