American Complaints About Canadian Copyright Law
Natasha Jaques
University of Regina
New technologies have always been a force for change in society. As technology becomes more widespread, laws must be able to keep up with the new social issues that develop in a more technologically advanced world. Copyright law is an excellent example of policy that ( Read more... )

Here is our final project on Online Privacy.

The video can be found on youtube using the following links:
Short Cut
Long Cut
part1
part2

The presentation can be found here

Ah, another subject that has a significant debate over the risk and reward: video games. Video games are obviously very popular with the current generation, for obvious reasons; they're fun, they're a social activity, and they're more engaging than activities that only involve watching or reading. With this popularity comes a lot of attention. Some ( Read more... )

So this week I was supposed to talk about the social reasons women might not go into computer science. Unfortunately, I realized I don`t have a good social explanation for what keeps women out of CS.

In this discussion, a few different reasons are postulated. One was that a computer science job can be so time consuming that women feel it would ( Read more... )

Today I have decided to blog about something I should probably have addressed in detail much earlier... the question of why there seems to be a huge lack of women in technology-related fields, and especially computer science. According to these statistics, although women have always been a minority in computer science, the percentage of women ( Read more... )

Here is a recent conversation that took place when I tried to order a pizza ( Read more... )

So to be honest, I don't really feel like writing a blog entry right now. I have spent all day doing homework, and trying to find out how to get some javascript to recognize which radio buttons and checkboxes have been selected on an html form. I STILL haven't found out, which is really frustrating and hugely irritating. This has led me to my ( Read more... )

Today in class we mentioned (once again), how someone can become incredibly famous (or infamous) via the internet. This is certainly true; I know I would never have heard of the numa numa guy were it not for the miracle of modern technology. So, is that a positive thing, or not?

From the perspective of the average internet user, funny video memes ( Read more... )

One of my favourite movies happens to be The Watchmen, which is an epic action movie based off of a graphic novel about a bunch of wannabe superheroes who become sort of anti-hero vigilantes. Despite the awesomeness of the movie, I actually firmly disagree with the concept of vigilantism. What gives one person the right to decide the fate of ( Read more... )

An msn convo I had with my little brother on the subject of the "Avatar Depression Phenomenon ( Read more... )