Interesting Links for 18-02-2012
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andrewducker- Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars
- Catholic church to lose its exemption on building tax (for non-religious buildings)
- The Freedom Of Information Act is under attack for costing too much money. Here's 10 ways to make it cheaper...
- Google Circumvents Safari Privacy Protections
- Why Atlassian are abandoning the Mac App Store.
- The man who hears colour - not synesthesia, but a colour-blind man who uses technology to convert colour to sound.
- How Companies Learn Your Secrets - and can sometimes tell you're pregnant before your closest friends and family.
- This is exactly the kind of politics I hate
I mean, do they even know that there are real people out there represented by them? Or are they just playing bloody stupid petty games to make themselves feel good?
- David Cameron challenged on independence offer
- How to tell HTML from HTML5
- Shipwreck hunters stumble across mysterious find. Aliens. Bound to be aliens.
- Did You Hear We Got Osama? Why you should stop reading news.
And also this link post. Go out and do something interesting instead.
- Time In The 10,000-Year Clock.
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Date: 2012-02-18 11:19 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-18 12:08 pm (UTC)What's most amusing of all is Target trying to deny it. No company their size would do anything other than what they are doing if they want to stay in business.
Jesus even my porn clients use analytics to figure out how and when to market. (For example my gay hook up site clients have analytics in place that can determine if the guy is married or co-habitating with a woman. They then figure out what time of night the guy normally logs into the site (because this is the time his wife or girlfriend is most likely asleep and not looking over his shoulder and then only send the gay promotional emails at that time of night. On the other hand they can also tell if the dude is just an out single gay guy trying to hook up, at which point they send the promotional emails out about around 4 p.m. their time, figuring that is when he'll be thinking about having a random hook up after work and they want to get him to use them rather than going to after work happier hour at a local gay bar.)
That said, it sounds like Target might be doing a better job than Google.
One of my gay clients runs a hook up site for dudes who want to meet other dudes for unprotected gay sex. The fucking slogan of the site is "Condoms Are For Pussies" and he got complaints from his customers last year because Google was putting up ads for Trojans and promotional safe sex advertorial links on the site and this was killing their boners.
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Date: 2012-02-18 12:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-18 12:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-18 01:37 pm (UTC)blogs.atlassian.com uses an invalid security certificate.
The certificate is only valid for the following names:
*.wpengine.com , wpengine.com
(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)
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Date: 2012-02-18 03:22 pm (UTC)My impression was that the Mac App Store is designed for making it easy and safe to download new programs. It's designed to make it easy for the people who aren't that great with computers, and so it makes it hard for them to fuck up their computer. The sort of program the Atlassian are doing doesn't seem to fit within that.
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Date: 2012-02-18 04:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-19 07:30 am (UTC)Given that ML looks like a major security [rather than feature] release, that kinda makes sense.
Still, not great for a lot of people, I'm sure. WHich makes it just as well that people can still sell stuff form their own sites.
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Date: 2012-02-18 04:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-18 04:51 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-02-19 07:24 am (UTC)a couple of years back I spend ungodly amounts of time reading RSS and Twitter feeds, getting all het up and indulging Internet Arguments. I only stopped when my computer froze. Literally froze. It was in a conservatory that regularly hit -5.
I trimmed down the noise, completely stopped watching TV, ignored Twitter, cut my RSS feeds in half and stopped Arguing [thanks, xkcd]
I still have far too many RSS's and use them to fill the time when I could be doing Uni work or tidying my flat.
(from my .sig heap)
Date: 2012-02-20 12:07 am (UTC)Starlets drive drunk and are sent to rehab and then they drive drunk again. So, here's my advice, if you don't like what's happening in the news just twist your lips in a disdainful smile and pay no attention. Now, at last, you can turn to Spinoza.
— Thomas Disch