"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
"A republic, if you can keep it." Vegas, taxes.
The Transportation Security Administration, commonly referred to as the TSA, has a budget of $8.1 billion for 2012 and plans to add about 3,000 more employees. According to the Mission statement on its own website, TSA “protects the Nation’s transportation…
Back in the 1960s, there was an absurd TV ad campaign that stated “Remember…you have a friend at Chase Manhattan.” Â I knew that wasn’t true even then. And things certainly haven’t improved. Frank Pasquale delves into the ongoing mess in…
That’s the name researchers at the University of Notre Dame have given to their solar paint that uses nanoparticles to generate electricity. “We want to do something transformative, to move beyond current silicon-based solar technology,” says Prashant Kamat, John A.…
The various National Longitudinal Surveys done annually by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) have provided data for researchers for over 40 years. One of the groups tracked by the BLS is a cohort of young people; the most recent study…
Frank Pasquale at Concurring Opinions begins his recent post titled “Gamifying Control of the Scored Self” with this paragraph: Social sorting is big business. Bosses and bankers crave “predictive analytics:” ways of deciding who will be the best worker, borrower, or customer.…
According to the mobile carriers, we consented to their installation of Carrier IQ even though we didn’t know about it and can’t easily remove it once we do know. Sprint, AT&T, HTC and Samsung told Sen. Al Franken (D-Minnesota) Thursday…