If the FCC abandons Net Neutrality the major telcos are planning to set up toll-booths all along the information superhighway.

Microsoft is being very coy and dishonest this week. Having ensured that Microsoft itself is ‘representing’ entire countries and stealing the election in the majority of them, Microsoft wants the world to believe that over three quarters of ‘the world’ supports OOXML. Of course, it’s a foolish thing to believe and a lie of very great proportions.

Listen man, if you wanna talk about ignorance you're gonna have to learn what the term "ignorance" really means first.

The best thing anyone can do to continue making the Internet more closed, restrictive, and prohibiting is to use Adobe Flash as it exists today. The Internet was created to allow for the open and unconfined infrastructure to share information; yet, it is being used today for the opposite purpose: to stop this information torrent.

Innocence, greed or ignorance of politicians get exploited by Microsoft, which turns more citizens into Microsoft customers

As it turns out, the Internet actually does indeed have a currency…several, as a matter of fact. But what makes BitCoin so special, as opposed to other projects such as the Liberty Dollar? Is an alternative currency in the United States (or anywhere else, really) even legal? How is value determined when everything is done digitally?

Ubuntu seems to be the latest, greatest thing in the world of operating systems. The creators of Ubuntu have done some good things in terms of making Linux easier to use and in providing guidance for Linux newbs. But with newbs you bring ignorance, and there are a couple things I’ve been seeing that are kind of ridiculous.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is experimenting with a program that calls on the wisdom of the masses to help patent examiners better review applications. The program, Peer-to-Patent, publishes applications on the Web and asks the public to help determine whether the idea already is in use.

Most of the assumptions on which our present economic system is based are based on nothing much better than “conventional wisdom”: which is a fancy way of saying “no basis at all, really, it just sounds plausible”. But sometimes conventional wisdom is wrong, and that’s what this series has been about: six things that ought to be impossible if conventional wisdom were correct.