I would like to start a meme. Especially for you politicos out there ( Read more... )

Still living in what I consider to be a dark future world. You know, even in those science fiction dystopia novels, people still live on, and even while their homeworld crumbles, they lead lives, engage in conversation, drink.

One of the "look on the bright side" comments came from saskboy, who pointed out that things are better now than when the last ( Read more... )

Although I've read the source code to DeCSS, I don't really understand, in say, group theory terms, (since I don't understand group theory) the transformations on the data which it pertains. Suppose I'm just working on data in another domain, and I happen to write a program which uses the same transformations on data. It's unlikely, but logically ( Read more... )

41.11 (1) Paragraph 41.1(1)(a) does not apply if a technological protection measure is circumvented for the purposes of an investigation related to the enforcement of any Act of Parliament or any Act of the legislature of a province, or for the purposes of activities related to the protection of national security."-Copyright Modernization Act ( Read more... )

Jeff, tdl.doc, may 30, 2010

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( What is ACTA? )

( not that anyone will use these for anything... )

The conservatives might be coming out with a reasonable copyright law. This will be yet another bill that the NDP will vote *for*, the liberals will vote *against* and the bloc might go either way--but it won't matter in any case since I think Conservative+NDP is enough.

That being said...way to go NDP on that one. But we'll see if it happens.

Apparently they are over 700 submissions. Keep them coming in!

In the meanwhile, my submission was one of the first mentioned by Micahel Geist...even before Prof. Gerhard's(he is one of my profs at the UofR, and the one who I did my reading course under ( Read more... )

The following was made with HippySympathizer's Create your own Hatecrime automatic generator. (From Kathy Shaidle). It's basically a computer program that does all the hating for you. It's a little extreme, but hey, isn't that the point? And what are they going to do when they pull you into the star chamber, say "you are not allowed to run that ( Read more... )