Journalists hit with $200 Wi-Fi bill for presidential debates - CNET

Journalists hit with $200 Wi-Fi bill for presidential debates - CNET: "Members of the press can expect to pay $200 to access a wireless network during Monday evening's presidential debate at Long Island's Hofstra University. And if they want more, they will be paying more. According to the university's media rate sheet (PDF), a phone line with secured Ethernet runs $600 and unlimited wireless access for 20 or more devices will run $3,500."



"It's not immediately clear what Hofstra's legal basis for this action is since the Federal Communications Commission issued an enforcement advisory last year that said blocking an individual's personal Wi-Fi hotspot is illegal."

Native Hawaiians: Is change in federal status a sign of progress? - CSMonitor.com

Native Hawaiians: Is change in federal status a sign of progress? - CSMonitor.com: "A change in federal policy Friday, as the Department of Interior announced that it had finalized a rule that would allow a native Hawaiian government to form a formal government-to-government relationship with the United States."

Opinion: Privacy isn't dead. Here's why - CSMonitor.com

Opinion: Privacy isn't dead. Here's why - CSMonitor.com: "The argument that people don’t care about privacy anymore since many people share so much information on the web is flawed. That assertion ignores the fact that individuals who share information or communicate on social media are choosing to do so. People should be able to decide whether they broadcast every moment of their lives or whether they don't engage in social media. Or, they can select what bits of their lives to share, and what needs to remain private."



"74 percent of Americans consider it "very important" that they be able to control what information others can access about them, and 86 percent of internet users have taken steps to anonymize their online activity."



"Polls repeatedly show Americans value their privacy highly and do not think they should have to sacrifice it for national security. Further, news of mass surveillance had a significant negative impact on the US economy."



"They may be victims of domestic violence trying to protect their attempts to get help from their abusive partners."

Teen suspended for taking picture of school's dirty water - CNET

Teen suspended for taking picture of school's dirty water - CNET: ""The punishment is inappropriate. I am going to make sure the out of school suspension is expunged from the student's record," Harmala told WXYZ."

Opinion: Think hackers will tip the vote? Read this first - CSMonitor.com

Opinion: Think hackers will tip the vote? Read this first - CSMonitor.com: "First, attackers would need to target online voters (a small minority) who are scattered in various jurisdictions.

Then, once the vulnerable voters are identified, attackers would need to wait for the polling place to transmit those votes. While that kind of attack could work on one person, or a single location, it would be difficult to pull off at any meaningful scale.

Alternatively, an adversary could invent an entirely new population of phantom voters, register them to vote remotely, and stuff the ballot box with fake votes. That's possible, but highly improbable. "



"[server attacks] would be pretty obvious to system maintainers, and I suspect polling administrators would quickly switch back to relying on the mail. Remember, online systems aren't intended for use on Election Day, rather they merely collect absentee ballots."



"While remote attacks are possible, it's not like someone could affect voting from another country. They'd more likely need to be parked outside the polling place. So, although Wi-Fi voting machines are a terrible idea, they don't appear to be an existential threat to democracy at the time being."

Preserving a free and open internet (why the IANA transition must move forward)

Preserving a free and open internet (why the IANA transition must move forward): "Thinking that only governments should have a say in the Internet’s future is a dangerous proposition."

Is California's new law a model for curbing prosecutorial misconduct? - CSMonitor.com

Is California's new law a model for curbing prosecutorial misconduct? - CSMonitor.com: "The National Registry of Exonerations, launched in 2012, has counted 1,894 Americans exonerated since 1989. Fifty-one percent of those wrongful convictions were due to official misconduct, occurring most commonly in homicide cases. A number of high-profile exoneration cases in recent years have drawn the public's attention to such misconduct, including instances of prosecutors withholding, or tampering with, exculpatory evidence. "



"It’s about a system that is void of integrity. Mistakes can happen. But if you don’t do anything to stop them from happening again, you can’t keep calling them mistakes."



