A good chunk of my property is landscaped with Ceanothus – a creeping shrub with pretty blue flowers that grows about 3-feet high. Unlike typical shrubs, our species of Ceanothus spreads aggressively across the landscape, creating a large and relatively dense canopy for a hidden world of creatures living beneath[…] Read On
Raise your hand if you’re sick of hearing about the government shutdown, the pissing contest between Pelosi and Trump and the ludicrous debate over border security and illegal immigration. Did you seriously just raise your hand? You know I can’t see you, right? Never mind. The point is we’re all[…] Read On
One of Twitter’s more annoying qualities is the way it encourages people to make ludicrous claims about things they know nothing about. Next thing you know a complete myth is all over the Twitterverse. Take antitrust law, for example. I’m forever hearing about how Big Tech giants are monopolies or[…] Read On
When I first read Bloomberg Business Week’s “The Big Hack: How China Used a Tiny Chip to Infiltrate U.S. Companies,” I thought, nah, Apple and Amazon getting hacked by Chinese operatives through a hardware implant on Super Micro servers assembled in China seems extremely unlikely. Now I’m sure of it.[…] Read On
“We don’t need you to type at all because we know where you are. We know where you’ve been. We can more or less guess what you’re thinking about … Is that over the line?” – Google Chairman Eric Schmidt A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away[…] Read On
First read this. Don’t worry, it’s short. Then I’ll tell you how long ago I wrote/published this strangely prescient piece, what with all the big online data breaches and security threats of recent years. Not to mention that it foretells the rise of Google, “There has never been a better[…] Read On
“Overall, this makes it extremely unlikely hoaxes changed the outcome of this election in one direction or the other.” – Mark Zuckerberg, November 2016 In light of this week’s grilling of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg and Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey on Capital Hill over fake news / Russian meddling in[…] Read On