A Peculiar Blog

Welcome back!I just saw this little gem on Slashdot this morning:
Eugene Kaspersky, CEO of well-known computer security
company Kaspersky Labs, is calling for an end to the anonymity of the
Internet, and for the creation of mandatory ‘Internet passports’ for
anyone who wishes to browse the Web
The very first thought I had after reading this and the articles [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads Over the last few months I’ve seen more and more talk about 2012. People going on and on about how a Mayan calendar “runs out” in December of that year. This, combined with some astronomical events that are supposedly going to happen then have more and more people talking [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads Anybody that knows me knows that 99.999999% of the time any email I get that says or in any way implies that it should be forwarded on is going to hit my trash folder fast enough to leave a trail of Cherenkov radiation and set off neutrino detectors all over the [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads According to a story on ITnews there’s some people arguing that it’s time to require a kind of “internet drivers license” before allowing people to go online for the first time.
Australia’s leading criminologist thinks online scams have escalated to such a point that first-time users of computers should have to earn [...]

 Powered by Max Banner Ads I’ve always thought that GPS systems in vehicles was a very two sided thing. On the one hand you have the convenience of having reliable navigational aids available on demand. There’s no need for futzing around with often difficult to manage paper maps, they can locate your position to [...]