Eye-Fi cards, which connect cameras to WiFi, depend on proprietary software which depends on servers — which the manufacturer will shut down, making it impossible to configure the cards.

Using proprietary software always puts you under someone's thumb, more or less. When it depends on a server, that is acute nastiness. And that's the way the "Internet of Things" works.

If the purchasers of Eye-Fi cards were wise, they would have rejected the product for this before buying it.

This Person Exists: Transgender People Can Now Fight and Die For the Empire.

US citizens: call on the Democratic Convention to oppose TPP in the platform.

Please sign this one too.

The US "report" on casualties from drone attacks continues the practice of underestimating the number of civilians killed.

The report is so weak on detail that one can't learn anything real from it.

The UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights says that Tory spending and aid cuts violate the human rights of poor people in the UK.