Nothing at Stake in Knowledge*

Genes at stake

*Correspondence: Tae-Il Kim (Editor-in-Chief) Department of Periodontology, Seoul National University School of Dentistry, 101 Daehak-ro, Jongno-gu, Seoul 110-749, Korea E-mail: [email protected] Tel: +82-2-2072-2642 Fax: +82-2-744-1349 We are living in the era of genetic engineering and looking forward to its eventual clinical application to life-threatening human diseases. In this context, we...

Patents " — IT – Security at Stake ?

This paper 1 presents the thesis that insecurity of software is due to interaction of technological and legal shortcomings, fostered by economic rationality. Ineffective liability laws further the distribution of unreliable and insecure software. Copyright protection for software hinders the quality improvement. Patent protection encourages the use of proprietary instead of standard technology....

What's at Stake in the Culture Wars

Recovering American Literature by Peter Shaw; Beyond the Culture Wars: How Teaching the Conflicts Can Revitalize American Education by Gerald Graff; Cultural Capital: The Problem of Literary Canon Formation by John Guillory Review by: Barbara Foley The New England Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 3 (Sep., 1995), pp. 458-479 Published by: The New England Quarterly, Inc. Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/s...

"Software Patents" - IT-Security at Stake?

Short abstract This paper in short1 presents the thesis that insecurity of software is due to interaction of technological and legal shortcomings, fostered by economic rationality. Ineffective liability laws further the distribution of unreliable and insecure software. Copyright protection for software hinders the quality improvement. Patent protection encourages the use of proprietary instead ...

Voter Id : What ’ S at Stake ?