ToriaUru - Slashdot User

Comment Gatineau, Quebec (Score 1) 560

by ToriaUru on Wednesday June 23, 2010 @08:28PM (#32672594) Attached to: 5.5 Earthquake Hits Canada; Felt in US Midwest, New England

Felt it quite strongly as I was near the epicenter ~20 km away roughly. Felt like a really big bus was coming at first and then the noise and the shaking got way worse. Very cool to feel the earth literally moving under your feet. My daughters school was evacuated when we got there to pick her up.

Submission + - Canadian company aims to un-censor for some (psiphon.ca)

Submitted by

Deborah Johnson

on Tuesday May 05, 2009 @02:37PM

Deborah Johnson writes: "I read the BoingBoing piece on new web censor evasion software here http://www.boingboing.net/2009/05/05/new-web-censor-evasi.html and have become interested in the idea of the company Psiphon. How fascinating that they aim to break down the wall of Chinese firewall with a march of a million ants. They are mentioned at Can-West Global news here http://www.canada.com/Psiphon+knock+down+Great+Firewall+China/1557681/story.html Another story at the NY Times here http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/technology/01filter.html?_r=1

Their blurb reads as thus "At Psiphon, we believe in a world without borders, where knowledge is power, where people have the right to choose, and ethics, not censorship guides our exercise of freedoms.

That's why at Psiphon we set out to spearhead the digital revolution through a commitment to a safe, secure, and open Internet experience, and by building the world's best freedom-of-choice services and solutions."

More power to them. Viva F/Loss and a free Net for all"

Submission + - DRM should be exposed on game boxes

Submitted by ToriaUru on Tuesday March 31, 2009 @10:32AM

ToriaUru writes: BoingBoing reports on DRM disclosure on game boxes. Quote from the BoingBoing article "Ars Technica has a report from the FTC's hearings on DRM, where Hal Halpin from the Entertainment Consumers Association proposed that game manufacturers should be required to disclose what kind of DRM they're using prior to purchase"

Comment I, for one, won't be playing it (Score 1) 395

by ToriaUru on Wednesday July 30, 2008 @07:47AM (#24399393) Attached to: Scrabulous Is Dead, Hasbro's Version Brain-Dead

As a simple protest measure against Hasbro I won't play their "official" version. Let me choose thank you very much which version I'd like to play. If you don't give me that, bite me, and stuff it. I ain't playing it.

Submission + - Canadian DMCA bill withdrawn from House of Commons (michaelgeist.ca)

Submitted by

ToriaUru

on Monday December 10, 2007 @06:20PM

ToriaUru writes: "The Canadian Minister of Industry, Mr. Jim Prentice has withdrawn the proposed Canadian Digital Millennium Copyright Act legislation that was due to be tabled in the Canadian House of Commons tomorrow. This is due to the overwhelming response by Canadians from every walk of life towards their Members of Parliament, the Industry Minister's office, and his counterpart at the Ministry of Canadian Heritage, Status of Women and Official Languages, Ms. Josee Verger. The story is taking hold in the main stream press of Canada, with stories here http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071209.WBmingram20071209191018/WBStory/WBmingram/ and here on CBC http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/12/10/tech-copyright.html/ The power of the people talking."

Submission + - Canadian DMCA Placed on the Notice Paper (michaelgeist.ca)

Submitted by

ToriaUru

on Friday December 07, 2007 @04:58PM

ToriaUru writes: "The proposed changes to the Copyright Act of Canada aka the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Canadian Style is going to be presented to the House of Commons in Ottawa next week. In order for the legislation to be tabled the office of the Minister must have it put on the Notice Paper on the Friday preceding that. Dr. Michael Geist has just blogged that the Notice paper contains this proposal for this law. http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/2449/ Please, come join the Fight for "Fair Copyright for Canada" at 'http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=6315846683/ PLEASE, the U.S. model of the DMCA does not work. Why on earth would Canada need a similar law? That is what we will get if we don't stop this government from doing this."

Bookmark Canadian DMCA Placed on the Notice Paper (michaelgeist.ca)

by ToriaUru on Friday December 07, 2007 @04:18PM

Submission + - Canadian DMCA protest (boingboing.net) 1

Submitted by ThePurpleBuffalo on Friday December 07, 2007 @12:24PM

ThePurpleBuffalo writes: Cory Doctorow has announced that Jim Prentice will be in Calgary, Alberta, Canada tomorrow (Saturday, 2007-12-10) and that this might be the best chance to fight the Canadian DMCA. From the article: "If you're a Canadian and you want to talk to Industry Minister Jim Prentice about his proposal for a Canadian DMCA, a copyright law that's even worse than the ten-year-old American legislation that resulted in lawsuits against 20,000+ Americans without stopping infringement or paying artists, now's your chance!"

Submission + - Facebook opened to advertisers

Submitted by

ToriaUru

on Wednesday November 07, 2007 @02:21PM

ToriaUru writes: "I'm sure you'll have read this 2,002 times already, but yeah, Facebook is now "cashing in". Ah, the joys of being hooked by it, not.

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/11/07/facebook-ads.html

http://www.theage.com.au/news/web/ad-nauseum-facebook-users-cop-the-hard-sell/2007/11/07/1194329284640.html

http://www.zdnet.com.au/news/communications/soa/Facebook-Ads-makes-business-your-friend/0,130061791,339283575,00.htm

Cash, cash, cash cow... here we come. Um, no, not me."

Submission + - Facing Up To Facebook Fears

Submitted by ToriaUru on Monday May 07, 2007 @10:32AM

ToriaUru writes: http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/1924/ This story offers the view that Facebook is here to stay. It's simply another vehicle to talk to people, and shouldn't be viewed as something evil. It's a new way of communication. For schools, and governments to be banning it, is not the answer.

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