The Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation has recently been debating several initiatives that I’ve been following, both of which I’ve discussed in previous posts.
The first is the Broadcast Flag - an initiative originally mandated by the FCC to force all electronics manufacturers to obey a “broadcast flag” that would determine how any given [...]
I was reading an article on MMORPG design, and was struck by the following comment:
MMORPGs tend to attract people whose personalities don’t match my own. Off-line CRPGs are only populated by me and a few thousand NPCs; they are devoid of bloodthirsty teenagers.
I had an idea that seems marvelously simple, but to my knowledge it [...]
I’m not sure why, but I’ve had a higher than usual concentration of nightmares in the last week or two. They all seem to have similar elements, which may indicate some deep-seeded psychological issue (or it might just be coincidence).
The first one starts with me waking up in bed. I can hear a [...]
I stumbled across an article today that makes me wonder what kind of world some people really want. In this article, a librarian refused to divulge confidential records to the police without a subpoena. As a result, she is facing disciplinary action for “a blatant diregard for the Police Department”.
Maybe I’m wrong, but [...]
A friend of mine sent me a recent news article, detailing the predatory actions of a young man who managed to extort nude pictures and online companionship from a variety of girls through the social networking site Facebook.com.
I must say that I am appalled. Appalled at the fact that there are college-age women who [...]