Random links
- Anti-piracy lawyers "knew letters targeted innocent people"
- The UK regulatory agency responsible for licensing that subset of lawyers known as solicitors has found that there are problems targetted people simply by IP, ruling that the lawyers in this case "knew that in conducting generic campaigns against those identified as IP holders whose IP numeric had been used for downloading or uploading of material that they might in such generic campaigns be targeting people innocent of any copyright breach."
- Staci Palmer Helps Farmers Operate Tractors Remotely
- Not too surprising. Have remotely-controlled vehicles here seems a little less controversial than having them run on regular roads (although Google is experimenting with the latter)
- Dog Food, Or Dogs As Food? Depends Where You Are
- This comment struck me as worth thinking about: "He devotes one section of the book to the underground phenomenon of cockfighting, and comes away with an uncomfortable conclusion: 'A McDonald's chicken a suffers a much worse fate' than a gamecock ... A gamecock lives for several years, often in pampered luxury, before it goes to its fate; a chicken destined for the plate lives about seven weeks, often in terrible, painful squalor. 'Now this is in no way to argue that cockfighting should be legal,' Herzog says. 'I don't think it should be legal. But on the other hand, it is a bit of a paradox that people get so bent out of shape about fighting roosters, and the suffering of chickens is probably the world's greatest animal welfare problem.'"
- Solar power pushes toward parity
- When might solar power become cost effective? Estimates seem to range somewhere in the neighborhood of 5 - 15 years. Note that this an Arizona paper's report... adjust your expectations for other climates.
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Sarennah
Mon, 2010-11-22 00:29
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Solar power
It sounds cool but I have a feeling it's a bit of an uphill battle in cloudy Vancouver!