Is Happiness All There Is?

Any parent will tell you children are difficult, and they wear you out, and they likely will just break your heart in the end. And who knows — maybe when we believe we are feeling deep joy from parenthood (usually over a glass of wine, after all the little stinkers are finally in bed), we are simply sentimentalizing the whole ordeal to keep ourselves from rooting out our unused passports from the sock drawer and dashing off to Europe, never to be heard from again. Or perhaps we just feel too guilty to admit that, while we couldn’t bear [...]

On the Privacy Front

Tracking the world as our privacy slips into the past…

A lot of the problem with loss of privacy is people don’t understand the threat, or don’t take it seriously. Several studies on users of FaceBook have been done, showing how poorly people manage their settings on FaceBook.

One of the conclusions drawn by the two researchers is that Facebook offers relatively poor personal data protection ““ both via the service itself, its design, the level of competence of its users and their lack of awareness of self-protection measures.

“What information is put on the net is completely [...]