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Yahoo's China "police informant" role sparked a $47.5 billion slide in market value

Yahoo's China "police informant" role sparked a $47.5 billion slide in market value45 billion slideA moral American corporation is an oxymoron.I don't buy itIf moral values did a 45 billion hole in yahoo in 3 years, the same moral values would have wiped out evil M$ a long time ago.It...

Tags: Morality, Yahoo! Inc., moral value, Yahoo China

Discussion threads 2009-06-03

GOOG CEO says "Don't Be evil" is misunderstood

GOOG CEO says "Don't Be evil" is misunderstoodGoogle and Fair IsacTwo most modern day evil compaines!RE: GOOG CEO sayswho/what is Fair IsacEvil?By what absolute scale does one determine whether a given act or policy is "evil"? Relativism, particularly in a corporate context, makes it a somewhat slippery concept. As a...

Tags: who/what, slogan, Moral Relativism, Be Evil, Google Inc., GOOG, Fair Isac

Discussion threads 2008-06-12

Software morality

Software moralitythat dependquote(Economics implies a kind of social compact, and you can't just impose the necessary restrictions from the center, as totalitarianism isn't usually conducive to vibrant economies.)but you could inforce morality and good manner by revoking the business permit by forcing tthe acquisition of one you could penalize...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, software, morality, Booch, technologist

Discussion threads 2007-10-16

Employers, be very afraid (or be part of the solution)

Employers, be very afraid or be part of the solutionIntegrity???Whatever happened to simply teaching school kids that they are ultimately accountable to God Who will judge them for their their honesty, integrity, selflessness, love for others, marriage faithfulness, etc.RE: Employers, be very afraid or be part of the solutionGreat points...

Tags: Government, INTERNET, Recruitment & Selection, Workforce management, Morality, God

Discussion threads 2007-10-04

Parents emphasize safety, not credibility online

Parents emphasize safety, not credibility onlineAdvocacyAny time schools propose what children should and should not do, the discussion is about values. The ability to recognize worthwhile information on the internet is affected by individual definitions of worthwhile.The children are being told how to expect information to be worthwhile, which...

Tags: CAD, Now IT

Discussion threads 2007-10-03

Singularity Summit 2007: Machine morality

Along with artificial intelligences comes the notion of machine morality, attempting to view intelligent machines with the best of human values. Machine morality--also know as friendly AI, artificial morality, roboethics and computational ethics--is an new field without much ground cultivated, according to Wendell Wallach, Lecturer at Yale Interdisciplinary Center for...

Tags: Computer, Machine, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2007-09-08

A call to make morality part of science education

A call to make morality part of science educationIn science class???Morality and ethincs certainly should have a role in education. These topics belong in an ethics or philosophy setting, however."Ethics in Government", "Ethics in Science", and "Ethics" in other settings are their own subjects. They are NOT science!...

Tags: Business ethics, ethics, morality, Morality

Discussion threads 2007-01-10

Report from Foo Camp â€" goodness!

Report from Foo Camp â€" goodness!hammers and nailsI don't know what it means and don't want to overinterpret but I am struck that on the one hand that your day job is to hack the institutional structure of capitalism and, on the other hand, you confront the questions of good...

Tags: Business ethics, Tools & Techniques, morality, ethics, Foo Camp

Discussion threads 2006-08-16

Report from Foo Camp -- goodness!

I spent the weekend at Science Foo Camp, cosponsored by O'Reilly and Google. Apart from the excellent food (of course!), there was also some excellent discussion in this mostly user-generated event. I personally generated a session on ethics; the users generating the content included Stewart Brand, Sol Katz,...

Tags: morality, ethics

Blog posts 2006-08-15

Source: Bush to elevate FCC's Martin to chairman

Source: Bush to elevate FCC's Martin to chairmanWonderful[i]"Martin also pushed Powell to go further in deregulating the media industry and pressed for a crackdown on television and radio stations that violated decency standards."[/i]So we get yet another "morality" legislating momma's boy primadonna turd to ruin yet more free speech all...

