Monthly Archives: April 2012

Securing Gmail (Updated)

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Michael Froomkin

Coding Horror, Make Your Email Hacker Proof has lots of good advice about how to secure your Gmail account.

This is all good advice, even if two-factor authentication is not a panacea.

Plus, when you print out that last-ditch backup paper to put in your wallet…don’t label it. Why make it easy for the guy who steals your wallet?

Update: A friend writes,

I followed the instructions, first on the desktop.

Then, it locked out my Gmail account on my iPhone, because I need to do one more step since smartphones “apps” cannot ask for verification, only a password.

(That part is missing in this “Coding Error – Make your Email Hacker Proof” article because it is only for the desktop. If you use Gmail also on your mobile device, you need to do the below):

So I read further and found that you need to the 2 step authoriztion by following these steps (watch the video).

This gives you a long “application specific password” which is different from your password you use when you login to Gmail from a browser on a desktop (not your mobile device). You only need to type it in once.

Now my Gmail works on my iPhone. Terrific!

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UM Law Review Offers Expedited Article Reviews April 18-27

Posted on April 17, 2012 by Michael Froomkin

The newly minted editors of the University of Miami Law Review are offering an expedited review system for authors willing to commit to accepting publication offers:

The University of Miami Law Review will be offering expedited review of articles to be published in Volume 67.

Articles submitted between April 18 and April 27 will be evaluated by May 4th.

By submitting the article during this window, authors agree to accept publication offers should one be extended.

Any articles accepted through this expedited review will be published in Volume 67.

If you have an article that would like to submit, please e-mail a copy of the article, CV, and cover letter to lawreview@students.law.miami.edu with the subject line “Volume 67 Expedited Review.”

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Income Inequality 101

Posted on April 15, 2012 by Michael Froomkin

John Cassidy in The New Yorker, Inequality 101: The Picket Fence and the Staircase.

Nothing you shouldn’t already know, but it is very concise and clear and it can’t be said too often: US inequality is at a historically high level, and higher than in most of our allies. Plus social mobility is relatively low both temporally and compared to other democracies.

Note, though, that the article is primarily about income inequality. There is also the issue of wealth inequality, which is the cumulative effect of this trend. Maybe that’s the 102 course.

Posted in Econ & Money | 11 Comments

Henderson ♥ LWOW

Posted on April 14, 2012 by Michael Froomkin

Bill Henderson’s The Legal Whiteboard: What is Law Without Walls? Why does it matter? is a paean to UM Law Prof Michele DeStepano‘s innovative Law Without Walls program.

Does it scale?

Posted in Law School, U.Miami | 2 Comments

We Robot Web Site Down Temporarily (FIXED) (UNFixed) (Fixed Again)

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Michael Froomkin

The We Robot 2012 website is down temporarily due to a hardware failure. I’m assured by IT that it will be back up in 2-4 hours.

Update (2:15pm): All fixed now.

Update2 (4pm): We’re down again. I gather there was a second hardware fault, and the new part won’t be in until tomorrow. Terrible timing.

Update3 (4/14/12 2:30pm). Back up! IT thinks it’s all OK now.

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Who Thinks Selling Condoms is a Sin?

Posted on April 13, 2012 by Michael Froomkin

I didn’t think much of it when Daily Kos asked, Is Walgreens committing a sin by selling condoms?

Thomas McKenna: “So a Catholic employer, really getting down to it, he does not, or she does not provide this because that way they would be, in a sense, cooperating with the sin…the sin of contraception or the sin of providing a contraceptive that would abort a child, is this correct?”

Cardinal Burke: “This is correct. It is not only a matter of what we call “material cooperation” in the sense that the employer by giving this insurance benefit is materially providing for the contraception but it is also “formal cooperation” because he is knowingly and deliberately doing this, making this available to people. There is no way to justify it. It is simply wrong.”

Nice bit of agitprop, I thought, the Catholic Church may treat selling condoms as morally equivalent to employer-financed abortions, but this won’t take off.

But wait. Smart Jim DeFede asked GOP starlet Marco Rubio the question on TV:

“Is contraception wrong?” CBS4′s Jim DeFede asked Senator Marco Rubio in a recent exclusive one-on-one interview.

“In terms of?” he responds.

“Birth control,” I said.

“Of course not,” he replied. “Who says it is? You’re going to get into this whole argument about contraception. No one has ever said that contraception should be illegal, that contraception should be discouraged, that people should be looked down upon for using it.

Could this be a wedge issue?

DeFede spotted via SFDB, which appears to be studiously ignoring We Robot.

Posted in Politics: US | 3 Comments