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Mark Stephens, aka Robert X. Cringley Announces That He Would Love the Job of CTO of the USA Under Obama and oh, by the Way, His Last Column will Be on 12/15/08
I quote in part - The U.S. CTO – at least this FIRST U.S. CTO – will be the buyer-of-cool-stuff-in-chief for the entire nation. I would make a better buyer-in-chief than almost anyone else because of two important characteristics in my warped personality: 1) I would be immune to special interest gro...
Linux.com Interview of Andy Updgrove
Linux.com, one of the leading open source software web sites, recently interviewed my partner, Andy Updegrove, and wrote a very complementary article (part of its Portrait Series). The article focuses on Andy’s involvement with open source software, and also touches on many highlights in...
An Interesting (although admittedly useless) Fact About the Supreme Court …
… courtesy of Jeffrey Toobin - The current Supreme Court is the first court in U.S. history where all nine judges are federal appeals court judges. The court that decided Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 had only one justice who had been a judge of any kind on any court anywhere...
Why Antitrust Is More Interesting Than Any Other Area of Law
OK, OK, this is not my title. It’s the title of a blog post by Professor D. Daniel Sokol over at the Antitrust & Competition Law Policy Blog. He provides ten reasons, but significantly undercuts his argument (which I’m sure is made at least a bit facetiously), by stating that tax ...
Our AG Before the Supreme Court
Are state forensic laboratory reports prepared for criminal prosecutions testimonial evidence? If they are, they are subject to the Confrontation Clause of the U.S. Constitution (”in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right . . . to be confronted with the witnesses...