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  1. Fair Use on What To Do About CC License Violations? · · Score: 1

    Boing-boing probably isn't violating your copyright. If they have used a compressed, low quality version of the photo and are using it for commentary, it would fall under fair use.

  2. Underwhelming on MIT's OpenCourseWare Program · · Score: 1

    MIT's open courseware, in economics, is underwhelming. There is much more material available elsewhere and most professors have at least as extensive sites. I think this is mostly MIT grabbing publicity for content ordinarily available online.

  3. Fixed? on GMail Vulnerable To Contact List Hijacking · · Score: 4, Informative
    According to

    http://blogs.zdnet.com/Google/?p=434
    it is fixed.

  4. Re:Or, you know... on Google Offers Innovative Stock Option Scheme · · Score: 1

    Actually, a Jan '09 option with a strike price of $600 was worth $57.50 at the close today, but it did fall $11 today. See

    http://finance.yahoo.com/q/op?s=GOOG&m=2009-01

  5. Re:Threat to eBay on eBay Slammed Over Levels of Fraud · · Score: 1
    Sorry, I hadn't realized that they were charging for articles, since it shows up free at my university. My error. Here is a free source of the same article: http://www.hss.caltech.edu/~mcafee/Papers/PDF/Enro n.pdf

    My apologies.

  6. Threat to eBay on eBay Slammed Over Levels of Fraud · · Score: 1

    You may find this article (which I wrote) interesting: http://www.bepress.com/ev/vol1/iss2/art4/ It compares the fraud threat to eBay to the collapse of Enron.