For a few months now I’ve been posting this banal drivel as a means of attempting to entertain. Only recently has the possibility emerged for my half-witted attempts at humor to be protected by the United States Government. It may still be a long shot, but some day you weary web surfers will [...]
After a considerable amount of investigation into a new technology that Intel is integrating into its microprocessors (codenamed LaGrande) I developed a healthy skepticism of the future it promised. This hardware is designed to enable an operating system that supports a new standard of security, euphemistically called trusted computing (TC). The beneficiaries of [...]
I’ve been doing some thinking lately. No, I’m not talking about the kind of thinking that benefits mankind, generates huge revenues, or even moves the masses to better themselves and humanity. I’m talking about the type of thinking that could get me in trouble with the religious right. Specifically, the recent news [...]