One thing that has struck me lately is how unfashionable it has become to strive towards what used to be called gentlemanly behavior. Perhaps civility might be more appropriate, since gentlemanly tends to invoke a false image of the well to do, well-dressed. Although civility is too often cold, and a dissembling of rudeness through overuse of…
NSA Said to Exploit Heartbleed Bug for Intelligence for Years By Michael Riley Apr 11, 2014 April 11 (Bloomberg) — Ghostery Senior Director of Research Andy Kahl and Bloomberg’s Michael Riley discuss the NSA’s knowledge of the Heartbleed bug on Bloomberg Television’s “Street Smart.” (Source: Bloomberg) The U.S. National Security Agency knew for at…
Philosopher David Edmonds discusses the five books that have had the greatest influence on his work By Alec Ash, Applied ethics should interest all but the most philosophy shy, as it poses moral questions of everyday use. Applied ethics is the application of moral theory to the real world. I first read…
Hundreds of computer geeks, most of them students putting themselves through college, crammed into three floors of an office building in an industrial section of Ukraine’s capital Kiev, churning out code at a frenzied pace. They were creating some of the world’s most pernicious, and profitable, computer viruses.
It’s Bank Lobbyists vs. American Families In Fight For Financial Reform In his latest salvo against Wall Street, Rolling Stone’s Matt Taibbi argues that the recent resurgence of the banking sector is the result of nothing more than a series of Depression-Era con jobs. In Taibbi’s words, Wall Street has delivered “the best 18 months…