International law does not allow combatants to kill in the morning and enjoy dinner with their children later in the evening.
Source: Drone Operators: Soldiers or Civilians? – The Atlantic
Month: March 2013
Andrew Weissmann: FBI wants real-time Gmail, Dropbox spying power.
Last week, during a talk for the American Bar Association in Washington, D.C., FBI general counsel Andrew Weissmann discussed some of the pressing surveillance and national security issues facing the bureau.
Weissmann said that the FBI wants the power to mandate real-time surveillance of everything from Dropbox and online games (“the chat feature in Scrabble”) to Gmail and Google Voice. “Those communications are being used for criminal conversations,” he said.
Source: Andrew Weissmann: FBI wants real-time Gmail, Dropbox spying power.
Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own | WIRED
Who owns our stuff? The answer used to be obvious. Now, with electronics integrated into just about everything we buy, the answer has changed. The issue goes beyond cellphone unlocking, because once we buy an object — any object — we should own it. But we really don’t own our stuff anymore; the manufacturers do. Because modifying modern objects requires access to information.
Source: Forget the Cellphone Fight — We Should Be Allowed to Unlock Everything We Own | WIRED
How Americans Lost the Right to Counsel, 50 Years After ‘Gideon’ – The Atlantic
You have a right to an attorney in a criminal case, even if you cannot afford one. The Supreme Court said so half a century ago. But today that precious right is systematically ignored or undermined.
Source: How Americans Lost the Right to Counsel, 50 Years After ‘Gideon’ – The Atlantic
How to Fix America’s Wealth Inequality: Teach Americans to Be Cheap – The Atlantic
Today, wealth equality is closely tied to income equality. But in the long run, it’s all about thrift, frugality, and saving — in other words, teaching a consumer nation a lesson in cheapness.
Source: How to Fix America’s Wealth Inequality: Teach Americans to Be Cheap – The Atlantic