A few days ago, I read an article on the Seattle Times newspaper about a new bill that would allow speed camera photos to be used in court as evidence. While it seems like a commonsense argument, not everyone is happy with the idea. Among the opponents of this bill is the ACLU, which says that increasing use of speed …
Every six months or so, I receive the Yellow Pages for my city and surrounding regions. For the past seven years, I’ve noticed a very interesting phenomenon. If you look at the first page of the White Pages section, it is all a bunch of companies with prefixes: “A”, “AA”, “AAA”, and so on. The number of As before the …
Every time I see a CAPTCHA, whether it be plastered on a registration page or comment form, I find myself telling the website, “you couldn’t have thought of anything better?”. What used to be a good idea for filtering spambots has now turned into nothing more than a bad joke. The story of CAPTCHA goes something like this: once upon …
I hadn’t heard of the Stop Online Privacy Act (SOPA) or the Preventing Real Online Threats to Economic Creativity and Theft of Intellectual Property Act (Protect-IP Act or PIPA) until an email from Demand Progress showed up in my inbox. Since I hadn’t received any politicking emails in a long time, I became interested when I read that the PIPA …