Copyright for Kids

A great mini-tutorial on what a copyright is, and what it means, done in a manner fit for kids to understand. Fantastic editing work. Thanks to Paul for suggesting this one!

The IPP Act of 2007 is on crack

I have to tip my hat to the proponents of this piece of wonderous hallucinogenic mastery, however, the text of the Intellectual Property Protection Act of 2007 contains so may ludicrous items, that it needs to be scrapped and redone. For example: “SECTION 9. CRIMINAL INFRINGEMENT OF A COPYRIGHT” “(a) IN GENERAL- Section 2319 of [...]

Stop the Insanity

As if the proposed IPP Act of 2007 isn’t bizarre enough, we also have Microsoft sharpening the dull heads of their legal department to prepare for an attack on the open source community.  We also have another loss of sensitive employee data by an IBM “contractor”.   Yet another soldier has gone missing after a bomb [...]

United We Stand, Divided They Linux

The recent merger news of OSDL and FSG (not to be confused with MSG), as reported by InformationWeek, doesn’t ring my bell.  Why?  Because almost every Linux nut I know (and I know quite a few) doesn’t care about consistency across distributions.  It doesn’t benefit them, at least not in their view.  Almost every person [...]

How to beat a traffic ticket

This article on the Yahoo! Finance web site has some really good information and tips for challenging traffic tickets and having them dismissed.  I haven’t had a moving violation ticket in more than 25 years, but I hate to knock on wood.  I hope I don’t have to use this anytime soon, but it’s nice [...]