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    The Broadcasting Act Blunder, Day 14: The Risk to Canadian Ownership of Intellectual Property
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    [05:37] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://www.michaelgeist.ca/2020/12/the-broadcasting-act-blunder-day-14-the-risk-to-canadian-ownership-of-intellectual-property">The ) [05:37] schestowitz

    The Broadcasting Act blunder series has previously examined Bill C-10s enormous cost to the foundational elements of Canadian broadcasting policy including the beginning of the end of Canadian ownership and control requirements and how it downgrades the role of Canadians in their own programming. There is another significant cost that comes from a bill that Andrew Coyne of the Globe and Mail describes [05:37] schestowitz as one of the most radical expansions of state regulation in Canadian history. At a time when the government has emphasized the importance of intellectual property, the bill opens the door to less Canadian control and ownership over its IP [sic].

  • ● Dec 12 [06:19] schestowitz http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=294690 [06:21] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-Recv failure: Connection reset by peer ( status 0 @ http://lxer.com/module/newswire/ext_link.php?rid=294690 ) ● Dec 12 [07:48] schestowitz x https://www.axios.com/pornhubs-tighter-rules-may-not-be-enough-4da90769-ffe8-4d9b-a5a0-20f585cde486.html [07:48] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.axios.com | Pornhub's tighter rules may not be enough, experts say - Axios [07:48] schestowitz # "Ina" Fried still around [07:51] schestowitz x https://www.techrepublic.com/article/security-moves-from-blocker-to-driver-of-open-source-adoption/ [07:51] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.techrepublic.com | Security moves from blocker to driver of open source adoption - TechRepublic [07:51] schestowitz # asay ● Dec 12 [08:04] schestowitz just sent to RMS: [08:04] schestowitz With Grav-Mas approaching, would it be possible to do an email interview some time this month? Not controversial topics, just general digital freedom stuff. ● Dec 12 [09:07] *liberty_box_ (~liberty@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [09:07] *liberty_box_ has quit (Client Quit) [09:55] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 258 seconds) [09:55] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 258 seconds) ● Dec 12 [10:08] *rianne (~rianne@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [10:09] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [10:36] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) [10:36] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) [10:45] *rianne (~rianne@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [10:47] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell ● Dec 12 [11:23] *oiaohm has quit (Remote host closed the connection) [11:23] *oiaohm (~oiaohm@unaffiliated/oiaohm) has joined #boycottnovell ● Dec 12 [12:13] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 260 seconds) [12:13] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 264 seconds) [12:21] *rianne (~rianne@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [12:23] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell ● Dec 12 [14:03] *rianne has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) 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[16:40] *rianne (~rianne@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [16:49] *rianne has quit (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) [16:50] *liberty_box has quit (Ping timeout: 256 seconds) [16:54] *rianne (~rianne@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [16:54] *liberty_box (~liberty@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell ● Dec 12 [17:31] schestowitz behttps://twitter.com/chinairanrassho/status/1337784063826882561 [17:31] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@chinairanrassho: @CNBC @CNBCMakeIt https://t.co/6XpPqT7XAK [17:31] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 500 @ https://techrights.org/2020/08/04/police-report-gates-residence-arrest/ ) [17:34] schestowitz https://twitter.com/Flavia0847/status/1337774478252707840 [17:34] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Flavia0847: I see Michaelle Jean, Canada's former GG, first-Worlder and plenipotenriary for Haitian redevelopment and a I start https://t.co/H3y9f8EWVY [17:34] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Flavia0847: I see Michaelle Jean, Canada's former GG, first-Worlder and plenipotenriary for Haitian redevelopment and a I start https://t.co/H3y9f8EWVY [17:34] schestowitz "I see Michaelle Jean, Canada's former GG, first-Worlder and plenipotenriary for Haitian redevelopment and a I start detecting the stink of US hegemony." [17:34] schestowitz https://twitter.com/glynmoody/status/1337671694517878784 [17:34] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@glynmoody: "Many highly educated people, especially men, have come to Finland from the United Kingdom to work in specialised p https://t.co/ZyKWTugOsJ [17:34] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@glynmoody: "Many highly educated people, especially men, have come to Finland from the United Kingdom to work in specialised p https://t.co/ZyKWTugOsJ [17:35] schestowitz ""Many highly educated people, especially men, have come to Finland from the United Kingdom to work in specialised positions" #brexit brain drain..." [17:36] schestowitz https://twitter.com/iridesce57/status/1337596046671810562 [17:36] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@iridesce57: @schestowitz Would be nice to see #TheNation Alas, they block tor [17:36] schestowitz https://twitter.com/DMCANews/status/1337595340233437184 [17:36] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@DMCANews: @downix @schestowitz Yea. Like - on the one hand... I used openWRT for library/pirate box... but I'm sensing "witch https://t.co/Kal9GxrIEI [17:36] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@DMCANews: @downix @schestowitz Yea. Like - on the one hand... I used openWRT for library/pirate box... but I'm sensing "witch https://t.co/Kal9GxrIEI [17:36] schestowitz "Yea. Like - on the one hand... I used openWRT for library/pirate box... but I'm sensing "witchhunt" potential... or something nefarious. website screams Bradley is awesome...he was present but never marched with us for Dmitry..https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compl" [17:36] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell- ( status 404 @ https://sfconservancy.org/copyleft-compl/ ) [17:37] schestowitz https://twitter.com/iridesce57/status/1337590355336851456 [17:37] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@iridesce57: #PDX represents https://t.co/5E7KPPKYci [17:37] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@schestowitz: NEWS #Counterpunch #Finance To the Barricades: The Red House and the Future of #Eviction Defense https://t.co/pTfqF9uhKZ [17:37] schestowitz https://twitter.com/Aundance78/status/1337508982089379841 [17:37] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@Aundance78: @schestowitz #tomvilsack #opposevilsack https://t.co/FzM3tnmJFv [17:37] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell--> www.centerforfoodsafety.org | Tom Vilsack is the Last Thing USDA Needs in 2021 [17:37] schestowitz https://twitter.com/MarkKen20510303/status/1337490288206622725 [17:37] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@MarkKen20510303: @schestowitz Well, it did start out with the chap who invented an explosive... [17:38] schestowitz https://twitter.com/mahrougabdennou/status/1337457557523337216 [17:38] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@mahrougabdennou: @schestowitz The best global hosting for a very fast and excellent personal experience, and it offers many discount https://t.co/h4QudFaKEp [17:38] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-@mahrougabdennou: @schestowitz The best global hosting for a very fast and excellent personal experience, and it offers many discount https://t.co/h4QudFaKEp [17:38] schestowitz "The best global hosting for a very fast and excellent personal experience, and it offers many discounts and free offers that I advise you to use, and now take advantage of the offers they have https://exe.io/igdpCPJQ" [17:38] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-exe.io | NO TITLE [17:54] *rianne has quit (Quit: Konversation terminated!) [17:54] *rianne (~rianne@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [17:54] *rianne has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [17:54] *rianne (~rianne@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [17:58] schestowitz > Some big media publisher did a great article 10 or 15 years ago about [17:58] schestowitz > how the industry was addicted to oil like a drug, and Big Oil was a pusher. [17:58] schestowitz > [17:58] schestowitz > You often quote Bill Sez talking about how sometimes their job is to get [17:58] schestowitz > people addicted to stuff that's free then to figure out how to make the [17:58] schestowitz > money later. [17:58] schestowitz > [17:58] schestowitz > Big Oil, Big Pharma, Big Tech (I don't care if it's a propaganda term, [17:58] schestowitz > it's accurate) and Big Tobacco all use the same tactics-- and sometimes [17:58] schestowitz > (Tobacco/Microsoft) the same lobbyists. [17:58] schestowitz > [17:58] schestowitz > I'm not saying it's a bad analogy, just that we use it already-- with [17:58] schestowitz > very good reason. Also bloat is a side effect of pushing software like [17:58] schestowitz > drugs. Note that just as one drug can have more than one side effect, a [17:58] schestowitz > side effect (like bloat, or nausea) can have more than one drug on the [17:58] schestowitz > market that causes it. So I'm definitely not saying that pushing [17:58] schestowitz > software like drugs is the only cause of bloat-- only one of the causes. [17:58] schestowitz > [17:58] schestowitz > schestowitz [17:58] schestowitz > [17:33] im thinking these 2 topics (software bloat, and [17:58] schestowitz > pushing drugs to users) overlap, because nobody listens to us [17:58] schestowitz > [17:58] schestowitz > schestowitz [17:58] schestowitz > maybe an analogy is in order [17:58] schestowitz Re: They'll have to rename it of course [17:58] schestowitz > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Master [17:58] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | BBC Master - Wikipedia [17:58] schestowitz > [17:58] schestowitz > [17:58] schestowitz > 8-bit 1986 computer (successor to the BBC Micro) created in [17:58] schestowitz > less-enlightened times... [17:59] schestowitz > Watched someone install a floppy drive on a BBC Micro today. [17:59] schestowitz > [17:59] schestowitz > Turns out the floppy drive doesn't connect on the back of the unit, they [17:59] schestowitz > flip the Micro over and connect the power (for the drive) and the data [17:59] schestowitz > cable to connectors accessible from underneath the unit. [17:59] schestowitz > [17:59] schestowitz > From 1983. [17:59] schestowitz > Aww, then they connected a printer to the Micro exactly like the first [17:59] schestowitz > one I had. [17:59] schestowitz > [17:59] schestowitz > It used a different cable of course, and possibly had a different [17:59] schestowitz > interface. Mine used a parallel port, most likely with a Centronics [17:59] schestowitz > connector; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micro_ribbon_connector [17:59] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | Micro ribbon connector - Wikipedia [17:59] schestowitz > the Micro used an [17:59] schestowitz > RS-423 serial port (with a 5-pin DIN like the IBM XT/PC/AT keyboards [17:59] schestowitz > used.