Category Archives: Web
Dot Matrix Revolution: A Brief History of Computing
So, you’ve always wanted to learn everything about the history of computing, but never had the time to do so? Fear not my friends, the “SuperBrothers” have cooked up a cool little music video explaning the whole thing in under 4 minutes. Following an early morning status check of their vintage electronic equipment, two computer […]
Peeping Tom @ Google?
Google Street View debuted almost four months ago, and has already landed in legal trouble. Though really, there shouldn’t be much surprise that taking pictures of people without their permission has raised some major privacy concerns. Google has already dealt with some of them by implementing a a system so that images can get flagged […]
Italian legal ruling suggests ALL Italian blogs are illegal
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 […]
12 embarrassing photos that got online
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 […]
Jump from Firefox to any other browser in a flash
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 […]
Study shows most cyberattacks are US-based
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 […]
Esteban IV: Taking solar propulsion to the next level
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,” […]
Don’t Believe Everything You Read
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 […]
IMDB now offers video clips to its users
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 […]