Former ACLU Head Ira Glasser explains why there’s no such thing as “hate speech”
2021-01-16 Tom Parker “If the government is going to be the one to decide what hate speech to ban, it’s not going to be the same speech as the speech you hate.”
On US Capitol Security — By Someone Who Manages Arena-Rock-Concert Security
2021-01-13 Bruce Schneier There’s not ever going to be enough police or security at any event to stop people if they all act in unison; if enough people want to get to Vanilla Ice at the same time, they’re going…
Things You Should Never Do, Part I
2000-04-06 Joel Spolsky Netscape … [made] the single worst strategic mistake that any software company can make: They decided to rewrite the code from scratch. The reason that they think the old code is a mess is because of a…
FireEye Hacked
2020-12-09 Bruce Schneier FireEye [a cybersecurity company] was hacked by — they believe — “a nation with top-tier offensive capabilities”
Abortion is Wrong: Steelmanning a Position I Do Not Hold
2020 Taylor G. Lunt . . . I don’t agree with the pro-life opinion I expressed in this essay. This was a thought exercise: take on a position I disagree with, and try to make it as strong as possible.…
Kamala goes full commie with video praising “equality of outcome.” Let me show how horrid this idea actually is.
2020-11-02 Joel Abbott “Equitable treatment means we all end up at the same place,” said Harris, finishing her idea of a utopia on earth. This all sounds nice. It sounds great on the surface. It doesn’t even sound socialistic to…
The Most Famous Paradox in Physics Nears Its End
2020-10-29 George Musser In a series of breakthrough papers, theoretical physicists have come tantalizingly close to resolving the black hole information paradox that has entranced and bedeviled them for nearly 50 years. Information, they now say with confidence, does escape…
U.S. court: Mass surveillance program exposed by Snowden was illegal
2020-09-02 Raphael Satter (Reuters) – Seven years after former National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden blew the whistle on the mass surveillance of Americans’ telephone records, an appeals court has found the program was unlawful – and that the U.S.…
Strong humming for one hour daily to terminate chronic rhinosinusitis in four days: a case report and hypothesis for action by stimulation of endogenous nasal nitric oxide production
2006-01-10 George A Eby Rhinosinusitis is an inflammation or infection of the nose and air pockets (sinuses) above, below and between the eyes which connect with the back of the nose through tiny openings (ostia). Rhinosinusitis can be caused by…
Memristor Breakthrough: First Single Device To Act Like a Neuron
2020-09-01 Samuel K. Moore It combines resistance, capacitance, and what’s called a Mott memristor all in the same device. Memristors are devices that hold a memory, in the form of resistance, of the current that has flowed through them. Mott…