Mobile phones have become a cornerstone in how our society communicates, in how the world communicates. When once there were dark spots of communication across our country in areas where phone lines couldn’t reach we can now connect to one another. Lives have been saved by them and have been made easier by them. Mobile [...]
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The other day I was emailed about a situation brewing in Washington, several members of Congress are trying to push through a bill that will make the administration end of farming so difficult that only the largest of distributors could afford to run such operations. This is, of course, all being done in the name [...]
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Today the New York Times reported that AIG, a company that has received two bailouts in less than six months, is planning on rewarding it’s incompitent executives over $168 million in bonuses. How can we continue to let them take advantage of the American people? The lawyers for AIG say that they are contractually obligated [...]
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Since the formation of the United States of America we have cherished our rights that we granted to ourselves as a government by the people for the people. However, as time has gone by, those that are in power have managed to stay in power and they bring their friends and family in with them. [...]
This story I am torn on because while I certainly think the man should be prosecuted for such crimes (and severely) I don’t like the precedent it could set for 5th Amendment rights in the digital age. In the case at hand a man whom is suspected of owning child pornography on a laptop was [...]
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This is one of those times where I say we should just kill patents on the use of something AND make it so that software process patents should have the source code patented, not the process itself. That way if more than 60% of the code is different then the lawsuit is automatically dropped. The [...]
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I just got done reading a story on CNN about the Iranian government demanding ridiculous apologies for insults in movies for the last 30 years. The story can be found here: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/03/01/iran.hollywood/index.html
Now I have a lot to say about this. First of all many of these films (300, The Wrestler) are fiction and any idiot [...]
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