By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] An Italian judge has used a 1948 law to convict a local historian and author of the crime of “stampa clandestina”. This is basically the crime of running a newspaper without first officially registering with the local authorities. But by convicting him, the judge has also opened the door […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] MSN has a rather amusing feature about 12 photos that managed to find their way online and subsequently get the subjects into hot water. They range from the Apple Macs on the Microsoft campus which led to the Microsoft employee getting fired to the guy who pled a family […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] I’m sure that most of you, like me, live and breathe Mozilla Firefox. However, there will be times when you may have to use another browser, such as when you’re coding a webpage and need to see how it looks in all available browsers. Or you may come across […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] Whenever people hear of cyberattacks and hackers, they automatically assume that these attacks come from China, Russia or another country in that area of the world. But a study by security firm SecureWorks has shown that the vast majority of cyberattacks come from the United States with China coming […]
Each September, Montreal, Quebec closes Ste-Catherine street, one of the busiest streets in the city, to hold the “a day without my car” event. As the name implies, no motorized circulation is allowed on the street during this day, and a bunch of vendors present green-transport alternatives to cars. This year, “L’école Polytechnique de Montréal,” […]
by Casey Lynn Contributing Writer, [GAS] What do United Airlines, War of the Worlds, and the upcoming “massively-multiplayer forecasting game” Superstruct have in common? According to one of the game’s designers at the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies, more than you might think. When I was in high school in the nineties, a friend […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] The Internet Movie Database (IMDB) has always been one of my favourite websites. It has never failed me when I’ve had an obscure movie query and has saved me a lot of money in potential cinema tickets by warning me in advance about terrible movies (although I still went […]
By Jimmy Rogers Contributing Writer, [GAS] Contrary to popular belief, Google is a large, rich, mysterious company. Oh wait, that’s extremely obvious in everything they do. In fact, they recently demonstrated their mysteriousness by releasing Google Chrome with about one day’s notice to the internet at large. Instead of stirring up hype or even accidentally […]
Since the LHC has been successfully powered up yesterday and a lot of confusion remains on what CERN’S Big Bang machine truly does, I thought that some of you might like getting some extra information on the subject. Created by CERN employee Chris Mann, the following presentation explains in relatively simple terms the inner working […]
By Mark O’Neill Contributing Writer, [GAS] They won’t be able to poke one another or post photos of their drunken one night stands. Or install widgets that plays games or sends virtual Winnie The Poohs. But the US Intelligence community’s “A-Space”, the ‘Facebook and YouTube for Spies’ which is about to begin, will be hopefully […]