Security design

Bruce Schneier points out that fixing the user is not a workable policy.

This is going to be good

The only thing wrong with Jo Walton’s Informal History of the Hugos is that it won’t be here until next year.

Thanx to Tor.com.

Freebies

Amazon has just discovered that giving people free stuff in return for product reviews somehow leads to biased reviews unless of course it is done through Amazon’s own program.

Thanx to Metafilter

What I wish we could get across to millions of Trump voters

Donald Trump will not tell you how to get out of paying taxes the way he does. For one thing, he despises you as much as he does the minorities you hate, because in his world you are losers who didn’t have the gumption to inherit a real estate empire. You are the people he stiffs on services he promised to pay for because you don’t have expensive lawyers.

Red in tooth & claw

Robert Anton Wilson said that we are all affected by those Ev Psych desires to make sure our DNA triumphs, but those of us with cognitive ability can override those desires or at least value other things. Apparently, the alt-right lacks such ability: Their pet insult is cuck[old], and they say we must vote against Hillary because she failed to monopolize her husband’s seed.