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Tweets
- @JosephGalbo Really hard to categorize tweets based on keywords, just because there are so few of them in a tweet... 14 hrs ago
- Though it is categorizing any tweet with the word "fan" as "sports" (wrong!), but not my only tweet ever with the word "sport"‽ 14 hrs ago
- This says I tweet mainly about education, technology, and... healthy living (?)... fun topic-izer of tweets: http://165.124.128.196:8000 14 hrs ago
- @lrainie As it is, each time I start a class session with "Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin..." fewer and fewer recognize it. 3 days ago
- @lrainie It's hard for me to do anything menacingly, and I'd try it for a classroom entrance, but I suspect the reference would be lost... 3 days ago
- @lrainie That is my new goal! Channel Omar more often :). 3 days ago
- @lrainie Reducible in part to "who said it wasn't already all a game"? :) 3 days ago
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Archives
Tag Archives: Law & Policy
Pool on the Net
One of my favorites: If media become “demassified” to serve individual wants, it will not be by throwing on lazy readers the arduous task of searching vast information bases, but by programming computers heuristically to give particular readers more of what they chose last time. Computer-aided instructional programs similarly assess students’ past performance before providing [...]
Real or No Real
The announcement from Second Life yesterday was that they have officially banned gambling. The image to the right is of a popular casino, pictured in its recent incarnation here, now gone to seed. As that article from Valleywag suggests, as well as one from Business Week, this move is hardly a surprise. The FBI has [...]
Federal Shield Law for Bloggers
I won’t tell you where I got this (OK, here–are you happy?), but there is a bill before congress, introduced by Rick Boucher, that would provide protection for bloggers who want to protect their sources. The federal shield law–called the Free Flow of Information Act of 2007–would provide federal protection for journalists who want to [...]
Think before you post (keys)
The original PSA is here. And don’t miss the riddle of the -ages- moment (via Froomkin). The irony, perhaps, is that the release of the key leads to an outpouring of creative works–exactly what the US Constitution intended IP protection to do.
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So it seems that the key for the HD-DVD encryption scheme has been broken. Unfortunately, distributing the method for decrypting a device is illegal according to the DMCA. But surely a key, as such, cannot be. This is a number all alone, it can’t be considered a machine. It is human-readable (as a number) but [...]
Quinnipiac Chronicle and administrative “oversight”