Ah, but can we trust a Canadian newspaper that reports “Canadians are trustworthy?” I mean, it's not possible that that the DSS would have published a non-factual report (translation: lie), is it?
http://www.thestar.com/News/article/170886
U.S. retracts spy coins claim
Jim Bronskill thestar.com
OTTAWA – It seems there's no danger of your spare change spying on you after all.
A U.S. government defence agency has suddenly retracted its claim that Canadian coins containing tiny transmitters were planted on at least three American contractors who visited Canada.
... The document did not indicate what sort of coins were involved, and a service spokeswoman said details of the incidents were classified.
... In a statement posted late Friday on its website, the Defense Security Service said the coin claims were based on a report provided to the agency.
"The allegations, however, were found later to be unsubstantiated following an investigation into the matter," the statement said, adding that "the 2006 annual report should not have contained this information."
... As recently as Wednesday, the Defense Security Service insisted the risk was genuine.
Since my friends in Canada won't be able to blog this article, I will...
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/14/1922231&from=rss
Canada May Lose Copyright Fair-Use Rights
Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 14, @02:47PM from the rights-eh? dept.
DotNM writes with an article from the CBC reporting that the Canadian government is considering removing fair-use rights from Canada's copyright law. From the article: "Exacerbating the situation is intense pressure from the United States, where Canada is considered a rogue when it comes to copyright and intellectual property. It still hasn't ratified a 1997 World Intellectual Property Organization copyright treaty... Two of the most controversial issues are [DRM] and the closely related technological protection measures."
For researchers...
January 14, 2007
Dictionary Search Engine Finds Meaning for Over 2 Million Items
Filed under: Reference
Oh boy! More reference! More dictionaries! Recently I got an e-mail about a new site that crawls Web sites for meanings. MetaGlossary ( http://www.MetaGlossary.com ), is in beta and is offering definitions for over two million words, phrases, acronyms, etc.
Free is good!
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/01/14/1941259&from=rss
Sun Is Giving Away Solaris 10 DVDs
Posted by kdawson on Sunday January 14, @03:53PM from the what-is-this-free-you-speak-of dept. Sun Microsystems Unix IT
Tarmas writes "For a limited time only, just like Ubuntu's ShipIt service, Sun Microsystems lets you order Solaris 10 absolutely free of charge. The operating system comes on a single DVD supporting both the x86 and SPARC versions. Also included is Sun Studio 11."
The following are a couple of examples of useful(?) internet collections...
http://digg.com/music/The_500_greatest_guitar_riffs_of_all_time
The 500 greatest guitar riffs of all time.
A member of the Something Awful forums comprises a list of the 500 Greatest Guitar Rifts while providing a link to each song's video on You Tube and a link to the guitar tablature
http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=2278011
...and a geekier one.
http://digg.com/linux_unix/UPDATED_Jan_11_HUGE_Table_of_Linux_Equivalents
UPDATED Jan. 11: HUGE Table of Linux Equivalents
One of the biggest difficulties in migrating from Windows to Linux is the lack of knowledge about comparable software. This list of Linux equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software is based on our own experience and on the information obtained from the visitors of this page (thanks!).
http://foolks.blogspot.com/2007/01/tables-of-equivalents.html
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