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...]

We all know that we live in an era of astounding technological change.

Many of the technologies that we take for granted every day might have been considered miracles when our parents were young; completely unimaginable when our grandparents were young — and witchcraft when their grandparents were young.

For example, if it weren’t for [more...]

One of the main reasons that, around the year 2000, I started looking for an operating system that could replace Windows on my PCs — and I began using Linux full-time instead of Windows in 2006 — was that I was sick and tired of Windows’ swiss cheese-like security and the constant need to learn about and deal with all of its security vulnerabilities.

Now here we are, ten years after I started looking [more...]

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...]

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...]