Comments for Yale Law & Technology

Comment on Keep seminars offline by Maria P - YLT2012

Maria P - YLT2012 — Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:43:06 +0000

I had this discussions with two deans of the graduate schools and regarding graduate education and there is definitely a dilemma on how to enter the online world. We all agreed about the geographical flexibility benefits (like you mention for summer courses) but they were thinking of a version that was less MOOCs and still preserving “exclusivity”. And by exclusivity I mean hard to get in, and not free.

Comment on Porn in the Closet: A Tribute to CPSC 183 by Michael H - YLT2012

Michael H - YLT2012 — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 18:07:27 +0000

I love this; you guys did a fantastic job. I especially like the off rhyme at the end between “Rosen” in your version to “closet” in the original version.

Comment on Irresponsible Journalism in the Age of the Internet by Gustavo Arellano

Gustavo Arellano — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:29:28 +0000

Gracias for your defense of our paper. Just as background: The OC Weekly is an alt-weekly in Orange County, CA, and the sister paper of the Village Voice. The reporter who broke the news back in 2008, R. Scott Moxley, is an investigative reporting legend—he has sent our former sheriff to federal prison, gotten many politicians out of office, gotten innocent people out of jail, and generally makes life miserable for the comfortable, like the rest of us do. We’re used to people not paying attention to us, ESPECIALLY in the mainstream media, because the MSM considers OC a backwater with no possible intellect, while the locals despise us because we ARE a backwater. Whatever: we continue being us, and letting everyone else play catchup.

–Gustavo Arellano, Editor, OC Weekly

Comment on Apple and Google Go Head to Head Over a Few Apps by Trevor

Trevor — Thu, 13 Dec 2012 19:44:25 +0000

Update: Google Maps now on iOS App Store…….

http://www.forbes.com/sites/anthonykosner/2012/12/13/google-maps-returns-to-ios-now-with-voice-guided-turn-by-turn-navigation/

Comment on Keep seminars offline by Jie Jessica Y - YLT2012

Jie Jessica Y - YLT2012 — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 17:09:57 +0000

@Rasmus: clap clap clap

Comment on Keep seminars offline by Rasmus B - YLT2012

Rasmus B - YLT2012 — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 16:48:40 +0000

So in other words, you want to discriminate not on willingness to pay or academic achievements, but on who was here first, on who is half-bred or thoroughbred Yalie? Further, I think you completely underestimate the power of diversity. For instance, it is the standard within universities not to hire their own Phd students to a teaching position. Why? because they will have a hard time contributing with something knew. Likewise the universities gladly take in PhD students from schools that you might call lesser – because they have something NEW to contribute with. This goes for your precious Yale as well. Granted there is a difference between a student and a teaching position, but you have to admit, that if even the university itself will – as a main rule – prefer to hire scholars from other universities, maybe the other universities aren’t so bad. And lastly, the implicit logic of your argument that other students won’t contribute anything new, because Yale already has so many international student, is that Yale has somehow just got it right with the level of diversity, that not a single diversifying student more would benefit the school. If so. Prove it.

Comment on Government Data: Balancing Transparency and Privacy by Michael Hopkins

Michael Hopkins — Sun, 25 Nov 2012 02:04:15 +0000

I think you are right that there will always be a tension between privacy and transparency. I’m curious why you believe it was a mistake to release teachers’ names along with the their students’ average standardized testing scores. Do you object to the large margin of error in the data obtained, the lurking variables in the study, the small sample size, or the actual act of publishing teachers’ names alongside test scores. I agree there were issues with the study, but don’t parents have a right to know the abilities of the teachers instructing their children?

Comment on YouTube Poop: Meme as Art, Community by Peachtotheinfinity

Peachtotheinfinity — Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:46:53 +0000

This article could be better, but it’s nice to know YTPers like me are getting some credit

Comment on YouTube Poop: Meme as Art, Community by William A - YLT2012

William A - YLT2012 — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:54:09 +0000

Hello, everyone. Thanks so much for the comments. Unfortunately, since most of everything is being filtered as spam, and it requires that I go in and approve each one, I’ve decided I won’t approve any more comments. Sorry if your comment was delayed in showing up. As you may understand, I’m pretty busy, so it doesn’t make much sense to keep checking the inbox every few hours. I’ve been really pleased with the discussion here. Hopefully it can continue elsewhere. Thanks for reading.

Comment on YouTube Poop: Meme as Art, Community by Watchy McDoggerson

Watchy McDoggerson — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 03:31:32 +0000

Hey there.
As an active poop watcher, commenter and occasional pooper, I am pleased to see public awareness like this. This nonsense has been part of my life for a little over 5 years now (less than 4 with this account) and I have to say, I think that it has outgrown analysis from people like Stuart, “figurehead” he may be. Art, if poop is art, is in the eye of the beholder. To limit one as a viewer and criticize his appreciation is shallow. I still like walrusguy, and I like his later work too, post-poop. The moment people became snobs who reject CD-i and the hidden narrative of evolution that runs through poop was the moment they missed the point.
I think it is fair to say there are many schools of poop and yes, many participants therein are not good at it, but that does not invalidate their prevalence. You take the good, you take the bad, you take them both and there you have the facts of poop.