Few years back, the State Department told an organization calledDefense Distributedthat if they continued to distribute firearms plans on the internet, they would be in violation of something called theInternational Traffic in Arms Regulations. ITAR is a pretty complicated topic in its own right, bu...
Secondwe have no good way to reward the right individuals or labs. What we as a society care about is the advance of science as a whole. We want to reward the people and groups whose work contributes to the global project of science — but those are not necessarily the people who have...