People see the problem of goods designed to cease to run, but they don't see that it is the tip of the iceberg.

The things that make an iMonster impossible to repair include the same things that make it unjust to its users while it is still "in working order".

Please distinguish between obsolescence (something that happens to a given model) and inoperability (something that happens to a particular object).

The Committee to Protect Journalists reports on the danger to journalists from spyware used to endanger them.

There is a campaign to stop the US government from buying personal data about people from data brokers.

It would be a step forward, but as usual it does not try to deal with the overall problem: massive surveillance of people in general.

The US government may not be the only government that buys data about Americans from data brokers. Is it ok if other governments know all about most Americans?

Indeed, the US government could work around the proposed law. The NSA could get data about Americans by cracking the computers of foreign governments that buy the data from US data brokers. Or by cracking the servers of foreign data brokers.

The real solution is to make sure that data brokers don't have such data, because the data are not collected in the first place.

Britain (and the world) needs to remember the evil side of Winston Churchill as well as the heroic side.

In addition to his racism, he was also a Tory: he stood for keeping working Britons down. That's why they voted in 1945 to replace him with the Labour Party, led by the giants that inspired Jeremy Corbyn.

Set against this, he not only championed the defeat of Germany and Japan, he also made the world aware of the totalitarian repression of the Soviet Union under Stalin.

It is true that cancellationism and pressure for censorship can be found on the left and on the right. When they come from the right, they tend to involve heavy-handed threats. Resisting that can be difficult but people don't hesitate to denounce it as censorship. When they come from the left, it consists of a mob that demands submission in the name of a cause which is basically just. Many consider them heroes, and just as with Churchill, find it difficult to recognize the evil side of what they do. Sperm whales taught each other Sperm whales taught each other, as a society, effective methods to protect themselves from human whale-hunters that were using sailing ships.

A few rich people with houses on Long Island are suing to stop the power cable from an offshore wind farm from running, 30 feet underground, through their hamlet.

It would be good to establish national safety criteria for wind farms, on sea and on land, to assure that they can't be built where they would cause real problems for anyone — not even people who are poor or disprivileged — and that even rich NIMBYs can't arbitrarily block them.