links for 2008-11-12
2008 November 12
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Some fundamental facts about software engineering.
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That's a smart move.
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Neat new jQuery based time selector.
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Sexism is still a very real and stupid problem.
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Figure out if a photo is porn or not in an automated fashion is an extremely hard if not impossible problem.
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Developing for mobile devices.
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Making energy from basically just dirt.
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iPhone could actually get tethering, normal rules apply but otherwise looks pretty good.
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Another record but it looks to be slowing. What happens when the Chinese and American economies slow down at the same time?
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Looks like there could be a flaw in the iPhone's security based on the dynamic "default.png" that applications use on start-up.
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"The Adipositivity Project aims to promote size acceptance, not by listing the merits of big people, or detailing examples of excellence (these things are easily seen all around us), but rather, through a visual display of fat physicality. The sort that's normally unseen.
The hope is to widen definitions of physical beauty. Literally. "
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Google Chat now has video and voice capabilities, not all that impressive ones, but it has it.
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What doesn't Google know?
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Soldiers are required to pay for rape kits as they are purely for criminal investigation and not health or psychologically necessary.
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So which is it?
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The first Congressional plan for universal health care comes front and forward.
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Only took MS 7 or 8 years to patch a flaw in Samba that allowed a user on the same network to take over a computer.
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Obama essentially won't let lobbyists be part of his transition or they have to agree not to lobby the administration for a year after the inauguration.
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The federal government tries to reassure student loans.
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This isn't good for the two countries.
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All it needed was $140mil to keep normal rations for Zimbabwe.
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Great for everybody to follow all the different conversations about their article/blog post, or whatever.
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Most books aren't removed and instead are handled by the library privately.
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Crazy a way to pick up fingerprints and to read letters while still in the original envelope.
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AIG is literally at the guillotine.
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Ouch.
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Not much to report from new browsers in terms of their CSS support.
