I’m interested in the problem of online identity, in part because of its relationship to trademark. Trademark theoretically verifies identity and source, but as anyone who has seen a phishing email knows, trademark is becoming more and more meaningless in that respect. (Many of the arguments I’ve seen for ‘we need stronger trademark’ really are [...]
I got a chance to go to see Chris Anderson (author of the Long Tail Wired article, and since then of a Long Tail blog and now a book) speak tonight at the New York Public Library. After a brief talk, he sat down with Lawrence Lessig and chatted, eventually answering some questions. My sketchy [...]
[Crossposted from First Movers. Comments over there.]
This note from the latest Harvard Law Review is exactly the kind of internet law writing I’d like to be able to do- taking something we take almost for granted (cybercrime is bad!) and turning it completely on its head (cybercrime isn’t bad, it is a healthy irritant that [...]
If he would be a great lawyer, he must first consent to become a great drudge.–Daniel Webster.
Oy. –me
Oh boy. Today was my first legal research class. Pretty much what it sounds like- teach you how to do research, specifically in law. While I’m sure I’ll learn completely invaluable skills in the class, I may well spend a lot of time screaming about this class, because it will involve interaction with lots of [...]
If any of my boston-area readers are interested in really secure electronic voting, my friend Ben Adida, whose recent PhD thesis was on cryptographic voting, is giving an ‘intro to cryptographic voting’ talk tomorrow at Hahvahd. Free lunch even, apparently, though if it is like most Harvard lunches you’ll want to get there a bit [...]
[Phew. Finished torts reading for the night, so one last quick thought.]
Almost two years ago to the day, I wrote:
In my humble opinion, OOo should to take a page from the mozilla folks- take a release cycle (or more) and focus exclusively on improving performance and usability. No new features. Even remove features if necessary. [...]
New York is an expensive, crowded, piss-smelling bitch goddess, but when she is good, she is good.
Friday: class canceled during the day; relaxed night at home. Yay.
Saturday afternoon: see very old friends for the first time in ages. When they came in to town, their first stop was the awesome bookstore on my street, because [...]
I was reading one of my course books last week (probably Civil Procedure) and one of the minor notes mentioned a British case (early in the development of the jury system- 1200s? 1300s?) where a judge ordered the death penalty for a defendant despite a hung jury. The king responded by… literally hanging the judge. [...]
About a month ago I got a Raven tablet (basically a Lenovo X41) from Emperor Linux. I got it with Emperor’s modified Ubuntu. The experience was, frankly, very mixed. Lots of things didn’t work out of the box like I expected, but they eventually did a pretty good job helping me fix most of them. [...]
