Intel Employee Caught Running OLPC News Site

Posted by CmdrTaco on Saturday January 12, 2008 @03:48AM from the well-maybe-at-least-biased dept.

An anonymous reader noted yet another story about credibility and disclosure on-line. An OLPC news site highly critical of the project was run by an Intel employee who actually is working on a project that competes with the OLPC. Oh, and the site failed to disclose this pretty serious bit of bias. The article talks about the most extreme interpretation ("Intel secretly bankrolls blog that disses competitor") but even the less extreme version ("insider badmouths competitors anonymously at night") is pretty fishy. Just more reasons to never believe anything on-line, including me I guess.

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I believe in CowboyNeal by cyfer2000 · 2008-01-12 03:56 · Score: 0, Offtopic

CowboyNeal rocks!

Put jokes aside, isn't this normal? One of my friend found some parameter of an IC he is using online, it turned out to be totally wrong, my the other friend searched density of a chemical online, and he ended up with a wrong compound. I found many mistakes on Wikipedia, like 99.99% charge-discharge efficiency of lithium ion battery. I think most people have learned the class someway.

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