Of Pecans, Profits, and Piety 26 Aug 2013 | 03:41 pm

Broadly speaking, the system of international trade we live under is a kind of technology.  It’s certain that without modern engineered means of transportation and communications, international market...

Guarding U. S. Nuclear Facilities: The ABCs of DBTs 19 Aug 2013 | 03:52 pm

Cybercrime: Prevention or Punishment? 12 Aug 2013 | 03:39 pm

Last week I needed an item at a Harbor Freight store in Austin.  Harbor Freight deals in low- to mid-priced tools imported from China, and unless you’re looking for something that will last for decade...

The Things That Didn’t Happen To Flight 214 5 Aug 2013 | 04:00 pm

Just moments before Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was to land at the San Francisco International Airport on July 6, some passengers noticed that backdraft from the jet engines was kicking up seawater.  T...

The Medieval Wisdom of Google’s “Don’t Be Evil” 26 Jul 2013 | 04:31 pm

Back in 2000, when the founders of Google were discussing ways to express their core philosophy, Paul Buchheit (employee No. 23) suggested “Don’t be evil.”  At the time, he was simply trying to contra...

Open Spectrum: An Ethical Open Question 22 Jul 2013 | 03:39 pm

My personal dealings with the Federal Communications Commission have been limited to holding a commercial “radio operator” license that qualified me to be the night watchman at a small AM station for ...

The Quebec Rail Disaster: Nine Notorious Necessities 14 Jul 2013 | 04:50 pm

In the science of logic, a necessary condition for a thing to occur is a circumstance that will stop the thing from occurring if the circumstance is not present.  Having fuel in my car is a necessary ...

Global Warming, Solar Energy, and $300,000 Tortoises: The Morality of Energy Production 8 Jul 2013 | 02:21 am

The Explosion at West: Who Regulates the Regulators? 1 Jul 2013 | 04:44 am

Tesla and the Ethics of Publicity 24 Jun 2013 | 04:48 pm

Normal.dotm 0 0 1 1017 5801 Texas State University School of Engineering 48 11 7124 12.0 0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false A few weeks ago I mentioned that an eminently qua...