Author Archives: Michael Froomkin

Math Anxiety

It’s more dangerous than we suspected.

(“Ivy League economist ethnically profiled, interrogated for doing math on American Airlines flight” … although he’s actually … wait for it … Italian.)

Spotted via Kevin Drum, Heroic Passenger Recognizes Quantitative Economics as True Threat to America.

I am wondering if I need a new blog category for “paranoia”?

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“Harassment”

The NYT’s Nick Corasaniti says this ad from the Arkansas Senate race “could well become a blueprint for how other Democrats — incumbents and challengers alike — attack their Republican opponents by linking them to Donald J. Trump.”

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Avira Does Not Play Nice With GCal Under IE11

avira-logoFor the record: under Win 7, IE 11, the Avira antivirus browser plugin causes Google’s calendar site, GCal, to freeze up and do other strange things. Using just Avira real-time protection, the main anti-virus program, does not cause the problem, just the browser add-on. The odd thing was that Gmail worked fine, but Gcal locked up, or got caught in a scripting error.

The fix is simple: disable the Avira add-on.

And, before you ask, no I don’t use IE much, but I do use it to access a 2nd gcal calendar that belongs to an organization without signing out of Google on my main browser or commingling the two identities in any way.

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Clinton Attack: Salvo 2

Another doozy.

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Clipper Chip on Ebay

A guy is selling a T TSD 3600 Pair Clipper Chip Version New in Box Unused on E-Bay.

I have a birthday coming up, but the asking price is $250, which is just a bit too expensive. And I imagine the price will go up. Plus it sounds like they’d be hard to use, too.

Spotted via Scheier.

(Why do I care? The Metaphor is the Key: Cryptography, the Clipper Chip and the Constitution, 143 U. Penn. L. Rev. 709 (1995) and It Came From Planet Clipper, 1996 U. Chi. L. Forum 15.)

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Clinton Fires 1st General Election Salvo

trump-uniterClinton calls Trump a unifier.

Click the link, it’s worth it.

PS. If anyone knows how to embed that sort of video in WordPress, please share. Never mind, the Clinton people provided one.

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