"To curb prosecutorial misconduct while reducing the chances of baseless claims, Alonso suggests creating a "strong law" that criminalizes tampering of evidence by any officer of the court. "

Revoke Obama's Nobel Peace Prize | Cato Institute

Revoke Obama's Nobel Peace Prize | Cato Institute: "The New York Times noted the irony that the longest-serving wartime president was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize only nine months into his first term in office."



"According to the government’s own documents, nearly 90 percent of the people killed in U.S. airstrikes during one five-month period were not the intended targets."

Paul Ryan outlines 'A Better Way' – now he needs listeners - CSMonitor.com

Paul Ryan outlines 'A Better Way' – now he needs listeners - CSMonitor.com: "The plan would increase work requirements for welfare recipients, including for food stamps; better reward work so that poor people aren’t punished for earning more; consolidate federal programs, and give states more say in how aid is distributed."

Why albinos are being killed in Malawi, and what's being done to stop it - CSMonitor.com

Why albinos are being killed in Malawi, and what's being done to stop it - CSMonitor.com: "Violent crimes against albinos are typically committed by individuals or criminal gangs driven by the belief that albino body parts can bring wealth, happiness and good luck. It is common for attackers, many of whom live in poverty and have low levels of literacy, to sell their victims' limbs to witchdoctors for use in charms and magical potions. "

Massad Ayoob » Blog Archive » JUSTICE IN BALTIMORE

Massad Ayoob » Blog Archive » JUSTICE IN BALTIMORE: "The State threw multiple theories against the wall of the courtroom, hoping at least one would stick.  None did. The prosecutors went to great lengths to overlook the fact that the deceased was known to injure himself so he could sue for damages (known as “crash for cash” in the trade), and that a fellow arrestee in the van told police that Gray seemed to be deliberately throwing himself around on the ride to jail."

A florist caught between faith and financial ruin - CSMonitor.com

A florist caught between faith and financial ruin - CSMonitor.com: "She did not object to selling flowers or floral arrangements from her shop to Ingersoll, as she’d done many times before. What she objected to was the possibility of a job requiring her personal involvement in the celebration of a same-sex marriage. That would be a denunciation of her faith."

Influencers: Antihacking law obstructs security research - CSMonitor.com

Influencers: Antihacking law obstructs security research - CSMonitor.com: "They complain the law’s vague language enables prosecutors to go after legitimate security researchers investigating potentially dangerous security vulnerabilities that could harm consumers – and even target users of video streaming services such as Netflix and HBO Go who share their passwords with friends and family."



"For instance, in May, the FBI arrested Texas-based security researcher Justin Shafer after he discovered a vulnerability in dental software that could allow anyone to view sensitive data for 22,000 patients on a publicly available server. The company that developed that software said Mr. Shafer’s decision to access that data violated the CFAA – even though it was meant to root out vulnerabilities that could endanger consumers."

Federal judge declares evidence from cellphone tracker unconstitutional - CSMonitor.com

Federal judge declares evidence from cellphone tracker unconstitutional - CSMonitor.com: "The constitutional rights of defendant Raymond Lambis were violated with an "unreasonable search" when the US Drug Enforcement Administration used a Stingray to locate his apartment during a drug-trafficking investigation, ruled US District Judge William Pauley. The controversial devices work by mimicking a nearby cellphone tower, tricking a suspect's phone into connecting to it and thereby making data on the phone accessible to law enforcement agencies. "

Beyond protests, St. Paul shows how police and community can find solutions - CSMonitor.com

Beyond protests, St. Paul shows how police and community can find solutions - CSMonitor.com: "A few evenings a week, Mr. Lott and several dozen other Community Ambassadors with youth-outreach experience walk the streets to defuse tensions, and steer kids into productive channels instead of local precincts.

“There is a new culture shift, where [the police are acknowledging they] do have to do something differently … which has been remarkable.” Lott says. “I’ve never felt closer to police officers than I do now…. We’re developing relationships.”

In turn, St. Paul has witnessed significant declines in crimes and juvenile arrests."



"“The kids are having less contact with the police … and the police are treating them more human; we humanized them. So it’s been a win-win,” says Community Ambassadors project manager Joel Franklin."

