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Today's Father Coughlin
Ebert on O'Reilly: "I am not interested in discussing O'Reilly's politics here. That would open a hornet's nest. I am more concerned about…
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Petition To Improve PACER
A "small band of law librarians," including the wonderful staff here at Stanford, asks you to sign their petition to improve the online court docket s…
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Amendments to Computer Crime Law Are a Dark Cloud with a Ray of Light
September 2008 amendments to the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act broaden the already extensive reach of the law, and fail to clarify the most vexing question about…
New Design Principles for the Internet
Socio-economic aspects are not intrinsic to the current Internet architecture. Today's architecture is becoming stressed as stakeholders introduce "hac…
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growing organs in a lab
"Why transplant an organ when you can grow yourself a new one? This research isn’t something that might happen in the distant future. It’s being used tod…
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Who Decides What is Newsworthy? Journalists vs. the Legal System
No one likes lawyers. My dad likes to joke that it’s a shame how 99 percent of lawyers give the rest of us a bad name. Not only am I lawyer, but I am also tra…
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Water from the air
I've long thought a technology like this could be revolutionary for the developing world. The notion that all the energy required could come from the sun i…
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PrivacyCamp Washington, DC 2009
Co-sponsored by the Center for Democracy and Technology, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and the Future of Privacy Forum (among others), this inaugur…
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Obama in Egypt
This is how I want my President to speak to the world. I strongly urge you to read the whole thing. "We meet at a time of tension between the United Stat…
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Patient Privacy Rights FTC Comments
Teneille Brown, Joshua Auriemma, and I helped Patient Privacy Rights draft the public comments it submitted to the Federal Trade Commission on Monday. Thanks t…
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Discussions vs. disputes vs. controversies
A friend in the eBay Israel office shared this with me... pretty interesting... "Debates are communicative exchanges that evolve in time. Their minimal un…
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Would You Slap Your Father? If So, You’re a Liberal
Now Kristof is getting into the evolutionary psychology line of thinking: "How’s this: Would you be willing to slap your father in the face, with his perm…