Archive for the 'rights' Category

Security vs. Privacy

Friday, June 2nd, 2006

This article was originally spurred by the generally negative portrayal of the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) in the novel Digital Fortress. As a long-standing fan and member of the EFF, I must admit that I was more than a little taken aback at some of the characterizations of the organization. The members of [...]

Review: Digital Fortress

Tuesday, May 23rd, 2006

I just finished reading the novel Digital Fortress by Dan Brown. With the recent release of the DaVinci Code, several of my co-workers have been re-reading Brown’s novels, and as I’d already read both The DaVinci Code and Angels and Demons, one of them loaned me a copy of his earlier novel. I [...]

The Worst Sort of Protectionism

Tuesday, January 24th, 2006

Wouldn’t life be grand if you could go to Congress and get a law passed that forced everyone in the nation to pay you money? That’s exactly what the RIAA/MPAA are doing at this very moment, under the guise of “fighting piracy”.
First on their list is getting the broadcast flag reinstated, after it was [...]

MGM v. Grokster: A Response

Wednesday, June 29th, 2005

This is a response that I wrote on a friend’s message board regarding the MGM v. Grokster case, which was decided in favor of MGM in a shocking 9-0 vote by the Supreme Court. Effectively, they hold Grokster (and by extension any other Peer-to-Peer software manufacturer) responsible for the illegal actions perpetrated by their [...]

On abortion

Wednesday, June 11th, 2003

I’m doing my first real editing with Vi, which is a different experience to say the least. I still need a lot of practice, so I’m not quite as fast were I still using TextPad, but I fully expect to get much faster in time.
My spare time has basically been filled reading everything I can [...]