A dentist pulled out a hypodermic to give his patient a painkiller. ‘No way! No needles! I hate needles,’ the patient said. So the dentist started to hook up the nitrous oxide and once again the bloke objected. ‘I can’t do the gas thing. The thought of having the gas mask on is suffocating me!’ The dentist then asked the patient if he had any objection to taking a pill. ‘No problem,’ the bloke said. ‘I’m fine with...

We all know what P2P is. Most of us do use it, even if we won’t admit it. The lazy ones among us would perhaps pick a few DVDs off the fella who brings the albums to the mamak stall. But then, he too downloaded it and burnt it on a DVD for your convenience. But now, Domestic Trade, Cooperatives and Consumerism Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob wants to make sure that if you do use P2P (or torrents as he says specifically), you would be...

I was with a couple of friends, both longtime journalists, and we were discussing the impact of the internet on political awareness and activism last Friday. In the end, we agreed that the internet is a tool, which enhances any inbuilt predilections of political awareness or activism. However, the speed in which the internet does this is much faster than any legacy medium, barring voice communications or SMS/MMS. Even so, both SMS and MMS...