NUMBERSUSA.COM 2 Hours Ago Home > Hot Topics > Recent Blogs > June, 2013 > Poll finds little support for GOP who favor S. 744 bill to increase immigrant workers and give work permits to illegal aliens by  Roy Beck Republican senators considering voting for the S. 744 immigration bill will find little support among the voters on whom they most depend for both Primary and General elections, according to a Pulse Opinion Research survey of 1,000 likely voters on June 17. Perhaps Republicans' corporate donors are cheered by a bill that the Congressional Budget Office finds would lower the wages of American workers by pouring too many foreign workers into the labor market. But the poll shows that the demographic groups who tend to provide the votes to put Republicans into office won't be at all pleased if Senators vote for the bill's huge increases in immigrant workers." The poll found that arguments for the legislation were exceptionally unpopular not only with...

 REASON MAGAZINE 3 Hours Ago Don't Want the NSA to Read Your Email? Use This Font. by  Katherine Mangu-Ward This is  ZXX : Credit: Walker Art Center It's a font designed to be difficult for machines to read. Several different techniques are used, including camouflage patterns drawn from nature, crowding the letters with digital noise, and simply crossing out each letter.  Credit: Walker Art Center The font is named after the Library of Congress code, ZXX, which labels a document as containing "no linguistic content." The goal is to make the contents of a document unreadable by text scanning software while still being intelligible to a human reader. Here's how the font designer, Sang Mun,  explains his project :  As a former contractor with the US National Security Agency (NSA), these issues hit especially close to home. During my service in the Korean military, I worked for two years as special intelligence personnel for the NSA, learning first-hand how to ...

 BREITBART.COM 2 Hours Ago Reid Pushes End-Game on Senate Immigration Debate by  Matthew Boyle by  Matthew Boyle 21 Jun 2013, 12:20 PM PDT post a comment Reid filed for "cloture" on the new Corker-Hoeven amendment to the "Gang" legislation. Senate aides have told Breitbart News that the amendment is expected to be well over 1,000 pages long and is intended to replace the current legislation, as well as provide new border security provisions, as well as other unknown measures. Reid has used an archaic Senate procedure and has filled the amendment "tree", meaning that after the Corker-Hoeven amendment is considered, and likely approved, no other amendments may be offered on the bill. Reid will then file for a "cloture" vote on the overall bill, which would likely take place Wednesday or Thursday.  "The Corker-Hoeven amendment is designed to help pass the bill but not to fix the bill or fix the problem," Sen. Dave Vitter said in a statemen...