What can I say… Sweet…
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ying vs yang
Some things are essentially 2 sides to the same story.
MS EULAs vs the GPL
DVD CCA vs Gnutella
DRM vs privacy rights
What if TCPA focused on serving both sides of the issue? Just a thought .
Retour sur les sites médicaux en ligne
Bonjour…..tel un disque gravé (style 33 tours et non un cd avec des informations précieuses), je reviens sur un sujet. Le 19 octobre, j’écrivais sur la nécessité des professionels à l’ère numérique.
Aujourd’hui en lisant BNA, j’ai constaté que la préoccupation de la médecine en ligne semblait aller au-delà de l’ordre des médecins, jusqu’à la Commission Européenne. En effet, selon un article sur ZDNet, la Commission Européenne veut introduire des normes de qualité minimale quant aux sites offrant des conseils médicaux ou pharmaceutiques.
Malgré le fait que je considère qu’il soit important de ne pas suivre de faux conseils médicaux et je comprends bien la problématique soulevée par les commandites de compagnies pharmaceutiques qui fondent des conseils offerts, je conçois difficilement la solution pratique pour la Commission Européenne. Comment croyez-vous qu’il soit possible pour la Commission d’instaurer, et surtout d’assurer le respect de normes de qualités minimales des sites Web de conseils médicaux???
La question est lancée
Bubble tea
Ok, no blog yesterday, it means I worked more right? Well kinda… I did read two very interesting articles though, including one that made the connection between privacy and DRM, arguing that a architecture to protect private info is essentially a DRM where control is in the hands of an individual. I’m glad because I was expressing that idea in my thesis and I felt like a weirdo because I had seen no one making that connection that clearly before. I’d link to the articles but I forgot my briefcase and the articles at Make’s place yesterday night. I think I had too much pi jiu (chinese beer) with dumplings and a very local version of mapo dofu. which brings me to the main topic of this post: bubble tea!
My task is easy: Memepool has a post on the topic. You can buy it online, it’s apparently a phenomenon. I don’t really know about that, but it sure is popular in southern china. Had it for the first time in Chengdu (ok, not really south) and brightblue made me discover that I had been missing the boat for a couple years because it’s quite easy to find in Montreal. I really like the honey dew kind.
[via Memepool]