Assault on Opioids

It has been twenty years since I left The Wall Street Journal, and still I revere the paper and, in particular, its erudite and provocative editorials and op ed pages. That’s twenty years since I snagged a byline in The Journal byline–until just now. Here’s my op ed from Thursday, January 4, 2018, on the Next Big Tort and

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My Bitcoin Bender

Second of two parts. Got Dramamine? I could use some in the two weeks since jumping onboard the Bitcoin Bandwagon. By downloading the Coinbase app on your smartphone, you can begin trading bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies in maybe 15 minutes. And so I did. Suddenly, without so much as an on-screen disclaimer or warning of

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Fired in Your 50s

Hi guys, with help from a talented filmmaker friend, I have broken down my recent speech at Carnegie Hall into bite-sized soundbites for faster skimming… in case you find any worthy nuggets of wisdom or humor herein.  Thanks! Part 1:  Caught up in a Daunting Demographic Dilemma Part 2:  So you got laid off .

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Up Now: My Own App!

Wanna see something kinda cool? First, pick up your Apple iPhone. Now go to the Apple app store. Tap on the magnifying-glass search-line thingie, and enter my name: Dennis Kneale And bingo! I got my own app up in the Apple app store! Now download it, please, whatdya say? It is a “native-mode” app of

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The Bigger Snoop

http://bit.ly/1JeHfxL Who’s the bigger snoop–government or Google?  On my panel at the Milken Global Forum, ACLU’s President, an Intel privacy veep, an anti-hacker and a computer scientist debate that question and hold forth on what may already be a moribund idea: the notion that anything we do or say can remain private in a digital

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Taming the Big Data Wave

For decades data storage has been a control freak’s dream: Data are “structured” and consistent, dutifully tucked away in disk-based systems that are prodigious in capacity but cantankerous and inflexible, unable to expand or shrink as data flows dictate. Now comes a data deluge that will make control freaks… freak. A new wave of “unstructured”

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