Americans have recently been questioning themselves deeply on subjects like imperialism, religion, taxation, and prohibition. All the while, oil is gushing, but in all the wrong places.  Perhaps it’s addictive, or something (don’t look at me, smarts the likes of a world leader are needed to figure these things out). At the same time of [...]

This should spell the end of the line for digital restrictions (DRM) on downloaded content: The bad dream of DRM continues. Yahoo e-mailed its Yahoo! Music Store customers yesterday, telling them it will be closing for good—and the company will take its DRM license key servers offline on September 30, 2008 Check out the whole [...]

There is a fight going on for the internet, and the internet is losing.  Recently the New York Attorney General pretty much single-handedly cut-off millions of Americans’ access to newsgroups — the original home of free discussion on the internet (Rogers found a much sneakier way to destroy newsgroups on their own but that is [...]

Hindsight may be 20/20 but answers to the geopolitical issues facing the globe today seem easy to solve. “Dependence on foreign oil” has become a rally cry.  And alongside, failed foreign policy has become exposed for what it is: imperialism.  But securing the oil fields in Iraq for “100 years” has only pushed up the [...]

There seems to be a disappointing lack of knowledge and interest in fusion technology — at any temperature. While the cold fusion research of Pons and Fleishman remains controversial and even embarassing in the eyes of the media, work continues on this technology.  In fact, Italian and Japanese scientists just demonstrated successful tests which produced [...]