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This year
New Agreement Declares ICANN Independent
by marco
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) has reached a major milestone today with a new agreement in place with the U.S. Department of Commerce allowing the organization greater independence and giving more countries oversight of the organization
YouTube - 9 TRILLION oversight..... "WE DONT KNOW WHERE THE MONEY HAS GONE"
by jallatte
-Madame ce n'est pas la question! Je repose la question, ou sont passés
les 9 trillions de $ disparus de vos comptes?
-A ce point nous conduisons une enquête a haut niveau
-Avez-vous conduit cette enquête depuis septembre dernier?
-Nous sommes en train de collecter les informations pour savoir ce qui
se passe concernant ce sujet.
-Vous êtes en train de me dire que personne ne suit la trace d'une
façon régulière de la disparition de cet argent!!
2008
Guide to Scala: Packages and access modifiers
by BlueVoodoo
This article corrects an egregious oversight by covering Scala's package and access modifier facilities. Continue the exploration of the functional side of Scala, this time having a quick look at the "apply" mechanism.
Inside Japan’s Puzzle Palace - New York Times
by karlcow
In hindsight, though, he now thinks that oversight was a brilliant mistake. The fact that no one controlled sudoku’s intellectual property rights let the game’s popularity grow unfettered, Mr. Kaji says. Nikoli does not plan to trademark other new games, either, in hopes this will also help them take off. “This openness is more in keeping with Nikoli’s open culture,” said Mr. Kaji, who sat on a sofa in his Tokyo office among pillows adorned with printed faces of racehorses. “We’re prolific because we do it for the love of games, not for the money.”
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2007
Main Page - Citizendium
by pyxosledisciple
& 3 others
The Citizendium (sit-ih-ZEN-dee-um), a "citizens' compendium of everything," is an experimental new wiki project. The project, started by a co-founder of Wikipedia, aims to improve on that model by adding "gentle expert oversight" and requiring contributors to use their real names. We launched a pilot project in November 2006 and launched publicly in March 2007.
Citizendium
by Regis
(via)
A new wiki encyclopedia which requires people to use their real name and adds a gentle expert oversight.
2006
State education board rejects challenge to evolution teaching
by jasontromm
The state Board of Education voted today to reject a challenge to how evolution is taught in South Carolina high schools.
On an 11-6 vote, the state board upheld its previous evolution-only science curriculum for 10th grade biology. Last month, the state's Education Oversight Committee voted to add the phrase "critically analyze" to the evolution guidelines.
[soap] Gee, that's really intelligent. Discouraging students from critical thinking. Guess, it's true. Public schools want mind-numbed little skulls full of mush. What's wrong with asking students to talk about the holes in Darwin's theories?
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