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Show Notes:
Cana-duh
- Punk-ass kid arrested for uploading videos to YouTube. On his own time.
- Waitamminit, doesn’t this make us consultants?
- Prime Minister Harper is still alive. Damn.
- Now THAT’S activism!
Copyfight
- The United Nations weighs in on file sharing.
- Federal departments are hoarding our copyrights!
- Creative Commons is finally available for YouTube. (Vimeo’s still better…)
- Fortunately, raising my middle finger hasn’t been patented. Yet.
Tired Old Media
- I can has better newspaperz?
- Lady Gaga is steadily growing on us.
- So people still go to movie theatres, huh…?
Hey, Nerdlinger
- Happy IPv6 Day! Do you see a difference? I don’t see a difference…
- Thank you, Google. Die old browsers, DIE!
- For the greater good, Currie does a live walk-through of (sigh) Justin Beiber Linux.
AppleAppleApple
- iMessage to kill SMS? Yeah, not so much…
- iCloud, on the other hand, is perfect for iClods.
- This post-PC era is a myth, anyway. Simon Sage sez so…
Mobilicious
- WIND Mobile to keep blowing — wait, that didn’t come out right…
- BlackBerry is still the top Canadian smartphone OS.
Pew Pew!
- How to thwart Facebook’s latest privacy fail.
- Now that’s NOT activism!
- Nintendo stock down 5% on TSE. Wii U Wii U Wii U!!!
- Have superhero movies jumped the Aquaman? What does that even mean?
Music
- Howzabout a little nerdcore this week? Here’s Southside with their track “Get Down“.
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My thoughts, in point form
– How is making kids fear being “arrested” for art going to better the “positive moral tone of the school”. Obviously backwards, and it is the principal/etc that should be being “arrested” under that type of clause.
– Sorry, but a brat disrespecting the democratic process in the senate chamber is not legitimate activism. I’m just sorry she only lost her job rather than doing a little jail time. Far worse has been done to people who did far less.
– The UN does matter — Remember that WIPO and WTO are UN special agencies, and ISP liability and graduated response is being discussed at WIPO. This is a matter of one part of the UN telling another part of the UN to get a grip on reality.
– The Canadian federal government is the single largest creator/owner of software in Canada. You forget that widely-distributed software (FLOSS or proprietary) represents a small percentage of software authored. With all the processes that governments are involved in, and the automation/etc of those processes encoded in software, there are massive amounts of software involved. As to Government and FLOSS, check out http://tbs-sct.ircan.gc.ca/ (Something that GOSLING co-founder Joseph Potvin is heavily involved in).
– Yes, information/mental processes are idiotic — but we need to get the general population and politicians beyond thinking that ideas should be owned. There is a cultural issue at play here…
– IPv6 isn’t being pushed as much in North America — partly because the phone/cable companies want us to be on a read-only connection behind NAT.
– iDon’tCare
– Wind is awesome, Public Mobile as well as RIM can bite me.
Chat later.
A little jail time?!
Geez, what are you, a G20 cop? 😉