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What $1.2 Trillion Can Buy
David Loenhardt in the Times today: "$1.2 trillion would pay for an unprecedented public health campaign — a doubling of cancer research funding, treatment…
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Communications of the ACM article on Patents
The January 2007 issue of Communications of the ACM (Association for Computing Machinery) has an article entitled “The Patent Holder’s Dilemma: Buy, Sell, or Tr…
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The Global Good Neighbor Initiative
The International Relations Center has launched a new video as part of its Global Good Neighbor Initiative. From the description on the web site: "Mutual r…
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Hearsay Culture Schedule Through Mid-May
I am very pleased to announce the Hearsay Culture schedule through mid-May. Also, I think that I have solved my tech glitches [thanks to Lauren, Kent, Ben and…
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New Technologies and Constitutional Searches
This month's Reason contains an excellent article entitled, "The Pinpoint Search: How super-accurate surveillance technology threatens our privacy.&quo…
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United States v. Buckner
Yesterday, Circuit Judge Diana Gribbon Motz issued an interesting opinion on behalf of a unanimous three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth…
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An Unpopular Position on Net Neutrality
I've already gone on record opposing "net neutrality" legislation, (see "What's Wrong With Net Neutrality," http://www.cioinsight.co…
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Beware False Bipartisanship
E.J. Dionne in the Post yesterday: "Few words have been repeated more often by leaders of both parties and President Bush since the new Congress took powe…
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AOL's Index of Internet IP Litigation
AOL provides a reference index to Internet related litigation (http://legal.web.aol.com/decisions/index.html) and IP issues in particular (http://legal.web.aol.…
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Registration open for SLS Symposium 1/26/07: Search and Seizure in the Digital Age
Beyond a Physical Conception of the Fourth Amendment: Search and Seizure in the Digital Age Stanford Law School January 26th, 2007 http://stlr.stanford.edu/sym…
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Linden Labs releases client source code for Second Life under GPL
From the Official Linden Blog: "Stepping up the development of the Second Life Grid to everyone interested, I am proud to announce the availability of the…
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Muslim congressman seeks out critic on House floor
From CNN's Political Ticker: 'WASHINGTON (CNN) -- On his first day in Congress, Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minnesota, the first Muslim elected to Congress,…