Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-9-2010

[andrewducker]

• Government abandons lie detector tests for catching benefit cheats. Because they don't work. Obviously.
  (tags: psychology welfare government uk)
• Photovoltaic panels forecase to produce twice as much power in 2010 as they did in 2009.
  (tags: electricity power solarpower)
• Developers, developers, developers: Why Symbian failed. Shame, as I used to love Nokia phones.
  (tags: nokia operatingsystems mobile_phones)
• Google Give Searchers ‘Instant Previews’ of Result Pages - rolling out this evening.
  (tags: search google)
• Facebook To Google: Fuck you, we're taking your data and you can't have ours.
  (tags: facebook google socialmedia contacts gmail privacy)
• Women falsely withdraws her rape accusation - and is jailed for it.
  (tags: rape law uk)
• SAS parachute alsatians into Taliban bases
  (tags: dogs afghanistan military)
• How (and how often) are Coalition MPs rebelling?
  (tags: politics uk)

Comments

[andrewducker]

No, I have no idea why Delicious suddenly posted 9 hours late...

[stillcarl.livejournal.com]

Instant Preview sure works well! Though I wonder if Google's shooting itself in the foot with it, as a lot of sites won't get accidentally visited now. Result - less adverts delivered.

[ashfae.livejournal.com]

Lie detector tests? Seriously? Of course they don't bloody work. What on earth made them think they would? Argh!!!

[andrewducker]

Tell me about it. Why people continue to think that lie detector tests are at all reliable is beyond me. Apparently their reliability is around 61%. Which is fractionally better than chance, but nothing close to reliable.