Copyright and piracy (2012/03/22)
I recently happened to read an old David Pogue column in Scientific American, where he pointed out that modern copy protection schemes are punishingly hard on legitimate users, but have no effect on pirates.
[read more...]Yay doctors! (2012/03/21)
In modern America, it is a career-risking move to come out and say that you refuse to rape your patients. So this doctor said it anonymously.
[read more...]People, this is... not sane. (2012/03/20)
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Turnabout: Still fair play (2012/03/16)
Proposed restrictions on Viagra
[read more...]Balance in journalism (2012/03/15)
NPR has some new standards up, which “clarify” the way in which they pursue balance.
[read more...]Silly Texas (2012/03/14)
Possibility that an innocent unborn life with no central nervous system might be ended: It is necessary to legally mandate raping the mother with a device in order to prevent this risk.
[read more...]Autistic people and phones (2012/03/14)
Hi! If you don’t normally follow my blog, someone probably forwarded you this link because you asked an autistic person to call you on the phone, or have some service or interaction for which your only provided contact information is a phone number.
[read more...]Health care, and why fraud-prevention is suicide for someone else (2012/03/13)
So, a friend of mine is on government-provided health care. And while it’s great that this exists, I’d like to point out just how horrendously broken the system is.
[read more...]Important not to be distracted (2012/03/07)
It’s important not to let those two particular words Rush Limbaugh used to describe a law student woman distract you from the message. Okay, just ignore those two words. Pretend he didn’t say “slut” or “prostitute”.
[read more...]Getting git under MinGW (2012/03/05)
So, Git for Windows offers a working git under Windows – in a strange variant form of the MinGW environment that lacks all the usual creature comforts.
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