Percolating through various channels last week was Larry Lessig’s offer to resign if an anti-spam bill he proposes is enacted and doesn’t reduce the overall level of spam. He’s asked Declan McCullagh to judge whether or not the law (if passed) is effective. Anyway, Declan doesn’t think he’ll get the chance to judge the law’s [...]
Entries from April 2003
Defining spam
April 28th, 2003 · Comments Off
Grokster/Morpheus ruling
April 28th, 2003 · Comments Off
Ed Felten has some comments on the Grokster ruling that made news on Friday.
The Chandler demo
April 28th, 2003 · Comments Off
The OSAF has published to the Web a transcript of the Chandler demo from the Emerging Tech conference. I’ve totally drunk the Chandler Kool-aid and am looking forward to watching this application evolve. I’m excited about it for a number of reasons, including:
Returning innovation to the email arena. Even though email (and especially email combined [...]
The issue of war reparations
April 28th, 2003 · Comments Off
One thing is for sure, when it comes to war, winning means never having to say you’re sorry. Despite the fact that over one million dollars has been allocated for assisting innocent Afghans harmed by US bombing, none of the money has been handed out or spent to help them. Certainly throughout the history (all [...]
Sen. Rick Santorum
April 26th, 2003 · Comments Off
I just got around today to reading the full transcript of Senator Rick Santorum’s interview in which he says that we should regulate what consenting adults do behind closed doors in their own homes for the good of society, and basically comes out as being a massive homophobe. (His position is that it’s fine [...]
Josh Marshall on Paul Berman
April 25th, 2003 · Comments Off
Given my fascination with Paul Berman and my general fandom of Josh Marshall, how could I resist linking to a Josh Marshall review of Paul Berman’s Terror and Liberalism?
Scott Rosenberg on Henry Norr
April 25th, 2003 · Comments Off
It’s big news today that Henry Norr was fired by the San Francisco Chronicle for filing a false time card. Scott Rosenberg puts this in perspective today, basically saying that it’s standard practice for reporters to fill out a time card that says they work a regular day job and then work the hours that [...]
Just how much authoritarianism are you comfortable with?
April 25th, 2003 · Comments Off
John Ashcroft overruled a panel of immigration judges yesterday and ruled that illegal immigrants can be detained indefinitely without any legal recourse for “national security” reasons. You can shelve him with Donald Rumsfeld as a government official probably better suited for service in a totalitarian regime, but we already knew that. The real kicker in [...]
The Dixie Chicks
April 25th, 2003 · Comments Off
I wound up watching the Dixie Chicks interview on PrimeTime Thursday, mainly because my wife was interested. Let me just say that my position is that the Dixie Chicks are free to criticize the President in any way they choose, and that people are free to criticize the Dixie Chicks in any way they choose. [...]
OpenBSD news
April 24th, 2003 · Comments Off
Just in case you live under a rock, government funding for a University of Pennsylvania research project that was paying for OpenBSD development was cut not long after Theo de Raadt had some anti-war quotes published in the Canadian press. News stories are being tracked on the OpenBSD Media Coverage page. Another reader mentioned to [...]