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Responsibility Within Relationship
Tonight I attended a lecture by Stephen Darwall, a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Michigan. He gave a lecture this evening covering responsibility within relationships, specifically as to how we interact and respond to each other and what our moral basis for our actions toward the other person are inside of this relationship. […]
Technology: Wasn’t it supposed to make our lives easier?
Anybody remember the time when technology was supposed to make our lives easier and stress free. Washing machines, dishwashers, RSS feeds, podcasts, and so many other technologies were added to make our lives easier, to simplify and aggregate information so we could quickly absorb it. We would have more free time, more time to relax […]
Freedom From Software
Today on the This Week in Tech podcast (TWiT), one of their big topics that they discussed was DRM or Digital Rights Management as the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) refer to it or the Digital Restrictions Management as the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF). Based on […]
Freedom isn’t Free but Fear is
Okay, so I am a temperamental mood tonight, so you get a post that is going to be a rant tonight, so be warned. Why is Freedom not free, but instead I say that fear is very free. Freedom is a hard idea to hold onto, it can be taken away very easily, many things […]
Firefox Code Base Analysis
Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, that has gathered just over 11% of the internet browser market, an impressive movement for a browser that has to be physically downloaded onto a person’s computer and is not known outside of tech/geek circles. Few people install it themselves outside of these circles unless they know someone […]
Facebook Re-Design – Good or Bad?
Okay today the blogosphere is buzzing with incriminations against the new Facebook design. Just in case anybody out there doesn’t use Facebook, Facebook is one of several social-networking sites. However it has one key feature that I was hoping to discuss at some point in greater and detail and hopefully still will, that you have […]
Yes!!!!!! – Enemy Combants Now POW’s
Quick post, for something really good that happened today. President Bush today sent those people who had been held in previously classified undisclosed locations operated by the CIA into the military’s hands and will receive the full protection of the Geneva Convention. This is wonderful news as the CIA has not been required to meet […]
Securing Our Culture
Yesterday’s post discussed the return of the world famous painting The Scream, the biggest thing that many people said when it happened was just how easy the robbery was to pull off. Honestly it was the sort of thing you could see teenagers pull off, and in fact it wasn’t much different from robbing the […]
A Painting is Returned
Over this weekend there was a wonderful development in the world of art. The Scream a painting by Edvard Munch, that is famous worldwide was stolen just over 2 years ago. The robbery itself is something that makes anybody who works security cringe examining how easily the painting was purloined. The details of the robbery […]
The Halo Effect
The Halo Effect is an idea that technology columnist promote to describe the idea that people who buy iPods and use iTunes on a daily basis become comfortable with the Apple environment. This gives the idea to multiple tech columnist that young, affluent, hip, young people when they go to purchase their first computer will […]
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