Black Lives and Blue Lives: how both sides reveal truths - CSMonitor.com

Black Lives and Blue Lives: how both sides reveal truths - CSMonitor.com: " For example, two typical arguments about the racial bias of police go as follows:

“Blacks are targeted by police because they commit more violent crimes.”

“The treatment of blacks by police is uneven and brutal due to racism.”

Which side do you choose?

Evidence supports both views. Acknowledging one doesn’t diminish the other. In fact, finding a resolution to this issue is impossible without accepting the truth in both these statements."

FTC Cracks Down on Sponsored Content | Mises Wire

FTC Cracks Down on Sponsored Content | Mises Wire: "Similar to antitrust or anti-dumping legislation, consumer protection legislation is almost never invoked by consumers themselves. Instead, rival producers use it as a tool to stifle competition. Consumers don’t clamor to be “protected” from low prices; rather, inefficient producers demand protection from their more popular competition. "



"Whenever one influencer accepts money in exchange for a positive review, this creates an opportunity for rivals to gain market share by exposing the deceit and then promoting their own, unbiased opinions."



"Regulating disclosure means that aspiring influencers compete at a disadvantage, because beginners typically start with fewer resources and no reputation, and the cost of complying with the FTC’s standards is therefore relatively high. This in turn discourages new entrants to the influence market, which ends up favoring already-established names over new talent."

White ally involvement in black movements

"While Black Lives Matter Minneapolis welcomes white support, its meetings exclude whites. The meetings are "for people of color, indigenous and black people or people who identified as African descent," said Lena Gardner, one of the group's organizers. Black Lives Matter St. Paul meetings are open to all races."

http://m.startribune.com/for-black-leaders-white-allies-can-require-a-balancing-act/388896611/

GOP anti-poverty plans

"Because states can count declines in welfare rolls as increases in work, and because they can game the federal work requirements via various strategies, few of them have devoted much effort toward helping recipients become employed or more employable."

"Mead’s goal is to impose a kind of work requirement on noncustodial fathers in arrears on their child support through mandatory work programs. The intent is to help them develop skills and gain experience while promoting personal responsibility."

"This shift to services would also remove some of the incentives that lead states to shift families from the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program to SSI (which is not block granted and is almost entirely federally funded) and that lead parents to prefer SSI to TANF (which, unlike SSI, has work requirements and time limits)."

"Finally, the blueprint advocates that housing vouchers be portable across public housing authorities, so that poor families can move to opportunity. This proposal draws on a growing recognition that residential mobility may be centralto economic mobility. The blueprint also calls for greater tenant involvement in public housing projects, and greater use of nongovernmental service providers."

"The blueprint calls for the use of “tiered funding,” whereby programs are categorized depending on whether they are new and untested, have demonstrated positive initial results, or have proven effective, with different levels of funding tied to each category."

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottwinship/2016/06/07/the-ambitious-and-distinctive-house-gop-antipoverty-and-opportunity-agenda/#5a326d7e1eb0

The Truth about Trade | Cato Institute

The Truth about Trade | Cato Institute: "Our manufacturers continue to set production and export records, and the United States is the world’s second-largest manufacturer (17.2 percent of total global output) and third-largest exporter. America also remains the world’s top destination for foreign direct investment ($384 billion in 2015 alone) — more than double second-place Hong Kong and almost triple third-place China. "



" For example, a recent Ball State study attributed almost 90 percent of all U.S. manufacturing-job losses since 2000 to productivity gains. “Had we kept 2000-levels of productivity and applied them to 2010-levels of production,” the authors write, “we would have required 20.9 million manufacturing workers. Instead, we employed only 12.1 million.” "



"The consumer gains from trade disproportionally accrue to America’s poor and middle class. A 2015 study by Pablo Fajgelbaum and Amit Khandelwal finds that these groups, because they concentrate spending in more-traded sectors such as food and clothing, enjoy almost 90 percent of the consumer benefits of trade."



"More than half of all imports (including those from China) are inputs and capital goods consumed by other American manufacturers to make globally competitive products."



