Interesting Links for 29-03-2012
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andrewducker- Ursula K LeGuin on the continuing life of the book.
- Female crash-test dummies survive unscathed much less often than male ones.
- You know what they call The Hunger Games in Paris?
- Watch Woman Get Attacked By Wolves (With Kisses)
- A gorgeous map of the wind right now in the USA
- People seem to be finally noticing that Pinterest is built on copyright violation
- Origami-Inspired Paper Sensor Could Test for Malaria and HIV for Less than 10 Cents
- Body mass index not linked to post-surgical complications, survival in esophageal adenocarcinoma
- Software patents: Now used to silence disabled children
- Jeff "Amazon" Bezos has found the engines from Apollo 11.
Meanwhile, James Cameron is at the bottom of the Marianas Trench. I wanna be a billionaire!
- World Map: Metal Bands per 100,000 People.
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Date: 2012-03-29 05:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-03-29 05:21 pm (UTC)Not on Pinterest myself, but I am on Tumblr, and I'm hoping that this ends with a rationalization of copyright laws rather than wholesale shutdown of such sites.
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Date: 2012-03-29 05:31 pm (UTC)Oh, that's beautiful. It also gives me an opening to comment that my maths degree provided only one conversational factoid, and no-one ever gets to use it apart from when someone says "here's a map showing which direction the wind is going at each point", which is that if you have such a map of the whole world, there always must be one point where the wind is stationary (or at least, the horizontal component is stationary).
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Date: 2012-03-31 10:37 am (UTC)Software patents: Now used to silence disabled children
Date: 2012-03-29 06:44 pm (UTC)I wish I had more time to work out if there's any patent regime that would make more sense. I mean, obviously, the _first_ thing I'd like is if patent applications were looked at by someone who was awake, over 5, had touched a computer, and had the power and will to deny it if it was stupid. But I wonder if there's any sensible middle ground between now and "free for all" which does have significant downsides. One would be conditions under which someone could build something patented, but had to give some proportion of the profits to the patent holder (so it was at least possible to build _something_, and you might even be able to build something and give it away at cost for free, although that would possibly be problematic for monopolies driving innovators out of the business). Or software patents that only last a year or two. Or something.
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Date: 2012-03-30 12:04 pm (UTC)(caveat, this is the half of the family who is not an ex patent clerk speaking, so I'm just giving you the knowledgable one's normal spiel as I remember it)
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Date: 2012-03-29 09:58 pm (UTC)