Monthly Archive: June 2005

Remote threats

I’ll assume that by now you’ve been scared witless by the various adware, spyware and virus threats that have attempted to take over your PC in the past year. Some of you, no doubt, use Macs for the lure of safer surfing. You’ve doubtless learned by now that your laptop is in danger when you connect to public Wi-Fi hotspots (Why, Microsoft, won’t you allow us to automatically turn off exceptions...

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If NASA steps out

At dinner last night, Amanda asked me, “So, do you think NASA should be scrapped?” After a long, blank stare and a lot of blinking, I finally admitted I hadn’t thought about it. CPR skills come in handy at times like those, since I’m usually so opinionated. So, I thought about it. My internal philosophy seems to tell me that people are inherently good, government is inherently evil, and government programs...