Month: October 2004

  • Product Safety & Socialism

    Socialists would have you believe that government safety regulations lead to higher safety standards than a free market would provide. The reality however, is that the agencies responsible for product safety are quickly captured by the parties they are intended to regulate – and then used to socialize costs and restrict competition. Regulating safety standards…

  • NPR: Jesus HEART Bush

  • Picture this tv ad:

    A kid is going around an inner city school cafeteria collecting scraps of food from various plates. He then goes outside and gives the food to a bum. Prompt: “What do you want to be?” Next shot: the kid is dispensing food for an international aid agency. What agency is this? The United States Army.…

  • 364,000 feet

    SpaceShipOne wins the X-Prize! Virgin Galactic, here I come! (Photos)

  • Overclock your router

    While surfing the HowStuffWorks website, I discovered that my wireless router, the Linksys WRT54G runs Linux, and is therefore very hackable. I proceeded to find a firmware update that gave me shell access and installed a bunch of tweaks – such as the ability to boost the signal 900%, function as a range extender, VPN,…