{"id":787,"date":"2008-05-02T10:01:17","date_gmt":"2008-05-02T14:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/?p=787"},"modified":"2008-05-02T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2008-05-02T14:01:17","slug":"friday-notes-mad-world-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/05\/02\/friday-notes-mad-world-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Friday Notes: Mad World Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Another of the &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2006\/12\/16\/so-what-is-it\/\">worst of the worst<\/a>&#8221; from Guantanamo, a television cameraman, is <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7378828.stm\">released without charges<\/a> after six years.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Did you know that U.S. Customs officials can stop you at the border and go rifling through every little file on your laptop, for no better reason than because they <em>feel like it<\/em>?\u00c2\u00a0 According to them (and the 9th Circuit), they can.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eff.org\/deeplinks\/2008\/05\/protecting-yourself-suspicionless-searches-while-t\">Here&#8217;s what you can (try to) do about i<\/a>t.<\/p>\n<p>~<\/p>\n<p>Read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/doc\/200805\/cosby\">this Ta-Nehisi Coates story<\/a>.\u00c2\u00a0 An intelligent treatment of subject that really brings out the stupid in people.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another of the &#8220;worst of the worst&#8221; from Guantanamo, a television cameraman, is released without charges after six years. ~ Did you know that U.S. Customs officials can stop you at the border and go rifling through every little file on your laptop, for no better reason than because they feel like it?\u00c2\u00a0 According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,3,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-law","category-society","category-tech"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t<!-- All in One SEO 5.0.1 - aioseo.com -->\n\t<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Another of the &quot;worst of the worst&quot; from Guantanamo, a television cameraman, is released without charges after six years. ~ Did you know that U.S. Customs officials can stop you at the border and go rifling through every little file on your laptop, for no better reason than because they feel like it?\u00c2 According to\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"max-image-preview:large\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"author\" content=\"MB\"\/>\n\t<meta name=\"keywords\" content=\"law,society,tech\" \/>\n\t<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2008\/05\/02\/friday-notes-mad-world-edition\/\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"generator\" content=\"All in One SEO (AIOSEO) 5.0.1\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n\t\t<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Blacknell.net | Politics, open government, and safe streets.  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