Tags: Federal government, Network technology, morality, FCC, WiMAX STEAMROLLER

Discussion threads 2005-03-16

Senator suggests targeting Net 'indecency'

Senator suggests targeting Net 'indecency'Keep the Government OutThe Governments of any country have no business telling us what we can and cannot view online. It is also not up to the government to regulate what parents allow there children to view online. There are plenty of software applications...

Tags: Government, Disneyfication, morality, Internet

Discussion threads 2005-03-15

Companies dig deep for ethics compliance

Companies dig deep for ethics complianceDuh"Companies are spending significant sums of money--even more than they realize--in order to improve compliance effectiveness and efficiency, but executives are finding that they are not receiving the return on investment they expected,"Since when did Congress ever care about how companies would pay for regulatory...

Tags: ROI/TCO, Business ethics, Active Policy Management, ROI, compliance, morality, regulatory compliance, Companies, regulation, ethics

Discussion threads 2004-11-24

Open-source spat triggers legal threat

Open-source spat triggers legal threatSCO, all over again?The traditional approach to copyright enforcement is to have your lawyer send a threatening letter to the unauthorized publisher with evidence demanding that the offending material be expunged. End users are generally not even contacted.Only reason I can see to threaten end...

Tags: Morality, End Users, SCO Group Inc., Mambo, open source, GPL

Discussion threads 2004-09-17

Additional Resources

Internet Governance Forum goes to Egypt and hits a few snags

Yeah, leave it to the Arab countries to defend freedom.ntAllow the UN to practice "Governance" over the Internet?I will never understand the sort of cognitive disconnect required in order to think that it's a sane idea to let the world's premier body of corruption, mostly run by the world's political...

Tags: Internet Governance, Internet Governance Forum, Totalitarianism, Article 29, Human Rights, Universal Declaration, Internet

Discussion threads 2009-11-17

U.S. Ethics Committee staffer file-shares sensitive document

So the answer will be change the technology, right??...I certainly hope not. The person responsible should be fired immediately, if this group is supposed to be so secretive and protective of their data. Putting ANY work-related material on your personal computer is not only a bad idea, it may be...

Tags: Peer to peer (P2P), U.S. Ethics Committee staffer, U.S. Ethics Committee, sensitive document, staffer, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-11-04

The anti-capitalist GOOG founders . . .

Well duhhh....[i]They don?t trust the government, they don?t trust the press and they don?t trust Wall Street.[/i]So people wonder why they're so successful? Duh! They don't trust the three groups of people who constantly think they are oh so smart, but aren't....Sounds like a great life philosophy even...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-10-13

Facebook, Wrong Again!

There was a book and movieabout assassinating Bushmaybe the secret service has a pointbut both sides of the aisle should have more respect for the presidency Come on....I don't care for the guy myself, but all you need is the results to be over 50% and some whack job will...

Tags: Free-speech, Facebook, Obama

Discussion threads 2009-09-29

The earth: it's always blowing hot and cold

And That's The ProblemInstead of humans, use dinosaurs, plankton, what ever. But tell me where is the definitive study that quantifies the human activity contribution separate that contribution form the quantifiable contribution of other geologic, solar, and biological processes?And where, pray tell, is it written that climate will be...

Tags: tech site

Discussion threads 2009-09-24

EPIC seeks to intervene in Books settlement, says privacy policies are no solution

What qualifies EPIC to "represent the public's interests"?[i]"the Electronic Privacy Information Center ... is actually seeking to intervene in the case since, it says, none of the parties are representing the public?s interests"[/i]Who the hell is EPIC? In order to be able "to represent the public's interest" the organization has...

Tags: Litigation, EPIC, Fred, Joe

Discussion threads 2009-09-05

Office 2010 to expand antipiracy features

Doublespeak, plain and simpleI don't know why corporate types are so bent on trying to make everything sound like they are doing some sort of favor to the customer. It's a disease that permeates corporate America. And since it's so easy to see through, it does nothing but lessen the...

Tags: Spyware, adware & malware, Cyberthreats, SECURITY, Viruses and worms, Microsoft Office, antipiracy, piracy, piracy rate, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-08-26