Andrew Cuomo’s crusade against child porn certainly sounded like a noble cause. Decent people abhor child porn. The problem is he’s taken a ridiculous approach. He didn’t have the law on the side, so the Attorney General turned to blackmail and threatened to embarrass ISP’s into censorship. The ISP’s signed on. It’s no surprise, who [...]
Archive | October, 2008
Democrats – Good For Business?
The New York Times has an opinion piece by Tommy McCall that asks: Since 1929, Republicans and Democrats have each controlled the presidency for nearly 40 years. So which party has been better for American pocketbooks and capitalism as a whole? While I would have guessed Republicans, isn’t that the conventional wisdom? But obviously Mr. [...]
Tesla Wastes Energy
Well, this doesn’t have much to do with anything I’m interested in. (A Tesla auto isn’t in my foreseeable future). But since the title of this blog mentions wasting energy this Engadget post about the Tesla auto wasting energy while parked caught my attention.
It Doesn’t Pay To Be Big
I mentioned ReadDVD last month. In short, RealDVD is software that allows someone to copy a DVD disk to their computer’s hard drive. The existing copy protection is copied intact while Real’s own DRM is also added, So, there’s no removal of the DRM and in fact another layer is added. I didn’t take long [...]
Why Vote?
This post was inspired by an column that appeared in the New York Times back on Nov. 6, 2005. It was titled Why Vote? and was written by Stephen J. Dubner and Steven D. Levitt of Freakonomics fame. The money quote from the article: …voting exacts a cost – in time, effort, lost productivity – [...]
Cop Reprimanded – Too Many Arrests, Too Few Tickets
According to the Columbus Dispatch a Madison Township, Ohio cop has been reprimanded for writing too few tickets, not that theres a quota. Officer Ken Braden was reprimanded for writing only 85 tickets, despite tieing for the most criminal arrests. There’s not a “quota” of course but according to Chief Ryan’s 2005 written mandate: “Effective [...]
He Was Right
Dwight D. Eisenhower said: In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the militaryindustrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We didn’t listen and are left with this.
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