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Judge Orders Woman To Delete Her Facebook Page For Typing LOL About Her DUI
This one is from a week ago, and a bunch of you submitted it (thoughTim K gets the hat tip for being first), but just getting around to it now. Apparently, a woman named Paula Asher, who hit a car while driving under the influence, was ordered by the … Continue reading
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The ‘Hey Jude’ Replacement Ref Protest Plan: Turning Copyright Maximalism Against Itself
Even if you don’t follow football (the American version), you’ve probably heard some discussion concerning the replacement referees who had stepped in to officiate games while the real refs sorted out their labor dispute with the NFL. If there had been… Continue reading
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California’s Law Barring Demands For Social Media Passwords Sounds Good… But Might Not Be
We’ve been seeing a fair bit of cheering around the news that California became the latest state to sign into law rules that bar organizations and schools from demanding social media passwords from employees and students. In theory, this seems like a … Continue reading
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Receding Background Modal Boxes
In which we reverse engineer the really cool effect of Hakim El Hattab’s Avgrund demo. Visually pleasing, but also an effective and clear design pattern for modal/dialog boxes.
Receding Background Modal Boxes is a post from CSS-Tricks
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Appeals Court Realizes Samsung Injunction Is For A Patent It Didn’t Infringe On, Sends Case Back…
There continues to be a flurry of activity and motions and such around the Apple/Samsung patent fight, and we’re avoiding most of the play-by-play until something “big” happens. But today there was an interesting ruling from the appeals court, concern… Continue reading
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DHS Boss, In Charge Of Cybersecurity, Doesn’t Use Email Or Any Online Services
We’ve talked in the past about the problematic efforts to push for new cybersecurity regulations, especially when little to nothing has been done to show the actual problem. There has been quite a turf war over who would “own” cybersecurity within the… Continue reading
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Why Everyone Should Care About DRM’s Punishment Of The Visually Impaired
Techdirt writes a lot about the problems with DRM, and how inefficient and inconvenient it is. But for millions of visually-impaired people, those “inconveniences” represent something much deeper, and much worse. Somebody who has started writing eloq… Continue reading
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Bob Dylan: People Claiming I Plagiarized Them Are Pussies
I know two things about Bob Dylan. First, my father loves him and thinks he's the kind of lyrical mastermind that makes puppies weep or something. Second, man does that guy like to contradict himself. Mike recently wrote up a more general piec… Continue reading
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Bob Dylan: People Claiming I Plagiarized Them Are Pussies
I know two things about Bob Dylan. First, my father loves him and thinks he's the kind of lyrical mastermind that makes puppies weep or something. Second, man does that guy like to contradict himself. Mike recently wrote up a more general piec… Continue reading
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All Fair Use And No License Fees Makes Room 237 An Interesting Test Case
With the simultaneous efforts to both assert fair use as a right of the public and the government's aim to limit its application, I always find it interesting to watch creators' attitudes and reactions to the complicated navigation of using cop… Continue reading
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