We just recently wrote about how circuit court judge Richard Posner had admitted to not reading the boilerplate legalese on his mortgage agreement, and wondered why such things were then considered binding. Taking it up a notch, now Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts has admitted that he doesn’t read the fine print on websites or medicines…
Category: Misc
In the U.K., your home is your castle – subject to squatters?
Ralph Miller and Benedict Moore-Bridger report: A hotelier who moved out of his house for a week while it was being renovated has been left homeless after Italian squatters took it over. Connan Gupta, 40, who had been staying with his sister, returned to find 10 unwelcome visitors at his £700,000, five-bedroom home in Camberwell….
Researchers who fake results should be named, academic panel urges
Margaret Munro reports: A blue-ribbon panel says Canadian academics found to have faked data, plagiarized and engaged in serious misconduct should be named publicly. In a report to be released Thursday, the panel said action is needed to fill serious gaps in how Canada deals with misconduct involving research and studies paid for by taxpayers. It…
President Obama: Don’t worry about your kids’ grades. Worry about yours.
From EPIC.org: EPIC has released the 2010 Privacy Report Card for the Obama Administration. EPIC gave the Administration a grade of C in Consumer Privacy, B in Medical Privacy, D in Civil Liberties, and B in Cybersecurity. A group of experts participated in a Capitol Hill briefing on privacy and the Obama Administration. This year’s grades…