"But balance is unlikely when district courts believe they are protecting the morals of America's children. And balance has not yet been the norm when courts have been confronted with circumventing code. Instead, control has been the judicial norm - control built into code, backed up by a law that reaches further than copyright law itself may constitutionally reach. A law that circumvents, one might say, the protections the First Amendment was to provide."

Battling Censorware: "If there is a fair-use right under copyright law, then as professor Peter Jaszi and others have argued, there should be a fair-use right under the anticircumvention provision of the DMCA. Just as free-speech rights get balanced under copyright law, so too should they be balanced under the copyright act.

BTW, don't try that response, or you may find your account being shut down.

Then I realized... of COURSE Cisco wants you to retaliate by sending as much data as possible. Then you'll need to buy more and faster routers. Sometimes I can be so dense!

"Spam is usually harmless, but it can be a nuisance, taking up time and storage space. The solution is to flame the perpetrators by sending them abusive messages, or to reply by dumping a very large and useless file on their Web server."

Carla Virga, previously talked about March 13th, has won another victory in her fight against Terminix, according to Overlawyered.com (look for the 'March 31-April 2 -- Terminix vs. consumer critic's website' entry; I don't know how to permanently link to it).

(It was on the TV, though.)

I love computer science!... and a darn good thing, too.

Michigan State University has just won the NCAA Championship, and it's pretty noisy outside. So, am I A: Joining in the festivities or B: Turning in my homework assignment for Compilers (due tonight at midnight), having worked on it all through the game?