Category Archives: Technology

Software Patents

Software patents are something of a sore spot for me, both as a software developer and as a generally intelligent human being.  I read an opinion article on Ars Technica several days ago on the subject, and they pointed out why the software patent system is fundamentally broken: Nathan Myhrvold, the Microsoft veteran who founded the… Read More »

On anti-virus

One year ago, I posted on Slashdot that I do not run an anti-virus program on my computer. That spawned a very large set of comments, most of which were telling me how stupid I am for not running anti-virus. I promised one user that one year from that day, I would post the results… Read More »