Interesting Links for 18-02-2012

[andrewducker]

• Nevada approves regulations for self-driving cars
  (tags: usa nevada cars driving technology thefuture )
• Catholic church to lose its exemption on building tax (for non-religious buildings)
  (tags: catholicism italy tax )
• The Freedom Of Information Act is under attack for costing too much money. Here's 10 ways to make it cheaper...
  (tags:

Comments

[channelpenguin]

amusingly, I was getting spam towards the end of last year that seemed to think I had a new baby. Lots of it, and saying stuff like "your 4 week old" and all that. My phantom child.... I think I might have remembered the birth and all that...

[bart_calendar]

Wait, the New York Times did an exhaustive investigative piece simply to figure out that Target does exactly what Google and Facebook do in terms of marketing to people

[bracknellexile]

Ironically, clicking the "security"-tagged, Atlassian story generates a dodgy certificate warning in Firefox :)

[andrewducker]

Interesting - I don't get a warning, and it's not trying to connect to a secure version of the site for me.

[bracknellexile]

I suspect it's the HTTPS-Everywhere plugin that's trying to make the secure connection. If you do try to connect to it securely though it offers a bad certificate:

blogs.atlassian.com uses an invalid security certificate.

The certificate is only valid for the following names:
*.wpengine.com , wpengine.com

(Error code: ssl_error_bad_cert_domain)

[andrewducker]

It's the addition of limitations to the store once they already had their application being sold through it that's annoying.

[undeadbydawn]

looks like a case of Apple trying to get things to work in the best way possible, and a dev getting caught in the cross-fire.

Given that ML looks like a major security [rather than feature] release, that kinda makes sense.
Still, not great for a lot of people, I'm sure. WHich makes it just as well that people can still sell stuff form their own sites.

[octopoid_horror]

I liked the irony of a "Stop reading incessant news feeds, you nerdy shut-in" link

[andrewducker]

Hence my commentary under it :->

[undeadbydawn]

he does have a point, though.

a couple of years back I spend ungodly amounts of time reading RSS and Twitter feeds, getting all het up and indulging Internet Arguments. I only stopped when my computer froze. Literally froze. It was in a conservatory that regularly hit -5.

I trimmed down the noise, completely stopped watching TV, ignored Twitter, cut my RSS feeds in half and stopped Arguing [thanks, xkcd]

I still have far too many RSS's and use them to fill the time when I could be doing Uni work or tidying my flat.