Different laws apply in different countries but the internet is starting to blur the boundaries. There have been a number of cases recently where the USA has commenced legal proceedings against someone who lives in some other country and who perhaps has never even visited the USA because of something that the person offers via [...]

Was rereading this book by Robert Heinlein. When I first read it the book seemed wrong in the way the odds of success were being calculated. The odds in the book were going up and down based on the amount of risk involved in the individual tasks currently being undertaken whereas it was already known [...]

It can be rather interesting when reading science fiction written many years ago to consider what things mentioned in the book that were considered part of the SF setting at the time the book was written that are simply a part of our everyday life now. Consider for example Robert Heinlein’s book “Space Cadet” where [...]

I have been rewatching some of the Star Trek Next Generation episodes recently. I had forgotten how annoying and inaccurate the opening of that show was with the comment “to boldly go where no one has gone before” where there wasn’t a single show in which they went anywhere without meeting someone who was already [...]

There’s been a lot in the news lately about the Japanese boats in the southern oceans and the conservationists attempts to interfere with what they are doing. Perhaps a more appropriate response would be to send a scientific expedition into southern waters to capture and dissect these Japanese whalers in order to see if there [...]