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		<title>Protection Against Protection</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/protection-against-protection</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/protection-against-protection#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 23 Apr 2010 20:16:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The US Federal Trade Commission recently released a  report about how online/virtual &#8216;worlds&#8217; protect underage children from  harmful or explicit images. They investigated the mechanisms these  companies put in place to ensure that children 13 and under did not  access &#8220;things they shouldn&#8217;t.&#8221;
Their first recommendation was to &#8220;&#8230;put in place more [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Great Pretender</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/the-great-pretender</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/the-great-pretender#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2010 14:22:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Pretending is ingrained in us from the very beginning. As a child, we would sit Calvin &#38; Hobbes style in a box and blast off to space, or watch the Muppet Babies invent crazy worlds and adventures, or turn a sandbox into a Jurassic playground.  Imagination is one of the very components which make us [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why we&#8217;re destroying TV</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/why-were-destroying-tv</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/why-were-destroying-tv#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 22:01:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I started thinking about this topic after I watched this Craig Ferguson clip:

By now we have all heard about Conan and Leno dueling it out for the sacred 11:35 slot on NBC. However, the situation brings to light something that hasn&#8217;t yet sunk in at most major corporations yet. The public is changing.
Ferguson&#8217;s hypothesis is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Publicly Private</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/publicly-private</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Jan 2010 14:33:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’m tired of reading about people ‘losing privacy’ with Facebook and Twitter. People are not losing their privacy; they are losing their common sense. There was an article this morning in the paper which cited examples of ‘loss of privacy’:
1)      A UK worker being fired for comments that her job was boring.
2)      Employees in a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flight Sense</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/flight-sense</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/flight-sense#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As we all know by now on Christmas day a man attempted to detonate an explosive on a flight as it was descending into Detroit. The media reported this almost immediately as a &#8220;terrorist attack&#8221;.
There was a Republican senator on CNN this week denouncing Obama because &#8220;&#8230;he took 3 days to respond to the attempted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fight Against Futility</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-fight-against-futility</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-fight-against-futility#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 22:35:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently the file sharing site Mininova decided to stop hosting any torrent that was not sent in from a registered user with rights to the material that was being posted. It was if a million file sharers suddenly screamed and then were silenced&#8230;
With the fall of Napster, Supernova, Pirate Bay and now this I wonder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Trick or Hack!</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/trick-or-hack</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:39:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regarding the recent news of the e-mail phishing scam on Gmail, Yahoo! and Hotmail (and presumably others) my blood has been absolutely boiling over the horribly inaccurate, sensationalistic comments that are being published in all sorts of reputable newpapers!
First lets be clear:  These guys are NOT hackers. They are not. At very best they are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Driving me to Drink</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/driving-me-to-drink</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/driving-me-to-drink#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other day in the paper there was an article about a 22 year old English man who died due to liver failure. The doctors were quoted as saying &#8220;He had the worst case of cirrhosis they have ever seen&#8221;. In fact his alcohol consumption was so bad that he was denied a liver transplant on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Top One Reason People Hate Technology</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/top-one-reason-people-hate-technology</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/top-one-reason-people-hate-technology#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=232</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I hate &#8220;Top&#8221; lists. I do. All of them. I&#8217;ve hated them since before Letterman tried to make them his own, and I hate them even more now when webpages take 10 links to show 10 pictures of the top 10 potentially homophobic animated characters as judged by someone with the television knowledge of my [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Anatomy of a Con</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/anatomy-of-a-con</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/anatomy-of-a-con#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:25:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Lonely Planet Guide for India (which was a God send of a book) had countless warnings about scams in India. Almost each city/section had special headings on the type and nature of scams in that region and spoke about how to spot them and avoid them. Aside from being a yet another fear mongering [...]]]></description>
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		<title>India-ology</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/india-ology</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/india-ology#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 19:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings from India where my friend Andrew and I have been traveling around for 2 weeks now!
In that ime I have learned a few things and thought I would share.
1) I am white and rich
 - It sounds almost racist, but in a country of over 1 billion Indian residents being white makes you stand out like Elton [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Re-Linking</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-re-linking</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-re-linking#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2009 16:38:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=206</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Those of you fortunate enough and/or with enough spare time to read my Facebook, Twitter and Blog sites are aware that I recently de-coupled Twitter updates automatically updating Facebook statuses. I did this for a very specific reason, and have just &#8220;un-done&#8221; this for another. I had a few people comment on that decision, and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Tri-Tour Conundrum</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-tri-tour-conundrum</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-tri-tour-conundrum#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 21 Jun 2009 23:57:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love guests. Since moving to England three years ago I have had the fortune of being host to several of my friends from back home and always welcome more people to my humble abode. This week I was lucky enough to have 3 seperate groups of people pop over the big pond for a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Greed flies high</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/greed-flies-high</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/greed-flies-high#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 May 2009 23:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://stoss.ca/wp/?p=156</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I have flown quite a bit, not a lot, but more than most and less than quite a few. I have flown on everything from &#8220;Can this legally be considered a plane?&#8221;-class on Delta to Executive First on Air New Zealand, one of the best airlines in the air. I have been on Virgin Blue [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Conclusion to a Discussion on Social Networking</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-conclusion-to-a-discussion-on-social-networking</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-conclusion-to-a-discussion-on-social-networking#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 14:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I could spend a lot of time reviewing each absurdity of this book, but alas I like to branch out more. Instead I think in my final reflection I&#8217;ll finish with why I believe Mr. Keen has this sense of reality that I do not share.
