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		<title>Protection Against Protection</title>
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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>Why we&#8217;re destroying TV</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2010/why-were-destroying-tv</link>
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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>My API</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jan 2010 14:08:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WARNING: Geeks only. (Persistent Link on the left hand side)
I have been doing an excessive amount of coding lately, for both work and for personal things and I found that I use the same handful of JAVA methods in sequence to perform many tasks. Specifically around persisting/converting data.
So in an effort to make my life [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Fight Against Futility</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-fight-against-futility</link>
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		<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>Wave of the Future</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/wave-of-the-future</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 22:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The beta of Google Wave has started, and I begged and grovelled for an invite and a friend was gracious enough to send one over. Here are my first thoughts.
Google Wave will change virtual communication. It won&#8217;t be over night, and it won&#8217;t be accepted by all, but then again Facebook was founded in 2004 and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Technology Killed the Memory Star</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/technology-killed-the-memory-star</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:06:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been think a lot about death lately. Before you raise your eyebrows, it isn&#8217;t a bad thing. There have just been a few things in my life lately that brought the subject up. I&#8217;ve outlined a couple below.
Firstly, a friend and former co-worker in his late 20&#8217;s lost his battle to cancer a few [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:44:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<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>What a Hack</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:16:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was recently announced that 1 month ago perennial Stoss Blog antagonist Twitter had a security breach when a high ranking executive&#8217;s account was accessed by a &#8220;hacker&#8221;. The hacker correctly guessed the users&#8217;s secret security questions to gain access to the account then surfed through corporate data and released it to well known techie [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pics For Thought</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/pics-for-thought</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 May 2009 18:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A few more day-to-day pictures:







The above comic was sent to me after my blog posts on Mr. Keen&#8217;s book about Internet media destroying society. The big-nosed guy on the right makes an interesting point, there will always be a need for writers no matter where we read our news.
Interestingly enough, does anyone else notice the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>www dot withdrawl dot com</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/www-dot-withdrawl-dot-com</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 20:15:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The other night I came home to no Internet. It appeared I could not get an IP address from my ISP. (un-geekly written: Internet had a booboo). I wanted to call the provider to tell them I was down, to make sure they were investigating, however I realized to do this I needed access to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Significant Insignificances</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/significant-insignificances</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 12:24:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[What do a typewriter and Germany have to do with Twitter?
In fact quite a bit, but let&#8217;s step back for a second. How many times have you felt like you were wasting time? Seemed like you were doing something insignificant? Your actions have no relevance to your future goals?
In this season on &#8220;How I Met [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pics are worth $$$</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/pics-are-worth</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 21:43:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent bit of feedback from a friend and fellow blogger is that my posts lack a certain graphical appeal. I therefore have decided to introduce a recurring feature to this site where I use the power of my Blackberry&#8217;s camera to bring you interesting things I encounter on my day-to-day adventures.
Today&#8217;s edition is Silly [...]]]></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>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2009 14:09:42 +0000</pubDate>
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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>The Continuing Social Networking Discussion (part 2)</title>
		<link>http://stoss.ca/wp/2009/the-continuing-social-networking-discussion-part-2</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Apr 2009 19:52:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Stoss</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Chapter 3 &#8211; 5:
We join the book with a new hypothesis from Mr Keen. Because some people lie on the Internet, we cannot be sure if anything is truth and therefore it is all invalid.  Solid idea. Applying this to elsewhere in the world: Because airplanes crash no one should fly, because some people kill [...]]]></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>
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		<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 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>140 characters&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:19:01 +0000</pubDate>
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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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