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My iPhone tethering story begins a few months ago when someone from Fido called me to ask me if I would be interested in a super convenient 3G USB modem to connect my laptop to the cellular network for a cost of about $30 a month. I asked him why would I do that if [...]

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Parts of the following post maybe considered illegal under some implementations of copyright law. After a fair amount of public pressure, the Canadian government is holding open consultations about copyright all over the country and online. There is a lot to be said on the topic copyright by people far more involved then myself. One [...]

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I have mentioned before that pull is better the push. So how do you deal with all the information you might want to know about. There is a lot of potential sources of information be it your friends blogs, a social bookmarking site, edited or not like slashdot or reddit, a news source like cbc.ca. [...]

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Further Update: The bill’s has been delayed. It would seem the voices on the internet have had some effect. Add your letter to the pile and effect change now. Update: Now is apparently the time to contact Minister Prentice about Bill C-60. Thanks Douglas. It has been reported [Search Engine, cbc.ca, michaelgeist] that a new [...]

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Previously I wrote about how Ron Paul’s presidential campaign, though interesting because his views are different from the main stream, is not revolutionary. I claim that his ideas are just a type of political and economic dogma; the believe that no matter what, less government is better. I consider this Free Market dogma. But this [...]

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Or why Ron Paul isn’t really that exciting Once more the overused concept of revolution is in the air. Well at least it is on the network. People all across the internet are getting excited about Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul. He is different than the other candidates. He is a man of principle who [...]

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Pull is better than push. This fundamental piece of wisdom can be applied in many domains. Consider, for the purposes of this entry, education. We currently have a push system. Students (try) to learn what teacher teach. It could be a government curriculum or focusing on certain chapters more because the teacher likes to research [...]

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Welcome to the future of digital content delivery. Really just content delivery as nearly all content can be found in a digital form today. The goal was simple: to watch Aardvark’d a documentary about four interns at Frog Creek Software. The first attempt was to search the torrent based systems that is the today of [...]

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Today, the 2nd of April, Apple and EMI announced that starting in May, the entire EMI catalog will be for sale on iTunes in a higher bit rate (still lossy) with no DRM. None. It will just like you ripped the CD yourself. The tracks will cost 30 cents more. The format is still AAC, [...]

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DRM, digital rights management, is any kind of software based locks on content. They are employed as an attempt to stop illegal (and unfair) copying of such content for profit, known as piracy. It is generally argued that DRM is damaging to society because it fails to prevent piracy (pirates can get around the locks) [...]

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