LanSchool threatens compsci.ca with legal actions

It appears that Dan, myself, and all of the Computer Science Canada community is being threatened with legal actions, courtesy of LanSchool — a classroom management software, that monitors students’ activity (“now available with USB Limiting and Keystroke Monitoring”).

Internet protocols could be facing a siege from ISPs

Rogers, one of the two major Canadian Internet Service Providers, has been busy exercising their position of power. Again. After having been injecting content into HTTP webpages for half a year, Rogers has moved on to hijack DNS as well, replacing “not found” responses with pages full of ads. Though why stop there? Internet comes with many more communication protocols; plenty of opportunities to disrupt expected responses and inject unwanted ads into someone else’s content. All in the name of extra profits.

re: CompSci.ca Survey.

Photo by Dan Servos.
Yes, the draw was pulled out of a funny hat.

The results of the CompSci.ca survey are in, and the draw for the raffle has taken place. First of all I would like to thank everybody who took part, especially those of you who decided to leave additional feedback with suggestions for the [...]