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I’m watching The Colbert Report
“Glad that I Tivo’d the election results. Watching Colbert do them live from the future is mind blowing. It was even more so because I wrote in my 2016 vote for the Hillary-Rubio ticket.”
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“Don’t like it as much as I expected to. I think it’s mainly because none of the rival villains is interesting. Ditto for the politics of Gotham. There is little here that isn’t stock. Gordon and Bullock are not as bad but they can’t make up for the ho-hum unsavoriness that takes up much of the screentime.”
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Virginia judge: Police can demand a suspect unlock a phone with a fingerprint | Ars Technica
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Explanation from an earlier Wired article:
A communication is ‘testimonial’ only when it reveals the contents of your mind. We can’t invoke the privilege against self-incrimination to prevent the government from collecting biometrics like fingerprints, DNA samples, or voice exemplars. Why? Because the courts have decided that this evidence doesn’t reveal anything you know. It’s not testimonial.
Virginia judge: Police can demand a suspect unlock a phone with a fingerprint | Ars Technica
There’s something about J. Edgar
Halloween gift of glittery high heels on J. Edgar’s tombstone this weekend (thx Steve Gardner for pic) pic.twitter.com/nmEYT17dUX
— Joe Sudbay (@JoeSudbay) November 2, 2014
Talk Show Inspires 1 Million+ Callers to Protest India’s Anti-Gay Law · Global Voices
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India: Court files notice to Aamir Khan for ‘promoting’ homosexuality
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A court in India has filed a legal notice with Bollywood actor Aamir Khan – for ‘promoting’ homosexuality on a TV show.
According to the Free Press Journal newspaper, Mr Khan is accused by a petition of using his popular talk show ‘Satyamev Jayate’ as a platform for homosexuality, with an LGBT-themed episode last week.
During the episode, a clinical expert pointed out: “If I asked you today to not look at women, but consider men sexually, would you be able to do it? Then why expect that of a [homosexual] boy or girl?”
Anti-gay petitioners complain the episode violated a Supreme Court judgement reinstating Section 377 of the Penal Code – a colonial-era law which criminalises homosexual acts.
Today, Judge Jaswinder Singh, issued notice to Mr Khan, who must file a reply by December 19.
India: Court files notice to Aamir Khan for ‘promoting’ homosexuality
The world is not awash in refugees: Open the gates – The Globe and Mail
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… the refugee flood is, in its origins and its greatest extremes, a European phenomenon. We Westerners have been refugees much more than we have been refugee’d upon…
Today we face the Syrian crisis. It is neither the largest nor the most unmanageable refugee flood of the postwar era, but it has arrived at a bad moment: first, because we have by now forgotten our own history as refugees; second, because an ugly politics of intolerance is influencing many Western governments; and third, because there is an unfortunate public belief that refugee tides are larger and more permanent than they really are.
The world is not awash in refugees: Open the gates – The Globe and Mail
Facebook, hidden services, and https certs | The Tor Blog
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Facebook has launched its own hidden service on the Tor network. The service provides HTTPS access using a CA signed certificate, is not the norm for such services. This blog post is a good backgrounder and explains pros & cons of Facebook’s security/authentication choices.