The canadian government want to amend the Canadian copyright law with the bill C-61. While I agree that the old law was aging there’s no reason to make it that restrictive.
The bill goes against piracy, fair enough and good try. Now try to transform it, because digital sharing of electronic art, otherwise known as “piracy” […]
Years ago I remember reading “powerpoint is evil“, it was an enjoyable reading because I knew at that time that something was wrong with the “powerpoint style”. Tufte just put word on the unspeakable…
I also know now why they are so annoying, because talking and showing about the same thing put too much stress on […]
If at least people could use less email, maybe they would actually have some work done.
http://www.wikinomics.com/blog/index.php/2008/03/26/wiki-collaboration-leads-to-happiness/
One picture says all.
However if you try to explain that to the casual user they will often reply with anger, somehow it was like if I attacked their only way to use a computer, rendering their skills obsolete. Is it […]
Report of corrupted process in the adoption of MS OOXML as the second standard for office document format are becoming more frequent in Europe.
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=2008032913190768
I’m wondering what’s happening now in other countries !!! In Vietnam where public officers are really “sensible” to corruption and demonstration of power…
For an overview of similar story in September read the […]
I’m always dubious about people claiming they are being attacked by cyber-vandals for political reason. It looks like they want their 15 minutes of fame. However this time, there’s a stream of story that can raise some eyebrows. Here are the stories :
http://www.savedarfur.org website has been under attack people try to gain access to their […]
If I use a technology and I’m a fascist and reactionary does that make this technology fascist and reactionnary ?
That is the question one would answer easily, but if you think of it a little, a lot ot question can be deducted out of it and it was happened this week when I received an […]
At least in the north one should complain, and here I am complaining.
Apparently several things are happening in vietnam.
The good thing : at home my connection is very fast, much faster than it use to be 2 months ago (I’m using FPT)
Now the bad :
FPT started few days ago to blacklist the ngocentre.org.vn mailing list […]
Two weeks ago, I received an email from an international NGO working in Vietnam, it tells me “we don’t have any legal software”, big news here, they have been working with the local “update technician“. Funny enough he’s who blew the whistle, and provoke panic on board because he read this news : […]
Last week was the FOSS-bridge in Hanoi, For those who don’t know yet, it is a match making between european companies and Vietnamese companies in the field of Free and Open Source Software. Nice initiative, especially that they want generate interest for more sharing and more equality between european and vietnamese hackers. That’s the good […]
After getting your document corrupted than now we get your “computer is corrupted”.
I think that that is what Richard Stallman meant when he talks about treacherous computing. Now Microsoft use its big muscles to bully small countries. Or simply did they give some money ? Please read this open letter from François Bancilhon the CEO […]
