This post is likely to be a bit scattered. Partially because I need to get back to doing homework in a minute but also because my brain has been in a lot of places lately. So here’s a linkpost with thoughts on IP Law, Linux and other stuff. I also have a bunch of Lisp [...]
Today’s linkpost will focus on two topics. One is the NSA’s immoral spying activities which Obama promised to fix on his campaign trail and the other is the ever expanding mire of modern Intellectual Property Law. Let’s start with the NSA. There have been three separate arstechnica articles lately about the failures of the NSA [...]
I sort of forgot that schoolwork all bunches together for a nice crunch towards the end of the semester. Consequently, I’m juggling a fair bit at the moment. Not least because I’m also sorting out Financial Aid and Housing for the next year. On the bright side, I’ve got some fun projects in the works [...]
I think it’s generally agreed upon that free video lectures are cool. I’m not saying that everyone wants to watch them but the fact that it’s possible to download M.I.T. and Berkeley lectures, course readings and assignments most people seem to view as positive perhaps because many of us will never attend those schools. There [...]
Things have been really crazy lately. I’ve been trying to do so much and it really is hard. The real world finds ways to eat most of the time you have. It makes you small. It’s gotten to the point where it’s hard to find time to do anything other than maintain a few precious [...]
So, I’ve been meaning to post about the things I taught myself in Montana and my course of study and a course schedule through May/syllabus but I had to recover some partitions on my desktop. My laptop also was caught between Ubuntu Hardy Alpha 2 and Alpha 3. I’m not getting into it. It’s a [...]
So excited right now. So many awesome things happening. I can hardly wait to write the news on the next monday update. Hell with it, I’ll post some things I’ve looked at read or thought about in the last 48 hours. A couple of things. Kristian Hoegsberg is amazing. I’m starting to think that given [...]
Inspired by: http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/25/moglen-oscon/ http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/24/moglen-oreilly/ http://www.openparenthesis.org/2007/07/24/freedom-in-a-new-context/ http://tieguy.org/blog/2007/07/22/evaluating-a-freeopen-service-definition-rough-draft/ Moglen and O’Reilly at OSCON are coming from very different positions. Certainly Moglen is focused on his efforts on the GPLv3 granting Open Source another 10 years of safety with which they can acquire more permanent safety through public policy and patent reform. Moglen’s accusations of Tim O’Reilly and [...]
Today’s Quotes are on the birth of the internet: “Most of the great leaps of the computer age have happened despite, rather than because of, intellectual property rights. Before the Internet the proprietary network protocols divided customers, locked them into providers and forced them to exchange much of their data by tape. The power of [...]
“A time is marked not so much by ideas that are argued about as by ideas that are taken for granted. The character of an era hangs upon what needs no defense. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt. The “taken for granted” is the test of sanity; “what everyone [...]