Technically Incorrect

Antipirates attacked for pirating NFL game

When the happily married have affairs, they tend to argue it didn't mean anything. When the happily connected are accused of piracy, they claim someone else must have used their Wi-Fi.

Somewhere in the midst of arguments like these lies a concealed truth: human beings are not what they claim to be.

Please, therefore, consider the troubling--and very human--emotions that surround the revelations that, at a Sundance party hosted by VEVO, there played on several screens an illegal stream of an NFL playoff game.

It so happened that a very nice man from TechCrunch was there, and he was more

Snappy Valentine's! More women sexting than last year

Sometimes, one is confronted with information so stunning that contemplative navel-gazing will never suffice.

So let me toss this mind-altering grenade and see how it shakes you: women are using technology in a more openly sexual way.

How can I possibly know this? Well, I am leaning heavily (as I must) on the study of women's mores prepared on behalf of Harlequin--yes, those racy people who publish bodice-ripping romances for the everyday commute.

I am grateful to a lady at the Huffington Post for corralling this data and promulgating it electronically.

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Teen whines about parents on Facebook, dad shoots laptop

Teens can be precocious, difficult, and presumptuous. Oh, and whiny. So given how tech-savvy they've all become, one idea to offer them perspective might be to take their laptop and blast it with a gun.

No, no, this is not my advice. This is the advice of Tommy Jordan, a man who appears to run an IT company in North Carolina called Twisted Networks.

Jordan, you see, became frustrated when he discovered his daughter Hannah (we're guessing at the spelling of her name) had posted a rather whiny message about her parents and her domestic responsibilities on her

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Facebook defriending leads to alleged murder

Sometimes, the information is all that seems to suffice.

In this case, Marvin Potter, aged 60, is accused of murdering Billie Payne Jr. and his girlfriend, Billie Jean Hayworth.

What might link the couple to Potter? Well, according to the Associated Press, the Tennessee couple had defriended his daughter on Facebook.

The couple had then allegedly complained to the police that Potter's daughter, Jenelle, had been harassing them.

The only quote that the AP managed to get from the local sheriff was this: "It's a senseless thing." That is very much how it sounds.

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Zuckerberg likes Romney? Really?

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg may be a man who shoots animals so that he can eat, but surely many would imagine that his politics might tip slightly toward the Democratic side.

Until the last 24 hours, that is.

For the site's faithful suddenly got the impression that Zuckerberg was a keen liker of Mitt Romney.

Tech CEOs who wear jeans and look innocent are not supposed to be Republicans. They're supposed to be liberals who let youths skateboard around the office, while making billions of dollars.

How might this clear misunderstanding have occurred? Well, Zuckerberg decided that he more

CCTV operator error has cop chasing himself

Technology can only be as good as the hands and eyes into which it is placed. Those hands and eyes can sometimes be overly aggressive or simply inexact.

Please imagine, then, how those hands and eyes felt when they belonged to a CCTV operator who directed a policeman to give chase to a suspicious person, possibly a burglar.

The way the Telegraph casts its eye on the story, a policeman patrolling on foot in the South of England received a message from a CCTV operator that a suspected burglar was lurking in his vicinity.

That vicinity had endured a few more

BBC confronts Facebook troll

What goes through the mind of someone who trolls Facebook's RIP pages in order to leave messages like "Rot in Piss?"

What sort of person does that? What do they really look like? What do they sound like?

The BBC took it upon itself to try and meet one of these people, just to measure their charm level and the cut of their jib.

In a piece of footage unearthed by The Next Web, a BBC reporter tracked down a troll in Cardiff, Wales, who goes by the handle Nimrod Severen. Astoundingly, his real name is a lot less more

Use less toilet paper to be green? Nope, say Americans

What will Americans do in order to preserve their own green fields and oil refineries? What will Americans give up in order to keep their trees growing and their consciences clear of moral soot?

Not toilet paper, it seems.

For a stunning research study has landed upon my laptop with a conservative thump. This deep dive into American paper use was commissioned by Nitro, a company that, as far as one can tell, "develops intuitive solutions that enable people to work smarter with digital documents."

It seems that a mere 6 percent of Americans are prepared to reduce the reams more

What the Dickens? Google uses doodle to (ultimately) sell books

There's a smell of brand-new commercialism over at Google. No more Mr. So Nice It Almost Seems Unreal Guy. Google's here to make money and to win. Your Google search results are now your Google+ search results.

But who would have thought--other than the most venal--that the company might even use its lovely doodles to, ultimately, make lovely oodles of cash?

Well, I am grateful to the bookish data-divers at Search Engine Watch for delving deeply into today's doodle, which celebrates the great poverty-sympathizing author, Charles Dickens.

It seems, you see, that Google has chosen today's more