Got $200,000,000,000,000 on you? From Technocrat comes The Death of Common Sense:
Here’s one for the books, showing how far society can go to completely avoid common sense when the automated machinery tells you such and such is reality. Some guy in Malaysia gets a phone bill for over 200 trillion dollars and they sicced the collection agency on him to get him to pay up!
Yet another thorough debunking of the “Make sure you repair permissions before installing an update!” hysteria.
A plan for a new internet “domain” for pornography has once again been shelved, dealing another blow to the US-backed addressing system that acts as the glue holding together the unified global internet.
This really saddens me. I know people who have been addicted to pornography, and now isolate themselves completely from the internet. Something like this could be the first step to a virtual red light district: Much easier to filter, for example. Full story here.