“I am going to taser your wall socket LAN port!” Perhaps the above exclamation doesn’t sound like much of a threat in this era of wireless everything, but apparently it is stupidly simple to fry every device connected to a LAN network by applying a taser’s 50 kilovolts to the appropriate socket. This wonderful tidbit [...]

Spotty. Neglected. Abandoned. Dead-ended. Nevertheless some dead-ends are worth revisiting. If the fall of Soviet Union some 20 odd years ago consigned Communism and Marxist to some sort of imaginary intellectual dustbin, it is interesting to contemplate the counterfactual: what if the cybernetic central planned economy actually could function as a utopian provider of plenty [...]