The founder of 4chan, a controversial, uncensored online imageboard, describes its subculture, some of the Internet "memes" it has launched, and the incident in which its users managed a very public, precision hack of a mainstream media website. The talk raises questions about the power -- and price -- of anonymity.
St Jacobs –Paul Straus, President and CEO of Home Hardware Stores Limited, was inducted into the Retail Hall of Fame earlier this week, by the Retail Council of Canada (RCC). The induction, one of the Canadian retailing industry’s top honours, took place in Toronto at the RCC’s annual Excellence in Retailing Awards dinner.
Canada's Largest Software Company Selected Based on Supportive Employee Programs
Waterloo - Open Text Corporation, Canada's largest software company and the preeminent global provider of Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software, has been chosen by the editors of Canada's Top 100 Employers as one of Canada's Top Employers for Young People. The selection process reviews company programs that attract and retain younger workers, and the competition is open to public and private sector companies headquartered or with principal operations in Canada.
MONTREAL - The Honourable Tony Clement, Minister of Industry, and the Honourable James Moore, Minister of Canadian Heritage and Official Languages, yesterday announced the introduction of legislation to modernize the Copyright Act.
OTTAWA - If adopted in its current form, legislation tabled yesterday to amend the Copyright Act will undermine the ability of students to access and make use of copyrighted works.
KITCHENER – The City of Kitchener, and the Region of Waterloo, will continue to have a strong voice on the federal stage with Councillor Berry Vrbanovic elected 1st vice-president of the Federation of Canadian Municipalities (FCM) and Mayor Carl Zehr re-elected as chair of the FCM’s Big City Mayors Caucus (BCMC). The elections were held as part of FCM’s 73rd annual conference which was held in Toronto this past weekend.
A $25 million addition to The Perimeter Institute of Theoretical Physics in Waterloo is being undertaken as a Gold Seal-managed project, the first of its kind in the province.
When ground forces are on the move, or fighter jets take to the air, they remain in real-time contact with their direct commander and upwards through higher levels of command to produce precise results.
Kitchener - There is a newly endowed award fund at Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning because of a $15,000 donation from the Ontario Institute of the Purchasing Management Association of Canada (PMAC).
"Imagination is more important than knowledge," Albert Einstein
An apple falls from the tree above you. The bath water increases in depth when you step in. Eureka! You have begun the discovery of the law of gravity or the law of buoyancy. Such discoveries may not have been that simple, but if they add some glamour to the occupation of scientific discovery it's probably not a bad thing.
Use of low-dose combination therapy (rosiglitazone and metformin) reduces the risk of progression to type 2 diabetes by two thirds in people deemed at risk of the disease. This strategy could thus be used to target populations at-risk of diabetes. The findings of the CANOE study are reported in an Article Online First and in an upcoming edition of The Lancet, written by Professor Bernard Zinman, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada, with Stewart Harris, University of Western Ontario and colleagues.
Cambridge/North Dumfries - This spring the Wild Indigo Duskywing (Erynnis baptisiae) butterfly made its first appearance in the Region of Waterloo, at The rare Charitable Research Reserve. This butterfly species has been considered rare in Southeastern Ontario until this year, when it has been noted in several new locations. There have been reports this year from other parts of Southeastern Ontario as well, all noting the occurrence of this species in areas outside of their former western range.
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