There’s an interesting article up on Ars Technica on how the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) has the potential to infringe on free speech. The idea of legal versus illegal in the information age is interesting because information is a type of speech. The Internet is based on the free exchange of ideas and knowledge – blogs, [...]

Ars Technica has a good editorial up on Network Neutrality. It brings up the position of Holman Jenkins at the Wall Street Journal, which argues that online companies are free riding off telecom companies, while making the Internet appear ‘free’. The Huffington Post has criticized this and other WSJ articles on Net Neutrality, raising questions about the paper’s [...]

My thoughts for this post originally came a few years ago, while watching TechTV. There was a discussion on there about new uses for CAPTCHAs beyond anti-spam security.  What CAPTCHAs are, are tests used in websites and other types of computing to ensure that responses come from a human and not a computer. The most [...]