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Justice For An Online Juror

Thursday, September 2nd, 2010

If you’re ever called to serve on a jury in the U.S., please listen very carefully to the judge’s instructions and take your role very seriously.

Most of us know that jurors in criminal trials are forbidden from discussing their ongoing cases with anyone outside of the jury deliberation room.

But what if you post your conclusions about [more...]

Full-Body Scanners

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

They started talking about using full-body security scanners in airports a few years ago.

Even though they told us that the security personnel who would be viewing the completely nude images of airline passengers would be highly trained, and the imaging machines would not be capable of storing those images, many of us were outraged at the idea. [more...]

Tech Is Enabling Stupidity

Monday, August 23rd, 2010

A few months ago, a little girl, with her parents’ permission and blessing, tried to break the world’s record for being the youngest person to sail around the world by herself.

When she got into trouble out on the ocean, she used [more...]

Name Change To Escape Cyber Past?

Wednesday, August 18th, 2010

Regular readers of this Journal know that I’m a domestic violence survivor.

They also know that, after enduring decades of abuse from my biological family, my wife and I finally cut off all contact with them more than four years ago, and moved on with our lives. Afterward, as part of our healing, we legally changed our last name. Yesterday was the [more...]

5 Million Domains Serving Malware

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

If you’re a Windows user, you should be aware that “A quick search on Google and Yahoo! revealed that there are around 500,000 and 5,000,000 domains affected and serving malware, respectively”

Windows PCs are automatically infected by it — simply by visiting any one of the infected domains.

So where did the malware come from? [more...]