Comments | andrewducker: Interesting Links for 27-9-2011

andrewducker

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poisonduk September 27 2011, 19:19:30 UTC

Solar panels are so ugly!

andrewducker September 27 2011, 19:28:38 UTC

Better than massive powerplants or rising sea levels though.

poisonduk September 27 2011, 20:27:02 UTC

Interesting to see how it affects planning permission - considering Edinburghs rulings re Satellite dishes etc I'd be curious how they can freely allow solar panels - if it has to go through planning regulations neighbours will object. I know I would.

momentsmusicaux September 27 2011, 20:28:09 UTC

You wouldn't be able to see them that much. They'd be in line with the roof. And you know, what Andy said. And get over it ;)

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momentsmusicaux September 27 2011, 20:27:06 UTC

Everyone seems to be running around like chickens repeating this "This even happens if you log out of Facebook" like it's "Soylent Green is people" or something. Like it's such a dramatic and shocking revelation.

Even I got taken in briefly. And then I thought about it.

Suppose I go to site kittens.com. And kittens wants to tell Facebook that I went there and looked at kittens. Is kittens.com going to use my browser to pretend to be me logged into Facebook? I mean, that's doable with javascript or even an iframe or image or that sort of thing. But that's kinda crappy. What it's going to do instead is tell Facebook via an API. As in, magic communication between computers. Which means it's going to lift some cookie data to figure out who I am on Facebook, and then communicate directly with FB and say, 'Hey, user 12345 was here!'.

Hence, even if I log out of Facebook, it'll still do that.

momentsmusicaux September 27 2011, 20:28:46 UTC

Wonder how tenement blocks should go about trying to get solar panels. Might the council set up some kind of guidelines on how to get things in motion for one's block?

danieldwilliam September 28 2011, 09:00:47 UTC

Transition Edinburgh South might have some good advice on how to do common projects like solar panels in tenement blocks.

momentsmusicaux September 28 2011, 16:00:32 UTC

Huh. That was very timely!

This is tomorrow:

TES Energy Action Talk @ the Eric Liddell Centre, Morningside Road
Thursday 29th September, 8.15pm

http://www.transitionedinburghsouth.org.uk/calendar/tes-energy-action-launch-eric-liddell-centre

andrewducker September 28 2011, 16:07:49 UTC

That is very handy.

Do let us know what comes out of it!

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octopoid_horror September 27 2011, 20:39:44 UTC

Boycotting an author (or publisher) who is still alive and making money/getting publicity is somewhat different to boycotting an author who has been dead for centuries.

brixtonbrood September 28 2011, 06:35:15 UTC

This. I am a Wagnerian, but I wouldn't be paying money to see his operas or buy them on CD if he were still alive and raking in the cash from my purchase, because he was vile - I will also not be buying Gary Glitter's Greatest Hits any time soon.

There are some authors which I am pleased to spend money on; if I hear of a new book of theirs I will be on Amazon in seconds. Certain other authors I will tend to avoid; if I do want to read a book of theirs I'll borrow from the library if they're American, or look for a second hand copy. And I don't give money to Rupert Murdoch where I can reasonably avoid it.

But I wouldn't boycott because someone has a different stance on copyright law to me, that's just childish.

thakil September 28 2011, 09:13:28 UTC

Yes, exactly. I found that article amusing precisely because all those artists are dead. Art is not devalued by the source of its creation, but giving money to an artist who is vile is deeply unpleasent to me.

philmophlegm September 27 2011, 22:48:55 UTC

"Changing race by changing clothes? Stereotypes and status symbols impact if a face is viewed as black or white."

This is news only to people who've never seen Ali G.