This one should be a quickie. A fascinating article came out of CNN today: “Intelligence deputy to America: Rethink privacy“. This is a topic I’ve had opinions about for some time. My somewhat pessimistic view is that privacy is an illusion, and that more and more historic vestiges of so-called privacy are slipping through our [...]
Ladies and gentlemen, I would like to present to you two exhibits. Here is Exhibit A from today’s International Herald Tribune: In contrast (Exhibit B) we have the same exact article, but with a completely different headline: Now, for the life of me, I can’t figure out how the latter is a more accurate or [...]
Wikipedia states that Legal tender … is payment that, by law, cannot be refused in settlement of a debt denominated in the same currency. Currency, in turn, is a unit of exchange, facilitating the transfer of goods and/or services. I was asked a question earlier today about the relative value of open services against open [...]