The Armenian Genocide began on this very day 95 years ago and its victims are still pursuing recognition by their transgressors to this day. My grandparents, as handfuls of other survivors lived by luck and through their faith; 1.5 million others were not given the God given right to live because the Turks of the Ottoman Empire decided they didn’t ( Read more... )

Lately, there have been quite a number of articles written on how the government is taking advantage of social networks to build more complete profiles on their suspects than ever before. Before this latest ‘age’ of technology, agents actually had to shadow their targets over years to discover as much about a specific person as they can today in a ( Read more... )

I've been struggling with this topic since I saw an article on /. yesterday. I'm using the same title as to associate my response directly with the topic. This morning, I started a discussion with several friends in a private forum, and the following is a subset of my opinions on the topic.

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A couple of days ago, I was having a discussion with an acquaintance about the drive to succeed, and the passion to overcome. My belief is that humans, as long as they have the will to succeed, will inevitably overcome any and all challenges that they face on their way to achieving their goals. Having studied martial arts for a large part of my ( Read more... )

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Last week, I was in Bangalore, India. I never thought that I'd have the opportunity (so early in my career) to visit the place that I had heard so much about over the years. Between the books by Thomas Friedman, The World is Flat, and Paul Graham's Hackers and Painters, I had enough of an idea of what was going on in India (or so I thought), and ( Read more... )

Alexander Gelfand wrote this article regarding a company in Montreal, called Credentica whose goal is to improve consumer's security of their private information during transactions, so that their identities can be protected from those who aggregate data to rebuild identities for a variety of illegitimate uses. The technique they use is called ( Read more... )

The other day, I was on the treadmill, finishing up my workout with a brisk walk, when I glanced up at the window facing out, and caught my own reflection. I've never been much of a fan of mirrors, and would rather do something else than stand in front of one, admiring myself (narcissists have to check themselves in a mirror consistently throughout ( Read more... )

Today, Mitt Romney decided to suspend his campaign for the White House. The speech he made resonated with conservatives, liberals, and independents alike across the nation, and I honestly feel that the current condition of the US government is horrid. Never, in the history of presidential elections has there been a situation where members from both ( Read more... )

I caught this article on engadget through an RSS feed today, and was seriously impressed. Research in artificial limb technology has taken an enormous step forward by the same individual that thought the Segway was going to revolutionize transportation around the world, Dean Kamen. He has a couple of fantastic prototypes, that are being tested by ( Read more... )