The good news (for writers) is that this means that ebooks on computers are more likely to be an enticement to buy the printed book (which is, after all, cheap, easily had, and easy to use) than a sub...
The fact was, there wasn't room on earth for a couple million gold-farmers to turn into high-paid video-game executives. The fact was, if you had to slice the pie into enough pieces to give one to eve...
So far, I’ve managed to spend more time free than behind bars. Paranoia is my friend.
Making other people feel like assholes was a terrible way to get them to stop acting like assholes.
It’s the nature of the beast to believe in bubbles and think you can just entrepreneur your way out.
If you love freedom, if you think the human condition is dignified by privacy, by the right to be left alone, by the right to explore your weird ideas provided you don’t hurt others, then you have com...
I felt one hundred feet tall, made of solid gold, and on fire.
He’s a sucking chest wound of a human being. But if you’re going to have a jailer, better a clueless one than one who’s really on the ball.
Content, huh? Ha! Where's the container?
After Anonymous brought in its Real Name Policy. They
You want a burrito? I asked.Is that a question or a statement of the obvious?Neither. It's an order.
This life is real too. We're communicating aren't we?
There’s something else, he said. What? I wasn’t going to mention it, but I want you to understand why I have to do this. Jesus, Jolu, what? I hate to say it, but you’re white. I’m not. White people ge...
The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
That’s why you never hear politicians talking about ‘citizens,’ it’s all ‘taxpayers,’ as though the salient fact of your relationship to the state is how much you pay. Like the state was a business an...
That’s what made the panics about huge zero-day security ruptures such a fright: the sudden knowledge that everything might have been auto-pwned by a random crim or asshole who used a skin-detection a...
So close the book and go. The world is full of security systems. Hack one of them.
On the one hand, information wants to be expensive, because it’s so valuable. The right information in the right place just changes your life. On the other hand, information wants to be free, because...
Of course, it couldn't last. Those whom the gods would destroy utterly, they first give a taste of heaven.
I’ve always loved just learning stuff for its own sake. Just to be smarter about the world around me.