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davecb writes:
The Toronto Star's lead article today is Canada courting U.S. web giants in wake of NSA spy scandal, an effort to convince them their customer data is safer here. This follows related moves like cisco moving R&D to Toronto. Industry Canada will neither confirm nor deny that European and U.S. companies are negotiating to move confidential data away from the U.S. This critically depends on recent blocking legislation to get around cases like U.S. v. Bank of Nova Scotia, where U.S. courts "extradited" Canadian bank records to the U.S. Contrary to Canadian law, you understand ...
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davecb writes:
Slaw was kind enough to post my fable on how to not have a probblem with the NSA, Thank Goodness for the NSA, and a link to the more technical MAC paper, http://broadcast.oreilly.com/2013/12/where-were-ye-orange-book-in-w.html.
My challenge to the Slashdot community: what's the first big step to making this all come true?
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davecb writes:
The Obamacare sign-up site was a classic example of managers saying "not invented here" and doing everything wrong, as described in Poul-Henning Kamp's Center Wheel for Success, at ACM Queue.
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davecb writes:
Paul E. McKenney, one of the Linux RCU implementors, addresses the problem of synchronization using structured deferral on, what else, Mr Schrodinger's famous cat. Courtesy of deferral/procrastination, the cat can be both alive and dead at the same time.
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davecb writes:
The Canadian Intellectial Property Office (CIPO) warns patent examiners that ..."for example, what appears on its face to be a claim for an “art” or a “process” may, on a proper construction, be a claim for a mathematical formula and therefore not patentable subject matter.” (Courtesy of Paula Bremner at Slaw)
