The Government of Canada has angered those who believe that a proposed copyright law threatens the country’s open source business model. Russell McOrmond, a member of the Canadian Software Innovation Alliance (CSIA), says that Bill C-61, the proposed copyright legislation unveiled by the government last month, ignores just about every recommendation made by CSIA, a [...]
Reuters - The first hurricane of the 2008 Atlantic storm season formed on Monday, hundreds of miles (km) away from the United States, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said.
Hang on to your hats folks, we have one more chance for Bush to show us “correct” hurricane rescue tips
First hurricane of season forms in [...]
Canada’s largest wireless carrier, Rogers Communications, announced pricing plans, Friday, for Apple’s 3G iPhone.
Due to hit Canadian stores on July 11, many customers may not be rushing out to buy one. Although the actual cost of the phone itself is almost the same in Canada and the United States, the monthly costs are not.
Rogers [...]
Acerbic standup comedian and satirist George Carlin, whose staunch defense of free speech in his most famous routine “Seven Words You Can Never Say On Television” led to a key Supreme Court ruling on obscenity, has died.
He will be missed for sure. A funny, funny guy…
Source: Yahoo News
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You read correctly. Dell will start charging customers up to $50 for factory-installed Windows XP on some of their PCs, Computerworld reports today.
Consumers interested in the bargain-basement Vostro line of desktops and notebooks will pay $20 to $50 more for Windows XP Professional installed as a “downgrade” from Windows Vista Business or Vista Ultimate than [...]
Okay I don’t care how bad the situation or how stupid the idea is, trust me there is a idiot out there to always say “hey hold my beer and watch this”. It is not like there are more important things for the officials to be doing.
Amid the hard work along the River, rescue teams [...]
Given the heavy proportion of males in the Linux world, we here at LinuxInsider have trouble resisting any topic that brings females back into the picture. Imagine our glee, then, when we spotted mention of a recent Newsweek article titled “Revenge of the Nerdette”! Indeed, some of us fairly fell off of our pink [...]
Tories move to crack down on download demons - Yahoo! Canada News
he Harper government has served notice that the halcyon days of free Internet music downloading may be numbered.
The Conservatives introduced legislation Thursday that would carry a $500 penalty for Internet song-snatching and downloading of other copyrighted material.
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A new version of the Firefox Web browser is scheduled for release Tuesday with improvements in security, speed and design. Many of the enhancements in Firefox 3 involve bookmarks. The new version lets Web surfers add keywords, or tags, to sort bookmarks by topic. A new “Places” feature lets users quickly access sites they [...]
Bo Diddley, a founding father of rock ‘n’ roll whose distinctive “shave and a haircut, two bits” rhythm and innovative guitar effects inspired legions of other musicians, died Monday after months of ill health. He was 79.
The world has lost a true treasure of the music world, one that I grew up listening to and [...]
