Gizmos… Open Source Malaise 1 Jun 2009 InfoWorld's Bill Snyder has a very interesting article about open source "leeching," and the apparent beginnings of some grumbling in the bleeding-edge world. I say it's interesting because of what…
Law… Brady Material 29 May 2009 One of the touchstones of the criminal defense practice is receiving so-called "Brady" material from the prosecutor. The term comes from the case Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83 (1963),…
Law… Indefinite Detentions 20 May 2009 I am wary of brushing with broad strokes, and I suppose President Obama is deserving of a wee but of lee-way, but I'm getting sick of feeling the cynical "meet…
Law… Changing Antitrust Landscape 11 May 2009 The United States Department of Justice Antitrust Division has signaled a change in how the federal government will be looking at anticompetitive behavior. According to a press release issued today,…
Law… Norman Hsu Pleads Guilty 7 May 2009 Remember Norman Hsu? His name was everywhere during the early portions of the Democratic primary season, primarily because he helped Hillary Clinton get beaucoup bucks. (Obama, Biden, and Bill Richardson…
Law… Federal Point Shaving Indictment 7 May 2009 I don't have any real basis for thinking this, but I suspect that most people probably think that point-shaving is undesirable behavior, but not necessarily criminal in nature. Well, lest…
Law… Changing Cocaine Base Penalties? 29 Apr 2009 At the risk of incurring the AP's wrath by even discussing this story, it seems that the Obama administration is asking Congress to do what the United States Sentencing Commission…
Law… No CIA Prosecutions 17 Apr 2009 At first blush, the Obama administration's decision not to prosecute CIA officers for torturing (no, I'm not even going to use scare quotes) individuals facially makes sense. After all, as…
Entertainment… Time Warner’s Bandwidth Caps 11 Apr 2009 PC Magazine has a write-up about TWC's proposed bandwidth caps, which I briefly mentioned here. According to PC Mag, TWC will offer a super-rock-bottom class of services with 768kbps down/128kbps…
Law… Fun with the AP 9 Apr 2009 Following up on yesterday's post about the AP and its "mad as hell" posturing, we are beginning to see some of the lunacy involved with its new approach. TechCrunch, which…