"When the Steelworkers convinced President Obama to impose 35 percent tariffs on Chinese tires in 2009, the result was, even under the best assumptions, a few unionized jobs saved at a cost to U.S. consumers of $900,000 per job — precisely the type of crony-capitalist boondoggle that, in any form other than that of a hidden tax targeting a foreign “adversary,” would engender hostile political opposition from the right."



"the American “Big Three” automakers produce only five of the top 20 most “domestic” cars (defined by their total share of U.S. and Canadian auto parts) sold in the United States in 2016"



"government policy actively discourages Americans from finding work in burgeoning fields. Perhaps the most brazen example of such policies is the federal tax code’s business deduction for work-related education, which permits a worker to deduct education and training expenses from his taxable income, but only if they relate to his current job. Thus, a textilefactory worker can get a tax benefit for new training on the latest garment machine, but he cannot get the same benefit for night classes to become a certified IT specialist. Such a system discourages workers in dying fields from preparing themselves for a new career."



"multiple studies commissioned by the Labor Department have found that TAA participants are worse off, as measured by future wages and benefits, than similarly situated jobless individuals outside the program"

What the Panama Papers Actually Show | Cato Institute

What the Panama Papers Actually Show | Cato Institute: "First, it should be noted how few Americans were included in the Panama Papers. Out of the data released so far, the consortium of journalists studying the papers has identified only 211 people with U.S. addresses, and not all of these people are American citizens. There are no Americans among the so-called “Power Players,” a list that includes 140 politicians from more than 50 countries. In fact, according to University of California–Berkeley economist Gabriel Zucman, even if you cast a wider net, looking at offshore financial assets worldwide, U.S. citizens and companies keep only about 4 percent of their wealth offshore, tying us with Asia for the lowest percentage. By comparison, Europeans stash 10 percent of their wealth offshore, Latin Americans move 22 percent out of their countries, and Russians keep an overwhelming 52 percent in overseas accounts. Even Canadians hold more than twice as much of their financial assets offshore as Americans."



"What is surprising, though, is the number of government officials and aides — and their relatives — who have apparently accumulated vast fortunes, and often in countries that self-consciously preach equality, even socialism."



"One needs to ask how government officials — who, unlike businessmen and entrepreneurs, create nothing and generate no wealth for society — are among the richest people in their supposedly egalitarian countries."

Merle Haggard Could Easily Have Died in San Quentin | Cato Institute

Merle Haggard Could Easily Have Died in San Quentin | Cato Institute: "In 1997, Norman Williams was sentenced to life in prison for his third strike, stealing a floor jack from a tow truck. His previous two strikes? Burglarizing an apartment that was being fumigated (the stolen goods were then robbed from him at gunpoint) and stealing two hand drills and other tools from an art studio (he was confronted by the owner and dropped everything and ran).

Williams was a hapless criminal, but he hardly deserved life in prison. Thanks to an enterprising district attorney, he was released from prison early. Yet half of those still serving life sentences under the California law were convicted of a third felony that was not violent or serious."

You and Donald Trump Might Not Like Free Trade, but It's Been Good to You Both | Cato Institute

You and Donald Trump Might Not Like Free Trade, but It's Been Good to You Both | Cato Institute: "Study after study has shown that countries more open to the global economy grow faster and achieve higher incomes than those that are relatively closed. By enlarging markets to span national borders, free trade permits greater specialization and economies of scale, both essential ingredients of economic growth.

But free trade agreements are not free trade. They are managed trade. They are premised on mercantilist assumptions that exports are good and imports are bad."



"Trade restrictions penalize consumers, import-using industries and taxpayers.



Yet, holding firm to those domestic barriers, while insisting that foreign markets open wider, is the standard strategy for negotiating free trade agreements."

On ObamaCare, Is There One Set of Rules for Congress and Another for Citizens? | Cato Institute

On ObamaCare, Is There One Set of Rules for Congress and Another for Citizens? | Cato Institute: "The ACA bars businesses with more than 100 employees from participating in SHOP Exchanges. Until this year, D.C. barred businesses with more than 50 employees. When those officials falsely claimed the House and Senate fit under those limits, they did so because they wanted to draw money from the federal Treasury—i.e., a subsidy of up to $12,000 for each member and staffer."

