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For this article, I am standing firmly on a soap box. The Associated Press reported, today, on a few information technologist that are doing well in their young careers, so well, in fact, that they each hope to retire before reaching middle age, and they attained their success without a formal higher education. This article struck a raw chord with
Google, the search engine company, won a federal court battle against Geico, the insurance company, today that allows the search engine to sell online advertisements tied to keywords that are also trademarked company names. Geico claimed that Google should not be allowed to display advertisements for rival insurance companies when the Geico name is used as a search keyword. U.S.
Bought Any Illegal Software From A Spammer, Lately? The offer advertised in that e-mail message is awfully tempting. Microsoft Windows XP Professional for only $39? The entire Microsoft Office Professional suite for less than a few sawbucks? It's real software, isn't it? Well it sure is, and it's a lot more, too. Spammers stay in business because we're buying their
The courts have not been very sympathetic when it comes to allowing out of print books and films to be archived and essentially preserved forever. Their is serious contention surrounding the Copyright Renewal Act of 1992, the Sony Bono Copyright Term Extension Act, the Copyright Act of 1976 and the Berne Convention Implementation Act. If the courts fail to realize
Philadelphia Metropolitan Wi-Fi Plan Not Blocked by Legislation The City of Philadelphia has concluded negotiations with Verizon Communications, and will move forward with plans to develop a metropolitan Wi-Fi network, even though a new Pennsylvania law allows telecommunication carriers from blocking such projects.
Make Love Not Spam, regardless of it's poorly-punctuated name, is an antispam effort lead by Lycos Europe. Users who download the screensaver allow their unused processor time to go toward flooding the websites advertised in spam e-mail. Sounds good, but there are two catches, and they are both significant. First, what is flooding?
Today I was listening to the Law session from the Bloggercon Session and was curious about a group called IPac that was discussed several weeks ago. So this evening I am reading through the feeds and found a new Wired article on the organization. Every tech geek that is worried about intellectual property rights, fair use, copyright and various other