So it appears India is doing some sort of country-wide training on TCP/IP or Tcpdump…
Archives for June 2014
The Free Will Argument Series
The Free Will Arguments series is a collection of free will arguments for free…
Apple is the Privacy Platform
The issues of safety and security—and by extension, privacy—provoke visceral…
When We Say The Right Doesn’t Care About the Poor, This is What We Mean
I talk to many conservatives who insist that the right cares deeply about the…
A Summary of My Political Views
Here I’ll try to cleanly summarize my positions on the primary political…
A Guide to Information Security Certifications (2020 Update)
Many people are confused by the massive number of information security certifications…
How I Became an Atheist
I’ve been writing a lot about religion and atheism lately, and I decided…
Housekeeping with NMAP
It’s Monday morning and you’ve just arrived at work and started up…
Cryptography and Open Source
I’ve been reading Bruce Schneier’s book on cryptography for the last…
The Two-lever Argument Against Free Will
There are many definitions of free will, so it’s best if we start with one…
Absolute vs. Practical Free Will
June 28, 2014 Here I will lay out two ways of looking at free will, which I call…
Cancer is an Age Problem
Most people think of Cancer as a disease in the same way they think of Malaria…
An Elegant Command-line Bandwidth Test
There are plenty of online tools that will test your bandwidth, but for those…
The Open Source (Political) Revolution
Open source everything, in this context, offers us the chance to build on what…
Corporations Control Our Free Time
I’ve only been back at work for a few days, but already I’m noticing that…
Five Mistakes the GOP Will Not Recover From
The GOP seems to make a habit of being on the wrong side of issues. I think we’re…
A World Without Middlemen
I’m fascinated by a trend that’s been accelerating over the last several…
Anatomy of a Single Page iPhone Homescreen
I like clean interfaces, and I’ve attempted to extend this to my mobile…
CNN Using Tabloid Tactics
Wow. Yeah, talking about what can give you cancer should get someone to click…
Removing Dictators is Immoral
Iraq is about to fall to Al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda groups have already taken two cities,…
It’s Not About Your Features; It’s About How Well You Implement Them
Last week’s WWDC conference in San Francisco got me thinking about what…
Apple is Truly Innovating with iOS8 Messages
If you build products for a living, there’s a lot to learn from iOS 8’s…
The Rise of the Servant Class
I think we’re about to see the creation of a servant class in the United…
The Future of Work
The job economy is about to get Ubered. If you’re not familiar with Uber,…
My Friend Ken
(JUN 5, 2014) I have an extraordinary friend named Ken Swain.
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