For years now we've heard almost no end to the rhetoric from the media industries that piracy is devastating their businesses and causing untold economic pain and suffering by forcing countless people out of work. Interestingly enough, we never he...
23 January 2012 22:44
A popular axiom in society states that Lady Justice, the personification of the democratic justice system, is blind. The implication is that the the identity, influence or connections of both accused and accuser are irrelevant; both will receive e...
11 December 2011 17:31
Please note: This post deals with religious, specifically Christian, subject matter that some people may find offensive. If you continue reading, please do not blame anyone but yourself if you are offended.
For a very long time, I've heard Christ...
03 December 2011 22:49
After living in Fredericton for 8 years, it's about time I got out to see the Christmas parade. Can I get a refund on the two hours I spent waiting and watching?
The biggest problem I had with the Christmas parade was the horribly large corporate...
28 November 2011 19:16
In today's world, is there really a need for physical signatures? Is there a real need for you to be present and put ink to paper? Most people won't hesitate to say that yes, we actually do need to sign paper documents. Of course, this presupposes...
03 September 2011 11:37
Capitalism, at least as Western countries practise it, it a funny thing.
Consumers and businesses have very different ideas about what makes a good
Capitalist market. Sadly for consumers, it is the businesses who get to
make the rules that govern ...
28 July 2011 22:49
There's a few essential things that anyone using a computer must do. Perhaps
the most understated and most important, certainly the most ignored, is to
always keep a backup of anything important. It's not enough to keep making
backups though, you ...
23 May 2011 05:46
After a reminder from @pleia2 I've
finally gone and updated my GPG key to a
shiny new 4096-bit RSA key.
New Key
pub 4096R/8032CCE4 2011-05-18
Key fingerprint = FB29 8ABB E1D0 0A1C 8FA4 DC1F A8B5 1F5E 8032 CCE4
uid Joe...
05 March 2011 23:38
The current debate surrounding the
CRTC's
usage-based billing decision has led to a polarized debate the
likes of which are rarely seen outside of political or religious debates.
Maclean's has come out in favour of usage-based billing
along with m...
25 January 2011 03:01
A few days ago, WikiLeaks began the process of incrementally
releasing in excess of two million documents. This
is at once a very good thing and a very bad thing, with no clear way (possibly
no way at all) for WikiLeaks to mitigate the issues whil...
