Posted in 19 May 2010 ¬ 18:13h.Jean-François Grenier
How do you make a popular social networking site utterly useless for a whole country and its 45 millions users? Let a religous court find a lame excuse to do it!
A Pakistani court has issued a ban on the social networking site Facebook after a user-generated contest page encourged members to post caricatures of Prophet Mohammed. [...]
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Posted in 11 April 2010 ¬ 19:20h.Jean-François Grenier
Contrepied de Travail sur le blogue, présenté sur mon blog dans le cadre du cours COM-6032
Introduction
Dans cet essai, nous réagirons à un essai portant sur l’apparition des plateformes de publications électroniques. Nous les appelons habituellement « blogs », diminutif de « web logs ».
Nous commencerons par brièvement présenter cette technologie et la critique du premier essai, puis nous expliquerons [...]
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Blogging Homeworks, COM6032, Censorship, Communication, Economy, Future, Globalization, Internet, Medias, Public Relations, Technology
Posted in 5 March 2010 ¬ 21:10h.Jean-François Grenier
The biggest threat to the open internet is not Chinese government hackers or greedy anti-net-neutrality ISPs, it’s Michael McConnell, the former director of national intelligence.
McConnell’s not dangerous because he knows anything about SQL injection hacks, but because he knows about social engineering. He’s the nice-seeming guy who’s willing and able to use fear-mongering to manipulate [...]
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Posted in 15 September 2009 ¬ 11:47h.Jean-François Grenier
How the panic over right-wing violence is being used to marginalize peaceful dissent by Jesse Walker on Reason.com
On June 10, 2009, an elderly man entered the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, raised a rifle, and opened fire, killing a security guard named Stephen Tyrone Johns. Two other guards shot back, wounding the gunman before he [...]
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Posted in 24 June 2008 ¬ 1:17h.Jean-François Grenier
L’auteur du sketch “Seven dirty words” parlant des sept mots que l’on ne peut pas dire à la télévision – Shit, Piss, Fuck, Cunt, CockSucker, MotherFucker, and Tits – est mort récemment d’une crise de coeur à l’âge de 71 ans. Il a d’ailleurs fini devant la cours suprême en 1978 et suite à cette [...]
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