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Obama Significantly Revises Technology Positions 940

Posted by timothy on Monday September 22, 2008 @06:48AM from the platitude-adjustment dept.

method9455 writes "Barack Obama has edited his official website on many issues, including a huge revision on the technology page. Strangely it seems net neutrality is no longer as important as it was a few months ago, and the swaths of detail have been removed and replaced with fairly vague rhetoric. Many technologists were alarmed with the choice of Joe Biden before, and now it appears their fears might have been well founded." Update: 09/22 18:07 GMT by T : Julian Sanchez of Ars Technica passed on a statement from an Obama campaign representative who points out that the changes in wording highlighted by Versionista aren't the whole story, and that more Obama tech-plan details are now available in a PDF, saying "there is absolutely no substantive change to our policy - folks who want more information can click to get our full plan."

Debating "Deletionism" At Wikipedia 484

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 21, 2008 @09:38PM from the edit-this-story-one-comment-at-a-time dept.

Ian Lamont writes "In a strange turn of events, the Wikipedia entry for Deletionpedia — an online archive of deleted Wikipedia articles — is now being considered for deletion. The entry for Deletionpedia was created shortly after the publication of an Industry Standard article and a discussion on Slashdot this week. Almost immediately, it was nominated for deletion, which has sparked a running debate about the importance of the Wikipedia entry, Deletionpedia, and the sources that reference it. For the time being, you can read the current version of the Deletionpedia entry, while the Wikipedia editors carry on the debate."

Comment Re:Education... AGREED! (Score 1) 5687

by c.herwig on Wednesday November 03, 2004 @06:23PM (#10716796) Attached to: Kerry Concedes Election To Bush

as a non-US citizen I would like to add:

9. Rough knowledge of world geographics (that includes natural resources and some basics about climate)
10. Rough knowledge of modern history (say 1789+)

err, no, I'm not French, but European. And I personally think, we tend to get the same problems here. But as in many other (often positive) fields the US are just some years ahead of us.

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