Before this whole Expelled thing gains too much momentum, some honest light ought to be shed on the Intelligent Design movement. Their tactics are tawdry, asking real scientists to prove a negative, so there is certainly some bad blood between the two groups.
That said, nobody’s saying there’s no place in any classroom for Intelligent Design…
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Slashdot has a piece up on an open source business model that uses the patent system against itself (similar to how Stallman used copyright against itself with the GPL). I’ve batted ideas like this around in the past, but in my head at least, it always breaks down right at the patent troll level: I […]
Well said…
The fundamental problem with all forms of “intellectual property” is that they attempt to perform a form of social engineering (encouraging innovation) through the violation of free market principles (using government enforcement to reduce competition in the marketplace).
Encouraging innovation by restricting the spread & use of information seems highly counterintuitive to me.
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Some say Microsoft, in spite if its using the word to death, is simply too large and complex to innovate. But Microsoft can innovate:
Ah, but you see, they’ve developed a program to help with that.
“It looks like you are trying to innovate! Maybe I can help you
Wade through mountains of bureaucratic paperwork.
Convince your technically conservative […]
In case you’re wondering how a bribe goes down today, here’s a interesting example…
I want to tell you Slashdot people something about how this kind of thing works. I don’t really know the name for it, but I call it “soft bribery”. You might also call it “economic alignment” or whatever. Here’s what happens.
A large, […]
Those predisposed to dystopian visions of the future, fear not…
Google is not, and never will be, the problem. The problem is going to be the following:
The local city government monitoring your car at every intersection and every stretch of road, and mailing you a ticket every time you exceed the speed limit by […]
From the /. comments, here’s another Wikipedia scandal I’d never heard of…
At some point I picked up in slashdot comments about the whole antisocialmedia.net / Gary Weiss / Judd Bagley / Overstock.com mess and decided I was interested enough to spend the time (several hours) reading everything I could about it and trying to figure […]
Wikipedia founder accused of corruption. And another great comment about community governance:
That’s a bit mean. Wikipedia has obvious problems, but the fact that it is probably the world’s largest book and is more or less accurate is an astonishing achievement. What it loses in accuracy or polish it makes up for in sheer breadth.
The problems […]
Scientologists, take heed:
Writing for a penny a word is ridiculous. If a man really wants to make a million dollars, the best way would be to start his own religion. - L. Ron Hubbard
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I’m sitting in a class about blogs, so I figure it’s about time I put something up here. Turns out the average time between updates on established blogs is two to five days…
Time between my substantive posts usually is usually measured in months. I don’t know how people do it.
The prof also made the assertion […]