http://gizmodo.com/the-anti-vaccine-movement-should-be-ridiculed-because-1683258152 Ridicule is the absolute wrong way to do this. Ridicule is a personal attack, and discourages free discussion and…
Category: Politics and Public Policy
Always a dangerous subject, but everyone does has an opinion and, occasionally–insight.
Diffusing the patent trolls
The ABA Journal recently published an article dated Feb 1, 2015 (ironic, since today is January 28, 2015) which discusses…
The Third Man to credit for the fall of The Berlin Wall
The Fall of the Berlin Wall is an event that is very personal to me, since I was stationed at…
Big Brother at its best? Well, maybe…
Recently, it was revealed that the NSA is able to break common encryption protocols used on the internet. You can…
User beware: the hidden gotchas of the Verizon FIOS service
Verizon FIOS is a fiber-optic system capable of delivering very fast internet feeds to residential consumers, in addition to its…
Of Patents and Trolls…
Isaac Asimov, the famous science-fiction writer, died not long ago. In the obituary I read about him, there was one…
The French Taxi Driver Test
This analogy, which I heard long ago while living in Europe, is a very revealing exercise. The story goes as follows:…
It’s an election year, and I really miss living in California … again.
I spent 9 years in the Los Angeles area during my high school and early adult years. California gets a…
A giant leap towards the cashless society
Back in 1999, the Y2K panic was reaching its peak. Sadly, it was even starting to consume a few noted…
The upside-down logic of corporate “free speech” from Verizon
Verizon filed a predictable lawsuit against the FCC this week, challenging the legality of the “net neutrality” rules the commission…