It's Official: Environmentalism Is the New ReligionRobert Nelson, in the Independent Institute’s recent book, The New Holy Wars, points out that environmental religion owes its moral activism, ascetic discipline, reverence for nature, and fallen view of man to the Protestant theology of John Calvin.
Manhattan’s new Church of Earthalujah is perhaps the most striking--though hardly rare--expression of this new religion... (more)
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Alzheimer's Research Disrupted By Ridiculous Patent DisputeWe keep hearing stories of important healthcare research being disrupted by patents, and the latest, as pointed out by Slashdot, involves an organization called the Alzheimer's Institute of America... which happened to buy some patents on a DNA sequence, and is now suing or threatening to sue a ton of researchers in the space.... (more)
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How Mass BitTorrent Lawsuits Turn Low-Budget Movies Into Big BucksOn March 7, Camelot Distribution Group, an obscure film company in Los Angeles, unveiled its latest and potentially most profitable release: a federal lawsuit against BitTorrent users who allegedly downloaded the company’s 2010 B-movie revenge flick Nude Nuns With Big Guns between January and March of this year. The single lawsuit targets 5,865 downloaders, making it theoretically worth as much as $879,750,000 — more money than the U.S. box-office gross for Avatar.
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ICANN Says US Gov't Should Let It Go Private, While US Wants More ControlWe were just talking about how the US government -- despite existing concerns from pretty much the rest of the world that it already has too much control over ICANN -- wants more control over the organization that manages the basic structure of the internet. It appears that ICANN is looking to go in the other direction. ICANN boss Rod Beckstrom has sent a letter to the US gover... (more)
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Jacob Barnett,12, with higher IQ than Einstein develops his own theory of relativityA 12-year-old child prodigy has astounded university professors after grappling with some of the most advanced concepts in mathematics.
Jacob Barnett has an IQ of 170 - higher than Albert Einstein - and is now so far advanced in his Indiana university studies that professors are lining him up for a PHD research role.
The boy wonder, who taught himself calculus, algebra, geometry and trigonometry in a week, is now tutoring fellow college classmates after hours.
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Piracy is Theft? Ridiculous. Lost Sales? They Don't Exist, Says Minecraft CreatorThe "piracy is stealing" argument raises its head in the media every week and is on the lips of anti-piracy outfits and copyright holders every day. To them, every unauthorized copy is a lost sale and another small dent in the company spreadsheet which, when added to a million others, will destroy it bit by bit. To the maker of Minecraft, however, its an opportunity. Piracy is theft? You must be kidding. Lost sales? They don't exist.
A quick look at the stats for the still-in-beta... (more)
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Is Zero Pricing in the Red Light District Unfair?Redtube.com is an internet site offering high quality porn for free. But competitor sex sites which were trying to charge for the same service didn't like the supposedly unfair competition (and California does have an "unfair competition" law). Thus, one competitor sued. Thankfully, however, a California Appeals court dismissed the case, essentially stating that anyone ... (more)
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Wikileaks ISP Anonymizes All Customer Traffic To Beat SpyingIn order to neutralize Sweden’s incoming implementation of the European Data Retention Directive, Bahnhof, the Swedish ISP and host of Wikileaks, will run all customer traffic through an encrypted VPN service. Since not even Bahnhof will be able to see what its customers are doing, logging their activities will be impossible. With no logs available to complete their chain of investigation, anti-piracy companies will be very, very unhappy.
In 2009, Sweden introduced the Inte... (more)
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