Specifically Scientists vs. the Dalai Lama. Nature editorialized about this a while back. I don’t remember the issue but you can always look it up. I think it’s been brought up more than once. I did however find correspondence from Janis Dickinson in Nature 436, 912 (18 August 2005).
CNET, Stefanie Olsen - Hundreds of scientists [...]
A small note in today’s papers acknowleged that the protests during the EU summit in Gothenburg 2001 almost ended in tragedy as the police turned to the military for assistence. Now that would have been a pretty picture for sure.
Obviously, back then, it was still illegal to use the military for crowd control and suppression, [...]
Via Slashdot. Colonialism still lives in Redmond, or at least their local office in Nigeria. Though this shouldn’t be taken as the offical view of Microsoft, it does raise questions about how corporations in general interact with developing countries.
ZDNet - Microsoft has claimed the cost of software is not an important issue in the developing [...]
Everywhere I look madness is slowly overtaking society.
If Sweden’s security police (Säpo) requests details about patients who have threatened politicians or the royal family, medical and care staff should break their duty of confidentiality and hand over the information.
That is the view of the government, which is due to make a proposal to parliament on [...]
If it isn’t our old buddy Sen. Norm Coleman again. Must be a great career move for him to constantly take on the windmills of the world. I guess he didn’t learn anything from getting his ass handed to him by George Galloway earlier this year.
Slashdot - Sen. Norm Coleman, a Republican from Minnesota, said [...]
A CDFreaks reader wonders if it’s Halloween already. Another calls shenanigans on the BSA. I must confess I don’t see why the BSA would at all help consumers unless it would be in their own interest. Be wary.
CDFREAKS - According to the Business Software Alliance (BSA), consumers who do the right thing by purchasing music/video [...]
I have to agree with The Inquirer that Fortune’s latest reporting from the P2P world does cast a shadow over Bram Cohen and BitTorrent. While not factually incorrect, and many of the tidbits obviously relayed by Bram himself, it does kind of focus mostly on how weird he is, what a slacker he is and [...]
Because the news from America is ironically best displayed in a parody news format. Legendary Monkey via Blogcritics has this to say about the new show.
While The Daily Show takes on straight news, The Colbert Report is targeting so-called celebrity journalists like Bill O’Reilly of Fox News. And it is an interesting balance; had the [...]
India has voiced concerns over the availability of satellite imaging apparently. They seem awfully jumpy. Seems to me this is the usual establishment knee-jerk reaction to the people gaining too much knowledge or insight. And the story is getting picked up by the US press because they, or rather their corporate master, have similar concerns.
Meanwhile [...]
Economist - An initiative to reverse the proliferation of patents and copyrights
PATENTS and copyright laws are meant to be the friends of innovation and are a foundation of the modern business world. But there is a growing risk that intellectual-property laws are now so stringent that they are actually inhibiting innovation, rather than protecting it.
The [...]
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