Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-19-2009

[andrewducker]

• x-ray analyses of speech
  Spooky, but very cool.
  (tags: speech x-ray)
• Pedophilia and Star Trek
  My mind. It boggles.
  (tags: sex startrek crime psychology)
• Women now as tech-savvy as men.
  And about time too. They've been shirking their duties.
  (tags: women men patriarchy technology uk)
• Under the hood of Windows 7
  (tags: Windows microsoft technology)
• Ordnance Survey maps to go free online
  Fantastic news!
  (tags: data maps uk government mapping geography gis)
• New diabetes treatment removes need for transplants
  (tags: diabetes medicine)

Comments

[nancylebov.livejournal.com]

My mind boggles at how very speculative that article about Star Trek and pedophilia is. Have they tried talking with the pedophiles?

[simont]

Yes, I thought that. "Here is one surprising statistic. Now I will make stuff up for fourteen paragraphs."

[stevegreen.livejournal.com]

The author of the article seems to have no understanding of the dynamics of 1960s action tv (Kirk was originally supposed to have a regular girlfriend - Janice Rand - but the studio preferred a conveyor belt) or to have considered that paedophiles have merchandise in their homes which might prove of interest to their victims.

[call-waiting.livejournal.com]

The Fault Tolerant Heap is an idea that scares the bejesus out of me. Perhaps mostly because it's opt-out and you have to go to a fairly non-trivial length (registry hack) to disable it.

Wouldn't be so bad if:
* installing Visual Studio automatically disabled it,
* presence of a pdb would automatically disable it
* user had to click "I'd like this application to stop crashing, please." to enable it

[khbrown.livejournal.com]

Clearly something must be done about this: Star Trek should be banned.