Freeing us from technology.
Item the first: The FTC has barred prerecorded sales calls, effective September 1, 2009. (Political calls are not covered by the limitation, since they’re not, strictly speaking, selling anything.) Item the second: States across the country are tossing out electronic voting machines as it dawns on them that these things are grossly insecure and generally a bad idea. With Ohio registrars taking voting machines home for “sleepovers”, perhaps everybody will soon recognize that we’ve got a national security problem here.
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