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Linking Charges Against Barrett Brown Dropped
Albert Wenger – Mar 6, 2014
Brief post today with an update on an important case that I wrote about last year: the federal prosecution of Barrett Brown. As I wrote back then, linking is the essential building block of the web. Criminally prosecuting someone for [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Permission-less Innovation
Albert Wenger – Mar 5, 2014
This will be the last Homeschool Wednesday post for quite some time. Not just because we will be going away on a trip to Africa but when we come back I will switch Continuations around a bit. I will use [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: P = NP?
Albert Wenger – Mar 4, 2014
Last Tech Tuesday, we looked at complexity classes which group problems by their intrinsic difficult. There we encountered one of the great unsolved questions of Computer Science. Is P = NP? The class P is easy to define. It is [...] Read more
Healthcare: Commerce Before Marketplace?
Albert Wenger – Mar 3, 2014
I am generally not a big fan of strategies that involve pursuing business A now in order to pursue B in the future. I tend to believe that you should go for B right away. For example, if you are [...] Read more
Angel Investing
Albert Wenger – Feb 28, 2014
Later this morning I am participating in a panel called “Angel Investing in Action” at the 2014 Pipeline Fellowship Conference here in NY. The goal of the Pipeline Fellowship is to have more women angel investors (currently only about 1 [...] Read more
Jury Duty (Follow Up)
Albert Wenger – Feb 27, 2014
I posted yesterday in Homeschool Wednesday about my first time at jury duty. Here is a quick follow up. It turns out I wasn’t chosen for either of the two trials that were under consideration and surprisingly wasn’t asked to [...] Read more
Homeschool Wednesday: Jury Duty
Albert Wenger – Feb 26, 2014
I became a US citizen in the mid 2000s (I have forgotten the exact year) and recently got called for the first time for jury duty. I am very excited about this as it is both a central part of [...] Read more
Tech Tuesday: Complexity Classes
Albert Wenger – Feb 25, 2014
The last few weeks in Tech Tuesday we have looked at various aspects of computational complexity. So far whenever we have looked at a sample problem, such as finding words on a web page, we have studied the characteristics of [...] Read more
Facebook Massively Overpaid for WhatsApp
Albert Wenger – Feb 24, 2014
A couple of days have passed since the news of the monster acquisition of WhatsApp by Facebook broke. More people have written about it already than I can possibly link to so I won’t even try. My immediate reaction just [...] Read more