Iran and other countries have worked out the last details of the nuclear agreement, and the implementation will begin on Jan 20 — provided Congress doesn't ruin everything.

The UK government is entirely for shale, and hopes that local councils are for shale as well.

Handing over personal data to stores turns out to be no safer with big stores than with any other stores.

The risk that the store's copy of your personal data might be obtained by crackers should not distract you from the bigger risk — the use that will be made of your personal data with permission of companies that possess it.

I won't give any personal data to a store, because I don't want my purchases to be associated with me. I won't give the store even my name.

The worst piece of data to give to a store is your credit card number. Even if it is never obtained by crackers, it will identify you to the store's data base together with what you bought.

Do as I do: pay cash, and never give stores your personal data. If you never give it, you won't learn it as a habit, so you won't start handing it over as a habit.

Some restaurants are replacing waiters with computerized order-takers. This threatens to leave millions more Americans unemployed.

Applebees alone may cut half a million jobs.

Using an ithing to take the orders is bad for restaurant, too. It is full of nonfree software that tramples the freedom of the user (in this case, the restaurant) and exposes the user to malware

For the sake of sales clerk's employment, I refuse to use the self-checkout machines in supermarkets and drug stores. When I go into a drug store that has these machines, I shout to the people who use them, "Using those machines puts Americans out of work".

I think we should prohibit those machines simply to keep employment up.

The Ugly Truth about Charter Schools: Padded Cells, Corruption, Lousy Instruction and Worse Results.

Charter schools are a form of privatization. In general, privatization is presented as a way to make some service more efficient, but its real effect is to enrich a few. That's true in this case, but it also represents a way for the state to abandon poor people, now increasingly considered superfluous by the plutocratic state.