Open DNS to filter content

Protect your kids using OpenDNS to filter content.

Switching the Carrier of the Phone by Yourself is Illegal

Now Illegal to switch between carriers by yourself, due to DMCA.

Convenience over Security, Internet Web Cameras

Check out cryptogasm.com and webcams and the Trendcam incident.

Go into the loss of privacy through the invention of the camera.  This Week in Law camera episode:

Why we wont lose to a Super Disease

Recently there have been news articles about some new version of gonorrhea that is resistive to the first defense created by humans.  This Super Gonorrhea has gotten some of the media worried about the possible pattern that will lead to the end of the human race. 

The current theory is that as our species continues to use these antibiotics and other treatments to kill off these bacteria, germs, viruses, etc... we're really just practicing a sort of evolution.  We're killing off the weaker ones, and eventually we'll be left with some super bacteria that we couldnt cope with.

I dont think this apocalyptic vision is plausible.  I dont think the human race will be completely wiped out, because our technology is better than nature. 

Security, There's room for improvement

I remeber the days when facebook and google defaulted to http instead of https.  i remebrr the days when passwords were something you only put on your most secure information. but with our continued interconnectedness, the need to secure our connections has grown to a level almost greater than securing the locations we're connecting to.

if you ask any person out there who is close to wearing a tinfoil hat, we do have technological answers

Why I'm not going to use RSS anymore (the information diet)

I'm an information glutton. However not all the information is immediately useful to my life goals.  I dont really need the up-to-date information in daily life, other than for general conversation.  However, it defintiely slows me down when needing to learn anything towards what I need to learn for my goals in my life.

I have to udnerstand that I can really only learn so much in any giving 24 hour period.
So reading news will take up some of that learning capability.
So there's no more room left to learn things like new skills i need to get a new job, or get a raise.

I know that i can only learn so much, is because when I do focus on starting to do other skills, I dont remember as much informatino from the news of that day.  Even if i tried to read the news from taht day.

I need to make an RSS diet.