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Avast ye, eh?

02/18/2007 by Single Lane Media

Avast ye, and listen well. Ol’ Joe Biden has turned his guns to North and is taking aim at our Great White Land o’ the Pirates, aye. Seems he and his Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus gave fair warning three years ago when they put us on a watch list, but e’en so we did not […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: computers, copyright, digital restriction management, digital rights management, DRM, file sharing, intellectual property, internet, MPAA, p2p, piracy, RIAA

Windows? Linux? OS/X? Why choose?

02/11/2007 by backofthebook.ca

What the devil are we going to do with all the power that the latest computers offer, given that soon you won’t be able to buy a machine with less than two cores on the CPU and less than a gigabyte of RAM? Well, one possibility that more and more people are taking advantage of […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Apple, computers, digital restriction management, digital rights management, Linux, OS/X, ubuntu, virtualization, Windows

The data that got away

02/04/2007 by backofthebook.ca

How can we safely destroy our data? The simplest thing is to not produce any. Then there won’t be any to destroy. Too late? You already have data? Ok, then follow these 4 steps. Never share or lose control of your data. Become a multibillionaire. Create a facility for launching things into the sun. Launch […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: computers, Linus, OS/X, Windows

A tale of two ethics

01/28/2007 by backofthebook.ca

The wide release of Windows Vista this week, and the billions that will be spent to buy it over the next few years, prompts one to ask: how exactly did we get into this mess? Once upon a time, not so long ago, computers were big things owned by businesses, governments, and universities. That changed […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Apple, Bill Gates, computers, digital restriction management, digital rights management, Linus Torvalds, Steve Wozniak, Unix, Vista, Windows

Bye bye books?

01/21/2007 by backofthebook.ca

Times Online has a worthwhile article provocatively titled Could This Be Final Chapter in the Life of the Book. That’s just a tease, however — the article is really concerned with Google’s book search and issues of copyright. It’s a bit desultory and concludes out of the blue that teachers should be concerned with encouraging […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: e-books, e-readers, internet, online video

Naked Geeks

01/14/2007 by backofthebook.ca

Who are the 12 greatest computer geeks of all time? Can you put names to the following 12 clues? There will be an answer key at the end of this blog entry. Difference engine. AI test and work on defeating Nazi enigma encryption during WWII. In 1983, geeks 3 and 4 below received an award […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Apple, copyright, geeks, green technology, intellectual property, naked geeks, RIAA, Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak

Damn the Nephews for All Spam

01/07/2007 by backofthebook.ca

Sing, ye gods, the anger of us all, for countless spams that fill our in-boxes. Many a brave soul has attempted to filter them to a junk folder, only to have filters fail in the face of bogus text. And who is it who must bear the blame? It is the nephews, the brothers-in-law, the […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Apple, internet, Linux, Microsoft, OS/X, Windows

Tech Predictions for 2007

12/31/2006 by backofthebook.ca

Can’t really put off the “tech predictions for 2007” bit much longer . . . Could do it tomorrow . . . No, let’s quit the boozing for a sec and just knock something off . . . Okay, I fearlessly predict that things will be the same as in 2006, but with bigger numbers. […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Apple, computers, digital restriction management, digital rights management, intellectual property, Linux, OS/X, Windows

Mooch Books with Bookmooch

12/18/2006 by backofthebook.ca

I’ll take off from last week’s post, where I wrote about online music retailers allofmp3.com and magnatune.com. The former continues to operate as though blithely unaware of U.S. claims that the Russian government is about to shut it down. In fact, fund your account before January 14th and they’ll give you a 20% bonus. I […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: books, internet, online music

Online music: Don’t be a sucker

12/10/2006 by backofthebook.ca

A lot of people will be getting iPods again this Christmas, which means a lot of people are going to get played for suckers again this year. At least they will if they end up using Apple’s iTunes store to buy their music (which is pretty inevitable, as the iPod leaves them little choice). Paying […]

Filed Under: Science and Tech Tagged With: Apple, digital restriction management, digital rights management, online music, RIAA

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Fort McMurray: Shopping time!

By Brady Tighe We’re now officially in the aftermath phase of the northern Alberta wildfire crisis. The fire is long gone, and everyone with a home to return to is back in its … [Read More...]

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Electoral reform: Hashtag fresh thinking

By Alison@Creekside The most interesting and innovative idea to come out of the first meeting of the all-party Special Committee on Electoral Reform, or ERRE, was Nathan Cullen's suggestion, … [Read More...]

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The Trudeau gush fest is getting old

By Jim Henshaw There have been several bewildered as well as angry accounts coming out of the USA lately about how little media time has been spent covering the Democratic Presidential Primary … [Read More...]

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My friend, Rick, at the Pride Parade

By Frank Moher On this dreadful day, I don't want to write about the shootings in Orlando. I want to write about my friend, Rick. Rick lives just outside of Nanaimo, a city of about 80,000, … [Read More...]

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Triumph of the drama nerds

By Frank Moher Two drama nerds have recently moved into high profile positions. Before I name them (or perhaps you’ve already guessed who they are; or perhaps you’d like to scroll down and look at … [Read More...]

From “Our Rape Blog”: Shooting the Moon

Originally published on Our Rape Blog, the author's account of the aftermath of a violent sexual assault. By Mary Fraughton Have you ever played Hearts? It’s a card game. For our purposes, … [Read More...]

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The video: Lelu Island: “They will come.”

From Creekside: The B.C. provincial government is trying to green light the construction of a massive LNG terminal on Lelu Island in the Skeena Estuary -- Pacific Northwest LNG, backed by Malaysian … [Read More...]

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