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  1. as often as these guys are wrong, why do we listen to them?

  2. paper ballots counted by hand in public on Green Party Calls For Recount, Wants To Push For Open-Source Voting Machines (nbcnewyork.com) · · Score: 1

    open source machines is just a distraction from the solution

  3. I have a bad feeling about this. on Amazon Expands Home Services To 20 New Cities, Seeks 'Home Assistants' (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    I just have a bad feeling about this.

  4. lower the price and sales will go back up. This is not complicated.

  5. nutrition on Brain-Zapping Gadgets Need Regulation, Say Scientists (ieee.org) · · Score: 1
  6. mebbe we should have done something about the on FBI Says Foreign Hackers Breached State Election Systems (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    voting machines back in 2004.

  7. better late than never on Twitter Announces New Blocking and Filtering Features (wired.co.uk) · · Score: 1

    but they will have to start throwing the violent element off Twitter, or they will be regarded as the dumpster fire of social media.

  8. every now and then on Patriot Act Expansion Fails In The House (thehill.com) · · Score: 0

    the good guys win

  9. who wins your city council race is important.

  10. this is the sort of story on Police Are Filing Warrants For Android's Vast Store Of Location Data (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    that makes me glad I use a dumb phone.

  11. we need to stop listening to Jeff Bezos on We Need To Build Industrial Zones In Space In Order To Save Earth, Says Jeff Bezos (cnbc.com) · · Score: 1

    if we want to save the planet earth, more scientists, less billionaires.

  12. Re:dumb phones might be the smarter choice on Your Phone Number Is All a Hacker Needs To Read Texts, Listen To Calls and Track You (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    that is a great tag line

  13. dumb phones might be the smarter choice on Your Phone Number Is All a Hacker Needs To Read Texts, Listen To Calls and Track You (theguardian.com) · · Score: 1

    it seems insecure is the default setting on all our gadgets.

  14. Re:In Canada... on NYU Study: America's Voting Machines Are Rapidly Aging Out · · Score: 3

    must be nice to live in a country which counts the votes, I hear the health care system is nice too.

  15. it is hideous on Debate Over Amazon Working Conditions Goes Back Years · · Score: 2, Interesting

    it turns everyone in the company into an informer. Enron used this approach, it worked so well.

  16. Queen bees on Researchers Find That Queen Bees Vaccinate Their Offspring · · Score: 1

    are smarter than they look.

  17. if you want to steal an election on Political Polls Become Less Reliable As We Head Into 2016 Presidential Election · · Score: 5, Interesting

    first you must discredit the polls.

  18. You have to start somewhere. on Presidential Candidate Lincoln Chaffee Proposes That US Go Metric · · Score: 1

    we can only hope that other candidates will pick this up. it is a good idea.

  19. death to bandwidth hogs! on Adblock Plus Victorious Again In Court · · Score: 2

    people would not use adblock if advertising did not suck up so much bandwidth.

  20. stalker marketing on Ads Based On Browsing History Are Coming To All Firefox Users · · Score: 1

    expect it to get worse.

  21. mod parent up! on Academics Build a New Tor Client Designed To Beat the NSA · · Score: 3, Informative
  22. contrary to conventional wisdom on Bernie Sanders, Presidential Candidate and H-1B Skeptic · · Score: 1
  23. Sanders can win on Bernie Sanders, Presidential Candidate and H-1B Skeptic · · Score: 2

    the current zeigeist is unlike any in my lifetime. Voters are deeply troubled by our current system, which stacks the deck against ordinary people. I think they are ready for someone like Sanders.

  24. every politician on Inside the Military-Police Center That Spies On Baltimore's Rioters · · Score: 1

    at every level, needs to be asked about their views about surveillance.

  25. International Praetorian guard on German Intelligence Helped NSA Spy On EU Politicians and Companies · · Score: 5, Insightful

    it we don't reign this in no one will be free.