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The football huddle was first used at a college for the deaf in the 1890s so the players could keep their signing hidden from the opposing teams. 

How Your Private Emails Can Be Used Against You in Court

Who has copies of your emails? You do, of course, as do all the people you sent them to. But so does Google or Yahoo or whichever cloud email service you use. And emails are just the beginning: more and more of our communications and transactions are happening online and stored by someone for some amount of time.

In this new world, the rules that govern grand jury subpoenas may have troubling implications, argues Joshua Gruenspecht, a cybersecurity expert at the Center for Democracy and Technology, in the spring issue of the Harvard Journal of Law & Technology.

Grand jury subpoenas are used to collect evidence. Unlike warrants, subpoenas can be issued with less than probable cause. The reasoning for the lower bar is in part that if someone does not want to turn over the requested evidence, he or she can contest the subpoena in court. Grand juries can subpoena not only the person who created a document but any third parties who might be in possession of that document. Under the Stored Communications Act, a grand jury can subpoena certain types of data from third parties whose only role is storing that data.

Read more at The Atlantic

infoneer-pulse:

(via HP Founder Knew Nothing about Computers 55 Years Ago)

“…nor does anyone in our organization have any appreciable knowledge.”

Graphic design for science nerds or science for graphic design nerds?

Graphics by Kapil Bhagat.

I get a weird selection of myself, cable news personalities, and Anna’s headshot.

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PornHub’s gigantic erection in Times Square, New York, has been mysteriously taken down.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/terry-richardson-sexual-allegations-list-abuse-assault-fashion-photographer-models-a8022001.html

Bin Bouquets

Floral designer Lewis Miller turns empty garbage cans in New York into voluminous vases, overflowing with colourful blooms and lush greenery. 

This is not a typical rainy day in Venice.

All over Italy people are facing record breaking storms and floods, a lot of people have gone missing, more than 20 are reported to be dead. The death toll is rising. People are trapped in their homes and attics, there is no way for ambulance or food transport.Important historic sites have been damaged beyond repair, lost to humanity forever. The thing is, this is NOT TYPICAL AT ALL. Italians are used to earthquakes, not floods. These storms have been going on for days, same in Croatia and other mediterranean countries. Germany has had a record breaking drought this summer, everything is getting more expensive because the waterways aren’t carrying enough water for gasoline to be transported, meanwhile Italy is drowning, not just Venice, but also Rome, Florence, do I have to go on?

It just makes me sick when people like @nfwmbh are commenting that this is the world in 3018, it’s the PRESENT, it’s NOW. People are dying and losing their homes, humanity is losing important parts of culture.