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The Supreme Court announced this week that it would hear McCutcheon v. Federal Election Commission, a case challenging the cap on the total amount that individuals can give to federal candidates as a violation of free speech. This is not an issue that worries most Americans.

In fact, restrictions on both the amount of money Americans can donate to individual federal candidates and the total amount they can donate over a two-year election cycle enjoy broad support from the public, according to a new HuffPost/YouGov poll.

The survey found that only 12 percent of Americans think there should be no limit on the total amount a person can donate to federal candidates. Forty-four percent said the current limit of $46,200 was too high, while 18 percent said it was about right. Another 5 percent said it was too low, and 23 percent said they weren’t sure.

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When we think of Abstract Expressionism, we often think of angst, aggression and a heavy dose of machismo. But what happens when an adorable seal arching its back is juxtaposed with a woman’s arched back? Enter Bruce Helander, artist, Editor-in-Chief of The Art Economist, and, full disclosure, a HuffPost blogger. The Renaissance man’s latest mixed media works at ArtHouse 429 in West Palm Beach, Florida, bridge the gap between abstraction emotion and recognizable — and often nostalgic — ready-made images.

Helander’s new exhibition remixes the traditional collages for which he is known by electronically transferring his collages onto raw canvas and blowing them up to a far greater scale. Thus what appears to be a textured surface is in fact a digital image, although said image is itself then immersed in a new collage process with spray paint, glitter and other unexpected materials.

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Um, yikes. Sometimes a photo gets taken at the exact wrong time, and just looking at it requires a cold shower afterwards.

We only wish the best for this girl on Reddit whose innocent partying looks like something much, much different.

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You wake up in an unfamiliar room, missing a button or two, with a few stains on your shirt that you’re hoping are food-related. The last thing you remember from the night before was downing that fourth shot of Cuervo. Okay, so you blacked out. But what exactly does that mean? More »

Much of the firestorm surrounding remote phone diagnostics in late 2011 ultimately enveloped Carrier IQ and the providers that used it, but HTC was also scorched by accusations that its phones’ software flaws (including in HTC Loggers) made privacy breaches possible. The FTC went so far as to level charges against the company for allegedly not doing enough to secure software. That saga may be winding to a close now that HTC’s American division has agreed to settle the whole affair. The smartphone designer has to do more than just deliver patches, which it already has — it’s now required to run a “comprehensive” security program to weed out flaws in advance, and it will be the subject of outside assessments every other year for the next 20 years. As tough as those conditions may seem, they’re easier than dealing with fines or stiffer penalties. They’ll hopefully prevent repeats of any privacy scares as well, even if the real-world risk has been slight.

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Via: The Verge

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