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How morality feeds poisonous partisanship
Robert Samuelson today: "...the public agenda gravitates toward issues framed as moral matters. Global warming is about "saving the planet." Abor…
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Unvarnished Revisited (& Updated)
UPDATE: Unvarnished changed its privacy policy, addressing some of the problems I mentioned. Thanks! I recently wrote about my disappointment in Unvarnished’s…
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Obama and Rush
CBS News: "In an interview with CBS News' Harry Smith yesterday, President Obama was asked if he is "aware of the level of enmity that crosses the…
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Unvarnished & Unintellible
UPDATE: I had a good meeting with Peter Kazanjy about Unvarnished. My thoughts on that meeting and what I learned here. Among other things, Unvarnished has no…
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New Web Site Created By Stanford Experts Offers Security Reviews Of App Market
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is quoted in the LA Times on the launch of WhatApp?, a website that reviews how well w…
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Web And Mobile Apps Come Under Review On New Stanford Site
Ryan Calo, a residential fellow at the Center for Internet & Society, is interviewed by the Stanford Report on the launch of WhatApp?, a website that review…
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eBay's Win is a Matter of Economic Necessity
As the Wall Street Journal is already reporting, today eBay sustained an important win in its long-running dispute with Tiffany over counterfeit goods sold thro…
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'Harry Potter Lexicon' is focus Of Copyright Law And Fair Use Seminar At GVSU
Jule Ahrens, associate director of the Fair Use Project, is mentioned as a speaker at the Copyright Law and Fair Use for Creative Artists Workshop: For RDR Boo…
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Turing Machines and Bilski
I received a link to a fascinating site (http://www.aturingmachine.com) and video of a working model of a Turing Machine (TM). Turing Machines are named for Bri…
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Rehberg v. Hodges: Constitutional Protection for Email Privacy
In Rehberg v. Hodges, EFF is asking the 11th Circuit to fix an earlier opinion wrongly suggesting that the contents of stored emails are not protected by the Fo…
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Google No Longer Will Collaborate With China
I have a comment on the NYT Room to Debate forum Google or China: Who Has More to Lose? praising Google's decision not to censor search results on .cn but r…
First Amendment Based Copyright Misuse
We are at a crossroads with respect to the under-developed equitable defense of copyright misuse. The defense may go the way of its sibling, antitrust-based pat…