A survey of 500 important web sites found that most of them have terms and conditions that only a minority of Americans have the competence to read and understand.

We should not allow web sites to set their own terms and conditions however they wish. That gives them too much power over the public. I don't agree to the terms of a web site without checking it; and most of the terms I check, I find intolerable so I don't accept them.

The article uses the bogus concept "intellectual property", which spreads confusion because people think it refers to some coherent thing. No such thing exists.

Epson is trying to block compatible printer cartridges by ordering Amazon and eBay to delete offers to sell them.

The complete fix for this is to change patent law.

Uber and Lyft have tracked their passengers' movements for many years. Now New York City tracks those passengers' movements too.

Please do not call what these companies do "sharing". That is an absurd misnomer.

US farmers are still pushing the idea that adding ethanol made from corn would reduce vehicles' consumption of fossil fuel.

The flaw in that approach is that growing corn the US way uses up fossil fuel — too much of it.

Refugees in Uganda are cutting down forests to make houses and to burn the wood.

This is a small foretaste of what hundreds of millions of climate refugees will do in a few decades. It will be difficult for any forest to survive if we don't limit the overrunning human population.