Warren Spector was Digipen’s Commencement speaker in 2011, and it was perhaps one of the most awkward speeches I have ever heard in person. He asked two or three times questions of the audience that no one could respond to, so they didn’t, but he would *persist* with asking the question of the befuddled audience. …

In at least two of Robert Jordan’s Conan novels, Conan does *not* have consent from the young lady. There was usually some writing like “her protests gave way to ecstasy” and from that point on the girl would happily do anything that he asked of her. I remember one of them having the context “better just me than…

I hadn’t given any thought to DRM until I was assigned with implementing DRM on my company’s product. We have an excellent relationship with our customers *and* and the machines our software is installed on are not connected to the Internet, so I’m approaching initial key gen and validation with a “good faith”…

For various reasons I used to be in and around NoA’s campus in Redmond. One day I found a dropped security badge and brought it to their front desk... only to be accused of stealing it. Another day I was there to meet an employee and noticed that someone in their parking lot had left their lights on. I copied down…