Published at: 01:05 pm - Monday May 26 2014
“I’m told a lot of lawyers tend to show up at these things, and my guess is the standard legal toolbox does not come with a middle finger to stick to the authorities. Then again, lawyers also know better than most what an ass the law is; they know that some are more equal than […]
Published at: 12:05 pm - Friday May 23 2014
As some of you have discovered, Online Security Demigod Bruce Schneier has taken note of my recent appearance before the IAPP. He has some nice things to say about the things I said. Or at least, about the things he thinks I said. The problem is, he gleaned those things not from my reportage, but […]
Published at: 01:05 pm - Thursday May 22 2014
It’s been a while since I was in Japan. The last time I posted from Kawasaki, HAL-Con 2014 had not even begun— and in the weeks since elapsed, other, more imminent things have commanded my attention.But when I was there, man. Nothing commanded my attention in Japan more than Japan. There were the public service […]
Published at: 06:05 am - Thursday May 15 2014
You know this place. It’s cozy, it’s out of the way. It’s one of the Internet’s innumerable back alleys, known to but a few except for those brief spikes when I get arrested or nearly die of some exotic disease. So when I go off on one of my rants— say, about Obama’s surveillance state […]
Published at: 11:05 am - Friday May 09 2014
So much I was saving up. The conclusion of the Kawasaki Chronicles. Experimental protocols for dealing with AI-equipped toilets. Fiblets from upcoming stories in Tor.com and Neil Clarke’s latest anthology. Even some award that J. Pekka Mäkelä’s translation of Blindsight just won over in Finland. I was saving it all up for my return to […]