America's massive decline in gun violence - CSMonitor.com

America's massive decline in gun violence - CSMonitor.com: "In 1993, there were seven homicides by firearm for every 100,000 Americans, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. By 2013, that figure had fallen by nearly half, to 3.6 — a total of 11,208 firearm homicides. The number of victims of crimes involving guns that did not result in death (such as robberies) declined even more precipitously, from 725 per 100,000 people in 1993 to 175 in 2013."

A lawyer leads a life on the wild side – rescuing those sold into slavery - CSMonitor.com

A lawyer leads a life on the wild side – rescuing those sold into slavery - CSMonitor.com: "Van Ta estimates in the past decade he has rescued more than 480 women and girls sold into prostitution or sexually abused as well as victims of forced labor working in Vietnam."

Piketty Is Wrong: Markets Don’t Concentrate Wealth | Mises Daily

Piketty Is Wrong: Markets Don’t Concentrate Wealth | Mises Daily: "a situation with one big cartel or one owner is equivalent to full socialism and therefore, to a situation where no rational allocation of resources would be possible, as Mises showed in Socialism. It is Rothbard who brilliantly pointed out that calculability is an upward limit to the size of the firm."



"On the unhampered market, those who tend to be the wealthiest tend also to be the most efficient men at allocating capital. If their ownership ability is poor, the consumers sanction them. If their ownership ability is good, the consumer will reward them."



"For Piketty, the rate of return on capital is a mythical stream of income which depends not upon ownership abilities but on how much capital you own. But the distribution of wealth is not as arbitrary as Piketty would like to think. The consumer has the final word in the decision of who must own the factors of production. As Mises in Human Action explained, the wealthy “are not free to spend money which the consumers are not prepared to refund to them in paying more for the product.” On the unhampered market, the rich can accumulate more wealth only if he is efficient to the task of allocating capital, for the benefit of all."



"We should also highlight that 56 percent of Americans are, during at least one moment of their lives, part of the top 10 percent in incomes (a ratio of 5.6), and 12 percent are in the top 1 percent (a ratio of 12). Therefore, we can conclude that the richer you are, the more volatile is your wealth."

'Common-Sense' Gun Reform Is Overrated. Here's Why. | Cato Institute

'Common-Sense' Gun Reform Is Overrated. Here's Why. | Cato Institute: "So-called “assault weapons” and “high-capacity” magazines are easy political targets because they sound scary to people unfamiliar with firearms. However, restricting either or both would likely have no measurable effect on gun crime rates."



"firearm homicide clearance rates — that is, police apprehending a suspect and charging him for the killing — are embarrassingly low in minority neighborhoods. In her book, “Ghettoside,” Los Angeles Times journalist Jill Leovy argues that an absence of trust between police and black communities, along with a lack of adequate police resources aimed at solving homicides in black neighborhoods, combine to cheapen black life by allowing black murder to go virtually unpunished. If there is a gun violence “epidemic” anywhere in America, it is in the impoverished black neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Baltimore and similar enclaves."



"More than three decades of high murder rates show that restricting legal access to guns was not the answer to gun violence problems and that making legal firearm acquisition harder is unlikely to meaningfully impact violence in America’s inner cities."

Bernie Is Not a Socialist and America Is Not Capitalist | Cato Institute

Bernie Is Not a Socialist and America Is Not Capitalist | Cato Institute: "First, Sanders is not a socialist, but a social democrat. Second, the United States does not have a strictly capitalist economy, but a mixed one. As such, it combines a high level of private ownership of capital and the means of production with relatively onerous regulation and taxation. Third, to the extent that what anti-capitalist Sanders supporters really want is a Scandinavian-style social democracy, with its high level of wealth redistribution and income equality, they should consider that even some of the most socially democratic countries on earth are, in one crucial way, more capitalist than the United States."



