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I was limited in what I could write in the post, but this was something that just hit me after years of being able to log in with my username/password on Yahoo!. I'm sure it was a …

So. I had a Yahoo! mail account. A half-hour ago, I attempted to log into it. It's a long-neglected thing, something I care about on a roughly 12-18 month basis. Gave CmdrTaco well…

(from the article:) In fact, late last week, the CTIA wrote the FCC to tell it that the kind of blacklist approach taken by Foss’s company wouldn’t work. According to the lobbying …

The most amazing thing to me is that if you had a student that demonstrated extreme aptitude and interest in any other subject in school they'd be looked at in the best possible li…

The article suggests Twitter should take a more active role in policing its community, and the author doesn't appear to think "don't engage trolls" is adequate advice... but, reall…

Well, that's reassuring. Been reading lots of confusing and/or unsettling things on this topic in the news over the last year and really needed to hear a flat denial from somebody …

Artist: Soundgarden. Badmotorfinger, Superunknown, and Down on the Upside, specifically. Devo is my go to for programming music (Freedom of Choice, New Traditionalists, Oh No! It's…

I think what's especially dangerous about it, as a software developer, is that broken crypto runs identically to properly-implemented crypto. If one is in the mentality of rewritin…

I think Park Dietz hits on an important point, one which the writer may not entirely buy into, but I do. Tragedy after tragedy veers into "discussions" about gun control, violent v…

As broadband becomes more pervasive I think we'll see other uses (for example, I could see VR being incorporated into virtual high schools for things like simulating a chemistry la…

I enjoyed the article, but I'm not entirely convinced online gambling can be so easily lumped into the moral panic category with the rest. Unless it's gotten to the point where the…

If that was the reaction to an incoming cellphone call, every time by every person, I don't think anybody would have a problem with cellphones in public spaces.

The goal of a movie theatre is leisure experience. If you know a movie is 90+ minutes, and there's a significant likelihood of you or your devices causing a disruption to the other…

Everyone puts their foot in their mouth from time to time, I guess.

Notice one performance of “Ceremonies” or “Distant Lands” streaming radio show like Hearts of Space that brings in 26 cents for the full writer’s share compared to 2,088 performanc…

Perhaps even Firefox's Eich has rethought LGBT equality since his 2008 donation. To be fair, he has had ample opportunity to say if this is the case by now. Though, while I don't p…

Well, it's like Jonas Salk said: you can't patent the sun. Clearly somebody has realized that's a fixable situation.

I don't disagree at all. If Facebook puts itself to be in this position without possibility of opting out, that is what I hope would trigger people to seek an ethical competitor. A…

I think, also, somebody has to be first to bring this technology to the market before it even occurs to others they'd want to compete. Oculus under Facebook might not bring the fin…

I suppose it hinges on how intertwined you feel morality is with the law, and I don't mean to be insulting with this observation because it's a legitimate difference of opinion. Bu…

My own suspicion is that the laws may be adequate to the task of regulation, but the will to investigate and prosecute bad actors in the financial sector is not. Until the latter i…

Does get me thinking, though... granted, the Internet allows the lightning-speed spread of misinformation, but at least it compensates somewhat by giving the same opportunity to th…

But there are worries the harsher penalties may have actually led some women to falsely accuse men of groping in the hope of a cash settlement. It looks like until Japanese men and…

It's surprising how badly a financial news channel got this wrong. Seeing the title I thought maybe this was a blog post under the CNBC domain from a first-day intern or something,…

This might be a place to start, but I could see it evolving (with donations from programmers and the tech industry) into an organization that can hire some full-time lawyers, so it…