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• On the post: We Think Open Access To Research Is Important… But The Reasons Why Are Behind This Paywall

  

  ColonelPanik ( profile ), 26 Jan, 2010 @ 09:03am

  Open Access To Research

  So maybe these bright scholars should think
  about not publishing in any closed journals?

• On the post: Prosecutors Still Want To Charge Girl Who Sent Naked Photo Of Herself For Child Porn

  

  ColonelPanik ( profile ), 15 Jan, 2010 @ 05:07pm

  Age of consent?

  Pennsylvania 16M/F 16M/M 16F/F
  
  http://www.avert.org/age-of-consent.htm
  
  So she can say yes but not show her body?

• On the post: Why Does Microsoft Limit Netbooks?

  

  ColonelPanik ( profile ), 06 Jan, 2010 @ 12:32pm

  Linux

  I use Linux
  I am old (65) dumb and not a geek.
  Linux is a no-brainer now and every 6 months
  it gets easier.
  
  Peace, Colonel Panik

• On the post: Still Waiting For The First Real Particpatory Presidential Administration

  

  ColonelPanik ( profile ), 04 Jan, 2010 @ 03:27pm

  Still Waiting.....

  Fool me once and you will never get a second chance.

• On the post: Understanding The Decline And Fall Of The Major Record Labels

  

  ColonelPanik ( profile ), 12 Dec, 2009 @ 07:39am

  Profit over product

  News papers became obsessed with profits at the expense
  of the "editorial" content.
  
  Auto makers put profit ahead of quality.
  
  Health care became wealth care.
  
  TV, music, movies have all been selling shoddy but
  charging customers premium prices.
  
  Do not get me started on education.... Universities
  are stealing the students research, hoping to make
  a profit with out compensating the producer.
  
  Fliping houses? Selling broken software? The food
  we get may be killing us? Just for profit?
  
  Lets hope that the "Best Government That Money Can Buy"
  will step in and save us.

• On the post: Booksellers Claiming That Competition And Lower Prices Are Bad For Consumers

  

  ColonelPanik ( profile ), 27 Oct, 2009 @ 04:17pm

  Only a problem for the middleman

  Google up some info on Cory Doctorow. He has been
  very quick to use alternative marketing ideas.
  He is a best selling author and still puts his
  work on the net for free. Uses Creative Commons
  license.
  
  I attended a Jack Williamson Lectureship this year.
  The authors (SF) were happy, writing, excited about
  reaching out to their fans. The agents and publishers
  were crying and wringing their hands.
  
  It is a new world.

• On the post: Friends Don't Let Friends Use FCC Broadband Competition Data

  

  ColonelPanik ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2009 @ 09:06am

  If there, why not everywhere?

  Lafayette, Louisiana
  Municipal run Fiber to the Home.
  50 down and 50 up = approx $60/month