I have been waiting to catch St. John in the snow for a while, and got my chance today. Sadly, it is not as photogenic as I’d imagined, so I’ll spare everyone the grey building with grey sky interrupted only by white flakes. Instead, some city color with a touch of snow, from a jaunt [...]
Lets go, ladies. Give ‘em hell.
[T]o get attention from us, it is necessary to demonstrate the kind of attitude that leads to competence — alert, thoughtful, observant, willing to be an active partner in developing a solution.–Eric S. Raymond, How To Ask Questions The Smart Way
Like a lot of what ESR used to write, this is remarkably good advice- clearly [...]
Some DRM analogies that popped out of my poor brain a while back and never got properly elaborated. These are still mostly in the ‘thinking out loud’ stage, so thoughts/comments/constructive criticisms appreciated, and don’t take them too seriously.
Model T:’any color you want as long as it is black’::ipod:FairPlay
Hypothesis: this works fine now, but people will [...]
[Old post that I meant to elaborate on, but never did; seems worth pushing out now; maybe I'll write more about it later if anyone finds it interesting :)
On the day before Christmas, I read a paper on 'spillover' by Brett Frischman and Mark Lemley. In a nutshell, the paper is an attempt to think [...]
Law links these days invite the writing of essays, not sentences, so there are fewer of them :)
Sr. O’Grady (who it was a pleasure to finally meet last week) has a long post on why the Solaris default shell is silly. It is a good post, and worth reading if for nothing other than his [...]
Yargh. For the second time this semester, an excellent, young, FLOSS/CC-involved coder-legal dude is coming to speak at an area law school, and for the second time, I have a conflict I can’t resolve and can’t go. This time it is James Grimmelmann, newly named an associate prof at NYLS, who will participate in a [...]
Makes me ill: reading extensively about rape in criminal law last week.
Makes me more ill: reading about attempts to trample on our Constitution, in the name of protecting that same Constitution, in constitutional law this week. At my most generous moments I think they are morons; at my least generous I think they are fascists. [...]
Turns out not only were Krissa and I living in sin in Massachusetts, we were actually violating Massachusetts state law.
[Oddly, I learned that during a discussion in Property about the rights of landlords, rather than learning it in my Criminal Law class about rape.]
I intended to blog about this when I saw the FFII news last week, but school got in the way. Anyway, Mark having expanded on it a bit gives me another chance. I’m pleased that Ubuntu/Canonical are getting more active on the patent front, announcing that they’ll actively support Nouveau, and helping create a Free [...]
