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Comment Why I'll never contribute to Wikipedia... (Score 1, Troll) 484

by vanillacokehead on Sunday September 21, 2008 @11:05PM (#25099123) Attached to: Debating "Deletionism" At Wikipedia

...is simple. There seem to be a plethora of users there who relish intellectual masturbation. I bet a lot of these folks would give God a "B" for creating the universe.

Don't Take Notes In the Bookstore 499

Posted by kdawson on Thursday September 20, 2007 @09:28AM from the and-no-umpcs-either dept.

mikesd81 writes "The Harvard Crimson reports that the Harvard Coop asked Jarret A. Zafran to leave the store after writing down the prices of six books required for a junior Social Studies tutorial. The apparent new policy could be a response to Crimsonreading.org, an online database that allows students to find the books they need for each course at discounted prices from several online booksellers. The Coop claims the ISBN identification numbers in books are their intellectual property. Crimson Reading disagrees. 'We don't think the Coop owns copyright on this information that should be available to students,' said Tom D. Hadfield, co-creator of the site. The student paper reports that an unnamed intellectual property lawyer agreed with Crimson Reading's position."

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