"lack of private enterprise resulted in low economic growth and, consequently, low standards of living. Thus, while income equality was relatively high (if party bosses and their cronies were excluded from the calculations), people in Soviet-bloc countries were much poorer than their counterparts in the West. Nobody has yet figured out a way of combining genuine socialism with high rates of growth over a long period of time."


"Capitalism is often confused with “crony” capitalism—an odious nexus of corporate and political power that crushes the worker and cheats the consumer."



"when supporters do refer to “capitalism,” they mean the exact opposite of what people on the left sometimes mean by crony capitalism."



"the government is by far the single most important spender and, consequently, the single most important economic actor"

How the CIA 'inadvertently' left explosives on a school bus - CSMonitor.com

How the CIA 'inadvertently' left explosives on a school bus - CSMonitor.com: "Following a training exercise last week, the CIA "inadvertently" left explosive material under the hood of a school bus in northern Virginia. 

With the material still sitting in the engine compartment, the bus was then used to ferry elementary and high school students to and from school Monday and Tuesday, according to the CIA and law enforcement officials in Loudoun County, Va."



No only was it left there, the didn't know it was missing...

Is It Time for America to Quit NATO? | Cato Institute

Is It Time for America to Quit NATO? | Cato Institute: "The primary reason that the EU countries have not done more to manage the security of their own region is that the United States has insisted on taking the leadership role—and paying a large portion of the costs. As a result, the United States spends nearly 4 percent of its GDP on the military; for NATO Europe, the figure is barely 1.6 percent. That disparate economic burden is only one reason why we need to conduct a comprehensive review of whether the NATO commitment serves America’s interests any longer, but it is an important one."

Free markets and helping the poor

"from about 1980, the world had embraced the free markets that Nobelist Friedman had championed. Shleifer also indicated that living standards had risen sharply, poverty had declined dramatically, while life expectancy had increased. Shleifer asked whether the spread of free markets accounted for the improvements, and he answered with a resounding, “Yes.” "

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/pictures-pope-progressives

Inequality and poverty

"Critics of inequality would have us believe that rising inequality is responsible for poverty. But at a time of increasing inequality, world poverty has never been lower. The researchers project that fewer than 10 percent of the world’s population will live in extreme poverty this year."

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/democrats-vs-facts-inequality

Corporate 2nd amendment rights

"The Deacons’ nonprofit exercised its Second Amendment rights by conducting nighttime patrols of black neighborhoods. The agents of the corporation carried .38 caliber revolvers and M-1 rifles with their standard 15 and 30-round magazines. Deacons chapters proliferated to protect community organizers. The Deacons even provided armed security for the largest civil-rights march in Mississippi history, the “Meredith March Against Fear” in June 1966."

http://www.cato.org/publications/commentary/planned-parenthoods-right-bear-arms

Gun shop owner thwarts possible mass shooting

"John Downs, owner of a Logan gun shop, refused to sell a gun to 25-year-old James Howard. Howard passed a background check, but he made statements that indicated he may want to harm himself or others, according to ABC 6.

"There was a red flag for me," Downs told ABC 6. "I won't allow that; I don't want that to be on me." "

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/03/gun_shop_owner_thwarts_possibl.html

Encryption By Analogy - The Daily WTF

Encryption By Analogy - The Daily WTF: "When the President says, “Hey, if we have a warrant, we should be able to search your phone,” that’s intuitively correct (that’s the whole point of a warrant), but actually wrong. As previously stated, encryption that can be broken isn’t encryption worth having."

How Kenyan Muslims saved Christians from Islamist extremists - CSMonitor.com

How Kenyan Muslims saved Christians from Islamist extremists - CSMonitor.com: "Christian passengers were spared likely death after the bus they were traveling in was ambushed by suspected Islamic militants – thanks to the actions of a group of Kenyan Muslims.

