Singing Each To Each

There's an intriguing article about The Identity Of Electronic Devices by Tom Wills at Digital ID World.

Surrender

From yoga this morning:

"Surrender" is difficult. We confuse it with "succumb," but it's not. It's allowing yourself to recognize when you are imagining the threat.

~Happy Labor Day~

Reach Out And Sue Someone

Chapter 3 of Professor Lessig's Code begins with the following quote from David Johnson and David Post ["Law and Borders -- The Rise of Law In Cyberspace," Stanford Law Review 48 (1996): 1367, 1375]:

The rise of an electronic medium that disregards geographical boundaries throws the law into disarray by creating entirely new phenomena that need to become the subject of clear legal rules but that cannot be governed, satisfactorily, by any current territorially based sovereign.

Six years later the Net jurisdiction rules remain in flux, but by year-end the California Supreme Court will weigh in with its opinion in Pavlovich v. Superior Court. (More links here.) Oral argument is this Thursday.

I'm going to attend the argument, and will have more here Thursday or Friday depending on time and access. (Think anyone's warchalked the Court?)

Damn, He's Good

Did Professor Lessig know when he wrote Code, And Other Laws Of Cyberspace he'd be getting read poolside in places like Lake Tahoe, on occasions like Labor Day weekend? I wouldn't put it past him: "Real space is the space where you are just now: your office, a den, maybe a pool..."

Picture Fred Astaire Top Hat And Tails -

More musical stylings of Mad Kane.