The dangerous chemophobia behind its popular story about childhood arthritis.
Source: Curing chemophobia: Don’t buy the alternative medicine in “The Boy With a Thorn in His Joints.”
Category: Contemplation
The Dangers of Obama’s Contraceptive Compromise – The Atlantic
The same logic could be used to get businesses out of hiring gay employees or paying minimum wage.
Source: The Dangers of Obama’s Contraceptive Compromise – The Atlantic
What the ban on unlocking phones means (worse than you think) / Boing Boing
What the ban on unlocking phones means (worse than you think)
Source: What the ban on unlocking phones means (worse than you think) / Boing Boing
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If a court rules in favor of the carriers, penalties can be stiff – up to $2,500 per unlocked phone in a civil suit, and $500,000 or five years in prison in a criminal case where the unlocking is done for “commercial advantage.” And this could happen even for phones that are no longer under contract. So we’re really not free to do as we want with devices that we own.
The brilliant mind, righteous heart of Aaron Swartz will be missed | MSNBC
You should know that the hacker, programmer, writer and activist Aaron Swartz has died of suicide at age 26. His body was found in his apartment on Friday.
at the time of his death Aaron was being prosecuted by the federal government and threatened with up to 35 years in prison and $1 million in fines for the crime of — and I’m not exaggerating here — downloading too many free articles from the online database of scholarly work JSTOR
Source: The brilliant mind, righteous heart of Aaron Swartz will be missed | MSNBC
Attorney General Secretly Granted Gov. Ability to Develop and Store Dossiers on Innocent Americans | WIRED
In a secret government agreement granted without approval from lawmakers, the U.S. attorney general recently granted the National Counterterrorism Center sweeping new powers to store dossiers on U.S. citizens, even if they are not suspected of a crime.
Earlier this year, Attorney General Eric Holder granted the center the ability to copy entire government databases holding information on flight records, casino-employee lists, the names of Americans hosting foreign-exchange students and other data, and to store it for up to five years, even without suspicion that someone in the database has committed a crime, according to the Wall Street Journal, which broke the story.
Whereas previously the law prohibited the center from storing data compilations on U.S. citizens unless they were suspected of terrorist activity or were relevant to an ongoing terrorism investigation, the new powers give the center the ability to not only collect and store vast databases of information but also to trawl through and analyze it for suspicious patterns of behavior in order to uncover activity that could launch an investigation.