Privacy Vs. Security

How do you feel about being watched by the government and corporations? You've likely experienced corporate monitoring of some form. If you've ever used Google's traffic, map-overlay you've seen cell phone monitoring in action (with cellphone gps, they determine how fast you are moving). Internet adds are not directed at ...

Do We Need Us?

It is well know that computers perform some tasks better than humans. Calculators are excellent examples of this. Another, the game of checkers. The game of checkers has been solved. That is, every one of the 500 billion billion possible games of checkers are known to a program named Chinook, it ...

Autonomous Weapons

Recently P.W. Singer finished a new book titled Wired for War, wherein he discusses the use of weaponized robots within the US military.
Here's an article: http://spectrum.ieee.org/robotics/mi...bot-warriors/1
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Is War Inevitable?

As a species there is one thing extraordinarily outstanding about human beings, our ability to kill. When we kill, we kill under various flags, under various rulers. These flags are not limited to the physical realm. We make war for ideas. We are the only species that does this. Christianity, ...

Central Bank Independence

There has been a lot of talk recently about whether or not the Federal Reserve needs to be more transparent. Critics worry that the Federal Reserve, being one of our nations most powerful institutions, needs to be held accountable to the public.

Before I share my thoughts I'd ...

The Modern Midway

I wasn't sure where else to put this, but I figured it could be news.

This is so sad, and terrible. I can't believe the things we do to this Earth sometimes.

"These photographs of albatross chicks, the first of which appeared in a recent ...

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