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.

University of Waterloo’s CS sculpture is missing

Original image by Tony Targonski

University of Waterloo’s iconic Computer Science sculpture has gone missing, from in front of the Mathematics & Computer building. The metallic blue “abstract art” sculpture that spelled out “CS”, supposedly from a variety of angles, has not been found to greet the Math students, on their way to class this morning. [...]

Web 2.point.Mac: Developing software on Apple computers

There seem to be some misconceptions about Apple computers. Some of the common questions that come up, at least when thinking about for-University laptops, are along the lines of “Will I be able to write programs on a MacBook?” and “I thought Macs were just for arts…”. I will try to challenge that view.

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