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- Should your genes be open source?
- Should your genes be open source?How can you patent something you didn't invent? ntntI thought patenting life was verboten.Prior art.Life forms are self aware.Owning life smacks of slavery.Privacy violations.Owning life has serious problems. Patenting just the process is one thing but owning the results in the end is immoral, especially...
- Tags: Life Form, gene, patent, open source
- Discussion threads 2009-07-20
- No more free tomatoes from your neighbor?
- No more free tomatoes from your neighbor?Yikes!!Yikes!My mother grows tomatoes. I'll have to keep an eye on this and tell her.unenforceable, and not likely to pass in current formIt will likely get modified, or dumped in favor of a bill that has better language.ROFLA $1,000,000.00 fine? If nothing else, it...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, Monsanto, free tomatoe, food, tomatoe, Roundup
- Discussion threads 2009-07-06
- Roping in Round-up?
- Battle of titans: Monsanto v. EPA. Round 1 on Round-up. The EPA says the eight-year-old Monsanto mine in southern Idaho is producing illegal pollution, and has since it began operation. Of course, during the Bush Administration there was slim chance that any anti-pollution laws would be enforced...
- Tags: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Round-up, Monsanto, Storage, Hardware, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-06-26
- Monsanto Enhances Collaboration With Cisco, Microsoft Technologies
- Monsanto, one of the world's leading agricultural companies, takes advantage of team collaboration and ubiquitous access to corporate information in its global business processes. But aging technology was creating slow connections and frustrations for users who wanted to expedite the transfer of documents and other information. To boost productivity and...
- Tags: Team, Bandwidth, Microsoft Corp., Cisco Systems Inc., Monsanto, Team Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Content Management, Management, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-07-01
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- Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for education
- Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for educationHave the kindles linked to the grade not the student.The way to get around this (not the Amazon eating homework, but the reuse DRM issue) is to have the Kindles for a specific grade. All ninth graders have the same Kindles...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Internet Connectivity, digital-rights management, Amazon.com Inc., homework, education
- Discussion threads 2009-07-21
- Can we engineer insect-free crops?
- Can we engineer insect-free crops?I think that if the past has taught us anythingit is that it is not nice to fool with Mother Nature. Genetic crop engineering is a nice idea, but who knows the long term health consequences.We, after about 50 years of trying, still can't engineer a...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, food, patent, Agribusiness
- Discussion threads 2009-07-07
- No more free tomatoes from your neighbor?
- Organic gardeners are circulating emails asking for home growers to unit and get political. They see Big Brother stepping into the garden and making it illegal for you to give those extra tomatoes to your neighbor, let alone sell them at a produce stand. What's up? HR...
- Tags: Food, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2009-07-06
- How much legal trouble is Cisco in against the FSF?
- How much legal trouble is Cisco in against the FSF?damm that open source creeping!I guess this means that cisco doesnt employ strict version control and monitor what goes into their products?I guess that would mean they make good products but dont actually know whats in them and therefore could be...
- Tags: Cisco Systems Inc., open source, open source license, Free Software Foundation
- Discussion threads 2009-04-07
- Business Integration Technology Case Study: Novus International
- Based on decades of research and development at Monsanto, Novus International, Inc. was formed in 1991 and employs over 350 people in more than 20 countries. New business initiatives resulted in dramatic increases in the volume of sales orders and shipments in Novus' European operations. Although most of the 13...
- Tags: Business Integration Technology, Research & Development, Sales Strategy, Team Management, Quality, Business Operations, Sales, Management
- Case studies 2008-04-25
- EU probes U.S. online gambling crackdown
- EU probes U.S. online gambling crackdown...Looks like the days of pushing people around are coming to a close. With our economy on the brink of collapse, world opinion at an all time low of our government and a nation of apathetic morons addicted to "reality tv". Yup! our time in...
- Tags: Free trade, INTERNET, World Trade Organization, gambling crackdown, online gambling crackdown, government, crackdown
- Discussion threads 2008-03-10
- GMOs down to the chromosome level
- If don't like the concept of 'Frankenfoods,' I have bad news for you. U.S. researchers have developed an artificial chromosome for corn plants. The Chicago Tribune reports that researchers can now make chromosomes to order. These artificial chromosomes are accepted as natural by the plants and passed through generations. As...
- Tags: Gene, University Of Chicago, Chromosome, Cell, Preuss, C/C++, Biotechnology, Programming Languages, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-10-20
- MS competitors gather to fast track ODF's evolution
- MS competitors gather to fast track ODF's evolutionhahahaso much for openess (Because some of what was discussed was apparently confidential, the press was not invited to observe the ODF Summit).hahahaso much for openess (Because some of what was discussed was apparently confidential, the press was not invited to...
- Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), OpenDocument Format, Microsoft Corp., MSXML, entire rest
- Discussion threads 2005-11-09
- FoxNews takes credibility hit after disclosure on anti-ODF commentary
- FoxNews takes credibility hit after disclosure on anti-ODF commentarySerously FoxCome on Fox i am a fan of your news, but dont go agianst opensource it really is for the people not just for the people who make money selling software, those people arent the mom and pop shops any more...
- Tags: Fox, Pendergast, Greg Gianforte, FoxNews
- Discussion threads 2005-10-13
- Who needs a business plan?
- Who needs a business plan?and in a related story...monsanto patents pigs, not the genetic engineering, the offspring. That pig can't beget another pig without a payment to monsanto, so be careful with that genetically engineered offspring of your own, since you may be selling your progeny into slavery.Money makes the...
- Tags: Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, commons, software, open source, computer
- Discussion threads 2005-08-04
- Tracking the seeds of destruction
- Tracking the seeds of destructionSchneier and CCIA ReduxThis is basically saying diversity good, monoculture bad. The key difference between the plant world and the computer world, however, is that people have to maintain computers and build software...it doesn't happen all on its own. Given that fact, there are...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Patches, SECURITY, computer
- Discussion threads 2004-01-15
- Agricultural Innovator Empowers Employees, Cuts Costs With Integrated Enterprise Search
- Monsanto Company, a global agricultural company, faced a license renewal deadline for its search engine used in more than 20 public Web sites and numerous intranet sites. Search results did not live up to expectations, and the tool was costly and cumbersome to manage. Monsanto evaluated Google and Microsoft Office...
- Tags: Enterprise Search, Microsoft Office SharePoint Server, Monsanto Co., Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007, Search, Cloud Computing, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software
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