The ThinkPad has been popular with business users for some time. The X1 offers many of the old, familiar features along with some new twists. The battery is built-in, the optical drive is not, and the keyboard is slightly different.Read | Permalink SE... Read more »
U.S. Senator, Encryption Innovator, and Tunisian Blogging Group Win EFF Pioneer Awards
EFF to Honor Senator Ron Wyden, Technologist Ian Goldberg, and Blogging Collective Nawaat at San Francisco CeremonySan Francisco - The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is pleased to announce the winners of its 2011 Pioneer Awards: U.S. Senator Ron ... Read more »
Ron Paul names his pick for Federal Reserve chairman
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Congressman Ron Paul, a vocal critic of the Federal Reserve, dropped a potential name for chairman of the Fed on Wednesday evening. During the online portion of Fox News’ “Special Report with Brett Baier,... Read more »
Disastrous IP Legislation Is Back – And It’s Worse than Ever
We've reported here often on efforts to ram through Congress legislation that would authorize massive interference with the Internet, all in the name of a fruitless quest to stamp out all infringement online. Today Representative L... Read more »
Upstart Unthink wants to become the new anti-Facebook
Unthink promises your content will remain yours and not be sold to marketing firms. For this freedom from advertising, they are asking users to pay $2 per year.Read | Permalink NO HASSLE PHOTO PRINTING, SHARING, AND STORAGE -- AS LOW AS $2.54 PER MONT... Read more »
Blogging IGF: EFF Fights Against Dangers of Intermediaries as Internet Police
As several international organizations hatch new ways to impose control over online activities, genuine multi-stakeholder input in policy development becomes extremely crucial. The sixth UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF), held in Nairobi, Kenya, was a... Read more »
Marijuana Will Make You Sad (If You Are Prone To Be Depressed)?
Via Science Daily:
Read more »Young people who are genetically vulnerable to depression should be extra careful about using cannabis: smoking cannabis leads to an increased risk of developing depressive symptoms. This has emerged from research carried out by Roy Otten at the Behavioural Science Institute of Radboud University Nijmegen that is published in the online version of the scientific journal Addiction Biology. Two-thirds of the population have the gene variant that makes one sensitive to depression.
Many young people in the Netherlands use cannabis. Nearly 30% of 16-year-olds indicate that they have used cannabis on at least one occasion, and 12% that they have used it during the past month. Besides worse performances at school, the use of cannabis also increases the risk of developing schizophrenia and psychosis. Smoking hashish and weed were thought to increase the risk of depression but no conclusive evidence for this was available to date. Otten suspects that…
Keep the Pressure On: Oppose Canada’s Fishy “Lawful Access” Bill
Co-authored by Annie Harrison Canada is a popular destination for those who like to fish, but the Canadian government is attempting to spark what may be the country’s largest-ever fishing expedition into its citizens’ private online data. Supporte... Read more »
Facebook’s Hotel California: Cross-Site Tracking and the Potential Impact on Digital Privacy Legislation
Tracking of Logged Out Users For its 800 millions users, logging out of Facebook is not something done idly. Closing the Facebook tab won’t do it. Closing your browser won’t do it unless you’ve adjusted the settings in your browser to clear cooki... Read more »
California’s Reader Privacy Act Signed into Law
Sacramento, CA - California Governor Jerry Brown has signed the Reader Privacy Act, updating reader privacy law to cover new technologies like electronic books and online book services as well as local bookstores. The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EF... Read more »
