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"Lie detector" app

lundi 3 décembre 2018 à 01:00

The European Union is planning to interrogate visa applicants in extremely intrusive ways, which will involve a special "lie detector" app.

Whether the app is reliable in telling truth from lies is not clear. However, from the article it is almost certain that the app is nonfree software, and that in itself is an injustice, before you even get to the moral issues of what it does.

Charities risk becoming irrelevant

dimanche 2 décembre 2018 à 01:00

When charitable organizations mimic corporations, they stop fighting for the people they are meant to help, and become soulless.

Georgia: rigged election

dimanche 2 décembre 2018 à 01:00

Stacey Abrams, defeated by Kemp in an election he personally rigged, refused to endorse the procedure as legitimate.

Bravo!

Let them vape

dimanche 2 décembre 2018 à 01:00

E-cigarettes have a good effect (helping people avoid the harm of smoking tobacco) and a bad effect (getting some people addicted to nicotine). Are we weighing the good against the bad carefully?

Interpol considering Russian chief

dimanche 2 décembre 2018 à 01:00

Interpol did not learn a lesson from having a Chinese official as its chief. It is now considering a Russian who has previously tried to use Interpol for Russian trickery.

This would "put the assassin in charge of the murder investigation."