Articles posted in march 2010

Tucked into Facebook’s new proposed privacy policy released yesterday was a paragraph saying the social network will automatically share your data with special “pre-approved” partners when you visit their sites. But no partners were listed, nor was there any detail given on how these partners would be chosen. […] Schnitt: The opt-out hasn’t been built yet. We just want people to know they’ll be able to opt out.

This project aims to begin to address this gap by establishing a framework for e-Humanities (also called Digital Humanities) research using available open source tools and technologies and archived web content to create novel research interfaces to the first of many, scholarly, e-Humanities web collections.

In an advisory report two economy professors are urging a government to rethink new anti-piracy legislation currently being drafted. The professors argue that harsher anti-piracy measures will only benefit the large media companies and prominent artists, at the expense of users and upcoming artists.

I gave a number of talks this spring on jQuery and especially on some of the recent additions made in jQuery 1.4. Below are all the slides and demos that I've given.

Google has been working on some new algorithms and tools to tackle linkspam and we’d like to ask for linkspam reports from you. If you’d like to tell us about web sites that appear to be using spammy links (e.g. paid links that pass PageRank, blog spammers, guestbook spammers, etc.), here’s how to send us more info.

Below are video-taped lectures from Google Video on various technology areas. These videos are great opportunities for students and faculty to hear directly from some of the current pioneers in high-tech. They can also potentially serve as "guest lectures" for courses in these areas.

I know it’s too early to speak about WordPress 3.0, but I’ve been playing around with some of it’s enhancements the other week, and.. Well, this is a miracle, really. Remember all those plugins promising custom post types in versions prior to 3.0. Those that never get updated and show themselves glitchy sometimes, especially during upgrades? Well the time has come.

Started in 2009, the Pirate Party of Canada strives to reform Canadian copyright laws, reform the patent system, and protect every Canadian’s right to privacy.

Facebook announced that it was once again making changes to its privacy policy. One of the biggest changes that Facebook is making involves applications and third-party websites.

Over the last months many of the core contributors agreed that the current approach to bring Unicode into PHP's engine wasn't the right approach and a good thing would be to rethink it from the start. By a provocative move of one contributor the stalled situation got some more movement and Rasmus declared the current implementation to be discontinued to restart.

Alors que les automobilistes et surtout les motocyclistes doivent payer de plus en plus cher pour conduire leurs véhicules, les dirigeants de la SAAQ ont vu leurs bonis exploser. Les bonis versés aux cadres supérieurs de la Société d'assurance automobile du Québec (SAAQ) ont augmenté de 76 % à 285 %, selon les cas, de 2007 à 2008, selon des documents obtenus par le Journal.

It isn't often a tip leads me to something that just makes my jaw drop, but these McDeeb Royal Enfields are stunning. All three models, the Six Days, Thruxton and Clubman are based on brand new bikes.

The Magpul Ronin is an experimental motorcycle project based on the Buell 1125R sport bike. The project itself represents the first iteration of a design exercise inspired by interests, hobbies, and passions shared by many within Magpul.

All in all, Iceland is not that far down the Open Data path – yet – but it seems like the extraordinary events of the financial collapse may push us fast towards the forefront of the Open Data tidal wave. There probably be dragons on the way, but we also have a lot to gain!

Intimidation ou simple perception? Un groupe de citoyens qui cherchent à faire la promotion du logiciel libre dans les institutions étatiques dénonce la «grossière intimidation» du gouvernement qui, dans les derniers jours, lui a fait parvenir une facture de 107 000 $. Motif? Le remboursement des honoraires d’avocat découlant d’une poursuite intentée par le groupe contre le Centre de services partagés du Québec (CSPQ) et rejetée par un tribunal en décembre 2008. La pression financière ainsi exercée sur l’association à but non lucratif pourrait la conduire directement à la faillite.

Saturday, April 24th

Recent Changes Camp 2010: Montréal is scheduled for June 25-27, 2010 at the Comité Social Centre Sud (CSCS), located at 1710 Beaudry, in Montréal. The conference will be dual language. Hence, it has two names: English as the primary, French as the subtitle, and the domain reflecting the event's history with the wiki community in Montreal.

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