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A Second Look at Second Life Analogies
My letter to the Washington Post regarding Michael Gerson’s “Where the Avatars Roam,” which appeared in the Post last week: Michael Gerson’s July 6…
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False Analogies from WIRED
Wired magazine’s Scott Gilbertson summarized the FTC net neutrality report by quipping, “Wait and see if it all goes south and then maybe consider…
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Fred on Philanthropy in WSJ
Fred Smith, the president of CEI, was featured in today’s Wall Street Journal in a letter to the editor responding to Robert Barro’s commentary…
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FTC Moves to Protect Bandwealth
In a new report, Broadband Connectivity Competition Policy, the FTC routed the empty arguments of the “net neutrality” crowd, marking a significant victory…
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Zero Carbon Computer 100% BS
One of my favorite tech sites, Bit-Tech.net, commented today on a story by the Telegraph entitled “The wooden computer that adds up to zero.”…
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Tesla in the 21st Century
Last week the Daily Mail reported on the advent of a new technology that uses electromagnetic induction to transfer energy wirelessly across spans of…
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EFF Wrong About iTunes Privacy Concerns
The Electronic Frontier Foundation, in a story published by the Associate Press last week, says that Apple’s new DRM-Free tracks available through iTunes are…
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Google’s Squabble Over Desktop Search
Yesterday, The New York Times reported that the U.S. Department of Justice had come out against a complaint leveled by Google against Microsoft alleging…
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A Tale of Two Googles
Google, the company turned into a common verb, has come under fire recently because of the fear that many have of the potential misuse of…
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Partial Nudity Delays Halo 2 for Vista
Halo 2 for Vista was found to have a hidden part of the code containing a character which moons the player. Much like GTA‘s hidden…
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Campus Web Cops?
The Recording Industry Association of America has sent out waves of letters telling college administrators that some of their students are pirates. No, not…
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MSYahoo Would Be Good for the Market
The New York Post is speculating on the possibility of Microsoft aquiring Yahoo! This deal would deflate the notion that Google is a…
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Amensty International Helps Fight to Free Kareem
Amensty International posted this summation of the injustice that has landed Karim Amer in prison for the next four years. Karim’s ‘crime’ has been…
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The Digg Revolution?
Websters are calling the ‘revolt’ at Digg an online Boston Tea Party. This is offensive to anyone who knows the history of the Boston…
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AdSense Nonsense
Charges that Google is constructing a vast network of partners in order to monopolize the net betray that fact that most regulators and ‘tech journalists’…
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Editing Isn’t Censorship, Even for Digg
Digg.com, the popular crowd-edited news aggregating site, has been the subject of online controversy as of late. Recently, a Digg user posted a story with…
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In Defense of the Bundle
Has everyone been taking French lessons without me? That’s the feeling I get when I see the increasing chatter about “a la carte” for everything.
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Cranky Geek Against SarbOx
John C. Dvorak, long time columnist for PC Magazine and head Crank on Cranky Geeks, a popular podcast, has come out against…
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How Business Rates
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Apple, EMI Test DRM-Free
In the wake of the announcement by EMI (along with Apple) that its catalog will now be available on iTunes DRM-free and at…
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Give Us Some Decent Games
Last week, Rep. Fred Upton (R-Mich.)introduced H. R. 1531, the “Video Game Decency Act.” This bill is in response to the Hot Coffee…
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Bureaucrash on NPR
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Al’s Big Adventure on NRO
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Freedom to Hide Behind Avatar
The recent proposed law in Connecticut to verify age of MySpace.com and other social-networking site users has brought up an old question. Is anonymous speech…
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Slacker May Bust Anti-Trust
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AT&T Merger with BellSouth
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IP Block Connecticut
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Stop computer! You don’t have a license!
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Thou Shalt Play All of Grand Theft Auto
Yesterday, CNET Reported the following: Sen. Sam Brownback (R-Kansas) on Tuesday reintroduced the Truth in Video Game Rating Act, first proposed last September.
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When the facts don’t fit, construe!
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Could Al Gore be Biased?
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