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	<description>The Musings of a Techie Canuck</description>
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		<title>Protection Against Protection</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/protection-against-protection</link>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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		<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>
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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>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jan 2010 19:08:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[deep thought]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Death]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Earth]]></category>
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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>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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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>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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		<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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