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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
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
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