Corporate Fallout Detector

BandwidthHog writes "MIT student shows off Corporate Fallout Detector. Acts and looks kinda like a Geiger counter, but it's a UPC scanner with an internal, updateable database of corporate misdeeds, with both Pollution and Corporate Ethics modes. I want one."

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Corporate Ethics? Says who?

[Anonymous Coward]

The site fell down already.

So without RTFA, who determines what "corporate ethics" means and how to measure them? This sounds like typical "if I don't like it, it must be immoral and capitalistic" leftwing grad school nonsense

bad device

[ih8apple]

This thing is actually bad for the conscientious consumers. The author states in the article: "Of course the data produced by this approach is subjective and inaccurate at times". It's is subjective and inaccurate ALL the time. Informed consumers should know what not to buy and they should know WHY not to buy it. This "dumbing down" of informed consumption is not good for anyone for several reasons: 1. the data will be wrong. 2. the data will be hacked and good people will be blacklisted and bad people whitelisted. 3. lawsuits will occur.

just my $.02

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[Anonymous Coward]

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Media Lab

[spaceman18]

I've notticed pretty much everything mentioned here about MIT is from the media lab. Even on campus the media lab isn't exactly taken very seriously. So please, if you are going to make fun of this story, direct it toward the media lab, not MIT in general. Thank you :)

Really?!!

[Anonymous Coward]

Wanna cyber? a/s/l?

True This

[thePancreas]

- try to make it better. What is it the U.S. Government has to hide from it's own people anyway. Their whole argument for attacking Iraq was that the must be hiding WMD's SINCE they have not brought them out to show the public (world at large).

Can we assume the gov then has alot more to hide concerning events like 9/11 and the false info passed along to the people of the States? Absolutely. Is there anyone to hold the Bushies accountable? Absonotly! Who would dare?

Re:Here are a few questions

[n8_f]

I have moderator points, but I'll reply rather than use them.

Regarding your second question, you seem to be confusing professional ethics with personal morality. Both deal with morals, but the former deals with conduct in a business setting, while the latter govern an individual's life.
Business ethics are also widely agreed upon and usually codified by a professional organization while personal morals can vary widely from person to person (although the common ones are codified in our laws). So not including one person's set of personal morals as criteria for grading companies is not failing the mission of grading companies based on business ethics nor does it have anything to do with being on the "Liberal side of the aisle."
As such, I would have moderated you Offtopic rather than Flamebait.
Nathan