A bill has been introduced to fix one of the injustice of the DMCA, but it is limited to unlocking devices.

This would be a substantial step forward, but not enough to fix the DMCA, because the broader prohibition on breaking digital handcuffs would remain. Digital Restrictions Management ought to be banned outright.

New Zealand has passed a bill to reject software patents, more or less.

I hope that lawyers don't succeed in gaming the new law by cleverly writing the applications to squeeze around it. Also, if there are existing patents in New Zealand that cover computational ideas, I don't think this law gets rid of them.

I recommend a more thorough and immediate solution.

Some Newtown officials voted to tear down and rebuild Sandy Hook elementary school at the cost of 57 million dollars. In these days of austerity, surely there is something more useful to do with that money.

I think that it was a mistake to move the students to another building after the shooting, because that encouraged them to feel they should be unable to cope with being in that building, which is why people are considering spending 60 million dollars replacing the building. When you fall off the horse, you should get right back on it, and that applies here too.

How Facebook leads people to forget all the different sorts of people they are giving their information to.

This is not to mention Facebook itself, a perpetual lurker whose presence is dangerous to overlook.

The FBI screwed up testing evidence against 137 people, but only informed the lawyers of 30 of them. Others have languished in prison for years.