‘Fans who share music aren’t thieves’

Important musicians such as Barenaked Ladies and Avril Lavigne have formed the Canadian Music Creators Coalition to among other things, support fans being sued by the Big Four Organized Music cartel. In their first white paper, the artists say, "Fans who share music are not thieves or pirates. Sharing music has been happening for decades."
Well, [...]

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Round and round we go

The reason I've been talking about Starforce quite a bit here is because my brother Danny used to work for Ubisoft and we've had some…'discussions' about SF over the past few months. He was happy that Ubisoft decided to use SF because it seems to be the best type of copy protection technology; I haven't [...]

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Easter!

I went back to Montreal for a few days for Easter this past weekend… which was, er, fun. Having decided not to shave or get a haircut before going back I was relentlessly assailed by requests to do just that while in Mnotreal, which I didn't want to (I didn't bring my razor). My [...]

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Canadian researcher denied funding over evolution bias

A researcher from McGill University has been denied funding to study the detrimental effects of intelligent design gaining influence in Canada. The funding agency said the application failed to provide "adequate justification for the assumption in the proposal that the theory of evolution, and not intelligent design theory, was correct."
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Numa Numa Global Tribute

Word is that Gary Brolsma is miserable these days, approx 1.5 years after his Numa Numa video went nuts and was viewed by approx. everybody. That’s a shame — the video was so joyful. So, I was glad to see the Google Current team here at Current (where I work) put this together… the Numa [...]

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It’s my birthday and my parents came by…

My parents came to visit me this weekend from Montreal, it having been my birthday last week but them having been unable to visit last weekend. They only stayed overnight (at a hotel this time) and we spent most of the time going around buying me things that I don't usually buy because the store [...]

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Ethics for Programmers: Primum non Nocere

I’ve been mulling over these ideas for quite a while, and I think I may still have more thinking to do, but recent events have gotten me thinking again about the increasing urgency of the need for a professional code of conduct for computer programmers.
Very interesting discussion about how programmers should write their software, arguing [...]

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