It’s April, which means I follow the Rule of Seven.* The Rule of Seven works like this: I have stacks, literal and figurative, of case analyses to score, draft papers to review and comment on, wiki projects to grade, prospective commencement speeches to read and rank, emails to read and respond to, articles to read, [...]
The food-prep gross-out video that two Domino’s employees–make that two former Domino’s employees–posted this week on YouTube provides much at which to marvel. How could these employees not realize Domino would learn about the video? It’s hard to fathom anyone not getting that, um, hundreds of millions of people use the Internet and these are [...]
It has been a question of when, not if, Congress would allow the states to tax Internet sales that until now have been beyond their reach. The weak economy is converging the forces represented by the National Conference of State Legislatures, who’ve been pushing Congress for such taxing authority for years, and the Streamlined Sales [...]
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
A number of users have encountered difficulty registering for this site in recent months. In response I disabled the registration screening program for new users a few days ago. Bad idea. It resulted in number of dubious new user accounts, which then invites all sorts of mischief. I re-enabled the registration screen, without the Captcha [...]
Wednesday, April 15, 2009
I’ve written more law school recommendations since last September than in any comparable period since I started to teach. The reasons are obvious, but the relative desirability of law school compared to, say, using your marketing concentration to get a job as a lifeguard, should be not be assumed. Since I began this blog I’ve [...]
Yesterday France rejected the piracy-surveillance system mentioned in the previous post. The bill, refined after weeks of discussion in the National Assembly, was expected to pass. Its supporters were apparently so confident of its enactment that they didn’t go out of their way to appear for the vote. Their complacency resulted in the bill’s defeat [...]
To reinforce a point made this week in class, Internet piracy talk is everywhere. French legislators want to create an Internet privacy surveillance system. The leak of the upcoming X-Men film has led to a firing, three arrests, and Hugh Jackman’s broken heart. The Congressman from Hollywood wants to wage a global fight against Internet [...]