Since I stated posting blog entries I have received many [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What Hogwash&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/what-hogwash</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Apr 2009 11:34:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I mentioned briefly in my last post about the Swine Flu. And today I read that Air Transat and other airlines have suspended flights! Has this world gone mad?!
This picture was in the UK morning paper. Notice that the only place that has any deaths in it is Mexico? Yes, the US A just confirmed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Social Networking Discussion (part 1)</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-social-networking-discussion-part-1</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-social-networking-discussion-part-1#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 16 Apr 2009 19:50:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Preface:
Lately a phenomenon has taken off like many of the fads of the 80s we all love so much. Starting with the BBS systems in the late 70s and through the 90s we have had this intrinsic need to network with people at any distance via computer. With the web becoming more accessible, network speeds [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A bright idea!</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-bright-idea</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-bright-idea#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:46:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sometimes I get to work before anyone else, not because I am overly keen, but I live an 8 minute walk away&#8230; Pretty hard to blame traffic.
When I do this I do not turn on the 57 fluorescent lights that line our ceiling so I can sit at my desk in the very back of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A View from the Street</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/a-view-from-the-street</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 05 Apr 2009 11:58:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As was my view in this entry of my blog, I can now provide even further proof of this ridiculous world we live in.
Google Street View has recently come under fire when trying to photograph a specific town in England.
Now the camera has been used by the public for about 100 years. Over those years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Stopping abuse 1.5 pints at a time</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/stopping-abuse-15-pints-at-a-time</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/stopping-abuse-15-pints-at-a-time#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Apr 2009 09:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday after a meeting in London and a couple of pints I was approached by a 20-something woman who asked if I had a moment. I certainly did have a moment, so here is our (annotated and slightly abridged) conversation:
Woman &#8211; &#8220;I work for Amnesty International and they are doing a £27,000 ($50,000 CDN) charity [...]]]></description>
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		<title>140 characters&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/140-characters</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/140-characters#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am a bit of a geek. I like technology and I like understanding the various uses of that technology. I have spent the last month or so reading every news article I can about a new (I won&#8217;t say newest, because as we all know in this industry &#8220;newest&#8221; is outdated within minutes) phenomenon: [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tazed and Confused</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/tazed-and-confused</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/tazed-and-confused#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 10:01:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many of you may have heard about the trial of the mounties in the taser death of some nut at an airport. I don&#8217;t want to minimize a death in anyway, and I feel for his family and friends, but many words have been thrown around about these officers: &#8220;knee-jerk reaction&#8221;, &#8220;impulse acting&#8221;, &#8220;instinctual&#8221; etc. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Few see anything wrong</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2007/few-see-anything-wrong</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2007/few-see-anything-wrong#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2007 18:54:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As always I have an opinion: The recent Virginia situation as before when this has occurred is being brought out to be a sign of the decline of society. This is because it is easy to point to a moron with a gun and blame him for all the fear in the world.
What you never [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sanity or Sanitization?</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/sanity-or-sanitization</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/sanity-or-sanitization#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Apr 2006 08:21:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[cynical]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As many of you who are faithful readers of my rants know, I have this very unexplainable obsession with hygiene. We humans have this insane fetish with being absolutely sanitized from top to bottom, so much so that we are actually making ourselves susceptible to worse diseases, by killing the very ugly helpers that eat [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social Commentary</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/social-commentary</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/social-commentary#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 02 Apr 2006 01:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have to comment on this article, because it shows a LOT of what is wrong with society.
I am not sure if you followed this story, basically because I have no idea who &#8220;you&#8221; are, since you are sitting at a computer looking at this at any time and in any place.. So regardless, here [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is this It?</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/is-this-it</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/is-this-it#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Mar 2006 19:48:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So I was thinking, which is scary enough in itself, but regardless. What if human beings are exactly like any other animal, except that we have this highly developed brain which causes morals, emotions, thought etc?
Do the popular lions always win Class President? Is there a class system of buzzards flying above us? Do lonley, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gay is not Brocolli</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/gay-is-not-brocolli</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2006/gay-is-not-brocolli#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Feb 2006 22:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When we were kids we had to be forced to eat our brocolli. There was no inherent reason why we didn&#8217;t like it, we just refused to eat it based on the principal that it was green and a vegetable.  I find nothing wrong with this, because kids are generally nonsensical and don&#8217;t need to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thoughts By Stoss p5</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2005/thoughts-by-stoss-p5</link>
		<comments>http://stoss.ca/wp/2005/thoughts-by-stoss-p5#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Sep 2005 22:51:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So, one thing that is quite neat about women and men is the different approaches they take on appearance. I found that when women need a haircut, they plan long in advance, have 2 or 3 magazine clippings chosen for the style and have had, at minimum, an hour or 2 discussion about what colour, [...]]]></description>
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