Minister Vic Toews is a nice guy, on Mark Horseman’s authority. I have to disagree, the evidence to the contrary is too strong. Nice guys don’t try to destroy the Internet as we know it, and subject innocent Canadians to higher ISP bills to fund government spying on legal communications.
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Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Copyright Radical
I’m a copyright radical, like most younger people. I wasn’t born that way, but Napster, and the war on Napster and filesharing helped shape my vision of what people need to do to remain free. As most TED talks are, this is an amazing video on how to understand culture
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Letter to SaskPower President Regarding Solar Power
Here’s a letter going to the SaskPower President soon. If anyone has any suggestions for it, you have short time to make them. rwatson at ]saskpower.com[ Dear Mr. Watson, I’ve found some troubling information on the SaskPower website. The first link is troubling because of what it leaves out. Solar
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: On SOPA + PIPA + [Un]Lawful Access…
Millions of internet users and entrepreneurs already opposed the Stop Online Piracy Act and the PROTECT IP Act (aka SOPA and PIPA), including Google. Why NO SOPA? In case you missed it, somecanuckchick dot com went dark — along with thousands of others — on January 18, 2012 to protest SOPA
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Liberal Live/En Direct!
FYI: The Liberal Party of Canada will be streaming its Biennial Convention… live/en direct from Ottawa, January 13 – 15, 2012.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Dark Orwellian Future: Top Secret America
Julian Assange isn’t the only person concerned that Facebook is the greatest spy machine ever created. There are lesser known surveillance nets and data mining underway. Did you know that most text messages sent on 9/11 were captured by a secret system, and later leaked to WikiLeaks? NSA employee: “A
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: A Leaky New Year
Anonymous has cracked into Stratfor. What’s that? It’s a Shadow CIA that kept customer’s credit card info unencrypted and allowed mysterious “Robin Hood Hackers” access to millions of sensitive emails. What will we learn from those emails when they are eventually leaked? Probably super-cool stuff will be revealed. So far
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Half Eaten Sandwich Sells for $2
I did it! You can thank me later for upending a longstanding tradition of women only being correct. My wife stated that it was not possible for me to sell a half eaten sandwich on UsedRegina.com, but I did it on Tuesday. It took a couple months, but someone finally
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Standarize Electronics
Electronics work best when there are standards to follow. Without standards we wouldn’t have CDs that could be read in any nearly CD-ROM or DVD drive. We wouldn’t have radios that pick up signals from broadcasters. Standards make the WWW work wonderfully. I don’t know why it’s taken so long
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Twitter Occupying Time in Real World
I had a great time the other evening meeting many Regina and area Tweeters who took a few hours of their time to get off their computers and into the “real world” where they had to “talk” to people using “voice boxes”. There were more than 50 people who came,
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Occupy Links
Some random links about Occupy Regina and OWS in general: November 17 is going to be a big day in the Occupy Wall Street movement. The stock exchange may never be the same. – ModifiedTweet @dawnis: The @CityofRegina has an app. — Cool, but it probably issues a fine if
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Banks Refusing Your Money?
Did you know it’s possible to try and use your good credit, and functioning Visa or Master Card, and have the transaction refused for only $10? Try sending money to the corruption-busting website WikiLeaks, and you won’t be allowed! Visa and Master Card are among the willing participants of an ominous financial blockade that has […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Twitter and Facebook Failing
I’m having trouble posting and reading Facebook and Twitter suddenly, I suspect they are feeling the strain of extra eyes due to the Occupy Together protests around the world today. This is where blogs come in handy, when your micro-blogging sites are overwhelmed. I’m off to downtown Regina now, to participate in Occupy Regina. Together […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Anonymous Promoting Occupy Saskatoon Protest
Someone identifying with the Anonymous Internet group may have decided that Saskatoon sounded obscure and cool enough to be participating in Occupy Wall Street, that they deserved a little extra boost of attention. The Saskatoon news media jumped all over it, but with an unbalanced article that appears not to have made an attempt to […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: State Did It For Lulz
The State Department is one of those organizations that deems a hyperlink as “publication” of the material it links to. Publicity, almost certainly, but it’s impossible to knowingly and forever publicize what is being linked to, because websites are dynamic and links get broken due to their targets’ changes. And the State is eager to […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: The Dumber You Are, The Harder You Fall… For The Trick
There’s a reason the Republicans and Conservatives seem obstructionist both while in government and in opposition. Prorogation at every turn in Canada, and filibustering every routine bill in the States has helped mis/uninformed or “low-information voters” conclude that government is ineffective at solving problems through collaboration, legislation, and science. This is an intentional trick being […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Would You Vote Over The Internet?
I trust computers… to do what their potentially untrustworthy programmers tell them to do. Because it’s computer code that could be corrupted, there’s little means for the layperson voter to verify they aren’t being swindled. That said, online voting is becoming inevitable, and may be required to pull young voters into participating in our democracy. […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Banking Blockade
You’ll probably want to watch this short ad about WikiLeaks. It’s “priceless”.
What Does it Cost to Change the World? from WikiLeaks on Vimeo.
Continue readingSaskboy's Abandoned Stuff: Spider
– I found this fellow in my bag after I was out picking rose petals. The Internet and WWW are changing, and maybe not for the better. In the olden days, websites would end with a small set of Top Level Domains (TLDs). These include the famous .com(merce), .ca, .co.uk, and many others. But now […]
Saskboy's Abandoned Stuff: WikiLeaks: Assange Breaking Ground While Governments Break Laws
Assange points out that there were illegal attacks on WikiLeak’s technical infrastructure, especially since it’s a legal, media organization and not an illegal group as some extreme critics suggest. == Meanwhile, the Main Stream Media is picking “bloogers” for stories. “It’s not approved, not allowed, and it’s not awesome”. – artist and blooger Kal Barteski. […]