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Microsoft Corporation, The Justice Department, And Antitrust Theory, Daniel J. Gifford

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Microsoft Corporation's jousting with the Justice Department's Antitrust Division over the last two years has been the subject of widespread media interest. The Division has required Microsoft to change its licensing practices; it has thwarted Microsoft's planned merger with Intuit. Furthermore, the Division has threatened to block Microsoft's introduction of its new Windows 95 operating system as a result of a dispute over the lawfulness of Microsoft's incorporation into that program of an icon helping users to sign on to Microsoft's new on-line service. The sparring between the Justice Department and Microsoft over these Department challenges to Microsoft's plans may …

Intermediate Sanctions, Michael Tonry, Mary Lynch

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Camaras Fotograficas De Barrido Experimentales, Andrew Davidhazy

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Detallan ideas fundamentales sobre el proceso y varias aplicaciones de camaras en las cuales se mueve la pelicula detras de una pequeña ranura lo que transforma la camara en una maquina que graba una dimension en el campo del sujeto y al mismo tiempo tambien el pasaje del tiempo.

Training Teachers Of Distant Learners, Morton Isaacs

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Distance Education increasingly is being utilized as an instructional method within the college environment. It has several advantages, among which are that it enables course participation by *Handicapped persons whose problems of speech, hearing, or movement may make spontaneous interaction with others difficult; *Geographically or temporally isolated persons; *Those whose language differs from that of the instructor; *Instructors who have special knowledge that would otherwise be impractical to teach due to the scattered locations of those interested in the material. However, this method requires instructors to adjust to many factors that have little relevance in traditional teaching methods: *The absence …

Flood Control On The Information Ocean: Living With Anonymity, Digital Cash, And Distributed Databases, A. Michael Froomkin

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The Fcc, Indecency, And Anti-Abortion Political Advertising, Lili Levi

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An Application Of Desktop Virtual Reality To The Hospitality Industry, Patrick Horan, Ciaran Mcdonnell

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This paper discusses research being carried out to produce real-time interactive Virtual Reality (VR) models of some areas of Tourism interest in Ireland. In particular, issues concerning the development of prototype VR models of an ancient Irish monastic village are described.

Race-Ing Legal Ethics, Anthony V. Alfieri

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Not With A Bang But A Whimper: Broadcast License Renewal And The Telecommunications Act Of 1996, Lili Levi

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Introduction To Panoramic, Peripheral And Scanning Photography, Andrew Davidhazy

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Alternate title: "Fotografia panoramica, periferica y de barrido". This version, in Spanish, is available at: https://ritdml.rit.edu/dspace/handle/1850/1722 This describes (again!) how scanning film cameras (the forerunners of linear array digital capture technology) operate for panoramic, peripheral and other applications and how to conduct introductory experiments using nothing more complicated than a very basic, manual, camera.

Fotografia Panoramica, Periferica Y De Barrido, Andrew Davidhazy

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Originally titled "Introduction to panoramic, peripheral and scanning photography". This version, in English, is available at: https://ritdml.rit.edu/dspace/handle/1850/1568 Detallan ideas fundamentales sobre el proceso y varias aplicaciones de camaras en las cuales se mueve la pelicula detras de una pequeña ranura lo que transforma la camara en una maquina que graba una dimension en el campo del sujeto y al mismo tiempo tambien el pasaje del tiempo.

Physician Assisted Suicide: A Bad Idea, Yale Kamisar

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It would be hard to deny that there is a great deal of support in this country - and ever-growing support - for legalizing physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Why is this so? I believe there are a considerable number of reasons. I shall discuss five common reasons - and explain why I do not find any of them convincing.

Meaning In The Life Of The Lawyer, James Boyd White

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First let me say what a pleasure it is to be here on such an occasion. Dean Kronman is an old and valued friend, and I am very glad to be able to visit your school, of which I have heard many good things. In the remarks that follow I shall respond to Dean Kronman's eloquent and elegiac account of "civility" in our culture, and in the law, not so much by marking agreement or disagreement as by offering a few loosely connected reflections on the topics he raises.

A Brief Defense Of Mass Market Software License Agreements, Robert W. Gomulkiewicz

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In the rapidly changing world of personal computer software, the end user license agreement ("EULA") has endured. The EULA is a familiar component of most personal computer software transactions. Many commentators, however, have maligned the practice of standard form software licensing. A survey of the literature on the subject might lead one to conclude that there are only critics--and no proponents--of EULAs.

Despite the din of criticism, EULAs continue to be widely usedby almost every mass-market software publisher, even though the cost of doing so is significant. This Article explains the value of EULAs for both software publishers and users, …

Structures Of Environmental Criminal Enforcement, Michael E. Herz

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Rodrigo's Thirteenth Chronicle: Legal Formalism And Law's Discontents Symposium: Representing Race, Richard Delgado

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Multiracialism: A Bibliographic Essay And Critique In Memory Of Trina Grillo Dismantling The Master's House: Essays In Memory Of Trina Grillo, Jean Stefancic

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The Inevitable Wasteland: Why The Public Trustee Model Of Broadcast Television Must Fail - Abandoned In The Wasteland: Children, Television, And The First Amendment By Newton N. Minow And Craig Lamay 1997 Survey Of Books Relating To The Law: Legal Regulation And Reform, Ronald J. Krotoszynski Jr.

