In your otherwise dull Thursday, take a look at an article in The Atlantic about an army of paid Internet commenters from Russia. This paragraph leaped out: Paid, pro-government commenters aren’t a new phenomenon in Russia, and similar practices are widespread in countless countries. In their Freedom on the Net
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Scripturient: Blog & Commentary: Poor Lao Tzu: He Gets Blamed for So Much
Poor Lao Tzu. He gets saddled with the most atrocious of the New Age codswallop. As if it wasn’t enough to be for founder of one of the most obscure philosophies (not a religion, since it has no deity), he gets to be the poster boy for all sorts of
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Continue readingcmkl: Dear sisters and brothers: stop using your employer’s email
I am amazed that in 2013 I am still feeling the need to write this but Kathryn May in today’s Citizen is covering a PSLRB (the board that handles issues related to federal government labour-management relations) decision upholding management’s right to stop the union from using its email system. So
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Chemtrails redux: the attack of the tin-foil hat brigade
My earlier post on the nonsensical chemtrail conspiracy has generated quite a lot of activity recently (more than 1,000 views in a few days – thanks!). So much so that I decided to look online again to see why – had this silliness abated? Were people waking up and laughing
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Wednesday Morning Links
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – It shouldn’t be a surprise that more people are pointing out the importance of effective regulation in preventing disasters like the Lac-Mégantic explosion. But it may be somewhat unexpected to see that message from a CEO in the industry which stands to be
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Passwords Holding the Web Together
I noticed another person with a CIBC 2-factor authentication fob on their key chain last week. It displays a seemingly random number that actually only a special server knows, so if a password is stolen, so too must the fob containing the random number code that changes every minute. Without
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: ConCalls: Andrew Prescott Responds to Meier’s Proxy Finding #RoboCon #cdnpoli
With the Robocalls trial under way, some newer information is becoming public. That’s no thanks to the judge who has imposed a partial publication ban on investigative documents. One person with a legitimate account to make robocalls at RackNine, was Andrew Prescott. On Thursday he wrote me to bring to
Continue readingwmtc: "hide my ass" is far superior for vpn and wireless vpn
My adventures with VPNs, wireless VPNs, and other fun IP-address changes just keep getting better all the time. My new favourite addition is called HideMyAss – a stupid name, but a terrific service. When I last updated you on our awesome wireless VPN + Roku experience, we were using two separate routers
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Friday Night Hardware Hacking
Last night I fixed a Vista laptop (It wouldn’t finish booting into Windows normally because I’d installed another hard drive, and ran ClamAV which possibly changed a file it was depending on after I removed the other hard drive. I ran startup repair, and then the system restore option, and
Continue readingCowichan Conversations: How to Keep the ‘SNOOPS’ Out of Your Computer
Clive Thompson wrote this amazing piece in Mother Jones about how a new method of interacting will allow access across the street and eventually around the world independently. No cables, no phone lines and presumably no snooping. Scores of communities worldwide have been building these roll-your-own networks—often because a
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: Going, going, gone… from Hostpapa
I’ll be moving to a new server in the next week or so. That means there may be a downtime of several days until I get everything fixed and running properly on the new servers. I’ve tested everything and it seems okay, but… something always goes awry. For about the
Continue readingRedBedHead: Blogging, Democracy and Revolution
I came across this well-written piece on the role of social media in social change, written by Jesse McLaren. I’ve often thought that the role of new media, social media etc etc has been under-theorized by Marxists. You tend to see stuff that goes in one of two directions: either
Continue readingRedBedHead: Blogging, Democracy and Revolution
I came across this well-written piece on the role of social media in social change, written by Jesse McLaren. I’ve often thought that the role of new media, social media etc etc has been under-theorized by Marxists. You tend to see stuff that goes in one of two directions: either
Continue readingRedBedHead: Blogging, Democracy and Revolution
I came across this well-written piece on the role of social media in social change, written by Jesse McLaren. I’ve often thought that the role of new media, social media etc etc has been under-theorized by Marxists. You tend to see stuff that goes in o…
Continue readingScripturient: Blog & Commentary: WP theme experiments ongoing
With the latest update to WordPress (3.6) comes a new theme, Twenty Thirteen. I’ve activated it with the upgrade, and I like it so far, but I’m not 100% satisfied. I preferred the dimensions of the header image on the Twenty Eleven and Twenty Twelve themes. Proportionately they were more
Continue readingwmtc: healthy slow-cooker recipe of the week: help me make delicious lentil soup
The healthy slow-cooker recipe of the week – now running about every-other week – has hit a snag: lentil soup. I love lentil soup, but my own is turning out just OK, not really delicious. After the first try was too bland, Stephanie suggested using allspice and more bay leaves.
Continue readingThe Progressive Right: Joy Smith, Minister of Censorship #cdnpoli #censorship #cpc
Joy Smith, the Conservative Minister for Censorship, has an op-ed up in the Huffington Post continuing her call to filter internet content at the internet service provider level. I won’t link to it because I can’t help but think I’m giving her more than the 15 minutes of fame she
Continue readingAccidental Deliberations: Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Bill Curry reports on the Cons’ continued refusal to provide accurate information to the PBO – with the end result being that an office intended to provide a fully-informed, unbiased perspective in evaluating government action is now being forced to make Access to
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: Tim Hortons blocks customers’ WiFi access to gay and lesbian website
Last week, Canadian coffee titan Tim Hortons blocked the website of popular gay and lesbian newspaper Xtra from its public WiFi network. The post Tim Hortons blocks customers’ WiFi access to gay and lesbian website appeared first on The Canadian Progressive.
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