Blayne Sucks

One of the things that I was desperately hoping would happen when Chief Justice Roberts was sworn in was that the Supreme Court would start taking cases dealing with technology law which have traditionally made the United States the laughing stock of the international community. This has actually come to pass!
The Supreme […]

The Colts selections are in! It appears that they are pleased with the results. As a fan though, I have to admit that I’m a bit puzzled. I went into the draft thinking the two spots we needed to fill first were at corner and linebacker because of the loss of Jason […]

I’ve been pretty busy with end of the semester stuff, but I would be remiss if I didn’t post about the Colts trip to the White House. Let’s hope this becomes an annual thing. In the meantime, I’m looking forward to the upcoming NFL Draft this weekend!

As mentioned on Slashdot, the Technician Online has a story about a number of lawsuits filed by the RIAA against NCSU to obtain the names of several people accused of downloading music illegally. There is also an opinion piece posted on the same topic. Now, there are a lot of other issues at […]

I had a conversation with a friend recently about Gentoo Linux. Although I haven’t posted much about Gentoo Linux or my history with it, I will say that I have been using Gentoo for about six years now. It was my main development environment most of that time. Currently, I consider myself […]

Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip, recently posted about copyrights on his blog. He makes a really great analogy about borrowing property and shows how it’s not truly a “victimless” crime, but I think the really interesting thing here is to see someone who personally owns a very valuable library of copyrighted […]

There’s an interesting legal case involving some students and an anti-cheating service that was reported by the Washington Post. Basically these students wrote some papers, sent them to an anti-cheating service online, asked the service not to include the papers in their database, and found the papers included anyhow. They are suing from […]

I recently read Jennifer Granick’s latest column on Wired about the interesting legal case between Oracle and SAP. Basically, an Oracle customer wanted to switch to SAP and gave SAP their passwords to log into some Oracle systems. Now Oracle is claiming that SAP has broken some computer crime statues for accessing a […]