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- Shock jock faces charges for threatening judges
- So here is this wacko, Hal Turner, a shock jock and blogger, who advocated the assasination of three Seventh Circuit federal judges. He's being charged with threatening the judges' lives. The way The Washington Post spins this story, there's some interesting question of where free speech ends and criminality begins....
- Tags: Judge, Turner, Federal Government, Government, Blogging, Internet, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-08-16
- Judge's idea to outlaw links won't save newspapers
- I continue to be blown away by what I read about how newspapers can be saved. The latest comes from U.S. Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner who, in a blog post last week, suggested that one way to save newspapers from their demise would be "to bar linking to...
- Tags: Newspaper, Consent, Blogging, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Internet, Human Resources, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2009-07-02
- "Net neutrality" is stupid
- Today's net neutrality tempest - Google: are they or aren't they? - is a marketing mistake with grave public policy implications. The mistake was law professor Tim Wu's: creating a new label when a perfectly good one is already there. "Net neutrality" is another term for "common...
- Tags: Professor, Network, Network Neutrality, Federal Express, Net Neutrality, Carrier, Networking, Robin Harris
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- Who's next? NY seeks a game-violence law that will pass judicial muster
- A judge's recent decision that California's law regulating video games is unconstitutional -- the eighth such decision such 2001 -- shows that courts are unwilling to allow states to limit free speech based on concerns about violence, The New York Times reports.“It’s more than a trend,†said Ronald Collins, a...
- Tags: Game, Violence, Law, ZDNet Government
- Blog posts 2007-08-20
- Court OKs warrantless tracking with GPS
- The 7th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled last week that police can place a GPS tracking unit on a suspects car without obtaining a search warrant. In US v Garcia (2007 U.S. App. LEXIS 2272), decided Feb. 2, Judge Richard Posner found that such a device was a mere "augmentation"...
- Tags: Government technology, Courts, Law enforcement, GPS
- Blog posts 2007-02-08
- What makes Second Life eerily powerful is the zero-distance between thinkers and technology
- What makes Second Life eerily powerful is the zero-distance between thinkers and technologyPutting Up LayersI've found the idea of proximity and acceleration in this fashion to be intriguing, too. We've been able to rub pixelated elbows with Thomas Barnett, Lawrence Lessig, Judge Richard Posner and other leading lights in SL,...
- Tags: Second Life, Famous People
- Discussion threads 2006-12-15
- Second Life, First Judge
- James Au blogs The Second Life of Judge Richard A. Posner, a transcript of last weeks Creative Commons event, complete with lawyers-cum-furries. Surreal.The conversation ranged back and forth between topics as abstract as law in online worlds and mortally serious as law in the shadow of Al Qaeda-- along...
- Tags: Second Life, Collaboration, Virtual worlds, User generated content, Privacy, Copyright, Blogging, Conferences
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- Federal Judge Expounds On Real Issues In Virtual World
- Watch this space (a Technorati search for "Posner Second Life," which at the moment unfortunately is devoid of coverage of the actual event): Judge Richard Posner of the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals, held forth last night in Second Life, courtesy of Creative Commons. If that doesnt turn...
- Tags: Second Life, Collaboration, Virtual worlds, Privacy, Copyright, Conferences
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
- "Finally, some of the opinions are funny."
- Professor Tim Wu and programmer Stuart Sierra have launched Project Posner, a searchable database of legal opinions authored by jurist and blogger Richard A. Posner. As Tim says,Project Posner has all of Posner’s 2100+ opinions, fully and easily searchable. ... The law supposedly belongs to the people, but...
- Tags: Richard A. Posner
- Blog posts 2006-10-09
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