Google Created EvilRank Scale To Decide On Chinese Censorship
So there you have it. Official confirmation that the motto can now be changed from “Don’t Be Evil” to “Try Not To Be Evil” or perhaps “Choose The Least Evil.”
Archive for April 3rd, 2006
Hey, this is cool; it’s a little doo-hickey that draws pie charts and graphs of what you’ve got on your disk.
(Via Ongoing.)
Similarly, it finds that men are more likely than women to have MP3 players (13% versus 9%). But when one reads the report’s Methodology section, one discovers that “In each contacted household, interviewers asked to speak with the youngest male currently at home. If no male was available, interviewers asked to speak with the oldest female at home.” Well, if a household is called and the interviewer finds that Billy is too busy playing XBox Live to be interrupted, and then asks for Mom instead of Susie (who’s on her computer busily downloading), wouldn’t that tend to produce the reported result?
Whoah, kinda crazy that such a huge polling org would have such a gender-driven survey methodology (sexist? dunno enough to tell for sure)
It’s kind of refreshing to talk about the DeBeers in the scope of crime, because in the case of most companies, you can say “Well, at least they bring in low prices (Wal-Mart)” or “Man, those are some fine classic movies (Disney)”. But the DeBeers empire has nothing good to speak for it; over a hundred years of rotten labor relations, a product of falsified value, and, if you’re feeling particularly uncharitable, the blood of thousands of victims on its hands.
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Podcasting Music - The legal implications - CBI
Podcasting Music - The legal implications - CBI
A rather depressing analysis of copyright law as it applies to podcasting, especially in the context of a radio station re-publishing in podcast form. Basically, you need to obtain a license to “perform” the work. Though I don’t think anyone is getting paid for the songs I play on-air…