Christopher Leger

Intellectual Property, Individual Rights, and Technology

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Corey Doctorow is a god

March 10th, 2009 · No Comments

This Week in Tech episode 183 is officially the best TWiT ever. The panel has a very rational and intellectually honest discussion on a wide range of intellectual property issues, and doesn’t contain any of the business-side, inside baseball, filler that Dvorak or Calicanis bring up. Honestly, it is the best hour and a half [...]

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Tags: Politics · Technology Policy · copyright · creative commons · networks

The hacker ethos and the law

August 25th, 2008 · No Comments

I was listening a recent episode of TWiT, and Jason Calacanis said a few things that were both brilliant and idiotic at the same time. He concluded that the hacker ethos of the younger generation was throwing out the bulk of the law and tradition in business – and they would eventually be beaten into [...]

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Tags: Internet Security · Politics · Technology Policy · networks

is this the future of small networks?

January 7th, 2008 · 3 Comments

I was listening to a Futures in Biotech podcast a few days ago, and it made me see the future of networks. Not just large networks with specialized problems, like Folding@Home, but everywhere. I mean, most businesses, and many homes, have many computers attached to their network, right? And most of these computers are idle, [...]

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Tags: networks