Copyfight
- And… blackout!
- SOPA/PIPA sponsors drop like flies.
- Yet it’s business as usual at Facebook, Google (Canada), HuffPo, Twitter…
Canada-duh
- Election laws they are a-changin‘…
- Identi.ca’s Evan Prodromou offers a hand to Google.
- iWeb begets Funio. Funny story about that…
Goin’ Mobile
- Samsung not a suitor for beleaguered RIM.
AppleAppleApple
- Cupertino responds to This American Life.
- “I visited the Apple campus but that’s all I’m allowed to say.“
- “Wow, this iPad 2 sure is heavy…”
- But this has to be TEH BEST APP EVAR!!1!
Pew-Pew!
- The continuing pornification of tech.
- Early candidate for understatement of the year: Rogers price hike not well received by users.
- Meanwhile, Shaw fucks over Mountain Cable refugees (like Anth).
- Bell Media the king of streaming video in Cana-duh.
- For those who know better, The Pirate Bay has good news. More on magnet links here.
- Here comes the Symantec source code. Does anyone care?
- You probably shouldn’t be using McAfee products, either.
- Jerry Yang retires from Yahoo. What does it mean? Duhr…
Shout-outs
- Doug Slater sent us some more Rogers fail.
- Thanks to our retweeters, too.
Music
- From blogTO’s Weekend Mixtape here’s The Elwins with their track, Stuck in the Middle.
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I’m only half way (Just starting “AAA”), and some comments 🙂
Anth,
The reason that American Idle does electronic voting already, but political elections shouldn’t, is because the outcome of American Idle doesn’t matter. Because of this, the ability to trivially corrupt the process doesn’t matter.
Any ballot-less voting system needs to be understood as a proxy voting system. In the case of online voting, the software author (likely an outsourced vendor) is collecting proxy votes and then announcing the “Winner”. There needs to be complete trust of this vendor, something that I don’t think is justifiable for any election where the outcome actually matters.
In an ideal proxy voting system the voters would be able to choose their own proxy. Anything where the government imposes the proxy will be a target for corruption, and the only way to avoid that is paper ballots (maybe machine printed and machine counted, but still paper ballot) that avoid the proxy voting system.
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Andrew,
Why should an ISP fix your software problems? When I did hosting commercially I would charge $80/hour or more if someone wanted me to work on their site. When they were paying for hosting, hosting is all they got.
If you don’t have the time or technical ability to maintain their own site, they should hire someone who will manage that for them. There are commercial companies that offer that support.
I’ve been listening to you guys bad-mouth iWeb and now FunIO for problems which aren’t their doing. If you want to run a PHP site on your own, fix your own PHP problems!
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And you thought I’d just be talking about SOPA http://c11.ca/5391 🙂
I’d wager the TweetTheResults.com folks are safe from any Elections Act fines or criminal charges since they bailed at the last minute and went dark during the media blackout. As Canadian Press reported, they were “all talk, no tweet” after presenting themselves as the torch bearer of the cause.