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Internet users’ password security still hasn’t improved
Do you use any of the following terms as your password? If so, congratulations, you’re helping keep the rest of us from being as easily hacked as you are: 1. password 2. 123456 3. 12345678 4. qwerty 5....
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This week in Guild Wars 2 news
I’ve been accumulating news snippets about the as-yet-to-be-formally-scheduled release of Guild Wars 2 for an email newsletter I send out to my friends and acquaintances in the Guild Wars community....
View ArticleConrad Black sneers at your various eagles and praises the Canadian beaver
There’s been a crack-brained effort in recent weeks to dispense with the beaver as Canada’s emblem animal and replace it with some frozen-footed albino bear. Conrad Black objects: It is with regret...
View ArticleThe GOP’s dream candidate . . . for the Democrats
I’m still somewhat in shock that Newt Gingrich is taken seriously as a candidate by the GOP. I’m even more bowled over by the fact that he’s at least temporarily neck-and-neck with Mitt Romney. I’ve...
View ArticleThree reasons not to bail out student loan borrowers
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View ArticleNFL week 11 predictions
After a strong start to the season, my picks have been regressing to the mean over the last few weeks. I’m hoping that this week’s predictions will turn that trend around (getting the Thursday night...
View ArticleHow is a member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff like a used car salesman?
Answer: when he uses the latest technology to get the Defense Secretary to a meeting on time. Defense Secretary Leon E. Panetta shoved his head into a snug aviator helmet topped with goggles one...
View ArticleIf you’re not paying for the service, you are the product
John Naughton points out that TANSTAAFL still applies, even to “free” services on the internet like Facebook and Twitter: Physics has Newton’s first law (“Every body persists in its state of being at...
View ArticleIn praise of Sir Wilfrid Laurier
A conservative senator writes of the greatest Liberal prime minister in Canadian history: Today, almost 100 years after Laurier’s death, I believe as strongly as my grandfather did that great figures...
View ArticleCircular reasoning in traffic control
If you’ve ever been driving in Britain, you’ll have encountered the ubiquitous roundabout. The arguments for adopting them in North America are pretty strong: The modern, safe roundabout first entered...
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Lessons learned
Group projects are one of the first workplace-like things that kids are exposed to in school. The eager ones jump right in, enjoying the challenge of working with others. The sensible ones only do as...
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Vikings fail to impress in loss to Raiders
After Sunday’s mistake-filled outing against the Oakland Raiders, Minnesota sits at the bottom of the NFC North division with a sad 2-8 record. On top of the loss, Adrian Peterson was injured in the...
View ArticleMichael Geist on the CRTC’s usage-based billing decision
It’s not quite what it seems like: My weekly technology law column [. . .] notes the resulting decision seemed to cause considerable confusion as some headlines trumpeted a “Canadian compromise,” while...
View ArticleOh, good: the age of hagiographic Beatles stories may be coming to a close
Or, if not a close, at least a pause: Given the vastness and variety of the literature, it would be incorrect to say that the Beatles story has been whitewashed, not when it includes so many get-even...
View ArticleNFL week 11 results
Not a bad week straight-up, but a bad one against the spread (now languishing with the also-rans at 20th in the AoSHQ pool): ∅ New York (NYJ) 13 @Denver 17 ∅ @Cleveland 14 Jacksonville 10 √ @Detroit 49...
View ArticleHerman Cain and the most awkward anecdote so far
I suspect Herman Cain has managed to talk himself out of the GOP nomination race with little anecdotes like this one: Cain speaks for nearly a half an hour and despite a couple fleeting “999” mentions,...
View ArticleAcronym watch: “In the euro zone farmyard, it’s time to forget about the PIGS...
The journalists will appreciate this new acronym: The euro zone needs a new acronym. For the past three years, PIGS has served as a catchall for the cash-strapped states on the single currency’s...
View ArticleAnother case where “spending cuts” still mean increased spending
No, not the US government, even though the media will be talking up the “savage” spending cuts coming because of sequestration (which will only reduce the rate of increase, not actually reduce...
View ArticleThe biggest threat to the environmental movement
No, it’s not some ferociously polluting corporation, or a dangerously powerful conservative politician or a candidate for the GOP nomination in the United States. It’s algae: “We can engineer, humbly,...
View ArticleQotD: Our Charter of “rights” and “freedoms”
On the evening of January 12, 1981, justice minister Jean Chrétien sat in front of the special parliamentary committee on the Constitution. “I am proposing that Section 1 read as follows: The Canadian...
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