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Clean Up Squad In Boston

Ken — Fri, 19 Apr 2013 10:16:43 +0000

Bad Scripting… Ever watched a movie where a villain who seems like a superman who can do no wrong, only to suddenly get conveniently “stupid” toward the end so that the good guys can capture him? That’s what happened in Boston last night, only for real. Consider This: You are an international terrorist. You have foreign [...]

Police State Fails

Ken — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 10:30:14 +0000

Wasn’t the American police state supposed to protect us from this? You know, give up your freedom and get security? Only they didn’t keep up their end of the deal. Of course they couldn’t live up to it, and they never really wanted to, but now the fail is there for even the dumbest government [...]

You Train How You Fight

Ken — Thu, 21 Feb 2013 12:35:59 +0000

In police training academies, martial arts dojos, and boot camps, some version of the story below is often told. It is probably apocryphal, though I’m sure someone will write me to tell me this actually happened to them, but it’s instructive nonetheless. An off duty police officer walks into a store, and happens to find [...]

Pattern Interrupt

Ken — Fri, 11 Jan 2013 16:36:30 +0000

How many times have you ever drove someplace, home from work or to your kid’s school, and suddenly realized that you don’t remember how you got there? It happens to all of us. As Ray Kurzweil has pointed out, most recently in his book “how to create a mind,” we are pattern matching machines. We [...]