Shady Operator

Big Brother can’t hang with iOS.

June 1, 2011

The Washington Post reports that the government is adopting high tech devices faster than in the past, but is missing a key element to the equation: security. That’s not to say that there isn’t always a security concern when it comes to newer technology, but the devices we’re talking about are wireless in nature, and [...]

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A Farm Corps?

May 11, 2011

In The New York Times, Nicolette Hahn Niman proposes five things the government can do to help stop cruel and abusive animal practices in the US. All are excellent suggestions, but the last we find most interesting: The United States should launch a domestic Peace Corps for farming. America needs to repopulate rural America and [...]

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Apps that tell you where the po-po is.

May 11, 2011

Apple is being asked by the U.S. Senate why they haven’t removed iOS apps from the AppStore that report on the location of sobriety checkpoints. That may be a reasonable question to ask if safety is on your mind, but the issue quickly gets muddled when you consider that what many of these apps are [...]

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Buried treasure.

May 10, 2011

Historians believe that at the end of World War II, the Third Reich managed to hide considerable gold stores before succumbing to the Allied invasion. Some of these gold stores were discovered shortly after the war ended, but others may still lay undiscovered, as though some sort of Nazi-pirate treasure. Nazi archives show that battalions [...]

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Who to trust less: governments, or corporations?

February 24, 2011

When someone residing in Europe pointed out to us how distraught they were that online companies like PayPal require seemingly irrelevant banking information just to handle money already in the account, something occurred to us: in general, Europeans are very sensitive about privacy issues as far as commercial entities go. That is to say, they [...]

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Why Apple pulled the WikiLeaks app.

December 21, 2010

God forbid Apple enforce its app store rules and pull the controversial WikiLeaks application. It’s not like the site isn’t available on the web. But let’s address the app store rules for a moment, and dismiss the silly notion that Apple is necessarily taking sides in this silly WikiLeaks debate. The app store rules state [...]

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