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- 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 – goodness!
- Report from Foo Camp – 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
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- The running scandal of long-term care insurance
- The running scandal of long-term care insuranceLong-term Care Insurance"With 79 million of us now headed past our warrantee expirations, the cost of caring for us is about to explode. It’s a ticking bomb under the economy, and the free market does not have an answer for it."Here's the answer: Plan...
- Tags: Vertical industries, long-term care, long-term care insurance
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- '.wow': ICANN to allow almost any domain suffix
- '.wow': ICANN to allow almost any domain suffixDangerous ground[i]However, Twomey told Agence France-Press that the organization will still try to block or reject any domain name that it deems inappropriate for security or [b]moral[/b] reasons.[/i]And just what morality standards will they be using?Personally, It wouldn't bother me if all porn...
- Tags: INTERNET, SECURITY, ICANN, domain suffix, IPCC
- Discussion threads 2008-06-27
- Sex Ed 2.0?
- Sex Ed 2.0?abstinence-only programs LOLYeah those abstinence programs are REAL effective.naaaaaaaaaht.RE: Sex Ed 2.0?The Bush administration bowing to the Religious Right has spent hundreds of millions promoting abstinence only. Studies show that most kids who sign abstinence pledges break them within a short time -- and since they aren't...
- Tags: Sex-Ed 2.0, abstinence
- Discussion threads 2008-06-24
- First scientist to warn Congress on Global Warming: It's certain and we're certainly out of time.
- First scientist to warn Congress on Global Warming: It's certain and we're certainly out of time.It's the sun, stupid.The earth has been cooling for the last 10 years. If the current low solar activity keeps up, we could be in deep doodoo.RE: First scientist to warn Congress on Global...
- Tags: U.S. Congress, Hansen, data set, global warming
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- FCC wants no-porn, free broadband wireless auction
- FCC wants no-porn, free broadband wireless auctionHmmm....Is Porn illegal? If not is this not a governmental nose-snubbing at freedom of speech, making it highly illegal ?Do we really WANT this sort of action by our government?Do we want to become China?I dunno. I'm just askin'...The moral crusaders :)Ok,...
- Tags: Federal government, Broadband Internet, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Government, WIRELESS, broadband wireless auction, broadband wireless, FCC, broadband
- Discussion threads 2008-06-23
- How healthy is John McCain?
- How healthy is John McCain?Doesn't matter anyway.The question you should ask is how cranky are his policies and the viewpoints of his vice president. After all that person will step in if John keels over. Besides you should have blogged on his viewpoints on tech to make it related.The problem...
- Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Obama, John McCain
- Discussion threads 2008-05-30
- Microsoft's $300 million makeover
- Microsoft's $300 million makeoverI'm For GatesIt works for Apple. why not turn Apple's lovable, but inept buisiness type into Bill and fight fire with fire?sell the company...there's no way, that M$ is getting a better name because of this "stunt"..They can take classes about ethics, morality etc.. all they like,...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating systems, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., advertisement, operating system, ad campaign, Microsoft Windows Vista
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- Is Stallman right about OLPC?
- Is Stallman right about OLPC?Another open source ........ disciple weighs in. Thank you for making the point!Once again ....... Stallman and you missed the point about the OLPC. It was never about your Open source religion. It was about helping out kids in third world countries. ...
- Tags: Stallman, open source, One Laptop Per Child project
- Discussion threads 2008-05-01
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