Today through Thursday I'm participating in an online symposium at Concurring Opinions in which a whole list of us have been asked to comment on Danielle Citron's article Cyber Civil Rights.
There are already a large number of interesting contributions there, and I've just added mine: CCR Symposium: The Right to Remain Anonymous Matters. It may be controversial.
Tom's Hardware : Do You Really Need More Than 6 GB Of RAM?
Not much has changed since 4 GB of RAM became the “sweet spot” for performance and price in the enthusiast market. While 32-bit operating systems previously limited those 4 GB configurations to around 3 GB of useful memory space, today's test shows that 3 GB is still usually enough.
Which is good, as 32-bit versions of popular operating systems can't actually address much more than that anyway. They do say you might go to double that if you have a 64-bit OS which can take advantage of it, but more on some future-proofing theory than anything else. Note, however, that it's far from costless,
Every time we doubled memory capacity, idle power consumption increased by around 10 W. Using the Sandra Memory Bandwidth benchmark, load power consumption for the entire system increased by around 10% for each increase in memory capacity.
Now that Navy forces have rescued Richard Phillips and killed three Somali pirates, President Obama's military accomplishments exceed those of Ronald Reagan.
Cute Beats Smart is an excellent curative to this horror.
A powerhouse list of the local bar, including major Cuban-American luminaries, have written an open Bipartisan Letter from Miami attorneys in support of Dean Koh's nomination as Legal Adviser to the Secretary of State.
Kudos to Roberto Martinez (US Attorney, SDFL 1992-93), Robert Josefsberg (President and Dean, International Academy of Trial Lawyers, 1998-2001; Counsel to Florida Governor Robert Graham, 1979- 1980), Marcos Jimenez (US Attorney, SDFL 2002-05), Cesar Alvarez (Greenberg Traurig, CEO), Frank Jimenez (U.S. Navy, General Counsel, 2006-present; U.S. Department of Defense, Deputy General Counsel, 2005-06; HUD, Chief of Staft 2002-04; Governor Jeb Bush, Acting General Counsel, 2000), Jacqueline Becerra (DOJ 1994-2004), Rene Murai (President, Cuban-American Bar Association, 1985-1986) and Francisco Angones (President of The Florida Bar, 2007-08, President, Cuban-American Bar Association, 1982-1983).
Earlier post: Of Koh, Johnsen … and Bork.
Nice article in today's Herald about UM Law's Health and Elder Law Clinic: Law students get real-world experience.
Best bit:
“I have faith in these two,” Alayo, 59, says, pointing across a conference table at students Melissa Kiedrowicz and Larisa Hernandez. “They say they're students, but they're professionals, more than professionals.”
Of course, their youth is sometimes met with skepticism and an arched eyebrow. Ayala tells how his law students accompanied him to a meeting with a Department of Children supervisor who demanded of counsel: “How old are you?”
Yes, students get younger every year…
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