Posted in Environment, Technology on Feb 23rd, 2010
I’m preparing to spend one week without buying or throwing away anything plastic. This experiment was inspired by the movie “Tapped,” which artfully shows the terrible environmental damages, health risks and social conflicts caused by the mass manufacture and waste of plastics. The first step is to list all of the necessities I typically use [...]
Posted in Environment, Security on Feb 22nd, 2010
As the global conflict for resources heats up, the Internet is just another battleground. Last weekend I watched a terrific documentary about the bottled water industry called “Tapped.” The second half of the movie is an intensive look at the plastic bottle manufacturing industry, and the enormous damage that these petroleum-based products cause to our [...]
Posted in Credit Cards, Economics, Security, Technology on Feb 8th, 2010
“Mike,” the owner of a midsized web-hosting company, talks about the effects of the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI/DSS) on web hosting companies and small online merchants who are his customers. s: If PCI/DSS were enforced today, what would happen? m: Well, all the small businesses would lie. Right? If you’re a small [...]
Posted in Privacy on Feb 1st, 2010
There’s a wonderful quote in the Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: “The Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal [is] a mindboggingly stupid animal, it assumes that if you can’t see it, it can’t see you- daft as a bush, but very ravenous.” Here on the Internet, we face a related problem. Every time we type something [...]