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An Epilogue To The Age Of Pound, Thomas A. Green

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Doubts about the reality of criminal offenders' autonomy have sometimes played a role in the movement to abolish, or greatly reduce the reach of, the sanction of capital punishment.

Bouquets For Jerry Israel, Yale Kamisar

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As it turned out, of those asked to write a few words for an issue of the Michigan Law Review honoring Jerry Israel, I was the last to do so. And when I submitted my brief contribution to the Law Review I took the liberty of reading what the four others who paid tribute to Jerry had written. As a result, I feel like the fifth and last speaker at a banquet who listens to others say much of what he had planned to say.

Judicial Selection In Michigan - Time For A Change?, John W. Reed

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How are we to choose those who judge us? To whom do we entrust the responsibility of protecting our liberties and the power to determine our rights and liabilities? We look for men and women of integrity, diligence, legal ability, and judicial temperament, chosen by methods that balance judicial independence and public accountability.1

Towards Deciding The Existance Of 2-(22,8,4) Designs, Brendan Mckay, Stanislaw Radziszowski

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We report on progress on towards deciding the existence of 2-(22,8,4) designs without assuming any automorphisms. Using computer algorithms we have shown that in any such design every two blocks have nonempty intersection, every quadruple of points can occur in at most two blocks, and no three blocks can pairwise intersect in one point.

Training Wheels For Encoder Networks, Peter G. Anderson

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"Training wheels for encoder networks," Proceedings of the 1996 Soft Computing (SOCO '96) conference. The International Computer Science Conventions. Held at the University of Reading: Whiteknights, Reading, England: 26-28 March 1996. We develop a new approach to training encoder feed-forward neural networks and apply it to two classes of problems. Our approach is to initially train the network with a reltated, relatively easy-to-learn problem, and then gradually replace the training set with harder problems, until the network learns the problem we originally intended to solve. The problems we address are modifications of the common N-2-N encoder network problem with N …

Camera For Conical Peripheral And Panoramic Photography, Andrew Davidhazy

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This paper is a report on the development, operating principles and applications of a camera capable of making distortion free peripheral reproductions of conical objects. In addition, the parameters governing its use for the generation of conical panoramic photographs are also described. Examples of both types of applications are included. Suggestions for other applications are given. A brief review of the operating principles of standard peripheral, panoramic and linear type strip cameras is included in the introduction to the paper.

Ministatistics For Minitab Release 9.1: A Simple Explanation Of How To Analyze Data Using The Minitab Program On The Rit Vax Computer System, Morton Isaacs

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Excessive Criminal Justice Caseloads: Challenging The Conventional Wisdom, Jerold H. Israel

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Since the mid-1960s, no element of the criminal justice environment has received more attention and been accorded greater importance, in both popular and professional commentary, than has the pressure of heavy caseloads. The lack of sufficient resources to deal with overbearing caseloads has been widely characterized as the most pervasive and most critical administrative challenge faced by police, prosecutors, public defenders, and courts.' National commissions have regularly complained that the criminal justice system is "overcrowded, overworked, [and] undermanned," and must be given "substantially more money" to cure those ills if it is ever to perform all of the tasks assigned …

The Reasons So Many People Support Physician-Assisted Suicide - And Why These Reasons Are Not Convincing, Yale Kamisar

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It would be hard to deny that there is a great deal of support in this country-and ever-growing support-for legalizing physician-assisted suicide (PAS). Why is this so? I believe there are a considerable number of reasons. In this article, I shall discuss five common reasons and explain why I do not find any of them convincing.

The Sense Of Justice And The Justice Of Sense: Native Hawaiian Sovereignty And The Second "Trial Of The Century", William H. Rodgers, Jr.

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My approach in this Essay is to look at the Native Hawaiian Sovereignty conflict through a lens suggested by evolutionary theory, sometimes described in the law schools as "Law and Biology." In this world, the sense of justice is a set of expectations about how others should behave, backed by a proclivity towards moralistic aggression against deviators.

The sense of justice entails both cognition and emotion, with a match of expectations and then the fit that follows if there is no fit.

Compare and despair is the name of the game. Explored in detail are the actions of Dennis "Bumpy" …

Balancing The Barriers: Exploiting And Creating Incentives To Promote Development Of New Tuberculosis Treatments, Patricia C. Kuszler

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This Article considers the many barriers that health-care providers and public health authorities face in stemming the modem TB epidemic. Part II reviews historical public health measures, their results, and their adaptability to resurgent and MDR-TB. Part III considers the fundamental barriers to a successful global effort using these public health strategies, concluding that these barriers are insurmountable given the current arsenal of anti-tuberculosis therapies. Part IV examines the reasons why research and development of new anti-tuberculosis drugs and vaccines have stagnated over the last quarter century. Finally, part V explores incentives that might revive research and development of such …

Cardozo's Allegheny College Opinion: A Case Study In Law As An Art, Michael Townsend

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This Article consists of two related pieces. One piece considers interpretations of Cardozo's opinion in Allegheny College v. National Chautauqua County Bank. Cardozo commonly is placed among the greatest American judges, but his "analysis in Allegheny College is regularly criticized as contrived and artificial." This Article attempts to resuscitate the reputation of his analysis by placing the case in its historical and doctrinal context. The other piece continues the elaboration of a framework introduced in a previous article for thinking about law as a discipline. Central to this framework is a particular conception of the western intellectual tradition in …