Judge: Americans Can Be Forced to Decrypt Their Laptops →
American citizens can be ordered to decrypt their PGP-scrambled hard drives for police to peruse for incriminating files, a federal judge in Colorado ruled today in what could become a precedent-setting case.
Note that while the DOJ agrees, the U.S. Supreme Court has never ruled on the topic and a federal judges in Michigan ruled the opposite way in March 2010.
Google+ Is Going To Mess Up The Internet →
Google used to be about organizing the world's information. It was a service to the entire Web. But this social tangent is changing that. It's turning the Web into a Google+ popularity contest.
50 Things Killed by Technology →
Or the progress of technology in modern history.
The Bark Side: 2012 Volkswagen Game Day Commercial Teaser
Dogs barking Star Wars? Clever.
Fragmentation Is Not The End of Android →
The fragmentation of Android is very real and very problematic for end users, developers, mobile operators, device manufacturers, and Google. However fragmentation does not mean Android is going to "die" or "fail" as some seem to think.
Some interesting thoughts from the former general manager of the Windows Phone 7 partner program.
John Carmack on Static Code Analysis →
It is irresponsible to not use it.
I support neither approach.
SOPA, Internet Regulation, and the Economics of Piracy →
Obviously, there's quite a lot of copyrighted material circulating on the Internet without authorization, and other things equal, one would like to see less of it. But does the best available evidence show that this is inflicting such catastrophic economic harm—that it is depressing so much output, and destroying so many jobs—that Congress has no option but to Do Something immediately?
Spoiler: No.
Even if Hollywood was able to magically convert all pirates into paying digital distribution customers, there would be no increase in jobs as unlimited digital copies require effectively zero cost and little if any labor after the first copy is made.
Fotoshop by Adobé (by Jesse Rosten)
The Rise of the New Groupthink →
Privacy also makes us productive. [...] What distinguished programmers at the top-performing companies wasn't greater experience or better pay. It was how much privacy, personal workspace, and freedom from interruption they enjoyed.
How do introverts and those that value privacy, solitude, and autonomy work well in new corporate environments that revolve around collaboration and interaction?