Lawyers Shut Down Internet
I exaggerate, but check out this Slate post about a law firm that successfully objected to someone linking to their website.
Category: Computers
How the Internet affects our future
Salon discusses the Internet and the two poles of “Google is making us stupid” and “the Internet will liberate humanity.” In “A Brief History of Everything”, Ken Wilber resurrected Arthur Koestler’s holons: autonomous structures that are themselves part of a …
The emergence of a collective conversation
This election is like no other, and here’s why: it’s a populist election for the first time. What has created that is technology: the internet, video cameras, easy video editing, YouTube and social networking sites like Digg. In all previous …
Microsoft Patents the Page Up and Page Down Operation
ITWire carries this story about yet another stupid patent.
Software patents invalidated?!
PatentlyO reports that the Patent and trademark Office has ruled that “A general purpose computer is not a particular machine, and thus innovative software processes are unpatentable if they are tied only to a general purpose computer”. But apparently, a …
Bad Computer Design #1 – stupid key combinations
How do you close a program in Windows? Alt-F4, of course. How do you switch between documents? Ctrl-F6, stupid! Who picked these finger-bending choices? To answer this we must go back, back, back in time, to the earliest days of …
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How true is the news?
Media everywhere ran the story about Harvard rejecting 119 aplicants because they tried to learn their admissions status early by “hacking into a Web site“, but the initial stories gave no details of the “hack”. Now we learn that it …