Canadian Blogs

It’s about time to touch on the second of the Taboo Topics: Religion. Has anyone else seen the trailers for the documentary Jesus Camp? Or maybe even seen the movie? I’ve only seen the trailers, but that’s enough to scare me. As a Christian, albeit a strange one because of my beliefs, the [...]

Last week, the New York Times posted an article proudly proclaiming "F.B.I. and Chinese Seize $500 Million of Counterfeit Software". $500 million is a lot of money, that must be a huge victory. The problem is, those numbers don’t quite add up. They seized approximately 290,000 discs and certificates of authenticity. That means [...]

Say it ain’t so! I used to enjoy Archie comics, but now I don’t think I’ll be able to read them anymore. Archie is now officially a tool for the RIAA. From the BoingBoing summary: Seems the RIAA has got to Archie too! The very first story in Archie #577 (September 2007) is a cautionary [...]

Many thanks to Andrew Hay for this example of how proper data protection (and common sense!) has resulted in sensitive data being stolen. Once again, we prove that "common sense" is arguably the biggest oxymoron of our time. It seems that at Nottingham University Hospitals, junior doctors like to carry around sensitive patient data on [...]

Yes, it’s true, a Microsoft office in Hungary was raided by the Hungarian state Competition Authority 8 days ago. Microsoft stands accused of providing "loyalty discounts" and using sales conditions to coerce software distributors into offering only Microsoft products. The Authority believes that this "could lead to the exclusion of competitive products". I’m sorry, [...]

No, really. Our kind government really will make you an offer you can’t refuse. If you’re like most students, you can’t afford to refuse this offer, even though you’ll end up spending more money in the end. Most students graduate with an already crippling debt load. If you’re lucky, you can get away [...]

Michael Geist points out that the television broadcasting industry has seen the third highest revenue gains out of the last ten years, with $6 billion in revenue. So with the recent trend of industry insiders claiming revenue problems and blaming piracy when the industry sees revenue gains, how much longer until the television broadcasting industry starts [...]

Many thanks goes to Dr. Dawg for noticing this one. We’ve long suspected it, and we’ve all said it needs to change, and now it’s been proven beyond any doubt. That’s right, our current "first past the post" system is broken. The New Brunswick Liberal party has recently decided that there shall be no choice given [...]

The FSF has officially released the latest revision of the popular GNU General Public License. The press release can be found here. Unfortunately, there are already people who have misunderstood the license. So let’s take a brief look at three of the common misconceptions: The GPL3 license strictly prohibits me from using DRM. Actually, no it [...]