Random links
- Higher education does not equal happiness
- "Researchers have found that higher education does not make you happy. Last month, the National Centre for Vocational Education Research reported that while vocational training has a positive impact on happiness both during and after training, university students get a one-way ticket to misery-town upon graduation." - is this more or less the application of the old adage that the more you know, the more you know you don't know??
- Technology's disasters share trail of hubris
- "It's all so familiar. A technological disaster, then a presidential commission examining what went wrong. And ultimately a discovery that while technology marches on, concern for safety lags. Technology isn't as foolproof as it seemed."
- Africa's young 'change sex habits and lower HIV rates'
- If you read the news article, it mentions the reasons as having fewer sexual partners, and delaying this until later in life with no mention of "safe sex".
- Lawsuit Dropped; Claimed That Copyright-Filtering Violates Copyright
- "The Scribd suit maintained that the copying and insertion of a copyrighted work into a filtering system without compensating the copyright holder, or obtaining their consent, was a violation of the Copyright Act. ... Ironically, Scott targeted Scribd both for trying to block pirated copies of her book, and for failing to successfully do so." - Ah, the stupidity of modern copyright law, although perhaps this case being dropped is a step in the right direction.