blackboxvoting.org is a web site devoted to raising awareness about the security problems and unverifiability issues inherent in paperless electronic voting machines. The operator of the site, Bev Harris, has been contacted by the Secret Service. “They want the logs of my web site with all the forum messages, and the IP addresses. That’s right. […]
From the New York Times:
If the election were held today, 46 percent of registered voters would vote for Mr. Kerry and 44 percent for Mr. Bush, the poll found. With Mr. Nader in the race, Mr. Bush would get 43 percent, Mr. Kerry 41 percent and Mr. Nader 5 percent, suggesting that nearly all of […]
Posts here have been light as finals approach and because I’ve been doing a good bit of blogging elsewhere. First, I covered the second full day of The Patent Reform conference at Berkeley for bIPlog.
Then I was on the Newsletter Staff and a blogger for the Computers Freedom and Privacy Conference. This was probably the […]
Mike Anderson, a soon-to-be graduate of Boalt Hall, has started his new blog, Mere Dicta, with a bang. He discusses the Supreme Court’s review of the Hamdi and Padilla “enemy combatant” cases and makes the argument that, at least for Padilla, his perpetual detention without charges flies in the face of the Constitution’s treason clause. […]
Just posted this comment to Kerry’s blog.
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I just read an article about the Oregon court ruling that the state had to recognize the 3000+ same-sex marriages already performed there. In the article, Kerry was again described as opposing gay marriage and favoring civil unions. I wanted to say to Kerry, his staff, and his supporters: […]
J.D. Lasica, whose blog, New Media Musings, is one of my must-read blogs, has written a great piece entitled The Killing Fields: Copyright Law and its Challengers. It describes a documentary film, Willful Infringement, that I have got to see. Read J.D.’s article and you’ll know you need to see it too. I’d prefer to […]
Brad Templeton writes on his blog, Brad Ideas, that software and hardware are the same thing and so it bothers him that some would allow patents on hardware but disallow them for software. What follows is the comment I posted on his blog.
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I like your idea for filtering out some of the bad patents.
You’re also […]
What follows is an e-mail I just sent to the members of my law school module (the small group of about 32 that you take all your classes with first semester).
Hello all,
Now that we’re past that paper, I wanted to encourage people to try to catch what may be the best thing I’ve ever seen […]