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High WSJ: Court to Hear Microsoft Appeal in Patent Case

High Court to Hear Microsoft Appeal in Patent Case

Italian Supreme Court Rules Against P2P Website

The Italian Supreme Court has issued a decision in a criminal proceeding against www.thepiratebay.org, a P2P website because of the breach of copyright laws through the making available to the public of copyright protected works…

Full story.

Google Code booted JSMin-PHP Because It’s Not Allowed to “Do Evil”

An interesting report by CNET News. How do you define evil? I suppose one way to not do evil is to write the code so that it consumes less resources, either in terms of CPU cycles or memory (or both if you can!), thus reducing the power dissipated in millions or billions of CMOS Flip-Flops. Just think about the implications of wasted charges/discharges and unnecessarily-spent batteries. Wait, maybe I’m getting off topic…

Applying to Law School? Please Reconsider!

This is a post forwarded to me by a fellow Linkedin user:

“To those prospective law students applying to law school as a fallback in a bad economy, or because you want three more years to figure out what to do with your life: please save yourself time, money, and a huge amount of stress…” Aaron Street.

China Defends Rule On ‘Indigenous’ Tech

An article forwarded to me by Rachel Hamilton, Senior Industry Consultant at American Conference Institute.

“At stake in the spat over the rules is the multibillion-dollar market for tech products — including office equipment, computers, software and new energy products — procured by Chinese government agencies. The value of contracts that would be covered by the new rules isn’t clear, but according to the Ministry of Finance, purchases through public procurement, including nontech goods, totaled about $88 billion in 2008.” – Rachel Hamilton

Here’s the article: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB126079913899790519.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_sections_world

Reuters: Apple fires back at Nokia in patents battle

Story from Reuters on the counter-suit by Apple against Nokia on various patents related to handsets.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BA2DO20091214

Google Scholar Adds Legal Opinions and Journals

It’s fast, free, and easy to use. Look out, Westlaw and LexisNexus.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/finding-laws-that-govern-us.html

http://scholar.google.com/

Ruled-based Citation Checker Using Finite State Automata

I was trying to review my crim law reading last night in bed, and thought of the idea of using FSA to check legal citation.

If citation in legal writing conforms strictly to some predefined rules (either Bluebook or ALWD), then there’s no reason why the problem can’t be solved by a FSA which describes the finite number of rules set forth in those citation manuals. The solution seems pretty straight forward, and can be implemented fairly elegantly in either python or perl, off the top of my head. On the other hand, a functional language like list or scheme can probable implement achieve the same with significantly fewer lines of code.

More to come later…

Judges Don’t Always Serve Justice

Two judges in Pennsylvenia prosecuted for receiving kickbacks in exchange of sending juveniles to private detention centers.

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