The terrorists, thought to belong to the Somali-based Al Shabab militant group, killed two people in the attack before ordering the Muslim passengers to split away from the Christians – but the Muslims on board refused their demands. "

On embassy row, a fraying veil of immunity for traffickers - CSMonitor.com

On embassy row, a fraying veil of immunity for traffickers - CSMonitor.com: "The upshot of the appeal court’s decision: Diplomatic immunity is no longer an invincible shield. Swarna’s case set a precedent that lawyers have been using ever since to strengthen civil lawsuits, which provides some measure of justice for victims and deterrence to would-be traffickers."

Forget 'Fairtrade' – just give cash to the poorest, philosopher says - CSMonitor.com

Forget 'Fairtrade' – just give cash to the poorest, philosopher says - CSMonitor.com: ""People rightly recognize that sweatshops are absolutely horrific places to work, no one doubts that at all," said MacAskill, who teaches at the University of Oxford.

"But the alternatives are even worse. Things like scavenging from dumps, unemployment, prostitution, street hustling, or back breaking farm labor, often all those things are low pay as well as being horrific," he told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.

Historically, countries have got richer by selling cheap goods, putting more money in people's pockets and allowing them to escape poverty, he said, highlighting examples in East Asia such as South Korea and Taiwan."

Digital divide widens as the Web adopts stronger encryption standard - CSMonitor.com

Digital divide widens as the Web adopts stronger encryption standard - CSMonitor.com: "Web browsers that haven't been updated in the past few years or older generations of many mobile devices, which are commonplace in much of the developing world, will be unable to use the updated encryption standard. That means that many of those users will lose access to online functions protected by the Web protocol called Secure HTTP, or HTTPS."



" Somewhere between 3 and 7 percent of Web browsers in use around the world cannot use the newer HTTPS standard, according to Facebook."

Michigan Supreme Court cracks down on 'pay or stay' imprisonment - CSMonitor.com

Michigan Supreme Court cracks down on 'pay or stay' imprisonment - CSMonitor.com: "People who cannot afford fines for arrests, tickets, or court fees often wind up in jail, where they accrue more costs, while they are prevented from earning money. "

Why you could go to jail for selling a cookie in Wisconsin - CSMonitor.com

Why you could go to jail for selling a cookie in Wisconsin - CSMonitor.com: "It may be the Cheese State, but not every dairy delicacy is created equal in Wisconsin, where it’s illegal to sell homemade baked goods without a commercial license. The penalties for doing so can range from up to $1,000 in fines to six months in jail."

How do you help refugees become European? Give them lessons. - CSMonitor.com

How do you help refugees become European? Give them lessons. - CSMonitor.com: "In a bid to diffuse tensions that have grown since an outcry over sexual assaults in Cologne, Germany, that were blamed mostly on immigrants, European nations are in a rush to design new curricula aimed at fostering a peaceful co-existence. That includes lessons on everything from gender equality to sexual norms to recycling."



"The trainers use pictures and role-playing to teach Austrian norms. They show typical dress in Europe, especially in summer. The lesson: skimpy dresses do not mean anything other than it is hot outside. One photo features a man and woman kissing on the street. You don’t have to do it, refugees are taught, but here it’s normal. So is smoking, even for women, but not in people’s homes anymore. Shake hands, always. And everyone – even women – should try to find a job and contribute to the social system so that it holds up."

Law enforcement's encryption claims overblown, study finds - CNET

Law enforcement's encryption claims overblown, study finds - CNET: "The report conceded that the increased availability of encryption products impedes government surveillance under certain circumstances. But it also concluded that the burgeoning market for Internet-connected devices will "likely fill some of these gaps and...ensure that the government will gain new opportunities to gather critical information from surveillance.""

How one state turned its 'heroin crisis' into a national lesson - CSMonitor.com

How one state turned its 'heroin crisis' into a national lesson - CSMonitor.com: "Instead of jail, nonviolent offenders are given the option of going into treatment. They start in one of the state’s new central clinics (hubs) and move on to a family doctor, counselor, or therapist closer to home (spokes).

Vermont law also shields people seeking medical help for an overdose from prosecution for manufacturing or selling drugs, not just for minor crimes. It also was the first state to legalize the sale of naloxone over the counter in pharmacies – a drug aimed at reversing overdoses and saving lives."