links for 2008-12-05
2008 December 5
- Wow, just wow.
- Is logging always useful?
- " 'What if' papers are fun and all, but when they start getting taken too seriously, it rapidly becomes annoying."
- CNN is cutting down on it's Science, Space and Technology division, seems pretty stupid. Two reasons, one the topics need to be covered and two if CNN wants to provide news to newspapers AP style need to cover all stories not just some.
- How do you recurit the best developers? Private offices, lots of new equipment, nice chairs and lots of free books.
- The best programmers in the world make your software not just better, but better than you can imagine. Hire the best programmers and you get the best software.
- Looks like a kick a eCommerce system.
- Wow Obama had $750 mil in campaign funds and left with about $30 million post Election Day.
- The issue with this is that Google like other large bandwidth users does agreements with companies to get free bandwidth and Google also has a lot of it's own Internet lines.
- Survey shows most Americans favor partner rights and other rights for gay Americans.
- "The European Court of Human Rights ruled unanimously on Thursday that Britain’s policy of gathering and storing the fingerprints and DNA of all criminal suspects — even those who turn out to be not guilty — was a violation of the human right to privacy." Thank goodness.
- Abortion is not linked to depression.
- NASA has some pretty bad computer security.
- YouTube did a change last night.
- "Pakistan's president has vowed to take "strong action" against any elements in his country involved in last week's attacks in the Indian city of Mumbai."
- Great idea, a credit card that generates a random pin every time it's used, makes it more secure and still easy to use.
- Don't over think your pages.
- The Big Three claim they have to survive.
- Now that is a smart move from the Natural Resources Defense Council lobby banks to stop backing environmentally unsound companies/projects.
- Wow, 12,000 layoffs, crazy.
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