I've been saying for years that this is how computer security would evolve.

Exactly how I feel about all of the early adopters now crying about the iPhone price drop.

Your daily (perhaps monthly) dose of OMG teh cuteness!

In the case of clothing design, the lack of legally protected monopolies does not seem to have stifled creativity. To the contrary, it has encouraged continual innovation to stay ahead of the knockoffs.

If a CEO's wife dies, the value of that CEO's company falls by fifteen percent. If a CEO's mother-in-law dies, the value of that CEO's company rises slightly.

Ford debuted what would become one of the most spectacular marketing failures in history 50 years ago: the Edsel.

Another venerable American marque is about to disappear for good.

Government agency e-mails advice to employees about buying a fuel-efficient, emissions-friendly car--with not one domestic vehicle on the suggested list.

[Calif. State Sen.] Simitian said he fears that the devices could be compromised by persons with unauthorized scanners, facilitating identity theft and improper tracking and surveillance.

Make your own Dummies book!

Best trolling ever?

I'd be OK with this, as long as I also get to send them to the government.

Karl Rove gets punk'd.

Rick Perry does something that George W. Bush never did during his tenure as governor of Texas: he commutes a death sentence. (Misleading headline: Foster didn't kill anyone; he was driving a getaway car for a robbery in which the victim was shot to deat

Co-founder of Greenpeace: to save the forests, use more wood. That will encourage the planting of more trees, which take in much more CO2 as they're growing than older trees.

I don't agree with Rector's conclusions, but he does point out that America's poor aren't nearly as poor as politicians will suggest.

Chavez set capital controls in 2003 and has since limited the amount of dollars people can obtain through the government, a policy that has spawned a thriving black market for dollars.

Conservatives who believe women belong at home . . . would do well to support soul-crushing taxes and strive to reduce, not increase, the after-tax wages of married women.

The world's biggest bubble bath, if you like your bubble bath made from rotting seaweed and fish shit.

\"The monkeys grab their breasts, and gesture at us while pointing at their private parts. We are afraid that they will sexually harass us,\" said Mrs Njeri.

At 72, the Dalai Lama, who has lived in India since 1959, is beginning to plan his succession, saying that he refuses to be reborn in Tibet so long as it's under Chinese control.

This is the level we've fallen to- we actually believe that people deserve sympathy for committing cold-blooded murder because the government didn't do enough to take care of them.

Surprising that the 49ers' 55-10 demolition of the Donkeys in Super Bowl XXIV didn't make the Top Ten.

One day those guys digging up your sewer connection might be DEA agents.

This has to go down as the stupidest car accessory since the fake hood scoop.

As Tyler Cowen asks, \"But what if they sold you a \"fake receipt\" for buying...*fake receipts*. Would it be a fake receipt, a real receipt, or a real fake receipt?\"

A little more original than \"Violaters will be crushed and melted\".

So now, even deleting files from your computer could be a violation of the DMCA.

Is that one hump or two?

More than 3 billion dollars were guaranteed including millions for Subways. Protecting public transport, right? No, protecting America's sandwich demand.

The hotel and shopping center, however, are not desecrations of their faith. Before he was a prophet, Muhammad was a businessman. And it is perfectly in keeping with honoring him that a market is set up next to the Great Mosque.

I knew the Internet had gone into the crapper, but I didn't mean it *literally*.

A journalist and her family spends a year without buying anything made in China.

The side of Cuban health care that Michael Moore didn't show you.

The editor of PC Magazine steps down--and lobs a few grenades at Vista in passing.

Like bans on smoking in bars and restaurants, in parks and on beaches, and on sidewalks and streets, a ban on smoking in cars helps \"denormalize\" the habit, transforming it into a shameful vice practiced only in the privacy of one's home.

*Nasty* freak accident. 1947project is a great blog, BTW.

What, he didn't get a ticket for littering?

It's the holy grail of computer adventure games.

Man, nothing would be more awesome than a film version of _Rendezvous With Rama_, but I realize it would not exactly burn it up at the box office.

The border crackdown has one interesting consequence: the coyotes, scrambling for new business, are now much nicer to female immigrants.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of patent-trolling psychos. Choke on it, fuckers.