On Saturday, January 24, 2004, I attended an all-day class on Trusted Computing hosted by the Freedom Technology Center in Mountain View, CA. The class was taught by the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s Staff Technologist, Seth Schoen.
You could get the basic flavor of the class by reading Seth’s articles, Trusted Computing: Promise and Risk and Give [...]
Law geeks will enjoy this immensely. Is there an enforceable contract between The Dark Lord, Sauron, and Dain, King of the Dwarves, regarding the finding of The Ring? The passage in question:
“As a small token of your friendship Sauron asks this,” he said: “that you should find this thief,” such was his word, “and get [...]
An e-mail I just sent…
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Hello Professor McWilliams,
I read your recent Chronicle article. Then, after much google-searching, I found your Bush editorial. I thought I’d write to say that I think you are on to something in that editorial and that you’ve put it in a way that more clearly nails it than anything else I’ve [...]
The recent gap in posting was due to my 17-day belated honeymoon in Italy. Very nice trip.
Here’s a thought I had over there while hearing some news about the head-scarf ban in France’s public schools. If I were in France, and if I had a daughter, then despite my not being muslim, I would organize [...]
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