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Posted at 10:48 am on October 17, 2016 by freedomlover1776 Share On Facebook Share On Twitter The Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution, ratified in 1868, enshrined the right of every American to equal protection under the law. But since that time, scholars have wrestled with a key deficiency in its text -- namely, it does not address how some people are more equal than others. Consider the cases of Hillary Clinton and Plantronics, a California-based electronics company that recently found itself on the business end of a $3 million court-ordered fine for illegally deleting emails.

Monday October 17, 2016 10:02 am PDT by Juli Clover Apple today released the second official update to the iOS 10 operating system, nearly one month after releasing iOS 10.0.2 and a month and a half after providing the new iOS 10 operating system to the public. iOS 10.0.3 comes ahead of iOS 10.1, a more significant update that brings a Portrait mode depth-of-field effect to the iPhone 7 Plus. iOS 10.0.3 can be downloaded as an over-the-air update on all iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus devices. Today's update includes a fix for a bug that could cause issues...

On Saturday the federal flight ban on Samsung Galaxy Note 7 phones went into effect in the United States. We asked our readers how this was working out around the globe and from the replies we’ve received, it’s safe to say that, so far, this sucks. The Transportation Department’s decision to ban the Note 7 from all flights came just days after Samsung announced that it was killing the phone for good. That short window left little time for the manufacturer, wireless carriers, and airlines to present a plan for consumers—and it’s unclear if anyone even has one. So far,...

A new trove of interview summaries and notes from the FBI's investigation into Hillary Clinton's emails lays out a series of allegations that could prove fodder for future attacks on the Democratic presidential nominee. The 100 pages, released Monday morning, include claims that Clinton "blatantly" disregarded protocol. Other claims include that a group of powerful State Department employees attempted to coordinate a document release, and that a department official asked for a "quid pro quo" related to the former secretary of state's emails.

Actually, that question applies to anyone that was hurt at a Trump Rally.

The southwest border has cracked open over the last year as illegal immigrants into the U.S. spiked some 23 percent, according to the latest Homeland Security numbers released Monday. Nearly 409,000 illegal immigrants were nabbed at the border in fiscal 2016 — up from about 331,000 a year earlier — and Homeland Security officials say the increased arrests also means an increase in the number that are sneaking by them. Worse yet, the number of illegal immigrants traveling as families, fleeing rough conditions in Central America and enticed by the promise of lax enforcement in the U.S., reached a record...

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The long-awaited launch of an Orbital ATK Antares rocket carrying cargo to the International Space Station today has been delayed until Monday, a 24-hour slip, due to a glitch with ground support equipment, NASA officials said Sunday (Oct. 16). Antares is now scheduled to launch Monday (Oct. 17) at 7:40 p.m. EDT (2340 GMT) from Pad-0A at the Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility here. "Today's launch of Orbital ATK’s Antares rocket is postponed 24 hours due to a ground support equipment (GSE) cable that did not perform as expected during the pre-launch check out," Keith Koehler, a...

Today WikiLeaks released another batch of emails from the account of Hillary and Bill Clinton’s long time political fixer John Podesta. – SEE HERE – However, an apoplectic CNN is increasingly alarmed the U.S. electorate would be reading the raw material and making up their own mind. According to Clinton News Nework pundit Chris Cuomo: “All your news are belong to us.”: …”it’s illegal to possess, ah, these stolen documents, it’s different for the media. So everything you are learning about this, you are learning from us….

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<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Passengers and flight crews will be banned from bringing Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on airline flights under an emergency order issued Friday by the Department of Transportation in response to reports of the phones catching fire.</p>

American workers collectively leave $272 billion worth of vacation time on the table, according to a new study — and it’s a drag on worker productivity as well as companies’ balance sheets. “There are no winners when people don’t take time off,” said Katie Denis, senior director of Project: Time Off, a travel industry group that explores how people use (or don’t use) their vacation time. A new Project: Time Off report says that employees in the private sector left a total of 658 million vacation days on the table in 2015, and previous research the group has conducted found...

Solid state electrolytes and ceramics don’t burn well Taiwanese battery maker Prologium has a lithium ceramic battery that bends, folds, cuts, and doesn’t explode. SemiAccurate takes a look at the interesting bits surrounding their solid state electrolyte batteries.First a little background, I have been writing about why batteries explode for over a decade, the first one I recall was in February of 2004 shortly after The Inquirer posted the first pictures of a laptop in mid-kaboom. Sorry no links because of this and this.

INDIANAPOLIS -- Another Indianapolis company has "tentatively decided" to move jobs to Monterrey, Mexico. Rexnord Bearings announced to its employees Friday that some jobs were going to be moved out of the country beginning in 2017, according to the union that represents those employees. The move comes just 8 months after Carrier workers found out their jobs were being phased out of an Indianapolis manufacturing plant and instead moved to Carrier's facility in Monterrey.

<p>Foxconn has deployed 40,000 robots in its factories in mainland China as it aims to reduce the number of workers at its plants creating digital devices.</p> <p>Dai Chia-peng, general manager of the automation technology development committee of Foxconn, said during an interview with local Chinese media that those robots are basically made by Foxconn itself, except for some parts like servo motors and reducers that come from other parties.</p>

King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, who ascended to the throne 70 years ago, has died at the age of 88

A federal judge has opened the way for Exxon Mobil Corp. to seek documents and question witnesses who may help the Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey investigate whether the company hid what it knew about climate change. U.S. District Court Judge Ed Kinkeade in Dallas said Thursday that critical comments Healey made at a news conference raised the possibility that she acted in “bad faith” by issuing a subpoena against the company. Healey and New York’s attorney general have accused Exxon of committing securities fraud by misleading investors and the public about what the company knew about the link between...

For anyone who hates doing yard work, your new best friend may have arrived. A New York startup unveiled Kobi on Thursday, a robot it says can autonomously shovel snow, collect leaves and cut grass. “We’re on a mission to help people not spend time on yard work,” said Steven Waelbers, cofounder of The Kobi Company. “We want people to enjoy their free time with their family.” Owners will need to reconfigure the robot’s attachment — similar to how many vacuums work — depending on the task it’s carrying out. Before the robot operates independently, an owner must manually wheel...

Las Vegas’ legislature is about to hand $750 million in tax dollars to a casino operator and, potentially, an NFL franchise owner ****************************************************************

Anyone tasked with handling the way data is moved around a processor deserves praise. It takes time, dedication and skill to design something that not only works appropriately and for all edge cases, but also can run at speed and seamlessly for software. The topic of interconnects has featured regularly over recent years, with cache coherent networks and unique custom designs entering both hardware released to the public as well as behind-the-scenes designs. This week sees the launch of the Gen-Z Consortium, featuring names such as ARM, Huawei, IBM, Mellanox, Micron, Samsung, SK Hynix and Xilinx, with the purpose...