More about the censorship order for the 3d-printer gun design.

Fast-food workers' protests spread around the US.

Of course, fast food was never meant to be eaten in the first place. It was meant for fasting, not for eating.

It appears staff in the State Department told UN Ambassador Rice to change her description of the Benghazi attack, so as not to give Republicans ammunition.

I don't see anything wrong here. UN speeches are public statements, and we should expect any government to plan carefully what to say in them. As far as I can tell, the changes were not lies and did not cover up any facts.

It's not as if intelligence agencies had been pressured to misinform the rest of the government, as was done to fabricate an excuse to conquer Iraq.

There are plenty of good reasons to condemn Obama, but you can rely on Republicans to find bad ones.

Enron fraud king Skilling has got himself out of prison in exchange for not suing his victims any more, and paying them money he won't miss.

FBI's Latest Proposal for a Wiretap-Ready Internet Should Be Trashed.

The article has some errors. It uses the nebulous term "cloud" as if it meant something coherent. It recommends "secure" services that use encryption which users can't trust, because they require a nonfree client program — that is, a program not under the control of its users.

The article also has the bizarre idea that using encryption you can really trust is only for criminals, and that they will have to write it for themselves.

Everyone who wants to communicate confidentially on the Internet needs trustworthy encryption, but you don't need to write it. The GNU Privacy Guard, free/libre software for encryption, has been available for over a decade. Unless you're a sucker with a clouded mind, GPG is for you.