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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
- Once more on SCO
- From this blog for January 8 2008: What's worst about [the hate mail I get when ever I comment on SCO] , however, is that the "groklaw effect" has become a significant component in the overall Linux "gestalt" - and just about everything most of that mob has been...
- Tags: Novell Inc., SCO Group Inc., Unix, IBM Corp., Open Source, Paul Murphy
- Blog posts 2009-03-21
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterprise
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseCourt clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterpriseHuge break for all the people out there working on projects, only to have their stuff picked up and altered and their credit taken awayAre you kidding?Really Larry?The teaser for this column...
- Tags: District Courts, open source copyright, open source, Federal Circuit
- Discussion threads 2008-08-14
- Patent court rules in Microsoft patent spat
- Patent court rules in Microsoft patent spatRare winStill leads me to be that MS support for software patents is misguided, though, even in terms of MS' own interests.Patenting software seems strange...Software patents seem strange because a developer can come up with hundreds of ways under the hood to make a...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, PATENT Process, Patenting software, patent, software, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-02-26
- Vonage settles patent suit with Verizon for no more than $120 million: now they'll turn to AT&T
- Reuters reports this afternoon that Vonage says it has settled a patent disput with Verizon. Vonage said the final terms of the settlement depend on a court of appeals decision on Vonage's petition for a rehearing on its patents, but the amount will be capped at $32...
- Tags: Patent, Vonage Holdings Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., Reuters Ltd., Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-10-25
- Just in: Vonage gets a break in Verizon patent suit: monetary award vacated
- On the heels of the Sprint vs. Vonage patent infringement ruling that is most certainly not OK for Vonage and its users, Vonage did receive a bit of good news today in its Patent dispute with Verizon. In a nutshell: Vonage won't have to pay Verizon...
- Tags: Patent, Vonage Holdings Corp., Verizon Communications Inc., Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-26
- Telco lobbyists urge suppression of eavesdropping lawsuits: is this OK?
- Image is from the Saturday Evening Post of June 6, 1964. How little has changed. Newsweek's Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball have the scoop on a joint effort by Verizon, AT&T and the Bush administration to pass legislation that would blog all lawsuits against...
- Tags: U.S., Lawsuit, Newsweek, Terrorist, Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2007-09-20
- Vonage wins: for now
- Vonage won a request to continue business as usual and to still be able to sign up new customers while it appeals the Verizon patent infringement case. while it appeals the case. The appeal wil lbe heard on June 25. court extended its earlier stay of the trial...
- Tags: General, News, Vonage
- Blog posts 2007-04-24
- Selling used bits: German database ruling sets ugly music precedent
- In scanning my RSS feed this morning (by the way, I now use the Web version of Newsgator to the exclusion of any thick-client solutions), I came across this little interesting tidbit from InfoWorld: A higher German court has ruled to uphold a decision by a...
- Tags: first sale
- Blog posts 2006-08-04
- EFF stands up for online journalists' rights in Apple v. Does
- The Electronic Frontier Foundation EFF told a San Jose, California appeals court Thursday that denying protections for confidential sources would deliver a dangerous blow to online journalism and independent media.Apple Computer is suing several unnamed individuals, called "Does," who allegedly leaked information about an upcoming product to online news sites...
- Tags: Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Blog posts 2006-04-21
- Whats wrong with WikiPedia?
- Whats wrong with WikiPedia?I know I've had this conversation beforeGreat post, as usual. This really goes back to the idea that we as educators no longer need to impart a myriad of facts to our students. Rather, since they have the sum total of human knowledge quite literally...
- Tags: Wiki, Wikipedia
- Discussion threads 2006-03-23
- Political ideals and business
- Political ideals and businessYeah, but!I really have some problems with this one. Yahoo, MSN, Google and Cisco work to comply with Chinese 'law' - which is a misnomer - it really means that Chinese internal intellegence working on orders of the politboro told the companies what to do. ...
- Tags: Vertical industries, government, U.S. Department of Justice
- Discussion threads 2006-02-15
- Do Web filters protect your child?
- Do Web filters protect your child?Filtering works 100% if you want thatIf you want to restrict an account to just Disney.com you can do it, so the choice is there, you could restrict your childs Internet to a trusted set which of course also stops IP proxys and everything else...
- Tags: Internet service providers (ISPs), Channel management, U.S. Department of Justice, Do Web filter, web filter
- Discussion threads 2006-01-24
- Appeals court overturns Eolas decision
- Appeals court overturns Eolas decisionThis is a SAD day folksToo bad this couldn't have been yet another hammer to SMASH over Microturd's head.No matter though: Microsoft will be out of business in a few years.Not torn at all on this one.While I HATE to see the Great Monopolist win ANY...
- Tags: patent system, software world, patent, Eolas Technologies Inc., prior art, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2005-03-02
- Echoes of the past: Technology outpacing laws?
- In one of his more famous routines (Confessional, Class Clown), comedian George Carlin claims that thinking about sinning is just as incriminating as committing the sin for itself. 'Wanna was a sin all by itself' said Carlin. 'Thou shalt not wanna. If you woke up in the morning and you said "I'm...
- Tags: C. Marc Wagner, George Carlin
- Blog posts 2004-10-08
- Disabilities Act doesn't cover Web, court says
- Disabilities Act doesn't cover Web, court saysHow do you redesign a website for blind person?They can't see it so re-aranging it for blind person won't help. What do they expect you do?For those who are legally blind but still can see to an extent there is some technology devices that...
- Tags: Channel management, Quality, disability, Disabilities Act, Web, standards
- Discussion threads 2004-09-27
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