Cryptography - Civil Liberties - Economics
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The degrading effects of terrorism fearsI never thought I'd hear myself say this, but David Brooks actually had an excellent column in yesterday's New York Times that makes several insightful and important points. Brooks documents how "childish, contemptuous and hysterical" the national reaction has been to this latest terrorist ...
James Choate
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28 hours ago
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SSZ / CRC Website RebuildAs part of the roll-out of our physical location we're rebuilding the primary server. We've been using SUSe since it came out but the last two distributions have convinced us that Novell is not doing a good job in managing the product. After a lot of consideration we've decided to roll our own. ...
James Choate
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Update: Confusion Research CenterWe've been working on getting the business plan and initial funding lined up. Looks like we should be opening the doors sometime late January or early February.
James Choate
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It's Obama's War Now.In President Obama's speech last night, he laid out the goals he wants to achieve in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Perhaps he did take a while to arrive at a decision, but I'd rather have him continue to think and meet with advisers then just sending in more American troops haphazardly. I agree ...
James Choate
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Viacom's top lawyer thinks lawsuits were "terrorism" - but he's learned nothing from the experience - Boing BoingMichael Fricklas, Viacom's General Counsel, gave a lecture to a Yale Law class in which he confessed that suing people for copyright infringement felt "like terrorism." He says that this was bad strategy on the entertainment industry's part, as was "bad" DRM. That's the good part -- an ...
JDP
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The Constitution & Gun Rights: It's bigger than the 2nd aloneThis is an ongoing project, some of this material is old and some is new. It began as a series of emails on the Cypherpunks mailing list during a large part of the 1990's. It is intended to demonstrate that when the Constitution as a whole is applied to sensitive issues it in fact provides clear ...
James Choate
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6 weeks ago
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Investigating Government Today -- Commentary on Healthcare ReformWhile it is certainly true that an argument for universal health care can be made, and probably should be, there is the question of just how far it should go? Many people who advocate it refer to it as a right, and this has certain merit as well. But what are the boundaries on that right? There ...
James Choate
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7 weeks ago
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Forfeiture Laws, the War of Drugs, and Alvarez v. SmithToday, the Supreme Court hears Alvarez v. Smith, an important case that will affect the constitutional property rights of many people around the country but has failed to attract the attention it deserves.
James Choate
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2 months ago
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Geert Wilders greeted with "Islam Will Dominate the World", "Freedom Go to Hell", "Shariah for The Netherlands"Brandishing banners saying 'Sharia is the true solution, freedom go to hell', Muslim protesters met Mr Wilders outside the Houses of Parliament
James Choate
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2 months ago
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FBI Investigated Coder for Liberating Paywalled Court RecordsWhen 22-year-old programmer Aaron Swartz decided last fall to help an open-government activist amass a public and free copy of millions of federal court records, he did not expect he’d end up with an FBI agent trying to stake out his house.
James Choate
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