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Pearland, TX – Former NFL player Lamar Lathon had his car illegal searched and had a gun pointed at him by a police officer because he reached for his licence during a traffic stop. Lathon got pulled over after midnight on September 1st for going 15 miles per hour over the speed limit while he was passing a vehicle in another lane. He was going 65 in a 55 mile per hour zone in the middle of the night when there was hardly anyone else on the road.
The officer who pulled him over became aggressive and pulled his gun out …read more

Backers of an Ohio initiative concerning marijuana have already submitted over 650,000 signatures on their initiative petition. On September 3, they sued the Secretary of State to block his intent to force the group to reveal all their internal communications. Here is the Complaint in John Doe v Husted, southern district, 1:15cv570. …read more

Calgary, CA — Courtney Pickering recently had her car stolen, and luckily the police were actually able to recover it for her. However, the thieves left behind a few of their belongings, including guns and drugs. Pickering says that they must have done a terrible job searching the car because it was not difficult for her to find the items.
After the theft occurred, Pickering was called and told by police that she would be allowed to have her car back after the “forensics team” searched the vehicle. This team overlooked a bag of cocaine in the cup holder, a crack …read more

Yesterday on the Dark Android Blog, I wrote about Acer’s upcoming gaming tablet, the Predator 8. I was generally favorable over the specs (including the Predator Quadio four-speaker sound), and I LOVED the design (unlike the rest of tech journalism), and I felt that it had a real chance of being a candidate for a solid Dark Android Project tablet. And Dark Android totally allows for gaming on Android, no Google Play Store required (thank you, Humble Bundle).
Yesterday, however, Acer also announced another Android device at IFA 2015: the Predator 6 gaming phone. Naturally, the bulk of tech journalism showed …read more

Washington D.C. (RT) — The Department of Veterans Affairs still has a massive backlog of nearly 900,000 healthcare applications ‒ including more than 300,000 from veterans who died waiting for their benefits to be approved, a report by the agency’s inspector general found.

The VA’s internal watchdog, the Office of the Inspector General, released a report Wednesday that looked into a whistleblower’s claims of extensive, persistent problems in the Veterans Health Administration’s (VHA) Health Eligibility Center enrollment records.
The OIG found that the VHA’s enrollment system had about 867,000 pending records as of September 30, 2014. On top of that, at least …read more

This article by Ben Schreckinger explores evidence that some voters intend to vote for Donald Trump in Republican presidential primaries, not because they support him, but to injure the Republican Party. The article is badly named. …read more

The Republican National Committee has prepared a one-page loyalty oath, and has forwarded it to all the Republicans running for President that the party considers important candidates. See this story. …read more

Coinbase Exchange now supports additional order types for professional traders who like more control in how they place bitcoin trades.

There are three new “time in force” policies and a “post only” policy:

Good Till Canceled is the default policy and follows the same behavior as limit orders currently do on the exchange.
Immediate or Cancel orders will behave like regular limit orders, but any unmatched portion of the order will be canceled instead of being posted on the book.
Fill or Kill orders will either be filled entirely or rejected.
Post Only orders can only be posted to the book and will be rejected …read more

Finally some more tablet news! With the deluge of smartphones that get released, it’s tough at times to feed the need I have with the Dark Android Project: Tablets!
And what we have here is a pretty exciting new entry in a lot of ways, even though it comes from a company that is generally not all that exciting: Acer. Back when I used to 9-5 in the tech sector, we had a running joke whenever an Acer unit would come in. As soon as we saw the unit, we’d run towards it and hold onto it like we were getting …read more

We’re pleased to announce the expansion of Coinbase services to Singapore. As part of our effort to make bitcoin easy to use throughout the world, customers in Singapore will be able to buy and sell bitcoin with Singapore dollars using Coinbase starting at 8am SGT on Thursday, September 3rd.

Our mission at Coinbase is to make payments more open and efficient around the world. Expanding to Singapore is an important step towards that goal and will make it easier to access bitcoin in one of the financial capitals of the world.

To celebrate the launch, Coinbase will waive its retail conversion fees …read more