Apocalyptic speculation to start the new year! U.S. / British adventurism continues faltering across the globe, forcing numerous ignominious retreats. Simultaneously, Russia’s economy spirals downward. What then? China is having major financial problems they soon won’t be able to conceal…

Tumbling oil prices could lead to 250,000 jobs being lost in the US by mid-2015. Regardless of what you think about oil companies, these are real people, with real families and mouths to feed. Alaska in particular gets most of…

Nevada DMV lets you avoid lines by making reservations by text. It tells you when to arrive and what window to use. Nice! Nevada recently implemented RealID, which is mandated by DHS. You only have to do it once. Be…

Identity theft often starts with hackers / malware getting access to a person’s primary email account. This is the key to the cookie jar. Once they have it, they request password resets be sent to the account, unlocking other accounts.…

The good news is illegal online pharmacies will mostly be extinct in a few years. The bad news is cybercriminals are now focusing on identity theft and ransomware. For a while, illegitimate online pharmacies were selling drugs, including highly addictive…

Who could have possibly known torturing people will infuriate them and cause them to join together to kill their torturers? Certainly not the United States, whose prison / torture camps in Iraq radicalized thousands and led inexorably to the rise…