A notable news item this morning is that of the United States’ lifting two bits of its sanctions on Syria, one of which happens to be its ban on the import/export of IT, including hardware and software (the other is on the exportation of goods to the Syrian aviation industry). Syrian envoy to the U.S. […]
My love-hate relationship with Panera Bread has officially turned to all-hate, all the time. I spent the majority of last Sunday at Panera’s Brookline location, in an effort to plow through my workload uninterrupted. Mind you, the food at Panera is delicious for fast food…ever since my high school days of sneaking away to Panera […]
Today’s op-ed in Australian IT by Bernadette McMenamin, CEO of an organization called Child Wise is naive at best, dangerous at worst. McMenamin, whose organization seeks to prevent child sexual abuse, claims that Australia’s internet filtering scheme is the solution to preventing child pornography on the Internet. She argues that ISP-level filtering is one part […]