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I guess what I meant is not the code people write to conduct the research, but the actual results of that research. As in, you can't copyright a fact. You can't copyright a beaker …

Uh, telling you that the way you make a living is unethical is not the same as wishing harm upon your children. You may not agree with his ethical system (lord knows I don't, it's …

The three ways it does that is that ... (b) you have a set of skills that makes you a valuable asset to the US ... You wouldn't find it insane if colleges or employers made the sam…

A good time to remind Americans how insanely difficult it is to get into the U.S. legally: http://reason.com/assets/db/07cf533ddb1d06350cf1ddb5942ef5ad...

"Ideally, what I would like (and I think most people would like) is something of the form factor of a MacBook Air (thin and light), that has a detachable touch-screen that can run …

As someone who used to live in SF and now lives in Baltimore, this question strikes me as pretty funny.

Psychologists actually have to recalibrate the scoring of IQ tests every few decades in order to keep the average at 100 -- and they need to do this because the scores are going up…

This is a great piece, and it gets to the contradiction at the heart of the new trend/buzz around creative people using the Internet in various ways to make an end-run around tradi…

Don't know about Denmark, but I believe in some countries with a similar situation by law they have to round to the nearest multiple of the smallest denomination coin, so it evens …

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Well, good luck stealing his identity now.

I learned in high school on electric typewriters in '90 or '91. It was an elective then, but I certainly hope it would be a requirement today Still the only skill from high school …

I don't disagree with you, but I wonder if this situation would be covered by the law as AFAIK dental coverage isn't part of the plan. It boggles my mind that medical conditions th…

Median income in the West in 2010 was $53K, according to the Census Bureau (via Wikipedia), and since "the West" includes California I'm betting it's lower in Portland. Considering…

Every election cycle I think, this is the year that the big business/libertarian and social conservative/religious wings of the Republican parties finally break up, but it keeps no…

Sooo ... how locked into Apple's ecosystem are books created in this way? The notes say: • Submit your book to the iBookstore for sale or free download with a few simple steps* • E…

Most technical books don't really need editors. Um, no? Knowledgable editors make any sort of writing easier to read and use -- especially crucial if you're talking about textbook-…

Reason 4 Why Windows Phone Will Make A Big Splash In 2012: "Zune Is Baked Right Into the Operating System" hahahaha

Aw, someone at the Economist is a sci-fi nerd: all the subheds in the story are titles of Isaac Asimov stories (or spoofs of said titles).

But there won't be desktop Windows 8 ARM users, so you'll have to re-engineer it twice? Unless there's some quick and easy way to write code that compiles to both architectures wit…

I think there are some places where comments work great and some places where they descend into vitriol and nonsense. I totally respect decisions that go either way. It really depe…

It would be interesting to see numbers on how often people who tell pollsters they are "considering" a course of action in a survey actually follow through. I never know how seriou…

Traditionally when I've freelanced in the past I've billed hourly (varying rates, depending on what the client will bear) but I've read some convincing stuff that billing that way …