Got this email in my inbox this morning, and at first blush it looks pretty convincing. So the important question is, how do you know if it’s real or not?  There’s no single point of failure here, an element that says it’s a scam for sure, but let’s look at a non-exhaustive list of what’s wrong with this email. Which Inbox First look at your own inbox.  Is this the email address that your bank [...]

The Lesson Applied » The Case Against Net Neutrality. I’m going to go ahead and say it.  I’m against Net Neutrality. I love the concept.  I’d love all content to have equal access to internet pipes, but I don’t want that to be enforced by laws and a governmental morass of regulation and legislation. If you can achieve the same thing through a gentlemen’s agreement, then it’ll be a thing of beauty, but I think [...]

Story Here. So apparently a bunch of people escaped from prison while the guard was busy playing Plants Vs. Zombies on his iPhone. I’m looking at you, Alison!

APOD: 2010 August 6 – The Not So Quiet Sun. Well, now I know what was causing all those crazy lightening storms.  The sun is done being at solar minimum.

There’s nothing quite like asking a question to people who are not qualified to answer and publishing the answers in the news. The latest I’ve come across is this article which tells us that most consumers think it’s OK for governments to hack, plant malware, and run DOS attacks on foreign governments.  No word on whether these same consumers think it’s OK for foreign governments to do it to them, or where any government cares what [...]