links for 2008-05-23

Conjunction Junction, what’s your function? Relive your school days.

Reason is pretty sound, all that the Air Force has to is to show why there is a compelling need to discharge homosexuals who have been sexually active outside of their duty station with persons unconnected to the military. Just demostrate it and be done.

That’s right kids masturbation should never be reffered to as a source of pleasure, even though what other use it is who knows.

I have to agree it is desperate and crazy, but it could work if enough people hear of it. Why not get some money back on purchases you make online.

You know what you always wanted a free e-book on the History of Star Wars.

Makes sense security wise, just not to sure about how employees would feel about their privacy. Then again limit your work email to just work information is always the best rule of thumb.

Wow that changes the whole aspect of software lincenses.

Hypocrisy from a politican I’m astonished.

Lawrence Lessig on the Orphan Works bill.

And the counter to Lessig in the debate on Orphan Works.

Really good article about the surveillance system in China and the American/European technology behind it.

This is a really interesting article about someone who decided they overshared online and what became of it.

YouTube should allow all content in my opinon, within the general guidelines of the First Ammedment al-Qaida clearly falls within those. Dumb Congress, Dumb over reaction.

Some advice on designing a resume.

Cory Doctorow as can be expected argues that works should be made to be easily copied and distrubted around the internet, no talk about how the artists gets paid.

Security and fear and bad statistics don’t mix. Terriorism doesn’t mathematically provide a basis to take away our libierty for a statistically minimall chance of an event.

Remember it’s not just the data that you know about, but the data you don’t know that is still linked to you.