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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."
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
Why do I h8 apple?
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