One subject that I’ve wondered about for a long time is the rapid rate at which college tuition is increasing. I myself just recently graduated from college with tens of thousands of dollars in debt. My mother attended the same school I did several decades ago, and her mother was able to pay for the [...]
One thing that’s really bugging me is how often tech pundits and blogs are misusing the word freedom in these Apple-Adobe-Google debates that have gripped the blogosphere. I see a lot of charges that Apple is destroying freedom with their restrictive app store policies. There’s a big hangup people have over the word freedom. In [...]
Maybe I’ll comment later but the most important thing is that I get this up here THIS SECOND!
Sebastian is absolutely right: I think law is something that comes rather easily to engineers, since it’s basically just [a] boolean logic system, but written in plain English. If (A || B || C) && !D && !E is true, you’re violating the statute. There is a system to it, and legal structures are less [...]