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 22 November 2009 ¬ 1:13h.Jean-François Grenier
by Isaac Asimov
Jehan Shuman was used to dealing with the men in authority on long-embattled earth. He was only a civilian but he originated programming patterns that resulted in self-directing war computers of the highest sort. Generals, consequently listened to him. Heads of congressional committees too.
There was one of each in the special lounge of [...]
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Posted in 16 October 2009 ¬ 10:33h.Jean-François Grenier
The defeat of communism 20 years ago was the most liberating moment in history. So why don’t we talk about it more?
The consensus Year of Revolution for most of our lifetimes has been 1968, with its political assassinations, its Parisian protests, and a youth-culture rebellion that the baby boomers [...]
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Posted in 7 October 2009 ¬ 11:12h.Jean-François Grenier
By John Hasnas,
Political analysts frequently consider what it means to be a libertarian. In fact, in 1997, Charles Murray published a short book entitled “What It Means to Be a Libertarian” that does an excellent job of presenting the core principles of libertarian political philosophy. But almost no one ever discusses [...]
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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 22 March 2009 ¬ 16:55h.Jean-François Grenier
Suite à une demande du conseil d’administration de l’AÉTÉLUQ je me vois dans l’obligation de retirer mes billets à propos de l’association. Jusqu’à nouvel ordre, je ne pourrai plus blogguer à propos de mon expérience d’administrateur au sein de cette organisation.
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Collaboration, Communication, Education, Finance, Future, HorsCampus.com, Introspection, Organization, Planification, Politic, University
Posted in 1 February 2009 ¬ 23:50h.Jean-François Grenier
Au Québec, on ne devrait pas avoir de Crashed Ice. Imaginez un peu! C’est faire la promotion de l’anglais que de donner un nom international à un événement international. Malheureusement pour nous, ça adonne que c’est aussi la langue contre laquelle nos extrémistes locaux en ont. Si nos ancêtres avaient été envahis par des Italiens, [...]
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Posted in 27 January 2009 ¬ 21:26h.Jean-François Grenier
Le marché du lait est lourdement contrôlé par l’UPA (Union des producteurs agricoles) et le MAPAQ (Ministère de l’agriculture, des pêcheries et de l’alimentation du Québec). Les quantités, les procédures, les transactions et les prix sont fixés par une agence gouvernementale. Il s’agit tout simplement d’un cartel appuyé et justifié par la puissance de l’État. [...]
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