John Wesley Hall picks this quote from the Oral Argument in Herring v US, No 70-513, Opinion issued January 14, 2008:
Chief Justice Roberts: I don’t know what the situation is like in Dale County. They probably don’t have the latest version of WordPerfect, or whatever it is. They are probably making do with whatever they [...]
Jim Puzzanghera in the LA Times reports that the IRS is going after major employers, including the University of California system, for back taxes for being unable to document the personal calls made or received by employees over employer-provided cell phones.
The Internal Revenue Service still considers cellphones to be a pricey fringe benefit and has [...]
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The Information Superhighway is wonderful, but excellent is a requirement if the thing is to make sense. Living and working in a Chicago suburb, we have access to interesting programs from time to time, but there is a lot of good content out there that most lawyers simply can’t get. Until high speed [...]
I’m not sure whether I like this or not, but…via Endgaget:
In a rare case of having something positive to report in the political realm, the North Dakota legislature is the first to set a precedent by making the black box data sole property of the vehicle owner.
On the one hand, the black boxes (particularly [...]
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I have been writing about ICANN’s slow moving dotPro (.Pro, really, but half the time my newspaper subscribers seem to miss the . so I’ve take to spelling it out). But I was a little surprised to find the following:
Co. Finds Loophole on ‘.pro’ Web Names (washingtonpost.com)
NEW YORK — A company has found a [...]
The press release is titled Kansas Legislature Selects ISYS Search Software to Supply Easy-to-Use Search Technology for its Electronic Committee Project. I’m certain that the Kansas Legislature needs a good system to pull together the many records of the legislation process and ISYS is a well known name that has been around for a long [...]
The latest beta iteration of the Google Tool Bar has created more than its share of controversy since it was released about a week ago. The tool bar is an add-on to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer, a Browser that I use less and less these days, so I haven’t bothered to install it. But as [...]