links for 2008-07-08

This is pretty funny.

What should you as a blogger know and do about fair use?

Gun bans really don’t matter.

The UK admits automatic profiling is useless.

Good for him, though as mentioned in this article not so sure how he is going to do it without raising taxes.

Changing policies as the situation changes is a smart and intelligent move.

Really?? Violating a Terms of Service is hacking, an agreement that majority people don’t even read and that in many instances forced to accept to even see the TOS.

The reasoning of the subjects is that they have an ethics system whereby the experimenter is held accountable.

3.5 Billion for Weather Channel, man I want in on that deal.

Yahoo and Microsoft at it again.

More Microsoft/Yahoo.

And again with MicroHoo

This bad, huge invasion of privacy and force isp’s to act as police on their networks.

Sweet nectar of life, I wouldn’t give you up to have a kid.

Hmmm, need to look at more of the research into the links between biofuels and climate change. EU is saying that biofuels is causing an increase in global warming.

Iraq is now proposing a timeline for US troops to pullout, otherwise Iraq might not approve US troops being allowed in Iraq once the mandate expires at the end of 2008.

A perfect example of bad analogies by well meaning and even intelligent people.

Expectations play into our negoation tatics.

I’m already starting to get sick of politics and I actually like it.

I could see this happening, the question is will FriendFeed go mainstream (as we haven’t heard that 15 billion times today alone).

Man, I can’t believe they are closing it before I ever got to see it. I’ve always wanted to go and never had the chance.

The generation of electronics with a soul. I’m amused.

Good job Google. Though I wonder how many people are going to use this.

Yet another in my long list of problems with Visual Studios.

That’s cool technology, kinda scary though.

Yeah that keyboard works great apparently.

This is great news for the chemistry field.