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The advance program for the Computers, Freedom, and Privacy Conference is now available. The conference is in early April, in Toronto, Canada. They are also offering scholarships for full-time students - deadline January 31 - this is an excellent opportunity to attend one of the most important internet conferences.
What are these things like? (Score:1)
Good Location. NOT! (Score:1)
Re:Good Location. NOT! (Score:1)
Erm not everybody in the world is American. Perhaps it is good that it is not in America.... less pressure from big business and the holy right.
Re:Good Location. NOT! (Score:1)
Erm not everybody in the world is American. Perhaps it is good that it is not in America.... less pressure from big business and the holy right.
(Sorry flamebit, but in bad mood)
They forgot a table tag. (Score:2)
A functioning copy appears at:
http://hyperion.cc.uregin a.ca/~skomoroj/student-form.html [uregina.ca]
Student Application Form (Score:1)
Re:Student Application Form (Score:1)
It wouldn't hurt if people used HTML checker before uploading web pages. Just because IE4.0 renders invalid HTML as if nothing happened, doesn't mean that it's right.
The author obviously forgot to close the outermost table with </TD></TR></TABLE>
Re:Good Location. NOT! (Score:1)
Re:Good Location. NOT! (Score:1)
-Chris
Off Topic, but a real pet peeve (Score:1)
Re:Off Topic, but a real pet peeve (Score:1)
heheh, I'd say Canadian provinces are more sovereign than any US state. At least they let Quebec vote on independance. People here have hissy fits because Alaska wants to legalize pot, and Montana wants to do away with speed limits.
4. Like it or not, the U.S. is the center of western culture.
Kind of like Virginia is the center of the internet, no?
weak justification for city/country format (Score:1)
the idiots among us (you know, the new hires
at the GW2K helpdesk who transfer calls from
new mexico to the international line) from thinking that Ontario is one of the untied states.
student ? (Score:1)
"Pet Peeve" or "How To Get Your Submission Posted" (Score:1)
Since US press will often refer to major US cities without specifying states, I assume your complaint with specifying city/country in the case of Canadian cities is that the US press uses the US as a default country when specifying location.
Is that really it? Seems weak.
As far as your point regarding Americans not taking the time to learn Canada's thirteen provinces... Canada is just another country in the world. Sure, it's on the same continent as the US, but do you know all the provinces (or whatever) of Mexico? I doubt it.
For whatever reason, the States are well-known all over the world. I don't think the same can be said for many other countries.
Further, US people aren't even aware of their own states. Asking them to memorize your provinces (and why shouldn't every country demand the same?) is absurd.
Further still, does the Canadian press list city, province, AND country every time a Canadian location is specified? I doubt it. Does the Canadian press ever simply specify major Canadian cities, omitting the province? I suspect so.
I really think you need to find a better source of stress. (Clearly you're searching.)
*** Here's where the on-topic stuff starts ***
Now I want to voice a pet peeve of my own.
I keep getting the feeling that the obviously biased and uninformed opinions expressed by slashdot "reporters" are not accidental. I think they're manipulating the readers (that's YOU), because they know that controversy creates interest.
By selecting biased/uninformed submissions like this one in which "karma vs Dogma" was indignant about what he/she believes are inflated expense claims relating to cracking, slashdot is hoping to spawn a lot of great free commentary from qualified professionals. As has been pointed out repeatedly, just about any IT professional understands that incident response involves much more than restoring a couple files from a backup.
I don't think I need to go into further detail on this particular article, since other people have already done a fine job, but I think it's clear that one way to get an article posted on slashdot is to submit something obviously wrong about something controversial.