Note: This was co-authored by Sens. John D. Rockefeller IV, (D-W.Va.), Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.). In February, these four senators jointly sponsored the Cybersecurity Act of 2012, a bill that has been in the works for more than three years. Every day, rival nations, criminal ...
This is a pretty telling description of why PIPA/SOPA was going so smoothly through Congress. West-coast tech companies don't really pay much attention to east-coast politics ... unless it starts meddling in their business. I could understand their initial reaction -- when I read these bills, I thought they'd be ...
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart Why ask a bunch of "nerds" what the right thing to do is?
I’m not particularly sure what all the hype surrounding Siri is all about — the newest feature of the iPhone 4S. In a sense, I do understand how people want to feel like the rich guy (or gal) who owns a mansion, has a butler, and his own concierge. You ask a question, Siri answers [ Read More ]
Do you like Herman Cain’s tax plan? Maybe you should figure out what income bracket you’re in first. The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities made a chart showing how Cain’s 9-9-9 tax plan would affect taxpayers. There are essentially two important takeaways: Taxes for the bottom 80% of people would increase Taxes for the [ Read More ]
We’ve all heard of Web 2.0 and some of us even know about HTML5 and CSS3. None of these are quite as revolutionary to the internet as Lytro‘s light field camera is to photography. This camera allows you to take a picture without focusing. You never have to worry about missing that perfect moment because [ Read More ]
So I was talking to Alice, a good friend of mine who recently moved to Singapore with her husband, about the lack of online consumer services available in the country compared to what she had in Manhattan. One thing led to another and I found this little gem of an article through Google Trends. Apparently [ Read More ]
People are constantly annoyed at me for not being able to receive text messages. Those who are not technology savvy assume it’s some limitation of a “cheap android” phone and ask if they got an iPhone would that solve my problem. (Ahem, the iPhone 3GS couldn’t even send MMS for three months after its release [ Read More ]
#include <stdio.h> int main () { printf(“goodbye, world\n”); return 0; }
After a series of uncharacteristically bad mistakes, I thought maybe, just maybe, Netflix had a secret plan. Netflix has been very good at understanding the market historically and offering people what they want for a good price and a decent selection. And, most of all, the make it simple for their customers. Secret Plan A: [ Read More ]
As mentioned in an earlier post, the ranks of evangelicals are growing in the Republican party. To accommodate this, the GOP’s platform has swung dramatically toward being more socially conservative at the cost of alienating its moderate members. A party so polarized cannot stay that way forever. It risks breaking at the seams. Literally. The [ Read More ]
Leading up to my birthday, I’ve incidentally indulged in a series of simple and exquisite culinary delights. Given that I’m a foodie, this has been a wonderful lead up to going to my favorite restaurant, Zaytinya, with my girlfriend this evening. It began on Thursday with my coworkers with a rather plebeian yet quite delicious [ Read More ]
One of the legacies of the George W. Bush administration is an escalation in partisanship in politics. Jokes about Congress used to be based on the premise that everyone compromises or nothing gets done — and the compromise leaves everyone wanting more. Now, it seems that one side, liberals or conservatives, gets what they want [ Read More ]
After a series of uncharacteristically bad mistakes, I thought maybe, ...
