An anonymous reader writes “America may be the land of the free, but upon arrival millions of visitors cross a legal purgatory at the U.S. border. It is an international legal phenomenon that is left much to the discretion of host countries. In some cases, this space between offers travelers far fewer rights than some…

Tender wants data on solid local rock, not some dodgy offshore cloud……

Anonymity? Fuggedaboutit! Watching TOR for months reveals true names……

theodp writes “Slate’s Allison Benedikt is ruffling some feathers with her recent manifesto, If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person. ‘Not bad like murderer bad,’ Benedikt writes, ‘but bad like ruining-one-of-our-nation’s-most-essential-institutions-in-order-to-get-what’s-best-for-your-kid bad. So, pretty bad.’ If your local school stinks and you send your child there, Benedikt explains, ‘I…

theodp writes “Slate’s Allison Benedikt is ruffling some feathers with her recent manifesto, If You Send Your Kid to Private School, You Are a Bad Person. ‘Not bad like murderer bad,’ Benedikt writes, ‘but bad like ruining-one-of-our-nation’s-most-essential-institutions-in-order-to-get-what’s-best-for-your-kid bad. So, pretty bad.’ If your local school stinks and you send your child there, Benedikt explains, ‘I…

Should Apple consider making a phablet? New numbers from IDC say it’s a category on fire in Asia…….

The return of Bill Gates as CEO would not solve Microsoft’s problems. ZDNet’s Monday Morning Opener explains why and what the company needs instead…….

In what many might view as a remarkable reversal of fortune, a survey of senior advertising figures shows their enthusiasm for working with Apple is fading a little…….

An anonymous reader writes “NASA’s Lunar Atmosphere and Dust Environment Explorer (LADEE) will orbit Earth for three weeks before heading to the moon for a 100-day trip where it will measure lunar dust and the moon’s atmosphere. from the article: ‘A $6 million University of Colorado Boulder instrument designed to study the behavior of lunar…

We all need money. But one imperfect way to get money is to take your boss’s technological property, get money for it, and then get caught…….