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Putin's rebels capture part of Donetsk airport

samedi 17 janvier 2015 à 13:00

Putin's rebels in Ukraine are on the offensive and have captured part of the long-contested Donetsk airport.

They couldn't possibly have done this without Russia's military support.

Verizon enables snooping

samedi 17 janvier 2015 à 13:00

How Verizon's interference with customers' browsing enables Verizon's advertising partner to help all manner of snooping web sites reidentify visitors.

New campaign for "patent reform"

samedi 17 janvier 2015 à 13:00

A new campaign for "patent reform" has been distracted completely by "trolls" and has lost sight of all the substantive issues.

Any measures directed at "trolls" would do nothing to protect software developers from the worst patent aggressors, such as Apple.

What we need is to protect software from patents.

Following the path of tyrannical countries

samedi 17 janvier 2015 à 13:00

Leaders of "free" Western countries are following the path of tyrannical countries such as China and Russia when they demand total surveillance power.

No amount of "security measures" can perfectly prevent all terrorist attacks, so there will always be more excuses for added "security measures". And note how the number of victims needed to make an excuse keeps going down. The French terrorists killed fewer than 20 people, which is surely fewer than are killed on French roads by car accidents every day, and attacks on human rights are proposed on this basis.

Urgent: Antarctic krill

samedi 17 janvier 2015 à 13:00

US citizens: call on CVS to stop collecting Antarctic krill, whose numbers are plummeting.