Archive for January, 2006

Protect your Windows PC for free

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

First in a series of articles about useful things: how to protect your personal computer running Windows when it hooked up to the internet, and do it for free! A combination of Anti-Virus, Firewall and Anti-Spyware is essential for any general purpose internet user running a windows PC, here are my ...

Are search engines illegal or fair use?

Thursday, January 26th, 2006

In a significant ruling reported by EFF and Boing Boing, Google's cache is ruled to be legal and consistent with fair use. This likely helps pave the way for the book search project: The court granted summary judgment in favor of Google on four independent bases: Serving a webpage from the Google ...

Are search engines illegal? The challenge of accessing copyrighted material under fair use and how it impacts our education.

Sunday, January 22nd, 2006

Following the debate on fair use is a great way to dive into information economics. We all know and love that various kinds of media (audio, video, print...) are used to create songs, movies and books (or more generally "works"). These information creations are economically important as they are often ...

Welcome to 2006 where your ideas and even your DNA are own3d by someone else…

Friday, January 20th, 2006

Now is a truly amazing time to be alive for the curious and adventurous - opportunities to do what you enjoy for a living have never been better. The information available on obscure interests is amazing. There is lots to be optimistic about as the future will continue to bring ...