Apr
22

it's going to be a long night

By e; — Tuesday, April 22, 2003

I'm working on writing the paper I mentioned the other day. I think the public domain is going to take a larger role than I had envisioned, but I like how my outline has come together. Now the whole serious writing process starts. Eleven pages, due at 2pm tomorrow, but I've got other classes between now and then, so for me it's basically due at 10am. It'll be interesting.

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Apr
20

research, research, research

By e; — Sunday, April 20, 2003

So tonight I find myself in the computer lab, looking for information for a research paper due Wednesday. It's for my Legal Issues in New Media class, and the topic I've chosen to tackle is copyright terms. Right now I'm working with the juxtaposition of increasing copyright terms and what I'm calling the decreasing shelf life of information. The copyright term aspect is pretty broad and straight-forward, but the fun part is trying to figure out how you reasearch the latter aspect. What metric do you use to determine how long information is useful?

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Apr
17

Ive never read

By e; — Thursday, April 17, 2003

Ive never read anything about politics on this page before...

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Apr
17

S.151: The Bill to End all Bills

By e; — Thursday, April 17, 2003

On April 10 a bill was cleared for the White House that I think is one of the more dangerous bills ever to be passed. S.151, or the "Child Abduction Prevention Act" (or AMBER Alert Act), seems inocuous enough, until you look at all the provisions that have been attached to it. I first read about the bill via this Plastic article, and yesterday actually took the time to read up on it. Click the title to read more...

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Apr
08

is it legal if you cheat off yourself?

By e; — Tuesday, April 08, 2003

So today I was strolling through my access log, and noticed for the first time a referrer from turnitin.com. I had sort of been curious to see when they indexed the papers on my site. A couple of my professors require that we submit our papers through them, and I have to say that I have very mixed opinions on whether that's a good thing or not. Largely I guess it depends on the algorithms they're using, and those we'll never know. I'm just waiting for the first time I post a paper on my site at the same time I turn it in, and their site flags me for copying from myself. That would make my day.

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