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• Commented on Wolfram Alpha answers Christmas wishes of world's high school students
  When I went to high school the nightly math homework wasn't even graded. Quizes and tests were the only thing that mattered. We were given a bunch of work to do and if we wanted the teacher to go through...
• Commented on Makers audiobook - DRM free download
  Cory seems like the kind of chap who thinks BitTorrent is a good thing. Why not download it of TPB and write him a cheque for $5 or whatever....
• Commented on How a one-hour meeting can ruin a maker's day
  The company I work for has meetings at 8:30 Monday morning. This was changed from 9:00 AM because people tended to get too caught up in stuff by the time 9:00 rolled around. Not much time is lost by unproductivity...
• Commented on Pirate Party comes to Canada
  From the posted Canadian Press article (http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jWUvBM5C13QP1GPNoo8DchgsAufw) "The party's goals are fairly simple. It says people should have the right to share and copy music, movies and virtually any material, as long as it is for personal use, not for...
• Commented on Colorado passes law to allow rainwater harvesting
  I don't know if this applies to Colorado or not, but in Manitoba collected rain water makes an excellent breeding ground for mosquitoes and West Nile Virus is still a concern. Back when West Nile was in the papers the...
• Commented on Goats enjoy living in their own tower
  Makes sense to me. I've heard that goats like to be up high. If you were to put a pile of dirt or a small car in their field all the goats will try and get on top of it....
• Commented on Great OS for babies?
  Granted I don't have kids so I don't know what they are capable of, but I would doubt that a window manager like that would be easy enough for a 15 month old baby navigate. What I do think would...
• Favorited Canadian Parliament shoutfest over the Canadian DMCA on Boing Boing
• Favorited Canadian DMCA will criminalize emailing your kids' class photos to their grandparents on Boing Boing
• Favorited Canadian Parliament shoutfest over the Canadian DMCA on Boing Boing
• Favorited Canadian Industry Minister lies about his Canadian DMCA on national radio, then hangs up on Boing Boing
• Favorited Frequently Awkward Questions for the Canadian Minister who's planning to bring down a Canadian DMCA on Boing Boing
• Favorited Frequently Awkward Questions for the Canadian Minister who's planning to bring down a Canadian DMCA on Boing Boing
• Favorited Afghanistan: death sentence for downloading, distributing report on oppression of women on Boing Boing
• Favorited Canadian MPs who are vulnerable on copyright -- how we'll win the war on the Canadian DMCA on Boing Boing
• Favorited Canadian MPs who are vulnerable on copyright -- how we'll win the war on the Canadian DMCA on Boing Boing
• Favorited Canadian DMCA rally in Calgary -- photos, videos, reports on Boing Boing
• Favorited Canadian DMCA rally in Calgary -- photos, videos, reports on Boing Boing
• Commented on Inspiration for Super Friends' Hall of Justice
  This was on TotallyLooksLike.com a few days ago: http://totallylookslike.com/2009/02/09/union-terminal-totally-looks-like-hall-of-justice/...
• Commented on Man will get 30 lashes for smoking on Saudi Arabian flight
  While I think that being flogged for refusing to smoke on an airplane is too harsh, I wonder what the crime rate in Saudi Arabia is like? I would imagine that it is quite low. And, if we were to...
• Commented on National Film Board of Canada puts its archives online, free
  The Log Driver's Waltz FTMFW! http://www.nfb.ca/film/log_drivers_waltz/...
• Commented on How the Great Firewall of Britain works
  You could still use Tor to get around this couldn't you? http://www.torproject.org/...
• Commented on Passwords suck
  One idea (possibly not the best) could be a PGP type method. Have the client and server generate a public and private key. The keys are exchanged once and every time after that the browser could handle the authentication to...
• Commented on Michael Moore on Bailout of US Auto Makers
  I read an interesting comment posted on CBC.ca about auto bailout situation. The comment claimed that several times over the last half century the auto makers had required government assistance to stay afloat and that the auto makers have always...
• Commented on Photos from abandoned 1901 hydroelectric power plant
  Old Pinawa Dam looks more interesting. http://www.flickr.com/search/?q=old+pinawa+dam&m=&s=int...
• Commented on Ninja scare results in school lockdowns
  The Elementary School I went to now practices Columbine drills on a regular basis. Apparently you cannot even get into the school during regular hours....
• Commented on Dance mix of Canadian Minister of Industry Jim Prentice lying about Canadian DMCA
  Ever since I heard the original podcast I was hoping someone would do something like this....
• Commented on Canadian Industry Minister lies about his Canadian DMCA on national radio, then hangs up
  @15: I would agree that you can't fault him for answering questions for 10 minutes. This being said, Prentice also promised to talk to Canadians about bill C-61. By not agreeing to come on Search Engine again he broke that...
• Commented on What question do you want to ask Canada's Industry Minister about the Canadian DMCA?
  Here is one really interestin comment from the search engine link: "What is more illegal? Legally purchasing a DVD and converting it (by circumventing the DRM) so I can watch it on my iPod... OR Downloading the movie illegally in...
• Commented on My new graphic novel for sale and as a free, remixable, shareable download
  I think it's pretty cool that this is put up on the Internet Archive, but with a file size of 205MB why not distribute via BitTorrent?...