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Monthly Archives: June 2004
Canadian ISPs and Copyright
There is some very good news for Canadian ISPs on the Copyright war front today. In a unanimous decision the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that ISPs are not responsible for the content their customers download. CBC News has details … Continue reading
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Canadian Election
Well it looks like there will be a minority Liberal government in Canada this term. Considering the polls said the Conservatives might form a minority government the final numbers are pretty surprising. For anyone reading this outside of Canada the … Continue reading
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Canadian Copyright
I found a couple of interesting articles with respect to changes in Canadian Copyright law. It’s scary to see the Copyright battle start in Canada. As in the US it looks like the pro restriction groups are doing their best … Continue reading
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Friday
Had a nice easy going Friday night. No homework or other work related things. First went to the London International Airfest. It was a great show. This is the first time I have gone to the Friday evening show. Though … Continue reading
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Emacs source code navigation
Recently I have been spending a lot of time with a large amount of unfamiliar C code. Navigating a code base that is unfamiliar can be quite a challenge so I went on a search for useful Emacs features to … Continue reading
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Dogma
Earlier tonight I stumbled upon Dogma on TV. One of my all time favorite movies. I’m sure traditionally religious people are appalled by this movie but the image of God presented at the end is the most powerful and positive … Continue reading
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Why are new laws our first reaction?
For those who are new to the story last year there was a horrible abduction and murder of a young girl in Toronto named Holly Jones. See CBC — Holly Jones for a time line and some background information. On … Continue reading
DRM
Wow. Everyone interested in copyright and how it applies to new technologies should read this. Absolutely brilliant.
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C lesson
Given: struct mystruct myinstance; Which is better? sizeof(struct mystruct) sizeof(myinstance) Normally this doesn’t matter all that much. However, I believe the first is the better way. The reason for this is that if you use the instance variable in the … Continue reading
Subversion
My Linux QoS work has come to the point where I really need a revision control system. I normally use CVS but decided it was time to setup a Subversion repository. So far subversion is everything I expected, it’s just … Continue reading
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