Joe Petviashvili

“Those who violated the charter were labeled pirates as early as 1603.”

“Dollars and cents seem real and physical enough for many people. If processes affecting money flows do not qualify as producing a physical transformation, it seems impossible to imagine that a process would qualify where it only scores virtual documents more...

So we’ve been increasingly concerned about developments at Facebook over the last few months that allow advertisers to post ads using my picture and name to endorse their products without my explicit permission. I’ve received literally dozens of emails from more...

“Shirky’s Law states that the social software most likely to succeed has “a brutally simple mental model … that’s shared by all users”.”

“Now, hurry up and patent Bayesian nonlinear regression before they do it.”

“Or maybe programmers should be glad governments are illiterate. Think how much more trouble they would cause if they knew what they were doing.”

“Dorozhko’s alleged ‘stealing and trading’ or ‘hacking and trading’ does not amount to a violation” of securities laws, Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald of United States District Court ruled last month. Although he may have broken laws by stealing the information, more...

made it illegal to send any "obscene, lewd, and/or lascivious" materials through the mail, including contraceptive devices and information. anti-obscenity laws are still in effect in 2008 and are enforced

The U.S. House of Representatives on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved a bill saying that anyone offering an open Wi-Fi connection to the public must report illegal images including "obscene" cartoons and drawings--or face fines of up to $300,000.

And then, I swear to friggin God, there's a list of my assets with an estimated value for each and I suppose the implied threat that I stand to lose them. Which kinda scares the living shit out of me, more...

Google has said repeatedly it has no option but to cooperate with official law enforcement inquiries - such as this case. Indian police are saying it's not their fault for wrongly detaining a man for 50 days. And an Airtel more...

An armed man who burst into a classroom at Elizabeth City State University was role-playing in an emergency response drill, but neither the students nor assistant professor Jingbin Wang knew that.

“On this list are 245 entities of the following types: 193 states with general international recognition, 9 states lacking general international recognition, 38 inhabited dependent territories, 5 special entities recognized”

His involvement with the tax resistance movement may stem from his association with the Nuwaubians, a quasi-religious sect of black Americans who promote antigovernment theories and who set up a headquarters in Georgia in the early 1990s. In 2000, Mr. more...