No Straw Men

Dan Kaminsky has been urging companies around the world to fix a potentially dangerous flaw in the basic plumbing of the Internet.

You think the government is wasting a few billion a year on mass-transit subsidies. But what about the huge subsidies for cars and trucks?

The Supreme Court says you can be competent enough to understand the proceedings against you, but nevertheless incompetent to represent yourself.

Under a U.S. law enacted last year, for example, any drug company that develops a new treatment for a neglected disease like malaria can get a priority review from the FDA for another product it has made.

Inspired by the mechanics of a drive-through car wash, the German sexual-health educator designed a custom-fitting male contraceptive using liquid latex and some materials from a hardware store.

Over the years, there have been plenty of hucksters and charlatans happy to take advantage of the ignorance of juries, prosecutors, judges, and defense attorneys in very complicated and difficult-to-understand disciplines.

Google CEO Eric Schmidt said last month, “I personally do not believe that the perfect ad product for YouTube has been invented yet.”

New Media Strategies will be working through the conventions with C-Span to run their Convention Hub.