- Seriously Mr. President, Pat-Downs Are No Joke
- [ACLU blog - Suzanne Ito]
This morning, Raw Story wrote: "Obama’s TSA pat-downs joke infuriates ACLU."
"Infuriates" might be a tad strong, but jokes aside, President Obama has the power to stop these shockingly intrusive invasions of privacy . We've received more than 1,000 complaints by travelers, many of whom describe the pat-downs as humiliating, abusive and degrading. And these pat-downs are the alternative to going through a machine that sees through your clothes . Is this any choice at all?
And to make matters worse, the naked machines and pat-downs — the TSA's latest bit of security theater designed to try to make us feel safer — don't actually increase safety…
Tell the Department of Homeland Security to rein in the TSA's abusive searches and respect travelers' privacy rights. [link]
- Insurance Company Drops Cancer Patient And Veteran Because He Accidentally Underpaid By Two Cents
- [Think Progress - Zaid Jilani ]
One of the worst abuses of the private health insurance industry is the practice of denying claims to pay for necessary care or revoking the coverage of policyholders for frivolous reasons.
- Download Bash shell Scripting Guide for Beginners (PDF)
- [Ubuntu Geek]
Everybody working on a UNIX or UNIX-like system who wants to make life easier on themselves, power users and sysadmins alike, can benefit from reading this book.
- iPhone App Lets Soldiers Map Their Battlefields
- [ReadWriteWeb - Curt Hopkins]
There was nothing whatsoever metaphorical in that headline. …Tactical Nav is an app that lets a soldier map and plot waypoints on a battlefield, take photos and share coordinates with fellow soldiers and units, direct artillery and call in medevac.
Its developer is 31-year-old Captain Jonathan Springer of the U.S. Army's 101st Airborne, who reportedly spent $26,000 of his own money to develop the app. It is set for release next month…
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- Get random Ubuntu tips on your desktop
- [OMG! Ubuntu!]
- Approaches to Feminism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
- Understanding the emergence of feminist philosophy in the U.S. requires an overview of at least two contexts — the political context of what came to be called the “second wave of the woman's movement” and the nature of philosophy in U.S. academies.
* 1. The Political Context: The Rise of the U.S. Feminist Movement
* 2. The Rise of Feminist Philosophical Scholarship in the U.S.
* 3. The Inheritance from Philosophy
* 4. Approaches to Feminist Philosophy: Overview of the Encyclopedia Sub-Entries
- The Samurai as Cowboys?
- [About.com Asian History]
Harvard Professor David Howell has an interesting thesis [link]. He compares the Japanese samurai of the Tokugawa era to the cowboys of the American west, in terms of their place in popular imagination.
- Will Dress Codes for Workplace Avatars Soon Be the Norm?
- [ABA Journal Magazine Stories]
- A Long-Forgotten Film on the Nuremberg Trials Helps Rekindle Interest in the Holocaust
- [ABA Journal Magazine Stories]
- After High-Profile Hack of Founder Zuckerberg, Facebook Pledges ‘Continued Commitment to Security’
- [ABA Journal Daily News]
- Vermeule and Lanni on Ancient Constitutional Design
- [Legal History Blog - Dan Ernst]
Adrian Vermeule and Adriaan Lanni, both of the Harvard Law School, have posted Constitutional Design in the Ancient World. Here is the intriguing abstract:…
- Quotable: On The Academy Award Nominations
- [Racialicious - Arturo ]
- Investigators: White Power Guerrilla Manual Behind Attacks on Police
- [Hatewatch | Southern Poverty Law Center - Ryan Lenz]
Two men charged with attempting to kill police officers in Hemet, Calif., used what prosecutors are calling a white power “guerrilla warfare manual” to guide a nine-month campaign of terror and violence against the police department, its buildings and vehicles.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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