"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??
"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."
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".
"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.
... or at least that's what CTV is claiming. It's about time! Of course, like the Canadian offshoots of most American firms, I'm guessing that they'll probably try to charge much higher prices. At least it should mean stronger competition.
