I went to my first basketball game the other day. It was a Golden State Warriors…
Archives for November 2015
WordPress Attack Stats: November 2015
I monitor my site extensively, especially people doing weird stuff on it. I’ve…
Algorithmic Learning
I think people need to think more about how they learn. Too many treat the gathering…
The Psychology of Admiring Great People
This post is about fighting. I’m a humanist. I get how strange that is,…
Marc Benioff on What Companies Should Be Focusing On
Where do your ideas come from?I like to be around creative people. That’s a…
The Myth of Exceptionalism
There is a particular line coming from Lupus Liberals that I find troubling. It…
Lupus Liberalism and the Regressive Left
I wrote recently about the concept of Lupus Liberalism, and I wanted to take a…
Terrorist Stereotypes
Someone just shot up a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado. We know what the…
Bug Bounty Ethics and the Ubering of Pentesting
There is a vocal group within the pentesting community that is speaking out against…
How to Achieve Maximum Interaction on Your Tweets
[ An example tweet from my timeline created within minutes of this post. ] Twitter…
Concise, Transparent Communication as the Primary Metric of Competency
Two of his biggest ideas were about how space and time work. This thing you’re…
The Media is Trading Advertising Dollars for Lives
CNN, Fox News, and similar channels are seeing amazing numbers right now. People…
The Lupus in Liberalism
The most dangerous aspect of the extreme left is that it functions as an immune…
Embrace the Moderates
The biggest obstacle we face in the battle against Islamic terrorism is law enforcement’s…
The Eye of Siri
I’ve written a lot about the concept of Universal Daemonization and how…
Spring 2015 Pew Poll Has 60+ Million Muslims Supporting ISIS
In no country surveyed did more than 15% of the population show favorable attitudes…
Justified vs. Unjustified Terrorism
John Kerry just said that the Friday the 13th Paris attacks were different than…
Why Many Moderate Muslims Don’t Believe the ISIS Threat
It’s widely accepted that the only solution to extreme Islam is moderate…
Take 1 Security Podcast: Episode 19
Topics for this episode: News and analysis [ ] A couple of months into my job…
We Need Apple Pay for Medical Data
Apple Pay is an improvement over paying with a credit card, but only marginally.…
Universal Daemonization as Asset Management
I’ve written a decent amount about Universal Daemonization—the idea…
Testing HSTS-protected Sites Using Burp
If you do a lot of web assessments using Burp (or any proxy, really) you might…
A Brilliant Way to Detect Bias
How does it work? Think about what it means to be biased. What it means for a…
The Problem With Twitter “Likes”
Twitter changing to from favorites to likes is good in a couple of ways, but bad…
Asking Physicists About Free Will
My buddy Jason works at FermiLab, and he posted recently on one of my free will…