links for 2006-10-24

This entry was written by Jeff Waugh, posted on October 25, 2006 at 09:18, filed under del.icio.us. Bookmark the permalink. Follow any comments here with the RSS feed for this post. Both comments and trackbacks are currently closed.

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  1. Chris
    Posted October 25, 2006 at 10:19 | Permalink

    > “Facts don’t change people’s behavior. Emotion changes people’s behavior.”

    Don’t you mean How To Run a Useless Government? :)

    (I don’t agree with the premise, clearly. Emotion is fine, but the emotional content of an argument has little to do with its validity.)

  2. jdub
    Posted October 25, 2006 at 10:24 | Permalink

    Your facts can be astoundingly correct, but if you can’t present them in a way that touches people, you won’t change their behaviour. Compare the impact of years of hockey stick graphs and environmental science dorks to An Inconvenient Truth.

    It’s nothing to do with being right or wrong, it’s about the effectiveness of the communication.

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  1. By Planet GNOME on October 25, 2006 at 02:43

    October 24, 2006 10:18 PM

  2. By My Ubuntu Blog on October 25, 2006 at 02:54

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  3. By LinuxWorld Community on November 13, 2006 at 18:25

    USB network adapter in for a prize. It starts off pretending to be a CDROM drive on the USB bus, then auto-runs an installer for its Microsoft Windows driver, then drops off the USB bus and comes back as a network adapter. (thanks jdub) But in order to make this “driverless” trick work, you have to have your system configured to autorun random stuff from CDROMs. Seems like a recipe for another Sony rootkit mess to me. Packaging the driver with the device is obsolete. Device drivers