links for 2008-04-13

How has the current credit crunch made paying for college harder.

Totally true, totally sad.

How does our knowledge of our global and local community effect our decisions.

Java 6.10 is out, lots of improvements. Swing especially got attention, finally Java is starting to look nice.

China and Taiwan meet for the highest level meeting since the 1949 split.

Some of the problems with Google AppEngine. I think these are realistic concerns.

Oops? The robots turned on us.

Microsoft admits UAC was designed to annoy you, the user. Umm if security gets to be annoying don’t we then just ignore it?

Some of the basic things to do when you look at starting a tech company, easily applied to any company.

What does Kantian philosophy say with regards to self-defense.

The economics of parental decisions. Personally I think people should be more economically rational and not give into fears that are perception rather than factual.

Switching from working in an office to working in a virtual office. Good information even for groups looking to keep more data in the cloud rather than on your local servers.

Study saying that governments with low taxes boot the public sector economy.

Facebook gives guidelines for promoting your Facebook Page elsewhere around the web.

Playing computer games makes the players less violent and reduces stress.