There’s an annoying saying that I keep seeing people quote, and it’s annoying because it’s a thought-terminating cliché: When seconds count, the cops are only minutes away. This statement is often used by gun enthusiasts whose intent is to argue that regular people cannot rely on law enforcement to protect them.1 Usually, this is buried [...]
The Washington Post reports that the government is adopting high tech devices faster than in the past, but is missing a key element to the equation: security. That’s not to say that there isn’t always a security concern when it comes to newer technology, but the devices we’re talking about are wireless in nature, and [...]
In The New York Times, Nicolette Hahn Niman proposes five things the government can do to help stop cruel and abusive animal practices in the US. All are excellent suggestions, but the last we find most interesting: The United States should launch a domestic Peace Corps for farming. America needs to repopulate rural America and [...]
Apple is being asked by the U.S. Senate why they haven’t removed iOS apps from the AppStore that report on the location of sobriety checkpoints. That may be a reasonable question to ask if safety is on your mind, but the issue quickly gets muddled when you consider that what many of these apps are [...]
When someone residing in Europe pointed out to us how distraught they were that online companies like PayPal require seemingly irrelevant banking information just to handle money already in the account, something occurred to us: in general, Europeans are very sensitive about privacy issues as far as commercial entities go. That is to say, they [...]