One of my favorite forms of art is street art or graffiti. I won’t bother trying to deny that graffiti is vandalism. It is. But it is also art. In my opinion, one has no bearing on the other. The fact that graffiti is a crime is irrelevant to the argument as to whether or not it is art.

My bank has one of those idiotic rules forcing us to change our password for online banking every 90 days. It is my opinion that their rule increases vulnerability rather than resistance to attack, but it is a situation about which I can do nothing, and I otherwise like the bank.

Larry Page, Sergey Brinn and Mark Zuckerberg became billionaires at very young ages because they created a way, through Google and Facebook, to track the moment-by-moment movements of billions of consumers online. The aggregate of this data is worth hundreds of billions of dollars to marketers, politicians, and any other group trying to sell you [...]