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Month: December 2008

New York Times sued over Boston.com’s linking practice

By Phil Mayes Posted on December 24, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property, Media Tagged with Gatehouse, New York Times

In this CNET article, GateHouse Media object on the grounds of copyright infringement because the NYT uses the headline and first sentence, but their real gripe is that it links directly to the article, not to the front page, and …

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How the Internet affects our future

By Phil Mayes Posted on December 22, 2008 Posted in Computers, Society Tagged with Google, Internet, Pinker, Wilber

Salon discusses the Internet and the two poles of “Google is making us stupid” and “the Internet will liberate humanity.” In “A Brief History of Everything”, Ken Wilber resurrected Arthur Koestler’s holons: autonomous structures that are themselves part of a …

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How a bank robber makes bail

By Phil Mayes Posted on December 18, 2008 Posted in Society Tagged with bail, Bernie Madoff, Ponzi scheme

Suppose I robbed a bank of $1 million (they don’t usually carry that much cash, but I raided the safe deposit boxes, too.)  Later that same day, I reaped as much at another bank.  I repeated that every day, all …

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