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Do you give up your Fourth Amendment rights when you carry a cell phone? Retweet Can the government track your every movement, even within your home, using cell phone tracking? …

Extending the 4th Amendment victory in Jones

Today, we’re excited to introduce price alert push notifications on iOS and Android. Improving the Coinbase mobile experience is a core element of our mission to make it easy for people to buy and sell bitcoin globally. It’s now easier than ever for users in 32 countries to buy and sell bitcoin at the right time on mobile.

These mobile updates allow you to:

Create bitcoin price alerts: You can easily create price alerts in your native currency using the price slider. Create and view or disable and delete the list of alerts that have been pushed to you on the …read more

On January 19, the plaintiffs in Benezet Consulting v Cortes asked for injunctive relief. The issues in the case are three Pennsylvania ballot access restrictions for primary petitions: (1) the ban on out-of-state circulators; (2) the requirement that each petition sheet be notarized; (3) the ban on a voter signing two different petitions for the same office.
Primary petitioning in Pennsylvania starts on January 26 and ends on February 16, so the judge is likely to act on the request quickly. The same three restrictions were struck down as applied to general election petitions last year, and the …read more

Nashville, TN — In May of 2014, Ronnie and Lisa Hankins were driving back from his grandfather’s funeral in Virginia when they were targeted by a gang of police officers in search of cash.
As Lisa drove the couple westbound down I-40, they saw an officer, who happened to be with the 23rd Judicial District Drug Task Force, and Hankins correctly predicted that they were about to be pulled over.
“I told her we are going to get pulled over,” Ronnie said to NewsChannel 5.
“What made you think he was going to stop you?” NewsChannel 5 Investigates asked.
“Because we had out-of-state license …read more

Two Virginia legislators have introduced HB 806, to provide that the voter registration form ask applicants to choose a party, or to choose independent status. The authors are L. Scott Lingamfelter (R-Woodbridge) and R. Steven Landers (R-Verona).
The bill is deficient, because it says that independents cannot vote in party primaries. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1986 in Tashjian v Republican Party of Connecticut that each party with a primary has the right to decide for itself whether to let independents vote in its primary. The bill should acknowledge this, and should set out procedures for parties …read more

Back in August of 2015, when the first details about Sony’s Xperia Z5 line came out, I had a wrote a blog post called, “The Sony Xperia Z5: The End of a Once Great Line“. You can read the story, but the main point that I was making is that a great line of products–the Sony Xperia line–was coming to an end because they were adding in fingerprint readers across the board. Biometrics in any way shape or form are provable failures, and fingerprint readers as late have been proven to be a security flop (to say nothing of the …read more

Palm Beach County, FL — A Florida sheriff has been exposed in a recent lawsuit for lying about one of his deputies who shot six times at an unarmed teenager. The victim, Jeremy Hutton is a 17-year-old boy with Down Syndrome, who nearly lost his life after he was hit with three of those six rounds.
According to a report by West Palm Beach’s, Jose Lambiet,
Last year, Palm Beach County Sheriff Ric Bradshaw signed two sworn, notarized affidavits saying he knows nothing about the case, wasn’t briefed about the case and didn’t supervise investigators assigned to the case when PBSO …read more

With the new year in full swing, vegetable gardeners are already thinking about what to plant for the spring garden. In the Deep South, tomato and pepper seeds are already being started in the greenhouse, while our northern neighbors still have plenty of opportunity for cool-season crops like broccoli and cabbage.
Regardless of where you are, seed starting is a vital skill for the homesteading lifestyle. Saving seeds from the previous year’s crop makes for a truly self-sufficient gardener. To save seed, you must use open-pollinated, non-hybrid varieties. Another benefit of seed-saving is that the vegetable varieties you grow will become …read more

Back in November of 2015, I did an experiment on whether or not it is possible–in the United States–to travel fairly long distances while only buying gas with Bitcoin. Come to find out, despite what a bunch of nincompoops were saying on Reddit, Twitter, websites, and other social media, it wasn’t viable to buy gas with Bitcoin.
The general idea stated by these people is that you could buy a gift card for one store at gyft.com with Bitcoin, and then you could go to a brick-and-mortar store like GameStop or CVS and buy a gas gift card (such as Shell) …read more