EDIT: Scroll down to see countervailing data compared to what I talk about here first. > The disparity in homicide rates and gun control laws showed "gun legislation, on its own, means little in terms of gun violence," the Insight Crime analysis found. Source: http://www.politifact.com/

Here's how to generate an SSL CSR:

Got a Tor relay you set up during the Tor Challenge (https://www.eff.org/torchallenge/) or before? Run these commands to upgrade: And when asked, press 'Enter' or 'N' then Enter -- do NOT replace your torrc with the default, of course!

"Introducing Executable Philosophy" Mini Abstract In this paper I introduce Executable Philosophy ("ExPhil"), a new philosophical methodology that enables us to compute philosophical facts. The idea is that we translate philosophical theories into software, then use these well-defined algorithms to (objectively) compute the outputs of these

Below I try to convey why I value Creation so dearly. > Statesmen despise publicists, painters despise art-critics, and physiologists, physicists, or mathematicians have usually similar feelings: there is no scorn more profound, or on the whole more justifiable, than that of the men who make for the men who

Product Replacement TODOs Carrier: AT&T => T-Mobile (http://www.t-mobile.com/cell-phone-plans/individual.html) Many ethical reasons why (https://startpage.com/do/search?query=at&t surveillance) that are mostly surveillance-related T-Mobile's network is now excellent in highly-populated areas, but still lacking between cities. Is

For the first time ever, Android feels really limited to me. I wanted to install an XMPP (aka "Jabber") chat server, but did I have access to Prosody, ejabberd, OpenFire, or any of the other XMPP servers? Nope. There was 1 decent-looking closed source one in the Play

Movie quote: It's fair to say I'm stepping out on a limb... but I am on the edge. And that's where it happens.

At last. Yes, I once again have a blog. Yes, it's finally hosted at my domain on my server, not on Posterous (~2010-2012) nor LiveJournal (~2004-2008). And thanks to Ghost (https://ghost.org/download/), I can blog in markdown -- yay! Hopes and Expectations I'm planning

You're live! Nice. We've put together a little post to introduce you to the Ghost editor and get you started. You can manage your content by signing in to the admin area at <your blog URL>/ghost/. When you arrive, you can select this