Category: Social issues

  • Creepy: How police interrogation works

    Here is a paper about how police interrogation really works. Far from CSI and other TV series stereotypes, but rather creepy. As they say, no surprise that some innocent people claim terrible crimes. Via GeekPress.

  • 84 births: The Siberian Tiger mothers are feeling good

    A North China breeding center has announced that they already had 84 births this year. The Amur Tigers or Siberian Tiger, or Machurian Tiger are the largest living big cats with more than 600 pounds for an adult. They intend to breed some of them in order to prepare them for a future life in…

  • No plastics for a better environnement

    The proposal is a pragmatic one: Let’s try to reduce the use of plastics in our everyday life. It may not solve all the problems but it can reduce one. A To-Do List For Reducing Plastic. [Deep Sea News] No plastic grocery bags No plastic “poop” bags No plastic trash bags No plastic produce bags…

  • Color-blindness and software specification

    Color-blindness and software specification

    Do you happen to know that 5% of all male population is actually affected by some form of color-blindness (females are much less prone to it). It means that plenty of activities that tend to rely on color identification by the user is significantly flawed for about 2-3% of the user population. This can become…

  • Brazil against DRM

    Brazil against DRM

    IDEC – Institute for Consumer Defense – is the largest consumer association in Brazil. It lauched a campaign against Digital Rights Management (DRM) titled “Tehcnological Restrictions – You pay for it, you get less“.

  • Brazil, a short trip

    I am currently in Brazil for a few days on a professional mission for my company (Johnson Controls). It is quite interesting to observe how it was easy to switch from French to (Brazilian) Portuguese using my knowledge of Spanish and Italian. Apparently, the Portuguese as spoken in Portugal is much more difficult to handle……

  • Watch TV online for free

    OK, I know that I don’t have TV because I don’t want to be continuously force-fed with mindless junk. However, plenty of people would like to be able to have their TV on the Internet. Up to now, you were mostly depending on your ISP and possibly some subscription additional to your basic broadband Internet…

  • Is Windows Vista crippled?

    This is the right question to ask. I waited quite some time before writing about a bizarre issue with Windows Vista. Initially I thought that it was a small bug to be quickly corrected by Microsoft: file copying, file deleting and file moving is apparently very slow in Vista. When we say slow, understand “10-50…

  • Confusion at the Johns

    Confusion at the Johns

    You should always read signs carefully. Those are a good example coming from an (Irish?) pub. I guess that the patrons have fun all night long just listening to the shouts coming from the Men’s Room and the Ladies’ Room.