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Coming in from the Cold: A Safe Harbor from the CFAA and the DMCA §1201 for Security Researchers
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2018)In our paper, we propose a statutory safe harbor from the CFAA and DMCA §1201 for security research activities. Based on a responsible disclosure model in which a researcher and vendor engage in a carefully constructed ... -
Commentary on The Tales of Hoffmann
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2017-11-02) -
Comments on comparative mythology 1, about Apollo
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-02-14)The posting for today, Valentine’s Day 2020.02.14, marks the fifth anniversary of my consecutive weekly postings for Classical Inquiries. I think of the new posting here as the beginning of a lengthy new series of intermittent ... -
Comments on comparative mythology 2, about an Indo-European background for ancient Greek myths about Hēraklēs, son of Zeus
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-02-21)In the previous posting, Classical Inquiries 2020.02.14, I started to reckon with a view expressed by the linguist Georges Dumézil in a book with the title Apollon sonore, which he published in 1982, toward the end of an ... -
Comments on Comparative Mythology 3, About Trifunctionalism and the Judgment of Paris
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-02-28)In the previous post, Classical Inquiries 2020.02.21, at §9, I introduced the idea of “trifunctionality,” applied by the linguist Georges Dumézil in his analysis of myths about three kinds of “sins” committed by the hero ... -
Comments on Comparative Mythology 4, a Dysfunctional Misunderstanding of Trifunctionality in Myths About the Judgment of Paris
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-03-06)In the previous two posts, Classical Inquiries 2020.02.21 and 2020.02.28, I connected the idea of “trifunctionality” with the idea of “sins” committed in myths connected with two different Greek heroes, Hēraklēs and ... -
Comments on Comparative Mythology 5, an Afterthought of Georges Dumézil About Trifunctionality and the Judgment of Paris
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-03-13)In the previous two posts, Classical Inquiries 2020.02.28 and 2020.03.06, I analyzed the idea of trifunctionality in the myth about the Judgment of Paris, especially with reference to the version of this myth as retold in ... -
Comments on Comparative Mythology 6, Trifunctionality and the Goddess Hērā
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-03-20)In Classical Inquiries 2020.03.13, where I was testing the idea of trifunctionality in the Homeric retelling of the Judgment of Paris, I analyzed aspects of the goddess Hērā that point to her third function, which is ... -
Comments on Comparative Mythology 7, Finding a Cure for the Anger of Hērā
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2020-04-03)In a previous essay, Classical Inquiries 2020.03.20, I highlighted some ancient artwork picturing the hero Hēraklēs being breast-fed by the goddess Hērā after he was brought back to life after death. In the present essay, ... -
Comments on Picnic at Hanging Rock, a film directed by Peter Weir (1975)
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2018-08-23) -
Comments on the Ellen Roche story
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Comments on the Pearl Fishers of Georges Bizet
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Comments on the visit of Pausanias to Mycenae
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2016-06-16) -
Comments on the weakening of the NIH public-access policy
(Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition, 2005) -
Community-Owned Fiber Networks: Value Leaders in America
(Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, 2017)We collected advertised prices for residential data plans offered by 40 community-owned (typically municipally owned) Internet service providers (ISPs) that offer fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) service. We then identified the ... -
A comparative approach to beast fables in Greek songmaking, Part 1: A would-be Aesopic werewolf
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-05-31) -
A comparative approach to beast fables in Greek songmaking, Part 2: The case of a story about Aesop and a barking dog in the Wasps of Aristophanes
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-06-07)In Part 2 here, I pick up from where I left off in Part 1, where I studied the possibilities of convergence as well as divergence between fables that focus primarily on beasts as talking characters and other fables where ... -
A comparative approach to beast fables in Greek songmaking, Part 3: A dog’s craving for meat as a signal foretelling the death of Aesop
(Harvard University, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2019-06-11)It is a commonplace in storytelling to picture the stealing of meat by a hungry dog, as we see in the illustration for this posting. After all, dogs have a natural craving for meat—also for other rich sources of protein, ... -
A computer program for statistically-based decision analysis
(American Medical Informatics Association, 1990)The majority of patients with coronary artery disease do not fall into the well defined populations from randomized clinical trials. Observational databases contain a rich source of information that could be used by ...