Reviewing the audience

Theodore Sturgeon used to say that science fiction is judged by its worst examples. There's actually something worse than that: a category being judged by its audience, or more precisely by the critic's image of its audience. The classic examples are soap opera (can't be good, appeals to housewives) and country music (can't be good, appeals to rednecks). Now we have can't be good, appeals to nerds.

Thanx to Geek Feminism.

Bad idea

"Protective reaction strike" is the way the Pentagon says, "He hit me back first." It makes no more sense when applied to cyber-warfare.

Thanx to Bruce Schneier