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NetBeans 7.4 Beta Hints Warn of Ineffective Exception Handling

There are numerous examples of how Java exception handling can be more difficult than it might first appear and Josh Bloch devoted an entire chapter of Effective Java (both editions) to exception handling. The checked exception model in Java remains “c… Continue reading

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Law Professor Edward Lee’s Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

It’s a real treat to pick my Favorites of the Week on Techdirt. I’m a huge fan of this site! I teach intellectual property and Internet related courses at IIT Chicago-Kent College of Law. In researching my book The Fight for the Future: How People Defe… Continue reading

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Awesome Stuff: Tools For Animation

For this week’s awesome stuff post, we’re keeping it simple with just two items, both of which are free and open source projects having to do with animation. First up is Tupi: 2D Animation Software for Everyone, which is exactly what it sounds like. T… Continue reading

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UK Asked New York Times To Destroy Edward Snowden Documents; NY Times Ignored Request

There’s been some back and forth concerning the David Miranda legal fight today and it’s getting fairly ridiculous. The UK government is making some extraordinary claims about Miranda and the encrypted information he was carrying. They claim that some … Continue reading

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NSA Overreach May Have Contributed To UK’s Unwillingness To Help With Syria

As you may have heard, UK Prime Minister David Cameron dealt with something of an embarrassment when the UK Parliament voted down his Syria policy this week. There are a number of reasons why this likely happened, but an editorial in the Guardian notes… Continue reading

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DOJ Still Refuses To Let Tech Companies Reveal How Much Info They Get Via FISA Orders

So, last night Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said that the administration will start releasing some data on how many FISA records it seeks, and how many “targets” there are. In a first draft of that post, I had originally speculated t… Continue reading

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DailyDirt: This Is Your Brain On Caffeine. Any Questions?

Making the perfect cup of coffee is an experiment that’s been studied for decades — if not for hundreds of years since coffee was first brewed in the 1300s. It’s not an exact science yet, but studies on coffee drinking seem to point to it being mostly… Continue reading

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DOJ Cracks Suspect’s Hard Drives, Quickly Drops Request To Force Him To Decrypt

We’ve been covering the DOJ’s case against Jeffrey Feldman, in which they were trying to force him to decrypt some hard drives he had in order to get evidence to be used against him. This is a tricky area of law, because some courts have said that the … Continue reading

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India Wants To Ban US-Based Email Systems For Government Communications Over NSA Concerns

Back in June and July, during much more innocent times, Glyn Moody and Tim Cushing doubled up on stories about the intrusive surveillance system India had set up and commented on how the NSA must have been drooling over having that kind of capability…. Continue reading

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German Publishers File Criminal Complaint Against Two News Sites For Mentioning Name Of Unauthorized Ebook Site

We know that some legacy players who rely too heavily on copyright law seem to react negatively to any discussion of unauthorized distribution of files, but a group of German book publishers have apparently taken this to the next level. As highlighted … Continue reading

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