Posts Tagged ‘good code’

This is fabulously cool: iFixit has built a teardown platform. I've used the site many times to take apart Mac's I've needed to fix. But those instructions were iFixit prepared. They've now enabled anyone to build a teardown ("the act or process... Full story

This is fabulously cool: iFixit has built a teardown platform. I've used the site many times to take apart Mac's I've needed to fix. But those instructions were iFixit prepared. They've now enabled anyone to build a teardown ("the act or process... Full story

The world of American copyright scholars is very familiar with the poetic passage of Jefferson's, written in a letter: If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, ... Full story

Markus Weiland has compiled an interesting comparison of the different terms of service for video hosting sites. You can read the report here. Full story

Markus Weiland has compiled an interesting comparison of the different terms of service for video hosting sites. You can read the report here. Full story

Some scholars have been arguing that the architecture of the internet, its embrace of openness as a design principle, might revolutionize science if we could apply the same principles there -- if we could break down the legal and technical barriers that prevent the efficient networking of state funded research and data. Imagine a scientific research process that worked as efficiently as the web does ... Full story

Mich Kabay of Norwich University (VT) reports his class has just completed 3.5 weeks with CODE v2 in his Politics of Cyberspace course. As he writes, the files in the LECTURES section include more than 100 specific questions for discussion and exams that they may find helpful in preparing their own courses. You can download the entire set here. Thanks for the ... Full story

The above is about the conference described below: PLAY MACHINIMA LAW DATE: April 24-25, 2009 LOCATION: Stanford Law School Register now at http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/playmachinima Machinima. ...It has been hailed as the art form of the 21st century. ...It is redefining music videos. ...And reinventing the videogame. ...It might be the future of cinema. But there's a catch: if you make machinima, you might be breaking the law. Or are ... Full story

The good souls at the Center for the Study of Complex Systems at the University of Michigan have come up with a fantastically suggestive way of seeing the relationships between "money and government." Here for example is contributions to the Senate by industry and sector. Here you can see contributions by entities that received TARP funding. Wonderful work that will feed lots ... Full story

Fred von Lohmann has a fantastic essay on the complexity in knowing whether the President's gift to the Queen violated the law. Does anyone doubt it is time to begin a formal and serious discussion about how best to craft a copyright law for the 21st century? Does anyone think such a law should yield such ambiguity to such a simple question? Full story