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RS-423 [17:59] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-en.wikipedia.org | RS-423 - Wikipedia [17:59] schestowitz > [17:59] schestowitz > Maybe it should be called GNU/Linuk$ [17:59] schestowitz > [17:59] schestowitz > /"The new boss of Red Hat [17:59] schestowitz > wants [17:59] schestowitz > the bucks, not the community" [17:59] schestowitz > /http://techrights.org/2020/12/10/killing-centos/ [17:59] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | Theres Apparently a New Boss (or Policy) at Red Hat/IBM | Techrights [17:59] schestowitz > ● Dec 12 [18:00] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-techrights.org | [Meme] IBM is Totally Not Killing CentOS | Techrights [18:00] schestowitz > I really don't do databases much, I don't know any that are Github-free [18:00] schestowitz > either. [18:00] schestowitz > [18:00] schestowitz > Red Hat people like Lennart infiltrated Freedesktop years ago, and [18:00] schestowitz > helped turn it into the raging GNOME-shitfest it is today-- they use it [18:00] schestowitz > for systemd, Guix uses it for elogind, and*IBM has their own Github as [18:00] schestowitz > well*. All "GIAFAM" do. [18:00] schestowitz > [18:00] schestowitz > Other than those examples I am not tracking Redhat<->Github. *This does [18:00] schestowitz > not mean it's unimportant*, only that I don't track everything. In fact [18:00] schestowitz > I've nearly stopped paying attention to Github. It's still extremely [18:00] schestowitz > important, but at this point I'm sort of waiting for something to [18:00] schestowitz > change. CC Roy, as my reply contains no quotes of yours and very little [18:00] schestowitz > context at that. [18:00] schestowitz > I'm still working on GitGnext, and devoting between 2 to 3 hours per day [18:00] schestowitz > to it. I've made significant progress toward integrating the Trac [18:00] schestowitz > user-repository environment with TurboGears - which is a big step [18:00] schestowitz > forward. TurboGears brings quite a lot of highly valuable (useful) [18:00] schestowitz > technology onto the worktable - especially the cherrypy3 http server, [18:01] schestowitz > the Genshi template engine, and the PostgreSQL/SQLAlchemy back-end. All [18:01] schestowitz > the pieces are top-notch, robust, and a beautiful fit. Now just to put [18:01] schestowitz > it all together nicely... [18:05] schestowitz > https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cf/Diagram_for_the_computation_of_Bernoulli_numbers.jpg [18:05] schestowitz > [18:05] schestowitz > [18:05] schestowitz > Note the numbers at the side. Ada invented the loop, specifically Intel [18:05] schestowitz > JMP / or 1960s "GOTO". [18:05] schestowitz > [18:05] schestowitz > "Here follows *a repetition of* Operations *thirteen* to *twenty-three*." [18:05] schestowitz > [18:05] schestowitz > I have not yet determined if her operation numbers in particularly were [18:05] schestowitz > borrowed from the Menabrea paper she translated into English. [18:05] schestowitz > [18:05] schestowitz > She may be the first person to write a program that actually uses those [18:05] schestowitz > numbers *as part of the program itself*. She is credited with being the [18:05] schestowitz > first to do loops or branching, so saying she invented line numbers is [18:05] schestowitz > probably not far-fetched, but it is worth further examination. ● Dec 12 [23:50] *rianne has quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) [23:50] *rianne (~rianne@host81-154-173-106.range81-154.btcentralplus.com) has joined #boycottnovell [23:58] schestowitz https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1184219929950318592?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1184219929950318592:0:0:0:1184232396769718272 [23:58] schestowitz "Hospitals get 30k for every death they label as covid-related. Deaths from the seasonal flu have declined to almost nothing." [23:58] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.minds.com | #corporateMedia : we tell the story of a young talk show ... | Minds [23:58] schestowitz https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1184248335316189184?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1184248335316189184:0:0:0:1184265859721129984 [23:58] schestowitz "hoomans. the only problem of this planet is virus called humanity. most dangerous of all." [23:58] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.minds.com | In 2020 a tiny little bee is a lot more sophisticated or ... | Minds [23:58] schestowitz https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1184236848332730368?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1184236848332730368:0:0:0:1184266958440714240 [23:59] schestowitz "atomisation of society. why you srprized? divide anc concur" [23:59] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.minds.com | We live in a society of more and more hermits and zombies... | Minds [23:59] schestowitz https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1184223721377558528?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1184223721377558528:0:0:0:1184267824480604160 [23:59] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.minds.com | Spilling Ink and Spilling Blood: Fighting and Writing Aga... | Minds [23:59] schestowitz "it took them 70 years to understand it?" [23:59] schestowitz https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1184311963574890496?focusedCommentUrn=urn:comment:1184311963574890496:0:0:0:1184314291651670016 [23:59] schestowitz "He's a puppet." [23:59] -TechrightsBN/#boycottnovell-www.minds.com | Personnel as Policy: What Bidens Picks So Far Tell Us | Minds [23:59] schestowitz Useless.